Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson
Originally Posted by M Music
To that I would add my agreement to your following comment from your review of MASSENET's opera MANON.

"Now I must confess to a love affair with Anna Netrebco as her beautiful & powerful voice combined with stunning good looks have me completely captivated so be aware of this prejudice. But combine her talents with those of Rolando Villazon with the music of Massenet and you have a winner here. Their singing and acting brought tears to my eyes."

Anna Netrebko has it all as a singer, actor, and with her stunning good looks.
True about the singing but the production and stage direction of this one gets in my way and, imho, in the way of the principals. Too cute. Too calculated. I watched this twice but future playings will be audio only.

Kal
Kal, I've copied this comment and your one about Die Fledermaus back into the first post so readers can see your different opinion. I'll continue to do this with any similar comments from anyone as long as it is manageable.

John