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It's hard to imagine a video opera collection without this superbly sung MET production of Bellini's I Puritani. Not that it's perfect by any means, but its excellences--most especially Anna Netrebko's electrifying singing and acting of Elvira--banish carping about other aspects of this memorable night at the opera. Netrebko is fragile from the start, her facial expressions and hand movements immediately conveying the girl's vulnerability. She has a mad scene in each act; the first when she realizes her fiancé has disappeared with another woman, the third, in the final act, a brief relapse when her returned fiancé is taken by the army to be executed. But it's in the second act that the real fireworks occur, with a Mad Scene that rivals Donizetti's Lucia for bel canto primacy. Here, Elvira is first heard off-stage, after the chorus has informed us that she's deranged. She enters wearing her wedding gown and begins Qui la voce in a voice as frail as her psyche.
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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 2007-11-22
- video_camera_front Companies Deutsche Grammophon
- timer Runtime: 149 Mins
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Eric Cutler
Lord Arturo Talbo
Anna Netrebko
Elvira
John Relyea
Sir Giorgio
Valerian Ruminski
Lord Gualtiero Valton
Franco Vassallo
Sir Riccardo Forth
Maria Zifchak
Enrichetta di Francia
Eduardo Valdes
Sir Bruno Roberton
Patrick Summers
Conductor
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