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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0809478009184 Format: Classical, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: BBC / Opus Arte Manufacturer: BBC / Opus Arte Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: BBC / Opus Arte Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 19, 2005 Running Time: 74 minutes Studio: BBC / Opus Arte Theatrical Release Date: 2004 Sales Rank: 43604 MPN: 918
Rating: - Absolute must-have
This is a truly brilliant production of Puccini's comic masterpiece. Although this one-acter, the third in Puccini's "Il Trittico" (trilogy) of one-act operas dealing with the subject of death, is less ... Read More
Rating: - Crazy, but it works.
I can't think of a worse concept than moving an opera that turns on a point of Medieval law to the early 20th century. Nevertheless, this production is so well sung and acted that the legal absurdity is ... Read More
Rating: - "A Comic Gem, At Last Coming Into Its Own"
"Gianni Schicchi" is an opera perhaps best known for one or two arias taken out of context, but recent productions, like this one here from Glyndebourne or the more recent one at the Met, have made it clear ... Read More
Rating: - FEEL LIKE LAUGHING? YOU'VE COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE!
Puccini's Gianni Schicchi (pronounced Skee-kee) is not only one of the funniest operas ever composed, it is one of the best COMEDIES ever staged, whether of an operatic nature or otherwise! Although it should ... Read More
Rating: - Seriously enterteining
When a crook succeeds in being liked you know you have a great opera and great singers who know how to act too. You will enjoy it.
