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Famous Operas: Bizet—Carmen; Mozart—Don Giovanni; Beethoven—Fidelio
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Artist
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Elena Obraztsova, Placido Domingo, Carlos Alvarez, Adrianne Pieczonka, Gunter Groissbock, Alfred Muff & others.
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Studio
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Naxos
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Format
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3 DVDs. boxed
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DVD Encoding
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MPAA Rating
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Not Rated
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UPC
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747313500345
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Runtime/Release Date
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7 hrs 41 mins/2007
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Daedalus Item Code
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25883
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This item is not available.
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Description
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With three contrasting styles of opera, this set includes Franco Zeffirelli's 1978 Carmen conducted by Carlos Kleiber at the Vienna State Opera with Elena Obraztsova (Carmen), Plácido Domingo (Don José), and Yuri Mazurok (Escamillo); a 1999 Don Giovanni conducted by Riccardo Muti, also the VSO, with Carlos Álvarez (Don Giovanni), Adrianne Pieczonka (Donna Anna), Anna Caterina Antonacci (Donna Elvira), Angelika Kirchschlager (Zerlina), Michael Schade (Don Ottavio), and Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Leporello); and a 2004 Zurich production of Fidelio, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting Camilla Nylund (Leonore), Jonas Kaufmann (Florestan), and Alfred Muff (Don Pizzarro). "Kleiber's is a brilliant reading, full of sunlight and very strong rhythms, with quick tempos, no sentimentality, and a string section that slashes away maniacally during the Gypsy Song and third-act knife fight, but caresses Carmen's Habanera and José's Flower Song…. The singing is pretty razzle-dazzle too. Elena Obraztsova … is a splendid Carmen…. And it's likely that Plácido Domingo has never been better. He looks handsome, the voice is absolutely free and intensely expressive, and he gets a three-minute ovation after the Flower Song…. Alvarez's Don Giovanni is terrific both vocally and dramatically…. But he's also smooth and sensitive to Mozartian niceties… This is 'Classical' Mozart at its most superb."—Classics Today "A taut and tense traversal … [that] harks back to the 18th century rather than forward to the 19th, with romantic feeling at a premium…. Leonore, in the arresting figure of Camilla Nylund, is slim and appealing, truly believable as a young man.... The Zurich Opera forces sing and play with well-prepared assurance under Harnoncourt's concentrated and elevating direction."—Gramophone
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