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Der Rosenkavalier (the Royal O

Kiri Te Kanawa (Actor), Aage Haugland (Actor), Brian Large (Director) | Rated: NR (Not Rated) | Format: DVD
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This Rosenkavalier is a nearly perfect combination of music, singers, staging, and conducting. It examines the whole spectrum of love from every perspective: youthful idealism, consenting adultery, predatory lechery, and autumnal regrets. Richard Strauss's music is exquisite; the emotional climate includes tenderness, sophistication, and sentimentality, with a healthy dose of near-slapstick. This is a treatment to live with on a desert island.

Kiri Te Kanawa garners most of the acclaim in what is probably her best role, but the entire cast is superbly chosen and works together in fine-tuned ensemble--not only the impulsive Octavian of Anne Howells, Barbara Bonney's sweet, timid Sophie, and Aage Haugland's, boorish, pretentious Baron Ochs, but everyone, including servants, domestic spies, and the social-climbing Herr Faninal. The sets and costumes are sumptuous; the sound and video images well defined. Georg Solti conducts with a subtlety and lyric lilt not always found in his work. --Joe McLellan

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Breathtakingly Beautiful, May 9 2004
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Mr John Haueisen (WORTHINGTON, OHIO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Der Rosenkavalier (the Royal O (DVD)
(sung in German, with subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese)

Der Rosenkavalier (the Cavalier of the Rose) can entertain you on various levels.

There is the heavenly, ethereal music which is almost too beautiful. There's a delightful sense of humor with surprises for nearly all of the main characters.

There's plenty of romance, with the scene of "the presentation of the rose" as one of the best examples of capturing the very moment of love-at-first-sight.

As if all the great entertainment were not enough, Richard Strauss has given us a moral lesson: While the Field Marshall's wife has justifiable contempt for her cousin, the lecherous Baron, she realizes that she has been little better as she has used her imperial position to take advantage of more than one young officer. She sees herself in the mirror, and decides to start doing the right (loving) thing--she gives up her current lover so that he can be happy. She finally loves him enough (a sort of motherly love?) to let go of him.

Der Rosenkavalier is basically a love story, with some "growing up" by several of the characters. The music is so beautiful, it's almost unearthly at times.

Georg Solti conducts the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and Kiri te Kanawa sings the role she has made her own--the Marschallin.

You may well gasp in amazement (tears come to my eyes) that such beautiful music has been written. Staging and costumes are splendid also..

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Kiri and Friends Shine in the Marvelous Production, Jun 16 2000
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This review is from: Der Rosenkavalier (VHS Tape)
Der Rosenkavalier by itself is a magnificent opera, but when you combine it with Dame Kiri te Kananwa and Sir Georg Solti, you have pure magic. I received this opera as a Valentine's Day gift, and instantly fell in love. Kiri captures the essence of the Marschallin with such poise and elegance. I challenge any viewer to resist weeping during the famous Act III trio. Any lover of opera will cherish this video, and anyone interested in learning more about opera could not choose a more exhilerating place to start.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Dame Kiri outdoes herself - again, Jan 26 2001
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Gillian M. Frid (Golden, Colorado USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Der Rosenkavalier (VHS Tape)
I have listened to Rosenkavalier a thousand times and have always been enchanted by the depth of passion in the music and voice. I finally watched Schwarzkopf and Ludwig's performance which thoroughly captured my soul. I thought I would never see or hear anything more beautiful until I saw Dame Kiri's rendition, I cried shamelessly almost from the beginning, I could hardly stand the emotion I felt watching this lovely production. To anyone who is beginning the road toward opera, please start out with this wonderful opera, let it surround and embrace you, let the music and the meaning into your soul, trust me, you will fall in love with this superb opera, then listen to Dame Kiri Te Kanawa sing the Four Last Songs, also by Strauss, you'll be a basket case of emotions, just like me!
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