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Cavalli: Il Giasone

Christophe Dumaux (Actor), Katarina Bradic (Actor), Mariame Clément (Director), Rated:

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Actors: Christophe Dumaux, Katarina Bradic, Filippo Adami, Josef Wagner, Federico Maria Sardelli
Directors: Mariame Clément, Matteo Ricchetti
Writers: Francesco Cavalli, Andrea Cicognini
Producers: Vlaamse Opera
Format: Multiple Formats, Classical, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: Italian
Subtitles: Italian, French, German, English
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 2
Rated:
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Studio: Dynamic
DVD Release Date: May 29, 2012
Run Time: 198 minutes
Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
ASIN: B007GGA45M
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #163,970 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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Bawdy, Silly, Trashy---- But It Works!

By Dr. John W. Rippon VINE VOICE on December 6, 2012

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Bawdy, siily, trashy and a great deal of fun. That is what is in store for you when you view Il Giasone, the "smash hit" of Francisco Cavalli. The opera opened at the Teatro Cassiano on January 5, 1648 (=1649) in Venice and soon after was being played all over the rest of Italy. It was the most oftened played opera in the 17th century and became the symbol of Venetian decadence. It was however, a milestone in the development of the opera form as it saw the final separation of the aria and the recitative. The latter served for action and commentary and the aria served for formal song and intense reflection on events that have or may happen.
A few words on history will clarify this importance. As an art form, "opera" (initially called "favola") was invented by a committee in Florence, Italy about 1600(Dafne by Peri & Corsi 1598, mostly lost was the first opera)as a means to unify drama and music. The Humanist movement of the Renaissance thought that the Greeks had used a form of sing/speech in presenting their dramas on stage (probably wrong) and at that time in Western culture sung music and choral music were polyphonic: many voices sing the same words at different times. The committee (called the Camarata) came up with one line of sung words (monody)with music accompanying it so that the listener could follow the story. In the almost fifty years that followed different schools of thought on the development of opera had arisen in the various Italian cities. For example in Rome heavy ponderous philosophical and ecclesiastical operas were favored e.g. Landi "Il Sant' Alessio". In Mantua pure beauty of voice and instrument in Monteverdi, the first great opera composer. In Venice it would take a different course.Read more ›

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Jason & The Argonauts

By Angelo Diretto on December 20, 2012

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For those who like (adore) Baroque scores, this one is a rare gem. The production is unusual and extremely suitable in spite of it's untraditional presentation. It works brilliantly. The singing is magnificant. The artists superb and really brought this acnient mythical piece to glowing life. Bravo. It's long; they used to do that back then. Entertainments went on and on. It was a more leasurely way of sampling all the complexities of emotional deapths sung with impossibly difficult artistry. This recording satisfys on all levels.

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Gorgeously sung. Weirdly fascinating costumes. Grungy but effective staging.

By Mary Balsorah on August 8, 2013

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If you are horribly offended by humorously presented sexual innuendo and behavior and displays of fake nudity, don't bother. This is one of the operas that helped earn Venetian Opera a reputation for decadence. If you expect the costuming to be properly period or consistent with itself and desire seductively beautiful sxcenery, the artistic vision of this production will irritate you. I personally adore beautiful costumes and scenery, but I still enjoyed this production enormously. have watched it more than once and have recommended it to friends and family.

My favorite music frequently falls into the Romantic or Impressionistic catagories, but this very early piece pleased me tremendously and I am crushing on the wonderful counter-tenor voices that add such an interesting edge to the vocal blend. Our Jason is a beautiful weasel with a delicious sound, Medea entices and compels with her powerful vocal and acting abilities. Any one of the principals, who also serve as the chorus, would be incredibiy thrilling to hear in person if my regional opera company (I sang in the opera chorus for many years between 1963 and 2011) were financially able to hire them.

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Great Cavalli Performance by Counter-Tenor Christophe Dumaux

By JohnTurandot on September 25, 2012

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Superior performance from counter-tenor Christophe Dumaux. I was not too familiar with Dumaux prior to purchasing this DVD. I was very pleasantly surprised...he has an excellent vocal quality and the acting was quite good too with just the right blend of humor and drama.

