Customer Review: I enjoyed this performance very much. I finally got to see what "Les Huguenots" is all about. Why this opera is not performed regularly is a mystery to me.
Customer Review: Sutherland really should have opted out and done herself -- and this production -- a favor. I simply couldn't get into it (and this is my favorite opera!) because she was just too huge and horsey. The dashing Danillo ... Read More
Customer Review: I was terribly disappointed with the Met version because Eva came across as a simple flirty airhead. We know Wagner did not want that. This was probably the director's fault. The Eva in this Australian version was far more eloquent ... Read More
Customer Review: We immediately realize that this in not a traditional Hansel and Gretel, when we see Hansel playing with his yo-yo, and his stepmother in hair curlers, smoking a cigarette.
But don't let this scare you off. It's just a performance that ... Read More
Customer Review: I enjoyed this performance very much. I finally got to see what "Les Huguenots" is all about. Why this opera is not performed regularly is a mystery to me.
It seems to me that you have to listen to it on its own terms. Just like Wagner requires you to accept him ... Read More
Customer Review: I think that for a career as long as Kiri's, it would have been much nicer if a longer DVD was made.
The two scenario's are nice and too bad that Oh Mio Babbino Caro is sung at the end of the DVD. I would have appreaciated more seeing the reaction of the public to the display of vocal ... Read More
Customer Review: To the Gilbert and Sullivan purists: It's ok, this was never meant to be taken seriously, even Sullivan didn't like his operettas very much. It's a tradition in G&S to modernize the "little list," exactly because Gilbert was writing to a specific audience. And in these inclusive times, we can be quite a bit more honest ... Read More
Customer Review: Sutherland really should have opted out and done herself -- and this production -- a favor. I simply couldn't get into it (and this is my favorite opera!) because she was just too huge and horsey. The dashing Danillo seemed almost frail in her presence.