| View Larger Image | Verdi: The King of Melody (1813-1901) | DVDStarring: Tito Gobbi, Mario Del Monaco, Orietta Moscucci, Sandro Ruffini, Camillo Pilotto
Directed By: Raffaello Matarazzo
| List Price: | $17.98 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | DVD | | Rating: |  | | Run Time: | 160 minutes | | Format: | Classical, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, NTSC | | Studio: | V.I.E.W. Video | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Aspect Ratio: | 1.33:1 | | Release Date: | April 25, 2003 | | Sales Rank: | 103,228rd |
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Product Description
This colorful dramatic feature film on DVD, Verdi: The King of Melody, explores the life, loves, & struggles of the great operatic composer, Guiseppe Verdi, and is performed against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. The many arias are beautifully sung by international opera stars Tito Gobbi, Mario Del Monaco, Vito de Taranto, and Orietta Moscucci, and accompanied by the Rome Opera Orchestra. The DVD tells the story of Verdi s successful and turbulent life, and allows us to hear more than 20 excerpts from Rigoletto, La Traviata, Otelo, Aida, Il Trovatore, Nabucco, Ernani, and Falstaff, and features performances from renown opera stars such as Pierre Cressoy, Anna Maria Ferrero, and Gaby Andre, among others. This DVD, Verdi: The King of Melody, recounts the composer s struggle for success, love, and his musical triumph over the forces of political domination. A theatrical and critical success when it was originally released in 1974, this film has been perfectly dubbed into English, while the arias are sung in the original Italian. Poignant and tender, filled with pathos, it is heart-rending in both its sad moments as well as in its times of joy! |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 1 review)
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Verdi: recommended for opera lovers by Paulo Velloso (Sao Paulo, SP Brazil)  3 Stars
January 21, 2007
As I had seen this picture in the movie theatre, in the fifties; I always wanted to see it again.
The film is old and of poor quality, but extremely recomended for Opera (mainly Verdi's) lovers.
The best of the film are the performances from Mario del Monaco and Tito Gobbi, 2 sacred monsters.
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