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BOTCHED PREMIERE: NOTHING HAPPENS

By Alfredo R. Villanueva on June 17, 2014

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What a pity this had to be the modern world premiere of this previously forgotten opera! Musically, I can only thank God opera has evolved in time: this music so slow as to make me reach for the forward button. Atrocious staging: the set looks like a squatters' camp at the edge of a dump. Why does Hercules wear a ram's head? Why does one character show as a hunchback rabbit, and another in a Scottish kilt? Why is there so much purposeless (except in that exceptional first scene) disrobing and robing? And in that first scene, why does Giasone wear a a flesh-colored jockstrap? Why does Egeo come in drenched out from the sea, strip to his underwear and yet keep his dry wig on? In other words, the visuals actually do not correspond to the libretto itself. In a revival of such importance, it behooves the producers to be as faithful as possible to the spirit of the period. Christopher Dumaux is still at the stage of eye candy, but his costuming (particularly his sailor "suit") belongs in a Gay Pride Parade I recommend "Ercole sul Tradomonte" as a visual and musical antidote, full nudity and all!

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PRELUDE TO MEDEA IN CORINTH

By BENJAMIN YAFET on June 30, 2012

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I bought and watched this opera, as adding to my growing MEDEA opera collection. This opera is a kind of prelude to the MEDEA operas and starts with JASON in Cochise where he traveled with the ARGONAUTS to seize the GOLDEN FLEECE. But there is much more than JASON only in this opera. Gods do intermingle with mortals and argue about their fate, very much like in WAGNER's RING. It is also worthwhile to point out to the many similarities between the mythologies of MEDEA and of the WAGNER's RING.
The composer CAVALLI, is a virtual unknown today and he writes music in pure MONTEVERDI (the forefather of opera) style. I do think that he is as good as MONTEVERDI. By the way, I think CAVALLI created the JASON role for a "castrati" so high was his voice and this comes as a surprise. I especially liked the music, accompanied by heavy bangs, where MEDEA conjures up the spirits of the underworld (Tartar) to help JASON.
A note about the production: It was highly imaginative and symbolic and somewhat modernized. For example JASON is dressed first as a matador then as a boxer when fighting the dragon (represented as a bull in a cage) who guards the golden fleece: The bull turns upside down thanks by a pin ball thrown in by JASON and voila, the evil and powerful dragon is defeated ! JASON seizes the GOLDEN FLEECE and embarks on the ship ARGOS with MEDEA. The god JOVE (NEPTUNE) wants to sink the ship to punish JASON, but the goddess CUPID has a better idea : As a bigger punishment, let JASON live and make him marry a women (HYPSIPYLE, an ex-mistress of JASON who has twins by him) that he does not love anymore... What happens next ? Watch the opera to discover it by yourself...
Also can anyone tell me what the cover picture refers to ? It reminds me somewhat of Jesus Christ, but I can not pinpoint to it.

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4 stars

Wonderful staging. I like everything about the production except for the music. Delizie Contenti is beautiful and well performed, but I find Cavalli's music overall tedious except... Read more

Published 11 months ago by M

A beautiful rairity--better listened to than watched.

The singing is great! The staging is distracting and unnecessarily complicated--it detracts from the singing and must have been a trial for the singers to even transverse the... Read more

Published on June 22, 2013 by Robert W. Ihloff

Review of Giasone (Cavalli)

Cavalli is a great early opera ccmposer. You would not know this from this production. It is terrible: one of the very worst I have seen. It is filled with sillyness. Read more

Published on February 23, 2013 by J EDWARD DAVIS

Christphre Dumaux.

I usually do not buy operas that are socalled Eurotrash but Christophre is worth the rrice. I not only love his voice but his facial expressions are great as well'

Published on November 17, 2012 by James H. Mehaffey

PRELUDE TO MEDEA IN CORINTH

I bought and watched this opera, as adding to my growing MEDEA opera collection. This opera is a kind of prelude to the MEDEA operas and starts with JASON in Cochise where he... Read more

Published on June 29, 2012 by BENJAMIN YAFET

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