[ClassicalPlanet] Verdi - Otello - Karajan,J.Vickers,M. Freni [DVD9 NTSC-DTS-Multisub]

[ClassicalPlanet] Verdi - Otello - Karajan,J.Vickers,M. Freni [DVD9 NTSC-DTS-Subs:Ita,Eng,Ger,Fra,Spa,Chi]











DVD9 | NTSC | 4:3 | All Regions | Italian | LPCM, DTS | Cover | 142min. | 6.52gb rar

Subs: italian, english, german, french, spanish, chinese

Deutsche Grammophon 1973/2005





Cast:



Otello: Jon Vickers

Desdemona: Mirella Freni

Jago: Peter Glossop

Emilia: Stefania Malagu'

Cassio: Aldo Bottion

Roderigo: Michel Senechal

Lodovico: Jose Van Dam

Montano: Mario Macchi



Director and Artist Supervisior: Herbert Von Karajan

Orchesta: Berliner Philharmoniker











Herbert von Karajan's direction, musical and theatrical, is a source of both strength and shortcomings. His power and prestige allowed him to assemble stellar casts and to scoff at budget limitations. He was also able to take the production beyond the opera house's visual limitations with on-location filming, an opportunity that is exploited with powerful impact in the storm-at-sea scene that opens this Otello. His personal musical taste sometimes tended to favor polish at the expense of expressive intensity. But he does present Verdi's score intact, without the cuts made in the 1986 cinematic production directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Domingo. Personally, I find the Zeffirelli Otello dramatically compelling, but Von Karajan's--or Georg Solti's 1992 version with Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa--is closer to what Verdi had in mind.

















Thanks to: Just-me