Re: Movie of Tito Gobbi inThe Barber of Seville (Colour 1955), VHS of Movie sought.

"I have links to websites which are virtually inaccessible to me in that I
don't
speak or read Dutch or Italian."

Well, I can't help with the Dutch, much - though a lot of it, especially
written down, is not so very far from German - but I could certainly handle
the Italian, if it would help.

I am not at all surprised about the attitude of the ROH. Their box-office
staff are astonishingly snotty, and generally the whole place seems to work
on the principle that it's doing everybody a favour even letting them in. I
was recently given the wrong ticket for the - hopefully Villazon -
"L'elisir" which I could effectively prove, and did, even to their
satisfaction, was their fault. Instead of allowing me simply to switch for
my intended date, they were insisting on me buying the new ticket and
proposing to refund me subsequently for the other, minus an administration
charge. Needless to say, this is not what happened, and several people in
Floral Hall could bear witness to the - if I say so myself - most eloquent
and comprehensive diatribe the Manager had to come down to face, at
withering length, as I eventually left with the proper ticket.

As I have had occasion to remark before given their habitual standards of
new stagings, the place suffers from delusions of adequacy. In absolute
terms of musical infrastrucure - orchestra, chorus - the house has now sunk
to the level of Paris, and could no longer be considered a fit match for the
achievements regularly heard in Vienna, New York or Milan ( it doesn't help
that I'm just back from two nights of the incomparable Concertgebouworkest,
playing Bruckner, Wagner and Debussy under Haitink so magically and
magnificently that the mere thought of the new ROH season looming and the
poor, flailing Hobbitt's desperate attempts to secure mere accuracy, never
mind virtuosity, from his spavined forces in the "Ring" is enough to send
shudders down the spine ).

In any event, the IMDB carries this much information :

http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0048068/

which, discouragingly, shows no availability in the usual Amazon markets.
But there isn't, and oddly never has been, any Amazon Italy, and I've
unearthed stacks of films by Fellini, the Taviani brothers and Ettore Scola
none of which can be bought in the UK/US market, but which are all available
there on local labels, usually for a pittance. Maybe a trip to Rome is
called for......

SJT


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