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1.Tchaikovsky - Pique Dame / Gergiev, Grigorian, Leiferkus, Kirov Opera starring: Gegam Grigorian, Sergei Leiferkus, Olga Borodina, Valery Gergiev July 16, 2002
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Recently I bought some DVDs of Russian operas from Amazon. I have been quite happy with most of them; but there is something wrong with the DVD of Pique Dame. Apparently, act 1, scene 1 is damaged in my copy. Sometimes the music fades away, or there are jumps in the performance. This is not the case with the rest of the DVD, but here there are other technical failures. Sometimes, but not always, the picture and sound are not synchronized which clearly can be seen by the moving of the lips of the singers. Sometimes, but not always, the arias cannot be heard for the orchestra, so one has to make the sound louder just to be blown away when the chorus comes. I had for several reasons been looking forward to this DVD, and it has mostly been a disappointment, for technical reasons, not for the performance ... Read More

2.Bellini - Norma starring: Hasmik Papian, Gegam Grigorian, Vardouhi Khachatrian, Boris Airapetian, Armenia Opera directed by: Boris Airapetian February 13, 2007
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Poor Hasmik Papian. She can't seem to get documented in a halfway decent production of her widely traveled Norma. I reported a few months ago on a production from Amsterdam, which had a resoundingly silly backstage "All About Eve" plot corresponding with the real one; it seemed to have been made by a team that spent too much time smoking reefer in a coffeehouse (hey, it's allowed there). The latest bungling is billed as "A Film by Boris Airapetian," which features an all-Armenian cast, along with Papian, the most renowned being Gegam Grigorian. The other singers are unrecognizable names. This movie, made on a video format, rather than film, was shot in and around ancient Armenian locations. It's hard to know ... Read More

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