Andre Rieu - Tuscany
Andre Rieu - Tuscany
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  • Starring: AndrĂ© Rieu, Carla Maffioletti, Carmen Monarcha
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
  • Audio Format: Dolby Digital 5.1, PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, PCM Stereo
  • Binding: DVD
  • EAN: 0795041743299
  • Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, Enhanced, NTSC
  • Label: Denon Records
  • Language: English
  • Manufacturer: Denon Records
  • Number of Items: 1
  • Product Group: DVD
  • Publisher: Denon Records
  • Region Code: 1
  • Release Date: 2004-09-21
  • Studio: Denon Records
  • Theatrical Release Date: 2004-10-03
  • Title: Andre Rieu - Tuscany
  • UPC: 795041743299
Avg Customer Rating: 5 stars

Product Description: Those who have enjoyed this program on PBS need only be told that it is available on home video. André Rieu is a master of light classical music, and here he is at his best. The program was taped live, outdoors in the Piazza de la Republica in the Italian cty of Cortona. Rieu addresses the audience in fluent but sometimes charmingly awkward Italian, with English subtitles. From the opening moments he has the vast crowd in the palm of his hand. They whistle for him in "Chanson d'amour," clap in unison for the "Toreador Song" from Carmen, the "Radetzky" march, and the galloping finales of the William Tell and Light Cavalry overtures, and sing along in "La donna e mobile," the drinking song from La traviata, and, most movingly, the Italian national anthem and "Va pensiero," which is almost a national anthem.

The music is basic classical top-40, with an emphasis on opera and a lot of Italian music, including "The Carnival of Venice" and the Grand March from Aida. The performances are full of energy and technically skilled. Rieu conducts, plays his violin, and generously shares the spotlight, notably with soprano Carmen Monarca, mezzo-soprano Carla Malfioletti, and several singing and dancing young ladies who might have stepped out of a Botticelli painting. Visuals include, besides the concert, a charming Tuscan landscape and a ride in a Venetian gondola. --Joe McLellan


Customer Reviews


2 stars DID NOT CLICK
Andre Rieu in Tuscany did not move me like his amazing Wonderland production. Although the music and interpretation are always great, I feel that a CD would have sufficed.


5 stars A great cd
The music selection makes us play the cd over and over. A great setting for the cd. The vocals really make the cd.


5 stars How can you ask for more?
This guy never fails to amaze
It's one great performance after another.
This one is no different.
Buy this and enjoy!


5 stars Andre Rieu
I'm not a classical music fan per say, but I have to say that I enjoyed this video immensely, He gets the audience involved in the music and there's even a conga line sort of in one of the pieces, He and his audience have fun with the music and so did I!


5 stars Outstanding As Ever!
What can one say about Andre Rieu? Outstanding as ever! A. Rieu fans will not be disappointed in "Tuscany". He takes one back in waves of nostalgia to a Europe of bygone days -- to ANYWHERE in the world of bygone days! All the homelands us "expatriates" long for and dream about. Personally, Andre's concerts and his music are the essence of ME. This, I tell my friends, is who I am, and what I'm all about. "But", my friends answer, "this is who we're all about too, and the essence of who WE are!" So we laugh and cry and sing along with ALL of Andre Rieu's fabulous concerts, "Tuscany" included. What I especially appreciate is that he delivers his commentary in the languages of the countries he's visiting, or that I can choose to hear it in German. This adds an extra-special touch of authenticity to his concerts, and to my "tears-in-wine" nostalgia while listening to them!
Andre Rieu transports the viewer and listener to a world of beauty, grace and elegance. If you're tired of hard-rock, cheap-shock, bug-a-loo music, Andre Rieu is for You!


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