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Discussion: Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Karajan

Posts: 4

Post by Joseph Ponessa January 17, 2015 (1 of 4)
See my review of this blu-ray audio release.
I have collected the three Decca Pavarotti releases and am glad to have them. On all three of them, however, the opening menu resists coming onto the screen. Each disc tries to load, almost gets there, and then comes to a complete stop. By pressing Enter repeatedly as the disc is trying to start, I can skip menu and go to start. In other words, for a fraction of a second the menu is actually up, but not long enough to show on the screen.
None of my other blu-ray discs have this problem. It may be a manufacturing quirk, like the Mahler blu-ray set from Amsterdam which initiates play in fast-forward mode and has to be instructed to slow down. All ten of the discs in that set have this peculiarity.
Four of my SACD discs have a problem of clicking and popping sound--Leonhardt's Matthew Passion and Bach Mass, Ormandy's Verdi Requiem and Carmina burana.
Whenever I upgrade to a higher order of Oppo, I will try these discs again to see if these discs will work better on another player.

Post by nickc January 17, 2015 (2 of 4)
Joseph Ponessa said:

See my review of this blu-ray audio release.
I have collected the three Decca Pavarotti releases and am glad to have them. On all three of them, however, the opening menu resists coming onto the screen. Each disc tries to load, almost gets there, and then comes to a complete stop. By pressing Enter repeatedly as the disc is trying to start, I can skip menu and go to start. In other words, for a fraction of a second the menu is actually up, but not long enough to show on the screen.
None of my other blu-ray discs have this problem. It may be a manufacturing quirk, like the Mahler blu-ray set from Amsterdam which initiates play in fast-forward mode and has to be instructed to slow down. All ten of the discs in that set have this peculiarity.
Four of my SACD discs have a problem of clicking and popping sound--Leonhardt's Matthew Passion and Bach Mass, Ormandy's Verdi Requiem and Carmina burana.
Whenever I upgrade to a higher order of Oppo, I will try these discs again to see if these discs will work better on another player.

I have the BD-V of this, and have always thought that indeed Pavarotti's expanding waist-line was the reason he was replaced by Domingo in the Ponnelle film.
One thing I will say is that the lip-synching in the Blu-ray is terrible (though you seem to become more inured to it as the film progresses), and highly disconcerting when a character is casually mouthing words in a small room in Butterfly's house, and your ears can hear the voice expanding gloriously in the Sofiensaal!
The other thing is Michel Seneschal's truly repulsive portrayal of Goro, the worst kind of Asian stereotype (complete with buck teeth and fawning servility), it's as jarring watching back now as if you saw a character today in black-face.
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Post by toddao January 18, 2015 (3 of 4)
I had no problem playing the BD of Turandot on the Oppo 105.Just stick it in and away it goes!

Post by Joseph Ponessa January 18, 2015 (4 of 4)
toddao said:

I had no problem playing the BD of Turandot on the Oppo 105.Just stick it in and away it goes!

Thanks for sharing that. I'm glad I didn't do anything impulsive like send the disc back or write a negative review.

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