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Rating:  - Vladimir Galuzin (Galouzine) as Gherman -- YES!! This Production -- NYET!
I bought this DVD two months ago despite the perceptive and helpful observations of others. I thank you, and should have been forewarned, but I wanted a performance by Vladimir Galuzin as Gherman. This was the only one around. I watched this DVD twice straight through, and I'm sure I won't look at the whole thing again. It should be reserved for old opera hands with strong stomachs and a high tolerance for cognitive dissonance. It should NOT be one's first or only experience of a wonderful opera. ... Read More
Rating:  - sad story...
I have almost nothing to add to what other reviewers said, except that I also don't like musical performance - Rozhdestvensky's tempi are "strange"... Just want to put 1 star to bring the average grade down. Also, adding to the discussion about good DVD recordings of this opera - check 1992 Glyndebourne production (Andrew Davis conducting). If you can agree, that Herman/Yuri Marusin is very impressive even despite he cannot sing (or maybe exactly because of that) - you'll love it! If you don't like ... Read More
Rating:  - A sad travesty of a great opera
I purchased this video on the heels of having seen and heard Vladimir Galouzine sing performances of this opera with the Kirov Opera in Washington. (He's to this role what Lauritz Melchior was to Wagner, and I don't say that lightly.) As others have said so well, this production is a nightmare. Can any concept be more clichéd than staging this in an asylum with a character who admitted GOES mad already mad from the get-go? The more modern stagings you have seen, the more of the visuals you will ... Read More
Rating: - "And All This Is But The Vain Delirium Of My Sick Spirit?"
The quotation that forms my review's title is from Hermann, the opera's protagonist; it could just as well be from stage director Lev Dodin, who has imposed on Tchaikovsky's opera a concept that is at first puzzling, then increasingly tedious, and finally ruinous. Hermann is floridly psychotic throughout, and the action is staged in an asylum. For the greater portion of the 180-minute running time, we stare at green walls and an institutional bed in an otherwise empty room. At first it seems that the ... Read More
Rating:  - A Troubling Concept
I was attracted to this DVD because of the mostly Russian cast, Papian is from Armenia when it was part of the Soviet Empire and would speak Russian witht the fluency of a native speaker. As regards the singing I can only speak with high praise. Galouzine has aged since he appeared in the Sadko, but the voice is still thrilling. I heard his Otello from the Met and was not impressed. He is much more at home in his native language and he gives a performance of his lifetime. Papian also would appear ... Read More
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