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Halevy: La Juive.(Video Recording Review)
HALEVY: La Juive
Stoyanova, Ivan; Shicoff, Zhang, Fink, Daniel; Vienna State Opera, Sutej. Production: Kramer, Deutsche Grammophon B0003301-09, 245 mins., subtitled
Gunter Kramer's 1999 production of La Juive was an important event, restoring to major opera houses in Vienna and subsequently New York (2003) a work of historic significance. The production's compromises and indulgences contradict Scribe and Halevy at several turns, but in the essentials--including the masterful incarnation of Eleazar by Neil Shicoff--this stripped-down La Juive is rock-solid and compelling.
The video based on Vienna's 2002 revival corresponds visually to what appeared at the Met, although it has a different conductor in Vjekoslav Sutej and retains only Shicoff from the original cast. Remarkably, the company found worthy successors; the first Vienna cast and conductor can be heard on the 1999 Austrian radio recording of a live performance (RCA 95962).
Along with extensive cuts to a murderously taxing score, the viewer has to adjust to the economy-minded production values. Isabel Inez Glathar assigns white costumes to Christians, black to Jews, and Gottfried Pilz's skimpily clad unit set favors Bayreuthian darkness and plain geometry. Crowd scenes become negligible.
Yet the reductions, combined with video director Karina Fibich's heavy reliance on close-ups, emphasize the individuals' anguished, toxic interactions and the deeply thought-out ...
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