Amercian Operas: Moby-Dick / Porgy and Bess / Showboat (recorded 2009 - 2014)
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Amercian Operas: Moby-Dick / Porgy and Bess / Showboat (recorded 2009 - 2014)
San Francisco Opera / Eric Owens, Laquita Mitchell, Jay Hunter Morris, Jonathan Lemalu, Bill Irwin, Patricia Racette / John DeMain, Patrick Summers
[ EuroArts San Francisco Opera DVD / 6 DVD Box Set ]
Release Date: Thursday 22 September 2016
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This DVD box set includes three of the most popular American operas in the repertoire: Porgy & Bess℠, Show Boat and Moby Dick, with extensive bonus material for each production.
Picture format: 16:9 - NTSC
Sound format: PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Running Time:
Moby Dick: 142 mins,
Show Boat: 144 mins,
Porgy & Bess: 158 mins
Total Running Time: 444 mins
"If you think opera started and finished with a clutch of great Italian, French, Russian and German composers then try this and think again; it is a revelation." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb April 2014 on Porgy & Bess)
"[Owens] is a truly exceptional Porgy...capturing all the emotional range of the character...[Mitchell] is exceptionally involving from start to finish...DeMain is a superlative exponent of Porgy...His sense of dramatic timing is unerring...This intensely dramatic, superbly conducted San Francisco Porgy is one the best - perhaps the best - available in any video or audio format." International Record Review, on Porgy & Bess
"Peter Davison's candyfloss-coloured sets dazzle the eye; so do most of Paul Tazewell's costumes, even if the chorus array themselves in 'Ol' Man River' as if at a fashion magazine shoot. As for the cast, who wouldn't want to relish at close quarters the whimsical agility of Bill Irwin's Cap'n Andy, the comic abrasions of Harriet Harris as his battle-axe wife Parthy, or the warmth of Angela Renée Simpson's Queenie, this production's heart and soul?" BBC Music on Showboat
"[Hunter Morris's] portrait of the demented and ultimately doomed Captain is full of subtlety and depth...Another powerful focal point is the Queequeg of bass Jonathan Lemalu, again not just powerfully sung but vividly characterized...Stephen Costello makes something surprisingly touching, vocally and dramatically, out of the smaller part of the novice Greenhorn." International Record Review on Moby-Dick
