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As with Nabucco and I Lombardi, Verdi spiced up the action with a number of patriotic choruses, guaranteeing that – against the background of the Italian movement for unification – the opera was a great success. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Giuseppe Verdi\u003cbr\u003e  ATTILA\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Attila – Giovanni Battista Parodi\u003cbr\u003e  Ezio – Sebastian Catana\u003cbr\u003e  Odabella – Susanna Branchini\u003cbr\u003e  Foresto – Roberto de Biasio\u003cbr\u003e  Aldino – Cristiano Cremonini\u003cbr\u003e  Leone – Zyian Atfeh\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Parma Teatro Regio Chorus and Orchestra\u003cbr\u003e  (chorus master: Martino Faggiani)\u003cbr\u003e  Andrea Battistoni, conductor\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Pier Francesco Maestrini, stage director\u003cbr\u003e  Carlo Salvi, set and costume designer\u003cbr\u003e  Bruno Ciulli, lighting designer\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Recorded live from the Teatro Verdi di Busseto, 2010 \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Bonus:\u003cbr\u003e  - Introduction to Attila \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Picture format: NTSC 16:9\u003cbr\u003e  Sound format: PCM Stereo \/ DTS 5.1\u003cbr\u003e  Region code: 0 (worldwide)\u003cbr\u003e  Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese\u003cbr\u003e  Booklet notes: English, French, German\u003cbr\u003e  Running time: 118 mins (opera) + 10 mins (bonus)\u003cbr\u003e  No. of DVDs: 1 (DVD 9)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  R E V I E W:  \u003ctitle\u003e3652590.az_VERDI_Attila_Andrea_Battistoni.html\u003c\/title\u003e  \u003cmeta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan class=\"COMPOSER12\"\u003eVERDI \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003eAttila \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"BULLET12\"\u003e • \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e Andrea Battistoni, cond; Giovanni Battista Parodi (\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12i\"\u003eAttila\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e); Sebastian Catana (\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12i\"\u003eEzio\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e); Susanna Branchini (\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12i\"\u003eOdabella\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e); Roberto De Biasio (\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12i\"\u003eForesto\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e); Cristiano Cremonini (\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12i\"\u003eUldino\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e); Zyian Atfeh (\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12i\"\u003eLeone\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e); Teatro Regio di Parma O \u0026amp; Ch \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"BULLET12\"\u003e • \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e C MAJOR 721608 (DVD); 721704 (Blu-ray) (118:00 + 10:00) Live: Busseto 10\/2010 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eAttila\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e (1846) was Verdi’s ninth opera, preceding \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e by almost exactly one year. It had a slow start, but became quite popular through the 1860s, after which interest in it began to diminish. Though not again a repertory piece, it has had a number of modern revivals and there are a number of recordings of it. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eIts libretto is a bit confused, almost certainly because the writer of the first part, Temistocle Solera, departed for Spain before he had finished and Francesco Maria Piave was recruited to finish it. Solera and Piave had almost opposing ideas of what an opera libretto was and so, what some have called the “oratorio” style of Solera ends in the more enclosed style of Piave. Its two principal characters, however, Attila and Odabella, his captive, wife, and assassin, are drawn with some force. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eBriefly, the Huns arrive at the gates of Rome and Odabella, whose father the Huns have killed, is brought in and announces how brave she is and Attila, impressed, strikes off her chains and gives her his sword. The Roman general Ezio arrives and offers Attila the entire empire if he will just leave Rome alone. Attila refuses and we meet Foresto, who is leading a band of refugees from the Huns. This is the easy part, and it’s all in the prologue. After framing the situation and the characters, we might expect that there would be a series of actions which might cause something to happen. What we get is a series of arias and duets, with occasional choral support, in which the principals either talk about what they are going to do or bemoan the fact that things have gone badly. This dramatic stasis is brought to an end only just before the final curtain, when Odabella kills Attila. That leaves the music. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eThis is good Verdi. If it doesn’t have the edge of, say, \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eTraviata\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, or the power of \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eOtello\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, there are many good moments. Yet, one of the interesting things about it is that it is fairly even all the way through. Though each of the principals gets at least one big musical moment, there is none that overpowers the others, though Ezio’s lament over Rome comes close. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eThis production comes from the Teatro Verdi in Busseto, Verdi’s hometown. The theater was opened in 1868, but Verdi apparently never set foot in it. Though he gave money to finish its construction, he called it “small, indecent, and almost unusable.” Nonetheless, Toscanini conducted many of Verdi’s operas in it, and Riccardo Muti and Plácido Domingo have also led Verdi there. It has been thoroughly restored and is a shining jewel, with one huge drawback. It is absolutely tiny. Its main floor and three balconies can seat in total 300 people. How Franco Zeffirelli managed to put \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eAida\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e into it in 2002, I cannot imagine. