Product Details

• Format: Classical, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Kultur Video
• VHS Release Date: February 23, 1999
• Run Time: 111 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0769720145
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #514,305 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

"Puccini" and "Love Scenes" are strong selling points, but they don't do complete justice to this varied and excellent compilation. It also includes scenes (not love scenes) from Verdi's Otello, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, and Johann Strauss Jr.'s Die Fledermaus, all of which add considerably to its value. Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa are featured on the cover, but you'll also enjoy outstanding performances by Hermann Prey, Neil Shicoff, Sylvia Sass, Mirella Freni, and others. One of Domingo's numbers is the "Kleinzach" song from Tales of Hoffmann, also included in Kultur's Great Tenor Performances collection. Though it's one of Domingo's best performances, you may not want to own it twice--three times if you get the outstanding complete Hoffmann. Quibbles aside, most of this collection is devoted to love scenes--material best expressed by music--in fine performances. --Joe McLellan

Product Description

This spectacular compilation presents the very best of Placido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, performing great love scenes from Puccini favorites.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars very good, December 16, 2005

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G. Heroux "amateur" (montreal,can) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Great Puccini Love Scenes [VHS] (VHS Tape)

It's a very good video, but take notice that this one completes the other released in 88' called "opera favorites by puccini". Except one thing: Aragall in Tosca, is not good on high notes, I will not say as usual. 111 min. Tosca, Boheme, Manon, Butterfly, Il Tabaro (?).Except for Boheme, the great arias are on the other video, but interesting. Other scenes from Strauss, Verdi...Look on internet for more details

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Be warned about Kultur!, January 4, 2007

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Archie (Ottawa ON Canada) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Great Puccini Love Scenes and Other Opera Favorites / Placido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, Royal Opera, Covent Garden (DVD)

This is yet another shoddy Kultur production. They gain access to very good productions and then do not bother to clean them up for present-day viewing, nor do they provide any liner notes. I have vowed never to buy another Kultur production because I have been disappointed too many times in the past. There are many companies that take pride in their productions. Kultur does not seem to be one of them.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars like a Box of Chocolates, November 30, 2004

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Mr John Haueisen (WORTHINGTON, OHIO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Great Puccini Love Scenes and Other Opera Favorites / Placido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, Royal Opera, Covent Garden (DVD)

In addition to Puccini loves scenes, also included are scenes from Verdi, Strauss, and Offenbach, and various singers in addition to Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa.

Cotrubas and Shicoff are superb in La Boheme. Placido Domingo performs an energetic Kleinzach from Tales of Hoffman. There's also passion and great singing in Il Tabarro's couple, Giorgetta and Luigi.

This is like a box of chocolates: some selections are just okay, and several are delicious.