tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post115715010624309196..comments2024-03-18T20:41:56.222-04:00Comments on Kinderkuchen for the FBI: Essential Library of OperaDr.Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02298893523780056481noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-1157493767202646202006-09-05T18:02:00.000-04:002006-09-05T18:02:00.000-04:00Echoing Gert's trenchant analysis, I agree that DV...Echoing Gert's trenchant analysis, I agree that DVDs are becoming the proper way to learn about a particular opera. Early technology gave us crappy sound, but newer recording techniques eliminate the feeling that you're miles away from the action. I've always preferred live performances on CD to studio recordings anyway; hearing the audience get excited about a particular passage is part of the fun of listening to an opera, don't you think? I only wish it didn't take so bloody long for a particular opera performance to come out on DVD. For instance, the Met broadcasts distributed by DG sometimes don't hit the stores until nearly a decade has passed. That's not very timely!Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06877408572713743323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9856058.post-1157399469426261102006-09-04T15:51:00.000-04:002006-09-04T15:51:00.000-04:00Good for you on the DVD front.In some places it se...Good for you on the DVD front.<BR/><BR/>In some places it seems such a hersy to even suggest a DVd, as if the provision of a spectacle somehow sullies the purity of sound.<BR/><BR/>So often when people ask for a DVD recommendation, so many other people jump in with "you ought to try the '53 blah-de-blah which is now out of print and was only available on reel-to-reel tapes from someone in the male bathroom at a venue 3000 miles from you, before you were born" when the poor sap just asked for a DVD in order to get to know the opera from scratch...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com