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eAs one \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003ecan\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e imagine, the space constraints on the stage are considerable, and the director, Pierfrancesco Maestrini, has opted for one high-tech solution, a bare stage with a bit of a hump on one side and films projected onto the screen at the back. For some reason, though, Attila makes his first entrance descending from the flies on a platter. There is almost no space to move around much and the singers mostly just stand, or recline on the helpful hump. Maestrini has one bizarre convention in the arias with cabalettas, during which the singer rushes off the stage after the first verse only to rush on again for the second. Oddly, perhaps just because the director cannot do much on this stage, he is forced to let the singers be singers. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eIt sounds as if I did not like this production, but that is not the case, for the singing is well done. If this is a sample of the current state of singing in provincial Italian opera houses, then opera in Italy is in good shape, indeed. Susanna Branchini is a fine and spirited Odabella and she always gets the fires going (and she has a lot of fires to keep going, which may be why she and not Attila is on the cover). The Attila of Giovanni Battista Parodi is good without being particularly exciting. Ezio has almost nothing to do, but his aria, “Dagl’immortali vertici,” is a fine one and Sebastian Catana was generously applauded. The conductor, Andrea Battistoni, kept the small orchestra moving along, though I wished there could have been a bit more energy now and then. All of this said, there was an evenness about this production that I appreciated. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eThis DVD is one part of a project called “Tutto Verdi,” apparently centered in Parma, to publish visual recordings of all of Verdi’s operas by the end of this (Verdi) year. It is of at least passing interest, therefore, to ask how many operas Verdi actually wrote. The surveys by Roger Parker and Julian Budden insist there are 28: The “Tutto Verdi” project asserts there are only 26. The disagreement comes over the status of \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eStiffelio\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, which Verdi reworked as \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eAroldo\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eJérusalem\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, his reworking for Paris of \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eI lombardi\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e. The project has apparently decided not to include \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eAroldo\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eJérusalem\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e (for both of which ArkivMusic tells me there is a DVD). As near as I can tell, of the 26, four have previously been reviewed here (\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eErnani\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, James Miller, 29:6; \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, Raymond Tuttle, 31:2; \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eOtello\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, James A. Altena, 34:1; and \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eForza\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e, Bill White, 35:6). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan\u003eAs I write, there are two other DVDs of \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eAttila\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan\u003e available, under Santi (Kultur) and Muti (Opus Arte), and one coming, under Sangiorgi (Dynamic). I have seen none of these. Of the CD versions, I rather like that under Muti (EMI), where Samuel Ramey brings Attila into his own. (NB: This is not the same performance as in Muti’s DVD.) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cspan style=\"font-weight:bold\"\u003eFANFARE: Alan Swanson \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"C Major Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"DVD","offer_id":49181630628120,"sku":"814337012168","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/2067845.jpg?v=1777762295"},{"product_id":"glenn-gould-the-russian-journey","title":"Glenn Gould: The Russian Journey","description":"\u003ca href=\"album.jsp?album_id=1003789\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlso available on Blu-ray\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  A film by Yosif Feyginberg \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  The date is May 2nd, 1957. Stalin died only four years before and perestroika is still a long way off. However, the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, who is just 24, arrives in Moscow for an exceptional tour: he is the first North American musician to play behind the iron curtain. This is the story that Glenn Gould in Russia tells by revealing documents from the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs that had remained classified for years. Witness accounts from musicians such as Ashkenazy and Rostropovitch, parts of the original recordings of Gould’s concerts in Moscow and Leningrad, as well as a recording that had never been released before of his lecture-recital in Leningrad make this an invaluable documentary revealing an aspect of Glenn Gould’s artistry that few people are aware of.