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The Pink Garden Kit
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Victorinox SwissMemory 256 MB (Silver Alox)
From the makers of the original Swiss Army Knife, this 2-1/4-inch-long tool combines the Swiss Army Knife’s renowned versatility and a removable 256 MB USB memory stick for storing and transporting data such as music, photos, and text files. Displaying the Swiss Army Knife’s famed Swiss-flag logo of white cross against a red background, the rugged silver Alox housing also holds a knife blade, a combination nail file and screw driver, a scissors, a retractable ballpoint pen, a LED mini light, and a key ring. Accompanying the tool is a USB cable for connecting the memory stick to PCs and MACs.

About Victorinox
In 1884, Swiss cutler Karl Elsener set up shop in Ibach-Schwyz, installing a waterwheel in Tobelbach Brook to run his grinding and polishing machines. Thus began what would become the international brand name Victorinox, a combination of Victoria, for Elsener’s mother, and “inox,” or stainless steel. Today, Victorinox produces watches, luggage, clothing, and, famously, Swiss Army Knives. The forerunner of that name dates to 1897, when Elsener patented the Swiss Officer’s and Sports Knife he supplied to the Swiss Army. Following World War II, American servicemen and women shopping in PX stores shortened the name to Swiss Army Knife, which lives on in English-speaking countries around the world and has become a metaphor or versatility.

