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| The Metropolitan Opera: Centennial Gala |  | Actors: Kathleen Battle, Leonard Bernstein, Richard Bonynge, Montserrat Caballé, Richard Cassilly
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
Category: DVD
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Seller: blowitoutahere
Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 21,465
Format: AC-3, Classical, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Chinese (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 0
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 231 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 001326309
UPC: 044007345382
EAN: 0044007345382
ASIN: B002EWGYAM
Theatrical Release Date: 1983
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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The gala celebration is a collection of opera's best-loved favorites and immediately catches the attention with spectacular performances by stars such as Dame Joan Sutherland, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Mirella Freni, Marilyn Horne, Birgit Nilsson, Luciano Pavarotti, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Alfredo Kraus and many others. This product features an awesome roster of international star conductors: from James Levine, Leonard Bernstein and Thomas Fulton to Jeffrey Tate, Richard Bonynge.
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 still not complete but better than anything today December 30, 2009
Col William Russell (Springfield, VA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For younger opera fans who loudy cheer today's mediocrities who disgrace the opera stage, here's a glimpse of what real singing - and the Met - was all about. Unfortunately, the gala came too late to show the prime of Robert Merrill, Anna Moffo, or Roberta Peters to stay nothing of Richard Tucker and Jan Peerce. However, what they do have is far and away superior to what is cheered today.
Even tho it's not the complete gala (an all-day telecast, matinee plus evening) grab it and see what you're missing. Now if DG REALLY wanted to do us a favour, they'd release the 1983 Gala complete as well as the complete Bing Gala from 1972. They recorded it (1 LP was released and a second announced but never released) so they cergtainly have the audio if not the video as well. And the singing in 1972 eclisped 1983 by a good deal!
 Omly about half of Gala October 30, 2009
A. BOSS (Mountainside, NJ United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This should have been listed as excerts from Centenial Gala. I had assumed that, since it contained 2 DVDs and you can fit about 8 hours on 2 double layer DVDs, that it would contain the whole gala. But it only contains about half the gala, which is very dasappointing. It was a very good performance and, considering it was recorded 1983, both the video and audio are very good. Audio has been upgraded to dts5.1 in addition to stereo.
"New" MET CENTENIAL video October 23, 2009
geok (MA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This video is a disappointment because it merely takes the same material from the older versions single disk and spreads it over two disks. The original video had drastically edited the afternoon and evening performances of this gala. I bought this two dvd version assuming that more performances had been added when I saw that the original single disk had been expanded to two disks. If you have the single disk version, don't bother getting this one
The Metropolitan Oper Centennial Gala October 17, 2009
Irwin Tallarico (SF bay area)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's amazing that the Met is over 100 years old. Great singers, conductors and directors have helped it become the pre-eminent opera house in the world. All of the performances are excellent though I wish that they would look to their archives and show arias from past singers such as Beverly Sills , Jussi Bjorling, Lilly Pons, Rise Stevens. I know that they have video recordings but they see reluctant to release them.
 Yes, disappointed! October 9, 2009
Gustaaf Schippers (Helena, MT USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have the "old" Pioneer Classics DVD version, lasting 231 minutes. The "new" DGG version lasts........231 minutes. So it must be the same coverage. I don't know why DGG went to the trouble of duplicating the existing version. Better picture? Better sound? I don't think I will spend money (although not too much for this DVD) to see whether picture and sound are any better(no complaints on the Pioneer DVD).
I have asked DGG whether they had any intention to issue a DVD-version of the "Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991 - 25th Anniversary at Lincoln Center", of which I have the VHS. That is the one with the 3 excerpts from RIGOLETTO, OTELLO and DIE FLEDERMAUS plus a number of arias. This is often mixed up with the "Metropolitan Opera Gala, celebrating James Levine's 25th Anniversary", which took place in 1996 (2 DGG DVDs). DGG said no intention. Unbelievable!
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