Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: A Self-Portrait (2002)
NTSC DVD | English. German | 57 mins | 720x480 | MPEG-2 @5500kbps | PCM @1536kbps 2CH | 3.49 GB Genre: Classical, Documentary | Subs: Subtitles: English, French, German, Spanish
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf had one of the great voices of the 20th century, not particularly powerful but beautiful and superbly trained. She used it with a high level of intelligence and an exemplary sense of the value of the words she was singing. That voice, its development and its strengths (many) and weaknesses (few) are the subject of this fine documentary, narrated by Schwarzkopf. It is not a complete biography, but the voice is well displayed in film clips from throughout her career, beginning with the Nazi years in Berlin where she sang La Bohème and Carmen in German. More info:
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