DVD: Renata Scotto     DVD:     Renata Scotto      Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore / Bergonzi, Scotto, Taddei, Gavazzeni, Florence Opera Carlo Bergonzi, Renata Scotto Hardy Classics DVD, 2004 Magical Performance! I was fortunate to see these two great singers in this opera at the Met about the time of this performance. I was apprehensive about Bergonzi in this role as I was used to seeing him as Rhadames,Ricardo in Ballo, Chenier, and other spinto roles he excelled in. At this ...             Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi Video Artists Int'l, 2007 A Bel Canto Treasure The two reviews posted as of this writing are on the mark with their five-star ratings. Scotto's Lucia and Bergonzi's Edgardo present a level of bel canto singing that would be almost impossible to surpass in any era. This televised Tokyo performance has been ...             Gounod - Faust Nicolai Ghiaurov, Alfredo Kraus Video Artists Int'l, 2007 Magnifique Some allowances must be made in consideration of the DVD release of this 35-year-old Japanese television broadcast. The burned-in Japanese subtitles cannot be gotten rid of, although they become less distracting when those of one's own language are superimposed over ...             Giacomo Puccini - La Bohème / Franco Zeffirelli · James Levine - T. Stratas · R. Scotto · J. Carreras · ... Teresa Stratas, Josep Carreras Geneon [Pioneer], 1999 Superb male cast in this heart wrenching Boheme..... I'm relatively new to opera, but still an ardent Carreras-fan who thinks his singing is heavenly and I think he makes a more than convincing Rodolfo here. And his looks at the time is certainly no drawback for him. His acting skills are in my opinion very good; his ...             Puccini - Manon Lescaut (remastered) Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo Deutsche Grammophon, 2006 5 stars but 2nd Best Manon L. This is well done and I have had in my collection for years along with Domingo and Kiri in Covent Garden production. I love them both but prefer Covent Garden just a little over this one due to the chemistry of Domingo and TeKanawa who's singing is better than ...             Zandonai - Francesca Da Rimini (remastered) Renata Scotto, Cornell MacNeil Deutsche Grammophon, 2007 The Best Francesca Possible...... While I agree with the other review about the merits of this performance, I do not agree that his review should be a forum for the merits of Francesca di Rimini as an opera. Francesca is well known to the opera cognoscenti for generations. Zandonai had a unique voice ...             Puccini - La Boheme / Pavarotti, Scotto, Niska, Wixell, Plishka, Levine, Metropolitan Opera Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarott Deutsche Grammophon, 2005 La Boheme A marvelous version of this great opera. The 'young' Pavoratti's voice simply soars. I saw the new Met version recently which was excellent, but no comparison in tenors. What a loss too soon when he died.             Verdi - Luisa Miller Placido Domingo, Renata Scotto Deutsche Grammophon, 2006 ANOTHER "LIVE FROM THE MET" GEM Not to "ditto," Rush-Limbaugh-like, comments other have made, but I too have hoped for a commercial, well-mastered issue of this telecast ever since it was broadcast live on PBS on a Saturday night in January, 1979. I didn't own a video recorder at the time and ...             The Singing Princess Patricia Hayes, Stephen Jack Lions Gate, 2005 for the more serious animation buffs... THE SINGING PRINCESS (aka "The Rose of Bagdad") is really only notable from an historical perspective. The first feature-length Italian animated movie, it was acclaimed at the annual Venice Film Festival in 1949. The English-dubbed version cast 14-year-old musical ...             Callas - A Documentary Plus Bonus / John Ardoin, Franco Zeffirelli Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi Bel Canto Society, 2004 Informative DVD The previous reviewer may not realize that this documentary was originally produced in the late 70s for television, after Callas' death. The footage quality is what one would expect from something of that time and no amount of DVD remastering could fix it. The DVD ...             The 3 Sopranos Yelena Obraztsova, Renata Scotto St Clair Vision, 2004             Opera Stars Sing Broadway Gale Gilmore, Melanie Holliday Immortal, 2004 Opera stars sing favorite Broadway numbers in this concert from the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona. Supported by the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, the singers Renata Scotto, Melanie Holliday, Paolo Coni, Gilmore, and Ramon Vargas bring their talents to songs by George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Andrew Lloyd Weber, and other great composers for ...             Puccini - Manon Lescaut / Levine, Scotto, Domingo, Metropolitan Opera Renata Scotto, Plácido Domingo Geneon [Pioneer], 2000 5 stars but 2nd Best Manon L. This is well done and I have had in my collection for years along with Domingo and Kiri in Covent Garden production. I love them both but prefer Covent Garden just a little over this one due to the chemistry of Domingo and TeKanawa who's singing is better than ...          products you might be interested in   search for DVDs documentary, lammermoor, metropolitan, pavarotti, remastered, zeffirelli      toavi.com    web we recommend ANOTHER "LIVE FROM THE MET" GEM randomly chosen book: Now, Discover Your Strengths