Puccini - Madama Butterfly / Dessi, Armiliato, Pons, Domingo, Torre del Lago Opera

Rating:
Summary: THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS BUTTERFLY ON VIDEO
Review: The sets and costumes can frigthening you...but do not worry the worst is coming...
This DVD has the worst director of a filmed opera I have seen, the guy Tiziano Mancini -never forget this name- is completely in love with the conductor: Placido Domingo here. The love is so intense that he interrupts even "un bel dì" to show the static maestro FOUR times, and much more serious: in Butterfly's death scene, at the moment of commit suicide itself, he prefers to show the conductor!?!?
Outrageous and absurd...because the singing and mainly the drama is completely lost.
What a waste! Dessì and Armiliato are great singers and I follow their presentations for a long time. Since this is a festival one can stand the director's madness, set designers and the absurd costumes: poor Butterfly, in her love duet have to arrange her unconfortable veil many times and keep up the voice and the acting!!! Besides this, Domingo image is imposed all the time as if HE was the main appeal!
Do not lose your money... do yourself a favor: run away from this DVD!