The Radio 3 Boards Forum from myforum365.com
09:56:57, 02-12-2008 *
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
News: Whilst we happily welcome all genuine applications to our forum, there may be times when we need to suspend registration temporarily, for example when suffering attacks of spam.
 If you want to join us but find that the temporary suspension has been activated, please try again later.
 
   Home   Help Search Login Register  

The Radio 3 Boards > The Music Boards > The Opera House > tosca time
Pages: [1]
« previous next »
  Print  
Author Topic: tosca time  (Read 557 times)
Lord Byron
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 1591
« on: 13:13:33, 27-02-2007 »
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Puccini-Tosca-2002-Film-Version/dp/B00009XW7Z

Arriving from lovefilm.com soon Smiley


Amazon.co.uk Review
Benoit Jacquot's filmed Tosca treads a fine line between operatic staginess and cinematic contrivance. As per the libretto, each act takes place in a single setting, but with the singers here miming to a pre-recorded soundtrack. Jacquot freely reminds us of the conceit with cutaways to the recording session itself--revealing conductor, orchestra and soloists at work--thus a bridge is made between the on-screen action and the music-making itself, and the inherent duality of any opera production is laid refreshingly bare. The same cannot be said for the director's decision to interpolate spoken dialogue over the music in key places--a distraction not an enhancement.
Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna are glamorous and attractive enough to make the most of their Hollywood-style close-ups; their singing easily bears similar close scrutiny--as anyone who owns the CD soundtrack album will surely already know. If Alagna lacks a little power as Cavaradossi on record, his charismatic screen presence happily compensates; Gheorghiu is both vocally and physically almost ideal as Tosca. Ruggero Raimondi's Scarpia completes an outstanding trio, and in the pit (or, rather, in the studio) conductor Antonio Pappano handles the drama of Puccini's score without missing a single nuance. Both musically and visually, then, this is a Tosca to treasure.

On the DVD: Tosca on disc looks vibrant in this warm, widescreen picture accompanied by a DTS 5.1 soundtrack. Three filmed interviews--with Gheorghiu, Pappano and Jacquot--provide some insight into the making of this production. --Mark Walker

Special Features
Soprano Angela Gheorghiu on her role as Tosca
Director Benoit Jacquot on creating Tosca as a film
Antonio Pappano on Puccini's music for the oper
16:9 Anamorphic
LPCM Stereo, DTS 5.1
Subtitles: GB
« Last Edit: 13:32:35, 27-02-2007 by Lord Byron » Logged
go for a walk with the ramblers http://www.ramblers.org.uk/
reiner_torheit
****
Gender: Male
Posts: 386
« Reply #1 on: 14:10:11, 27-02-2007 »
ehem, y'see what I mean?

With this gobstopper on the racks, who is going to want to watch a televised ENO Tosca?

More worrying, who is going to even bother going to the Coliseum to see it live there?  Cry
Logged
They say travel broadens the mind - but in many cases travel has made the mind not exactly broader, but thicker.
Lord Byron
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 1591
« Reply #2 on: 14:44:51, 27-02-2007 »
I would

DVD just plugs a gap

BBC 4 ENO Opera to get people into opera and for folk who live outside of london and pay their tax which helps keep eno going, the arts must get on telly, the taxpayer deserves something back !



Lord Byron
defending the underdog, well, tax payers far far away from lawwwwnden
Logged
go for a walk with the ramblers http://www.ramblers.org.uk/
reiner_torheit
****
Gender: Male
Posts: 386
« Reply #3 on: 21:15:09, 27-02-2007 »
Hmmm, ENO's former policy on this was that the mountain must go to Mohamed, although they were rather bludgeoned into it by the GLC of yesteryear, and the Arts Council.  They used to take cut-down "highlights" programs out to population centres away from London, and for a while they had a separate troupe doing entirely self-standing productions of chamber-sized shows.  I know this because I was in charge of the latter for a while.  However, the wind changed and ENO lost all interest in performances outside London.
Logged
They say travel broadens the mind - but in many cases travel has made the mind not exactly broader, but thicker.
Lord Byron
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 1591
« Reply #4 on: 11:55:41, 04-03-2007 »
http://www.cotswoldwireless.co.uk/englang//tosca.htm

ooo tosca in english for £5
Logged
go for a walk with the ramblers http://www.ramblers.org.uk/
Lord Byron
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 1591
« Reply #5 on: 11:56:46, 04-03-2007 »
Quote from: reiner_torheit on 21:15:09, 27-02-2007
Hmmm, ENO's former policy on this was that the mountain must go to Mohamed, although they were rather bludgeoned into it by the GLC of yesteryear, and the Arts Council.  They used to take cut-down "highlights" programs out to population centres away from London, and for a while they had a separate troupe doing entirely self-standing productions of chamber-sized shows.  I know this because I was in charge of the latter for a while.  However, the wind changed and ENO lost all interest in performances outside London.

you see, if we had a freer market, they would be selling it to bbc 4 for broadcast with some naff 'sponsored by naxos' or something logo and ads during the break BUT at least it would be on

freeish markets are GOOD
Logged
go for a walk with the ramblers http://www.ramblers.org.uk/
oliver sudden
Admin/Moderator Group
*****
Posts: 6411
« Reply #6 on: 12:06:33, 04-03-2007 »
Product placement perhaps? Scarpia's lair with visible logos on the cutlery which ends up in his chest?

A second surtitle setup with scrolling ads?

Just change a couple of words here and there? And I Plunged The Laguiole Steak Knife Into His Heart?
Logged
harpy128
****
Posts: 298
« Reply #7 on: 12:35:54, 04-03-2007 »
Smiley Like the product placement idea. If they souped up The Gondoliers the whole thing might do as an ad for Club 18-30.

Sky and their channel Artsworld sponsor the ENO so you would think they would be obvious candidates for televising some of their productions but I read that they aren't interested. I don't know whether they would veto other people doing it - perhaps not as the BBC is able to do audio recordings.

I agree there wouldn't be much mileage in filming ENO productions of "core repertoire" but there might be a market for some of the more out-of-the-way stuff I would have thought.
Logged
Don Basilio
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 2682


Era solo un mio sospetto
« Reply #8 on: 13:26:14, 04-03-2007 »
harpy, I've just had a ghastly thought about The Gondoliers.  Please tell me they didn't have surtitles.  Please.
Logged
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
harpy128
****
Posts: 298
« Reply #9 on: 17:20:14, 04-03-2007 »
Yes, they did have surtitles, and you needed them some of the time. In fact a couple of people we went with were deploring the fact that they hadn't surtitled the spoken dialogue, because they were having difficulty hearing some of that.
Logged
oliver sudden
Admin/Moderator Group
*****
Posts: 6411
« Reply #10 on: 18:31:08, 04-03-2007 »
harpy, he specifically asked you NOT to tell him...
Logged
Lord Byron
*****
Gender: Male
Posts: 1591
« Reply #11 on: 18:48:04, 04-03-2007 »
Perhaps free programs that have adverts on alternate pages ?

Having studied marketing I know that the optimal aim is to reach your target audience so they may find the adverts of interest anyway.
Logged
go for a walk with the ramblers http://www.ramblers.org.uk/
harpy128
****
Posts: 298
« Reply #12 on: 21:32:38, 04-03-2007 »
Surtitles? What surtitles?
Logged
oliver sudden
Admin/Moderator Group
*****
Posts: 6411
« Reply #13 on: 21:33:34, 04-03-2007 »
That's better.  Cool
Logged
Pages: [1]
  Print  
« previous next »
 
Jump to: