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Title: An incompetent staging of a minor work
Review: After reading all the five-star reviews of this DVD, I may never read Amazon's customers' reviews again. This is an formless, meandering yawn of a stage rendering of a piece that should be sung and not theatrically realized.Indeed DiDonato suffers eternally and Shimell has a commanding presence and voice, but the rest of the cast is completely useless. The chorus is simply embarassing.I wish I could get my money back, but I do love opera which Handel's "Hercules" is not and was never supposed to be. Handel was not very impressed by opera and didn't write "Hercules" with operatic conventions and aspirations.Beware of Amazon's false prophets!!
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