Rating: - Vladimir Galuzin (Galouzine) as Gherman -- YES!! This Production -- NYET!
I bought this DVD two months ago despite the perceptive and helpful observations of others. I thank you, and should have been forewarned, but I wanted a performance by Vladimir Galuzin as Gherman. This ... Read More
Rating: - sad story...
I have almost nothing to add to what other reviewers said, except that I also don't like musical performance - Rozhdestvensky's tempi are "strange"... Just want to put 1 star to bring the average grade ... Read More
Rating: - A sad travesty of a great opera
I purchased this video on the heels of having seen and heard Vladimir Galouzine sing performances of this opera with the Kirov Opera in Washington. (He's to this role what Lauritz Melchior was to Wagner, ... Read More
Rating: - "And All This Is But The Vain Delirium Of My Sick Spirit?"
The quotation that forms my review's title is from Hermann, the opera's protagonist; it could just as well be from stage director Lev Dodin, who has imposed on Tchaikovsky's opera a concept that is at first ... Read More
Rating: - A Troubling Concept
I was attracted to this DVD because of the mostly Russian cast, Papian is from Armenia when it was part of the Soviet Empire and would speak Russian witht the fluency of a native speaker. As regards the singing ... Read More
- Vladimir Galuzin (Galouzine) as Gherman -- YES!! This Production -- NYET!
- sad story...
- A sad travesty of a great opera
- A Troubling Concept