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Title: My first blu-ray experience...and with considerable horror!
Review: Alas, the sets of this Covent Garden production is truly fabulous.I watched 10 minutes in the shop and decided to grab the blu-ray version, to do justice to the sets and costumes, to Angela Gheorghiu and Jonas Kaufmann...Alas, I regretted to get the blu-ray version afterwards because once Adriana enters, everybody watching with me screamed aloud. The screaming gained even more momentum when Maurizio enters.Needless to say, the reaction against the casting is overwhelming in my small party of viewers.Things did not improve, because when the Princess appears and starts to 'converse' with Maurizio, everybody started to sigh: poor Maurizio, caught between two old nannies...Enough said, the stars are respectively awarded for the magnificient male cast (Kaufmann and Corbelli), and the sets and music.As for the singing, the cast is generally fine with the exception of the miscasted Ms. Gheorghiu (vocally, too).
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