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Pizzetti - Assassino Nella Cattedrale (Murder in the Cathedral)
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NR (Not Rated) :: Decca ::
Released:
2008-04-15
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Rating:
3.0/5 (3 Reviews)
4/5
Raimondi's triumph
by Richard Chilson (Minneapolis, MN United States)
Yes, this is an opera using TS Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral as its basis. It's sung in Italian so the poetry has to go into the music and I'm not sure how much of it survives. This opera certainly doesn't replace Eliot's play. But it has had a lively history including Von Karajan's decision after hearing it in Italy to take it to Vienna (and there is a recording of its performance there). Pizzetti is a conservative composer - so the opera is gentle on the ear. At times it rises to melody but for the most part the music serves the text. The real reason for this DVD is Ruggero Raimondi's Becket. He is a superb singing actor and the role gives him the chance to shine. The other singers are unknown but quite adequate. The video is based on a performance in the Bari Cathiedral which dates from the time of Becket. It is performed before a large audience with the orchestra placed in front of the singers. It is definitely better seen on video than live since the first row of the audience seems far away from the singers. But the video also includes some material to flesh out the drama. It is definitely worth a see for Raimondi; whether it is worth more than that I'm not sure.
4/5
The cosmic power of this tragedy is missed
by Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
This adaptation of Eliot's play to the operatic stage takes something away from the play, the famous discussion of the assassination by the four culprits themselves who defend their act. This discussion gave to the murder the whole historical perspective and dimension Eliot wanted when he created that play, in the late 1930s, when Hitler was menacing the world, when Stalin was ossifying hope, when the west was condescendingly yielding to the two ideologies, with cowardice in front of Hitler and via the relay of the working class and class struggle in front of Stalin. Eliot was frightened by that double perspective and that has been erased from his play in this opera. The idea of producing it in a basilica was brilliant, though the orchestra in front of the choir, between the choir where the action took place and the audience was not the best solution since the music was like a rood screen between that audience and the singers. But the general idea, brought by the music and by the performing of it, is that it is very static. We are living a drama, historical, personal, political, social, religious even cultural, and yet the music remains very bland. We are expecting the tempters to really tempt Thomas Becket, and they do not. They sound wordy when they should sound mesmerizing, pressurizing, manipulative, tyrannical, even erotic and obscene, and Thomas Becket should be tortured by them and not only negative about them. The pleading of the various choirs and the performance of the knights are bland too. We need more action, more force and power, more torturing of the mind, more suffering of the body to reach the cosmic dimension this drama has in Eliot's vision. It is a very good initiative to finally have one recent rendering of this opera on DVD but Eliot should get out of its vault and we need to reopen some locked up rooms of his work that are at the present moment unreachable, like the film of this Murder in the Cathedral. We need to reassess his whole work (poetry and criticism) and to find a new life for his always universal and visionary art. We kind of regret a Strauss or a Berg have not dealt with this play. I guess it is too religious for the modern world. But maybe it could be dealt with as if it were spiritual.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID
1/5
Go See the T.S. Eliot Play
by Zarathustra (Sacramento, CA USA)
I got a severe case of deja vu watching Pizzetti's Assassinio nella Cattedrale. It reminds me of Ambroise Thomas' opera Hamlet. Even though I studied French for six years, translating a Shakespeare play into a French opera just doesn't work for me. It loses the subtlety of Shakespeare's English and, worse, appears trite.
The same is true with T.S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral as an Italian opera. If I were fluent in Italian I might notice some of the flavor of Eliot, but when I read the English subtitles, I just see a murder of Eliot's play. Beyond that, the opera is boring. Nothing interesting happens.
I generally agree with the two earlier reviews of this opera. I just don't understand why they would give it four stars.
Pizzetti - Assassino Nella Cattedrale (Murder in the Cathedral) Summary
Genre:
Music Videos - Classical
Rating:
NR
Release Date:
15-APR-2008
Media Type:
DVD
Assassino Nella Cattedrale DVD Techincal Details
Cast:
Ruggero Raimondi
,
Piergiorgio Morandi
,
Luca Casalin
,
Sonia Zaramella
Director:
Daniele D'onofrio
Array
Aspect Ratio:
1.77:1
Rated:
NR (Not Rated)
Running Time:
85 mins
UPC:
044007432532
Binding:
DVD
Studio:
Decca
Release Date:
2008-04-15
Region Code:
0
Specs:
Classical, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Language & Subtitles
English (Original Language), English (Unknown), German (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
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