DVD: Neil Shicoff

DVD: Neil Shicoff

DVD:

Neil Shicoff

Verdi - La Traviata / Gruberova, Shicoff, Zancanaro, Rizzi, La Fenice

Edita Gruberova, Neil Shicoff

Kultur Video, 2005

A soaring Violetta
I don't remember being this moved by a production of La Traviata in a long time. Are you interested in FEELING the opera in addition to seeing and hearing it? Climb aboard. The three leads are in gorgeous voice, devastatingly dramatic in their respective roles. It ...

La Bohème [Region 2]

Ileana Cotrubas, Neil Shicoff

OF THE HIGHEST ARTISTIC ORDER
Superlatives tumble forth from one's thoughts when attempting to describe this magnificent production of the Puccini masterwork, filmed at Covent Garden before an enthusiastic audience, distinguished as it is by remarkable direction and singing with splendid staging ...

La Traviata [Region 2]

Edita Gruberova, Neil Shicoff

A soaring Violetta
I don't remember being this moved by a production of La Traviata in a long time. Are you interested in FEELING the opera in addition to seeing and hearing it? Climb aboard. The three leads are in gorgeous voice, devastatingly dramatic in their respective roles. It ...

Opera Hits / Domingo, Carreras, Vickers, Ewing

Giacomo Aragall, Janet Baker

Kultur Video, 2004

Kabaivanska's Butterfly
On the cover picture there is a small portrait of Raina Kabaivanska as Butterfly. Strangely why she is not even mentioned among the singers.Her performance is one of the greatest moments on this DVD.You could not imagine more beautiful Butterlfy than Kabaivanska. Fan ...

Halevy - La Juive

Neil Shicoff, Krassimira Stoyanova

Deutsche Grammophon, 2005

A huge drama with a giant in the center
The costuming of this opera, presumably set in 1414, reminds me more of the early 1930s than the turn of the last century. It is chillingly real, especially by acts IV and V. The DVD is, I believe, a record of a 1999 performance in Vienna. I saw Shicoff perform in ...

Puccini - La Boheme / Neil Shicoff, Ileana Cotrubas, Thomas Allen, Marilyn Zschau, Gwynne Howell, Lamberto ...

Neil Shicoff, Brian Donlan

Kultur Video, 2005

The definite La Boheme DVD/VHS
Of all the versions I have seen, this is the one I enjoy the most. The singing is excellent, Neil Schicoff (Rodolfo) in particular is brilliant both as a singer and as an actor, and the turbulent relationship of Marcello and Musetta is hilarious without turning into a ...

Great Stars of Opera / Shicoff, Aliberti, Baltsa, Tomowa-Sintow, Rydl, Barcellona, Sasson, Emmerlich, ...

Neil Shicoff, Lucia Aliberti

Euroarts, 2005

Shicoff or not Shicoff?
Shicoff est la star de ce DVD qui recoupe plusieurs concerts assez sympathiques...Auprès d'artistes confirmés (Baltsa et Tomowa-Sintow) il est intéressant de retrouver Lucia Aliberti, dont le physique et la gestuelle rappellent étrangement Maria Callas, à laquelle elle ...

Les Contes d'Hoffmann
Neil Shicoff, Susanne Mentzer

Offenbach - Les Contes d'Hoffmann / Shicoff, Swenson, Terfel, Rancatore, Mentzer, Uria-Monzon, Senechal, ...

Ruth Ann Swenson, Neil Shicoff

Tdk DVD Video, 2004

Sour Reviews Largely Baseless
This is a truly invigorating production, There is some utterly fantastic singing. The aging Neil Schicoff plays the poet Hoffmann, and does so with virtuosic acting ability. His voice is wearing away, expecially in his thinning passagio, but one hardly ...