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devoran (54)in Movies & TV Shows • 4 years ago
REVIEW: Boris Godunov (1954)
My personal preference, in choosing opera films, is, whenever possible, to go with performances from the country of origin of the opera. The reason is quite simple. Nobody…
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devoran (54)in Movies & TV Shows • 4 years ago
REVIEW: La Traviata (1982)
The title means approximately " A Woman Gone Astray. " The version reviewed here is the one that I'm including in my cycle of the twelve best cinematic adaptations. In fact, I…
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devoran (54)in Movies & TV Shows • 4 years ago
REVIEW: Turandot (1998)
I decided to generate twelve opera films reviews representing my twelve favorite operas (without any claim of these also being the twelve greatest). Don't hold your breath…
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devoran (54)in Movies & TV Shows • 4 years ago
REVIEW: La Bohème (1965)
La Bohème, dating from 1965, is widely considered among the best opera films ever made. The great Franco Zeffirelli provided the production design and the equally renowned…
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devoran (54)in Movies & TV Shows • 4 years ago
REVIEW: Gigi (1958)
Recently, my wife and I have decided to watch a classic movie every week of my choosing. We generally disagree on most movies and have very different tastes, but my hope is that…
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devoran (54)in Movies & TV Shows • 4 years ago
REVIEW: Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Growing up, one of my favorite genres of film was the musical. Still, even though I loved the genre as a whole, it wasn’t until the past few years that I really started seeing…
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devoran (54)in OCD • 4 years ago
Mozart's Apollo et Hyacinthus from the Great Hall of Salzburg University
In May of 1767, the 11 years old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his first opera, Apollo et Hyacinthus , to the Latin text modified by Father Rufinus Widl from the Greek myth.…
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devoran (54)in OCD • 4 years ago
"The Little Prince" For Audience Large And Small
This is a review of the English composer Rachel Portman’s opera, The Little Prince , based on Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s much beloved novel. The libretto by Nicholas Wright is…
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devoran (54)in OCD • 4 years ago
Tamino & His Masonic Pursuit of Wisdom: Mozart's The Magic Flute
Composed very shortly before Mozart's death in 1791, this German Singspiel is one of the most popular opera ever written. Being a Singspiel means that its musical numbers are…
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devoran (54)in OCD • 4 years ago
W.A. Mozart: IDOMENEO, RE DI CRETA ... the long story of it
The story of this opera is an expansion from a side story in Homer’s epic, The Iliad, into the play Idomenee by Antoine Danchet. Idomeneo, the Greek King of Crete, left his…
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devoran (54)in OCD • 4 years ago
Iphigénie in Tauride: A Gripping Greek Psychodrama
Christoph Willibald Gluck's 4 Acts masterpiece still sounds much younger than its age 222 years after it was composed in 1779. This was the opera that completed Gluck's 'reform'…
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devoran (54)in OCD • 4 years ago
Fromental Halevy's La Juive: Shicoff and Stoyanova can carry any show
Based on libretto by Eugene Scribe, Jacques Fromenthal-Halevy's La Juive (composed in 1835) is a heavy opera that deals with a timelessly heavy issue - what happens when people…
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devoran (54)in OCD • 4 years ago
Lorca/Fortner Bluthochzeit: Sanguine Enough To Chill Your Blood
Most people (at least those who are familiar with Spanish literature) are well familiar with Bodas de sangre (Blood Wedding) (1932) as the first of the trilogy plays by Frederico…
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devoran (54)in OCD • 4 years ago
Resurrection of Schubert's Forgotten Opera: Fierrabras
Ha! Didn't know that Franz Schubert wrote any opera, did you? Well, neither did I! This 1823 three-act opera is set to a libretto by Josef Kupelwieser after 'Buch der Liebe' by…
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devoran (54)in OCD • 4 years ago
Gioacchino Rossini’s TANCREDI
The libretto of the opera by Gaetano Rossi is based on Voltaire ’s play Tancrede . The story progresses slowly and the plot is quite holey, which is typical of opera…
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devoran (54)in OCD • 4 years ago
Gioacchino Rossini’s ‘IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (The Barber of Seville)
This opera is chronologically the prequel to Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), though it was written after that work (Mozart was inspired to write his as a…
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devoran (54)in OCD • 4 years ago
Rossini's Maometto II: Great Music Never Die.. They Just Over-hibernate
This gorgeous opera of the mature Gioachino Rossini on the libretto of Cesare della Valle is extremely rarely performed. There are many versions of it, including the more popular…
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devoran (54)in OCD • 4 years ago
MOZART La Finta Giardiniera (The Fake Lady Gardener) - Review
Written in 1775 on the libretto by Giuseppe Petrosellini, this work is very rarely performed nowadays. It is a cross between opera seria (dramatically serious opera with…
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