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Picture format: NTSC 16:9\u003cbr\u003e  Sound format: PCM 2.0 (Historical material: Mono)\u003cbr\u003e  Region code: 0 (worldwide)\u003cbr\u003e  Subtitles: English, German, French, Korean\u003cbr\u003e  Running time: 60 mins\u003cbr\u003e  No. of DVDs: 1\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eR E V I E W: \u003ctitle\u003e3754520.zz6_GLENN_GOULD_RUSSIAN_JOURNEY.html\u003c\/title\u003e   \u003cmeta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12bi\"\u003e GLENN GOULD: THE RUSSIAN JOURNEY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"BULLET12\"\u003e • \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e Glenn Gould (pn); various artists; Yosif Feyginberg (dir) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"BULLET12\"\u003e • \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"ARIAL12\"\u003e C MAJOR 714108 (DVD 56:00) \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat could have easily been a dull and routine affair—after all, little film footage and few recordings exist of Gould’s historic May 1957 tour of the USSR—turns out to be a stunning and fascinating film that riveted my attention from first to last. Part of this documentary’s charm, and value, comes from the fact that Gould’s trip is explored in full detail, including his initial shock at not being able to sleep in a double bed and a postcard he sent back home to his dog! All of this, plus the warm reminiscences of the men and women who met him, acted as guides and\/or translators, or heard him play, not to mention the actual voice of Gould himself recalling the ups and downs of his journey, adds layer upon layer to the story until you actually start to feel that you are watching a documentary made at the time, as if Glenn Gould himself had been able to participate in its making. \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat caused such a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003efurore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e? As this video tells us, part of it was the fact that Bach, so long a musical \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003epersona non grata \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein the Soviet Union for his strong association with religious works, came as a revelation to most of his Soviet audience. The hall for his first concert in Moscow—the complete Bach \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003eThe Art of Fugue, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea work most people had never even heard—was not even half full when he began. Partway through the first half, however, people ran out of the hall to pay phones and called friends, relatives, colleagues, and told them that they \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003ehad \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto come down ASAP and hear this man. By the time the concert ended, the hall was packed, not only with breathless lay spectators but also with musicians, and the Russian audience went absolutely berserk. In ensuing performances, and there were several, Gould opened up his repertoire to include the other love of his life, composers of the Second Viennese School. He even gave a lecture-demonstration of their music before an audience of lay listeners, students, and even professors at the Conservatory. The entire Russian musical world seemed to want to absorb Glenn Gould like a sponge. As one of them put it, halfway through the concert-lecture on Berg, Webern, and Schoenberg, some of the students became restless; it was all a bit \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003etoo \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enew and foreign for them, and they begged him to play Bach. “We brought him back down,” the commentator said. But Gould responded positively to the rapt attention he received, and to a certain extent I think that it was upon his return to North American concert life that he became increasingly restless about performing in person because he felt that the majority of audience members were inattentive or only half-listening. \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYet his impact on the Russians, and theirs on them, went much further than just playing and talking to them. Sviatoslav Richter, at the time (as Gould relates) practically unknown in the West, went up to him after a concert, congratulated him, and invited him to one of his own. Mstislav Rostropovich then later recalls something that Richter had told him: “I can play Bach as well as Gould, but I won’t do it because it would take me too much time to rehearse it and too much concentration!” \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNowadays, there is a counter-reaction to Gould’s Bach. Once viewed as ultra-modern, crisp and unbelievably lucid in the revealing of the inner voices, it is now sometimes thought of as willfully distorted: the slow sections are played too fast, the fast sections even faster or too slow. Yet for others, Gould’s architectonic approach to the music remains miraculous simply because, for all its clarity and consistent tempo, it lives and breathes. It has \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style:italic\"\u003efeeling \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edespite, not because, of its rapid pace. And that is what is often missing in the playing of modern-day pianists who approach Bach; yet all of them should be thankful to Gould for making it acceptable to play Bach on the piano and not only or always on the harpsichord or clavichord. The crisp, staccato sound of his particular Steinway model is forever etched in the minds of his listeners. \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter Gould returned to Canada he was unable to go back to the USSR again; after 1964, the welcoming window of opportunity closed for a very long time. But he continued to talk about the Russians on his CBC television programs, to play their music (the video includes clips of him performing the Shostakovich Piano Quintet and a Prokofiev sonata), and to talk about the difficulties the Russian people faced under the Soviet system. He sent his recordings to them to be reproduced on the Melodiya label and continued to receive warm letters from those he had met and some he had not. It was, in short, a very cathartic experience for him, even if he did beg his doctor for “those little yellow pills” (valium) that calmed him down so he could take them on his trip. \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is a fascinating and extraordinarily well-put-together documentary of an exceptional trip, and time, in the life and career of an exceptional pianist. 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