Bellini: I Puritani (complete opera recorded in 2007)

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VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Puritani (complete opera recorded in 2007)
Metropolitan Opera / Anna Netrebko, Eric Cutler, Franco Vassallo / Patrick Summers (cond)

[ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD ]

Release Date: Thursday 28 February 2008

Rated: G - Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993Suitable for General Audiences

G - "Netrebko has perhaps the most appealing stage presence among contemporary sopranos. She is a natural stage animal who can sing as she moves around the stage and interacts with her colleagues. Her sheer physicality on stage is awesome."
(Recording of the Month MusicWeb May 2008)

"…this is essentially Anna Netrebko's evening. In her tightly waisted costumes, her pale face framed by a dark wig, she succeeds in dominating the action both by her singing and by her physical presence, using sudden jerky movements to suggest Elvira's unhinged state. Patrick Summers conducts the Met forces always with consideration for the singers. The photography is excellent, and there are some intriguing glimpses of the singers backstage, including an interval feature in which Renée Fleming is the interviewer, chatting to Netrebko in her dressing-room." Gramophone Magazine, March 2008

MusicWeb - DVD of the Year 2008

"Netrebko has perhaps the most appealing stage presence among contemporary sopranos. She is a natural stage animal who can sing as she moves around the stage and interacts with her colleagues. Her sheer physicality on stage is awesome."
(Recording of the Month MusicWeb May 2008)

This DVD is based on the I Puritani revival in January 2007; Anna Netrebko's partners are the young American tenor Eric Cutler in the role of Arturo, the fine young Canadian bass-baritone John Relyea and the Italian baritone Franco Vassallo as Riccardo

The world's favourite prima donna Anna Netrebko had a tremendous success with her first Elvira at the MET

The performance was transmitted live in high definition to movie theatres in the US, Canada and Europe, and broadcasted live on Metropolitan Opera Radio, on Sirius Satellite radio channel 85
Bellini's "bel canto" opera - his last (first performed in 1835) - is enchantingly crazy in plot, superb in musical dramaturgy, and one of the marvels of 19th-century musical theatre

"Looking as graceful as a gazelle and singing as sweetly as a bell struck with a surprising outburst of coloratura, Anna Netrebko sang in I Puritani for the first time at the MET" (The New York Post)

"Anna Netrebko proved herself a master of extreme opera, that volatile mixture of emotional distress and consummate technique. That's what we need divas for" (Newsday NY)

"The prolonged ovation she received after the act II mad scene threatened to stop the performance midway" (The New York Times)

Bonus:
INTERMISSION I Anna Netrebko in Conversation with Renée Fleming
INTERMISSION II Anna Netrebko in Conversation with Renée Fleming
BELLINI'S "PURITANI" Margaret Juntwait in Conversation with Beverly Sills
BACKSTAGE Renée Fleming interviews Met Technical Director Joe Clark