A Night at the Opera (DTS DVD-Audio)

Queen | Format: DVD Audio

Product Details

• DVD Audio (April 30, 2002)
• Please Note: This is a DVD-Audio disc which is playable on most DVD players as well as all DVD-Audio players. Click here for additional information regarding compatibility.
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Digital Sound
• ASIN: B00005RG6M
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,121 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

This is a DTS DVD-Audio disc. It is playable on all DVD players. It includes a multi-channel and/or stereo soundtrack for DVD-Audio players - plus a DTS master quality 5.1 soundtrack and a standard stereo track for DVD-Video players. It is a DTS Entertainment release. Catalog 69286-01091-9-3. There is a saw cut on the spine of the case.

Customer Reviews

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Queen Masterpiece in 5.1 surround., May 15, 2002

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Marc Comfort "britmarc" (Niigata City; Niigata-ken; Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Night at the Opera (DTS DVD-Audio) (DVD Audio)

This album - originally from 1975 - has been remastered in 96/24Khz 5.1 surround by the original engineers ( Ray Thomas Baker & Brian May ), so obviously they know the music really well. The disc contains DTS 5.1; DVD Audio MLP advanced resolution 5.1; and standard stereo tracks. On screen lyrics are available - either seperately, or as the song is playing - useful if one is a karaoke fan... Also there is a small picture gallery of Queen from the mid 70's. The booklet also includes the song lyrics and a few photos, too. The 'piece de resistance' is the inclusion of the "Bohemian Rhaspody" video in DTS 5.1, which looks pretty good for it's age and sounds wonderful...!!!
The surround makes one feel as if one is sitting in the middle of the actual recording with the central position being taken by Freddie's superlative voice.
I've heard that the members of Queen, their managers, and record company were so impressed by this surround sound mix that all of the Queen albums have been given the go-ahead for surround mixes... Wonderful news!!!!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best DVD-Audio yet--- I would give it more stars if I could, May 6, 2002

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This review is from: A Night at the Opera (DTS DVD-Audio) (DVD Audio)

How do you improve on the perfect cd?
Remix it into 5.1 sound.
I've been picking up DVD-A discs for a while now. Some have improved on the original material (anything by Clapton or Fleetwood Mac), and others have been a waste of a disc (Foreigner's 4 is awful). I've never heard a cd that could benefit from a multi channel mix as much as "A Night At The Opera", and it truly lived up to its potential. It seems like most sound engineers really don't know what to do with the rear channels. In the otherwise great "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac, there are some tracks where you hear nothing but distracting cymbal crashes from behind. Whoever engineered this one made terrific use of all the channels. He truly makes it feel like you're standing in the middle of the band during a performance of "Bohemian Rhapsody", and that, even if nothing else was good here, would make it well worth the purchase price. In the original mix, Roy Thomas Baker stacked Brian May's guitars and layers and layers of harmony vocal tracks on top of each other to make for a thick wall of sound. In the DVD-A mix, those same tracks are spread over all the discrete channels in your surround system to make it even more memorable.
Hot spots-- "Bohemian Rhapsody" (obviously), "The Prophet's Song", "Death On Two Legs", and "Love Of My Life".
Important note: The surround mix will play only in DTS Mode--- Make sure your player or receiver can decode it. As with all DVD-A discs, any Dolby Digital/ DTS capable player can play them, but a special DVD-A player is required to access the special features, such as the groundbreaking "Bohemian Rhapsody" video, included here and remixed into DTS 5.1.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Crowned Jewel, Indeed, September 14, 2002

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JON STRICKLAND "Jon Strickland" (Smithfield, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Night at the Opera (DTS DVD-Audio) (DVD Audio)

If I am not mistaken, Paul McCartney once remarked that lavish is vulgar, and if he did, I am sure that he made a few exceptions, one of which would be this 1975 classic with its lavish production and all.

On audio DVD, A Night at the Opera sounds so clear, so great. It's as if you can hear the chart hits You're My Best Friend and Bohemian Rhapsody for the first time, all over again. Though the rest of the tracks are not remotely as familiar to the casual fan, such as myself, they are nicely arranged and mixed in to help compile what is regarded as Queen's greatest release.

Included are song lyrics displayed on the television screen as the tracks proceed from one to the next and the video of Bohemian Rhapsody, where the sound quality is not quite so stellar as the strictly DVD audio-only version.

A musical triumph, A Night at the Opera on audio DVD rekindles and revisits the passion and the grandeur of great musicians and vocalists who would do what it took to get to the top of their game, even if it meant occasionally going over the top.