I Puritani

I Puritani

2007
2h 29m
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"Beautiful Bellini; charismatic Netrebko"

Overview

It's hard to imagine a video opera collection without this superbly sung MET production of Bellini's I Puritani. Not that it's perfect by any means, but its excellences--most especially Anna Netrebko's electrifying singing and acting of Elvira--banish carping about other aspects of this memorable night at the opera. Netrebko is fragile from the start, her facial expressions and hand movements immediately conveying the girl's vulnerability. She has a mad scene in each act; the first when she realizes her fiancé has disappeared with another woman, the third, in the final act, a brief relapse when her returned fiancé is taken by the army to be executed. But it's in the second act that the real fireworks occur, with a Mad Scene that rivals Donizetti's Lucia for bel canto primacy. Here, Elvira is first heard off-stage, after the chorus has informed us that she's deranged. She enters wearing her wedding gown and begins Qui la voce in a voice as frail as her psyche.

Status: Released

Language: IT

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Production Information

Production Companies
Deutsche Grammophon
Spoken Languages
Italian

Quick Facts

Release Date November 22, 2007
Status Released
Language IT
IMDb ID tt32493407

Cast

Eric Cutler
Eric Cutler

Lord Arturo Talbo

Anna Netrebko
Anna Netrebko

Elvira

John Relyea
John Relyea

Sir Giorgio

Valerian Ruminski
Valerian Ruminski

Lord Gualtiero Valton

Franco Vassallo
Franco Vassallo

Sir Riccardo Forth

Maria Zifchak
Maria Zifchak

Enrichetta di Francia

Eduardo Valdes
Eduardo Valdes

Sir Bruno Roberton

Patrick Summers
Patrick Summers

Conductor

Key Crew

Sandro Sequi
Director

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