Mozart - Cosi Fan Tutte / Barenboim, Roschmann, Kammerloher, Bruera, Gura, Chausson, Berlin Opera

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Summary: colorful, funny, the summer of love opera
Review: the cast are beautiful, the set are colorful, and the actions are funny - just the conducting...oh Daniel is getting older and slower...until second act. The best DVD is still the John Elliot Gardiner's but this is second best...better then Cecillia Bartolli's serious Fiordigili and odd conducting of Nicolas Hanoncourt.

Buy this one!

Rating:
Summary: colorful, funny, the summer of love opera
Review: the cast are beautiful, the set are colorful, and the actions are funny - just the conducting...oh Daniel is getting older and slower...until second act. The best DVD is still the John Elliot Gardiner's but this is second best...better then Cecillia Bartolli's serious Fiordigili and odd conducting of Nicolas Hanoncourt.

Buy this one!

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Summary: What an amazing take on a classic masterpiece!
Review: This DVD is my absolute favorite of the Cosi DVDs I've seen (including Gardiner's). Roschmann is a truly enthralling Fiordiligi and I absolutely love the characterization that Kammerloher gives Dorabella. The other principals are all fantastic as well. What I think gives this performance the edge is the constumes, sets, and staging. It's a wonderful, colorful performance, packed with so much action....there's no moment where a performer is just standing still onstage belting out a number - there's an endless stream of action. The ACT I Sextet, for example, is absolutely hysterical because of all the action involving Dorabella's and Fiordiligi's reaction to Ferrando and Guglielmo in disguise. It's like that throughout the performance. While listening to the fantastic music (and performances) we have so much to look at (and laugh at) in this performance. It highlights the comedy (and drama) in this great work more than any other performance I've seen (on stage or on DVD). I just went to the San Francisco Opera's "Cosi fan tutte" premiere this past weekend....and despite the great performance (Flicka was awesome), I was left wishing this version had been staged. It is truly wonderful. I cannot recommend it enough.