Verdi: Un ballo in maschera, DVD9

Posted By : tonyangelo | Date : 20 Oct 2010 10:51:53 | Comments : 4 |

Giuseppe Verdi: Un ballo in maschera, DVD9
MPEG 7500Kbps | NTSC All Regions 16:9 (720x480) | DTS 5.1 , PCM Stereo , DD 5.1 | 137 min | 6,35 GB
Classical | Label: ® EuroArts | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian | Full Booklet | FServe

Actors:

Massimiliano Pisapia... Riccardo
Franco Vassallo... Renato
Chiara Taigi... Amelia
Anna Maria Chiuri... Ulrica
Eun Yee You... Oscar

Conductor: Riccardo Chailly

Stage Director: Ermanno Olmi

This film conflated from two live performances of 'Un Ballo in Maschera' comes from the Leipzig Opera and thus the marvelous Gewandhaus Orchestra is in the pit and the conductor is their new music director Riccardo Chailly, conducting his first-ever 'Ballo.' The singers are all unknown to me but I'll wager that we'll be hearing about Massimiliano Pisapia (Riccardo) and possibly also Chiara Taigi (Amelia) in the not too distant future. The rest of the cast is mostly Italian and that lends a certain stylistic unity to the production.
Stage direction is by film director Ermanno Olmi ('The Tree of Wooden Clogs') and seems neither particularly imaginative nor obtrusive.