Roberto Devereux — HDVDARTS

Donizetti Roberto Devereux opera to libretto by Salvadore Cammarano. Directed 2015 by Alessandro Talevi at the Teatro Real. Stars Mariella Devia (Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra (Queen of England), Marco Caria (Lord Duke of Nottingham), Silvia Tro Santafé (Sara, Duchess of Nottingham), Gregory Kunde (Roberto Devereux, conte di Essex (Earl of Essex)), Juan Antonio Sanabria (Lord Guglielmo Cecil [Lord Cecil]), and Andrea Mastroni (Sir Gualtiero Raleigh (Sir Walter Raleigh)). Bruno Campanella conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Real de Madrid (Chorus Master Andrés Máspero). Set and costume design by Madeleine Boyd; lighting design by Matthew Hasking; choreography by Maxine Braham. Directed for TV by Stephen Lebard; produced by Xavier Dubois & Natalia Camacho. Sung in Italian. Released 2016, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA

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Feb 25. We have just completed one of our most ambitious reviews: Einstein on the Beach opera, the surreal 4 and 1/2 hour cult legend. Kudos, encomiums, and accolades to Opus Arte for giving us this authoritative and weirdly fascinating recording, which we grade A+. Absorbing and learning Einstein is uniquely challenging. We try to help out by providing aids not included in the keepcase materials: an accurate libretto and a list of segments in the opera with correct Opus Arte time stamps. Good luck!

We have some other good grades with an A for the recent Met The Pearl Fishers (Les pêcheurs de perles) and a B- for an earlier The Pearl Fishers from Naples. Also, we recently gave an A- for the new Don Quixote from the Vienna State Ballet.