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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0044007432624
Format: AC-3, Classical, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Decca
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageSpanishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledGermanSubtitledSpanishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Decca
MPN: 001108909
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Decca
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Running Time: 89 minutes
Studio: Decca
Theatrical Release Date: 2008

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Editorial Review:

Description:
Bretón's celebrated zarzuela appears for the first time on international DVD. Zarzuela is the national music theatre of Spain, enduringly popular across Spain and the Americas. This production is a witty, modern staging, with an all-Spanish cast. Bretón's entertaining tale of life, love and revelry set in a busy Spanish apartment block had instantaneous and huge success when first premiered in 1894, and it has since been performed countless times across the Spanishspeaking world.

Filmed at Madrid's new Festival de San Lorenzo de El Escorial, this version was based on a successful production originally mounted in 2002 by the Hebbel Theater in Berlin. DVD Extra: Making of...documentary, including interviews with director Marina Bollaín and conductor Miguel Roa.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Unconvincing
The adaptation to modern times of this zarzuela is unconvincing. The cubicles might have worked for the stage, but they don't work for the DVD version and absolutely distract from the music. At some points it is difficult to understand who is who and who is talking (or singing). I don't object the time adaptation per se, but this one does not enhance this masterpiece, on the contrary it takes away the essence of it, it makes following the plot and sensing the music difficult. In addition, the sound ... Read More

Rating:

- Enjoyable Modern Take on a Madrid Classic
I never quite understand the uproar when a classic play or opera gets a radical rethinking in a new production; after all, setting MACBETH in the contemporary Middle East, or LA TRAVIATA in WWII France, to take two examples I've recently seen, doesn't erase the memory of past productions or irrevocably defile the original material. Sometimes the changes serve to further illumine the piece's inherent ideas, sometimes not. Either way, the sun comes up the next morning, and the material in question's ... Read More

Rating:

- Don Tomás Bretón deserves much better
Yesterday, I had the misfortune of renting this DVD from Netflix. The first thing I found odd was the title Noche de verano en La Verbena de la Paloma, as there is no such work in the history of Spanish Zarzuela. There is however a LA VERBENA DE LA PALOMA, which happens to be the crown jewel of the Género Chico, and which has nothing to do with the travesty presented here. But I was literally thrown out of my seat as the curtain opened on this aberrant production to reveal a large cubicle on stage ... Read More

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