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CD89984 Le Cid [Massenet] Alagna, Uria-Monzon; Marseille, 17 June 20
I have deleted and will reupload disc 2, it seems that something went wrong and
it was giving an error in un-zipping.
Due to the fact that uploading is a very slow process, it will most probably be
available tomorrow.
Here you have the recording of the live broadcast from Mezzo tv, SD. I should
warn you that the performance was rather boring and somehow dissapointing to me,
both in vocal and scenic aspects. The production is conservative and pretty much
un-imaginative, while the performers seemed to me less than adequate for their
parts and not in their best vocal form. Still, it is a document of a very rarely
presented opera, with a lot of very interesting music. Unfortunately, a
very nice piece, the ballet, was cut. I recorded it from digital CATV to an
HDD-dvd-recorder, than split it in several parts. The whole broadcast was about
3 hours long, with one long [some 30 min] intermission and a few shorter [5-10
minutes] ones that were necessary for the changing of the scenery. I tried to
preserve the maximum quality and, as the opera would not fit onto 2 discs, I
spread it on 3, keeping all the intermission features. that include interviews
with the two leads, the conductor, the manager and Frederic Mitterand, the
Minister of Culture, present for the ocasion. But I re-arranged them to fit
better, so the first disc has only the fisrt scene, about 25 min, and the long
intermission; the second has the rest of the first part [rest of act 1 and act
2]; the third has the rest [acts 3 and 4]. The 3 dvd-video folders were zipped
and uploaded each in a single file.
The opera has French subtitles [a transcription of the text, very useful for
those who can understand and do not have the libretto]; the intermissions have
English subtitles; neither are 100% complete.
Le Cid, de Jules Massenet
Roberto Alagna (Rodrigue),
Béatrice Uria-Monzon (Chimène),
Kimy McLaren (L'infante),
Francesco Ellero d'Artegna (Don Diègue),
Franco Pomponi (Le roi),
Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille,
Jacques Lacombe (direction)
Charles Roubaud (mise en scène)
17 June 2011
[complete cast in the credits]
*** VIDEO INFO ***
Input Type : YV12(RAW)
Input Size : 720 x 576
Output Type : YV12
Output Size : 720 x 576
FrameRate(Frame/sec) : 0.00 (25.00) PAL
*** AUDIO INFO ***
SampleRate(Sample/sec) : 48000
BitRate(Bit/sample) : 16
Channels : 2
KBitRate(KBit/sec) : 256
AC3
BitRate(Bit/sample) : 5MB/s, variable.