Title: SSSSSSLLLLLLOOOOOOOWWWWWW
Product review: This production looks great! The concepts are clever and fun!The tempi are.....slow......painfully slow.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.This can only be considered "rollicking" if one finds a chess game "rollicking".It's a good game, though, played on a lovely board by very fine players. It's just, with this kind of work, a farcical satire by Offenbach, they should be running around the court playing hand ball, not sitting at the chess board. It needs to have life, it needs to jump, it needs to Can-Can! But instead, musically we get a lullaby....a dirge!I suggest the CD version with Dessay, Naouri, Fouchécourt, Beuron, Podles, Petibon, Smith, Gens, Cole, Minkowski.....which you may purchase here, BTW. This version with no visuals is much more preferable than this sluggish DVD version.
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