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Johann Strauss - Die Fledermaus / Domingo, Te Kanawa, Prey, Royal Opera Covent Garden
Kiri Te Kanawa is featured in this glittering Covent Garden Opera production of Johann Strauss’ masterpiece. Placido Domingo conducts the Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus. Other soloists include Hermann Prey, Hildegard Heichele, Benjamin Luxon.
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Customer Review: Very good DVD, Very good delivery!
This DVD was delivered quickly, and in prime condition. I am very glad to own a new copy of this beautifully performed operetta.
Customer Review: Good live performance, fun the first time, but with problems for repeated viewings
SOURCE: Live 1983 performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. SOUND: Reasonably good stereo. The singing of the soloists is generally well caught, the orchestra and chorus slightly less so. Some dialogue fades occasionally, but that may be due to the performers as much as the sound pick-up. CAST: Gabriel von Eisenstein, a prosperous Viennese gentlemen with a roving eye - Hermann Prey (baritone); Rosalinde, his wife - Tiri Te Kanawa (soprano); Alfred, Rosalinde’s would be lover - Dennis O’Neill (tenor); Adele, Rosalinde’s maid - Hildegarde Heichele (soprano); Dr. Falke, Eisenstein’s good friend but also the victim of one of his practical jokes - Benjamin Luxon (baritone); Frank, Governor of the City Prison - Michael Langdon (baritone); Prince Orlowsky, a jaded and bored visiting aristocrat - Doris Soffel (mezzo-soprano); Dr. Blind, Eisenstein’s lawyer - Paul Crook (tenor); Ida, Adele’s sister - Ingrid Baier (speaker); Frosch, a jailer - Josef Meinrad (speaker). CONDUCTOR: Placido Domingo with the Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus, Covent Garden. TEXT: The lyrics are sung in a German not heavily burdened with Viennese lilt. Spoken dialogue veers wildly from one language to another. SETS AND COSTUMES: The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, is a very large theater with a big stage. The settings are of necessity of large scale. This makes Eisenstein’s residence, which ought to be the well-appointed townhouse of a prosperous but nevertheless middle-class Viennese banker who keeps only a single servant, seem out of scale. The ballroom set for the second act and the jail in the third are serviceable. The costumes are generic, late 19th Century, but attractive and appropriate. STAGE DIRECTION: Overall, the stage blocking is quite traditional, even sensible, leading one to make wild speculations about the director having actually read the libretto before staging the piece, improbable as that seems. The decision to sing in German and speak the dialogue in polyglot form is a questionable one, probably earning, I imagine, about equal quantities of praise and disdain. COMMENTARY: The roots of Johann Strauss II’s “Die Fledermaus” stretch back to an 1851 German farce by Robert Benedix, “Die Gef?ngnis” (”The Prison”). In 1872, that admirable pair of hacks, Meilhac and Hal?vy, cobblers of libretti for both Offenbach and Bizet, converted the old German play into a French vaudeville called “Le r?veillon” (”The Revel” or perhaps “The Christmas Eve Party”). In 1873-4, the French text was re-translated back into German for Strauss to set to music, but with all references to Christmas carefully expunged as a sop to respectable Viennese sensibilities. Oddly enough, the one-time Christmas Eve tale that premiered not far away from Easter in 1874 has taken firm root in Austria and elsewhere as a New Year’s Eve entertainment. If there exists a poor sound recording of “Die Fledermaus,” I have never encountered it. Each major recording has its unique merits and its champions. Choosing the best among them is simply an exercise in expressing personal taste. “Chacun,” as we are wisely advised, “? son go?t.” Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for all the DVD outings of “Die Fledermaus” (and especially not for two recent outright horrors from Salzburg and Glyndebourne, respectively.) Let me now hasten to allay fears by assuring you that this DVD “Fledermaus” is a good one. Many, including the Good Grey Gramophone Magazine, regard it as a very, very good one. The cast is a generally sound one, and everyone (but Heichele) seems to be having an infectiously good time, especially Domingo, conducting in the pit. They are all right, but neither Te Kanawa nor Heichele would be my first choice for Rosalinde and Adele, respectively (nor, indeed, my twenty-first choice, if it came to that.) Hermann Prey is a sprightly Eisenstein, although perhaps a bit too old and stolid-looking to make Eisenstein’s shenanigans entirely convincing. Eisenstein is a low-lying tenor part or a high-flying baritone role. I prefer a character tenor as Eisenstein, especially in Act II where he will be the only tenor voice. Dennis O’Neill sings pretty well as Alfred, here translated into as Alfredo. Benjamin Luxon, oddly enough for an operatic baritone, is adequate singing but notably better in speaking the dialogue. Doris Soffel, is a tall, splendidly epicene figure as Prince Orlowsky. Soffel, a very fine and well-known mezzo-soprano, here sounds very soprano-ish. Had I been given the choice, I’d have cast her as Adele and Heichele, if I had to use her at all, as Orlowsky. While the performance is enjoyable enough the first time through, there are problems that emerge on subsequent viewings. The choice of having characters speak in different languages to one another–Te Kanawa in English to Dr. Falke but in German to Eisenstein and Adele, for instance–gets real tired real fast. The part of Alfred was intended for a Viennese tenor–imagine the young Richard Tauber. Strauss wrote appropriately Viennese music for him. Performance tradition, however, has turned Alfred into a caricature of an Italian tenor, Alfredo, and interpolated all kinds of tags and snatches from Puccini and Verdi. Here, they have gone one step further and made him speak in Italian–hardly the native tongue of a Dennis O’Neill, I fancy. It’s a wearisome conceit. (When they extend the idea to make Eisenstein emulate Wotan when he bids “farewell” to Rosalinde, it’s really just too much!) Even more wearisome is the “gala” in which outside performers offer a mixed bag of turns during Orlowsky’s ball … amusing once, tedious thereafter. Finally, there is the matter of Domingo’s conducting. The Good Grey Gramophone calls it “stiff.” Since the Royal Opera House Orchestra is manifestly not a Viennese band, I’ll give Domingo a pass on that point. On the other hand, he seems to me to be a little over-indulgent on making comedic points at cost to the essential snap and crackle of Strauss’ champagne-soaked score. Compared to the overall enjoyability of the show, my negative comments count as relatively minor. You can certainly do worse–much worse–than acquire this particular version of “Die Fledermaus.” Four stars.

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