| | Nabucco DVD Bruson / Dimitrova / Verdi CDS
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Roberto de Simone's production of the epic opera that firmly established Verdi as the voice of the Italian people. Recorded at the Teatro alla Scala, this lavish production stars Renato Bruson, Ghena Dimitrova and Paata urchuladze. Sung in Italian with subtitles in English, French, German and Spanish. The great Verdi opera of struggle and romance in the days of King Nebuchadnezzar. Performed at Verona in an open-air Roman arena.
This is the only Dimiter Petkov video. Nabucco | List Price | $29.99 (You save $9.84) | | Studio | Kultur Films Inc. | | Orig Year | 1984 | | All Time Sales Rank |  26098  | | CD Universe Part number | 6661748 | | Catalog number | 2042 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Feb 10, 2004 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 140 Minutes | | Additional Info | Kultur Films Inc. | | Movie Details | Color; Kultur Films Inc. |
Nabucco Movie Review Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars)  The virtues of simplicity
In some 75 years of serious music listening, I have minimized my exposure to opera. With the coming of the DVD-V, I am finally starting to explore it. Unfortunately, this exploration is coming at a time when Eurotrash is the standard mode for the presentation of opera.
So I have versions of "The Damnation of Faust," "Boris," "Pelleas," "Tales of Hoffman," "Simplicius," "Falstaff," et al, that play like the impressionist films of the early to mid 1900s rather than stage presentations with plots.
All kinds of scenery that mean nothing to me.
Costumes that seem designed to impede the performers,
And singers required to sing while climbing shaky ladders, and . . . well, it's too hideous to describe.
Then, along comes "Nabucco." It is old fashioned. Wonderfully old fashioned. True, it is stagy and cliched and hackneyed and . . . did I mention "old fashioned." But the director has put himself/herself at the service of the opera, rather than using the opera as a showcase for his/her worldview.
The performance recorded on this DVD is as comfortable as an old shoe, and just as nice to slip into.
Submitted by palter (Pittsburgh, PA) 
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Excellent mise-en -scene and good singers & orchestra
I think the best mise-en-scene I have seen in Nabucco. The role of Nabucco by Renato Bruson is also excellent and very well performed. The secondary actors, choir an orchestra were good too.
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