DVD : Where The Light Is: John Mayer Live In Los Angeles |
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Rating: - * Channeling Stevie Ray ... This is a great album! John plays three distinct sets - the first, mostly accoustic and by himself, is a lot of old favorites and some newer stuff - Set 2 is a blues bar set that you would swear John is channeling Stevie Ray Vaughan! Great guitar work, driving blues, good stuff! Set three is with the rest of the band, doing a lot of his newer stuff - it's a great album. Rating: - * What a performance! ... I highly recommend this DVD! I'm amazed with John's performance, the best i've ever seen. Two words, buy it! Rating: - * Outstanding!!!!!!!!!!!! ... John Mayer will go down in history as one of the very best guitarists. This gives you a wide variety of John Mayer. Solo, unplugged, incredible blues, and the popular stuff. It covers it all. I really like this DVD. I think very highly of John after this. Well worth the purchase if you like: Blues, Accustic, and or his popular stuff. Rating: - * John Mayer Live ... John Mayer may have the biggest ego in music, but there is a reason why, demonstrated in 3 different ways on this DVD. If you like blues, you will like this music. Rating:  - * John Mayer- Live in LA ... In a word... a disappointment. But then you've got to remember that "live" music ALL of an artists work. Perhaps in time this CD will grow on me. |
All three principals sing eloquently and with a fine sense of the opera's structure and context. Anna Tomowa-Sintow is in even better voice than Domingo, and Giorgio Zancanaro heads an expert supporting cast. The Covent Garden Chorus, directed with distinction by Michael Hampe, gives a memorable impression of the revolutionary mob. Julius Rudel's conducting is totally idiomatic. --Joe McLellan
Lotfi Mansouri spared no effort or expense in making this production special. He personally directed the staging, and handpicked an outstanding cast (right down to the very young and then-unknown Ben Heppner in the small role of Hervey). The visual elements--sets, costumes, and camera work--are also handled with great care, and Sutherland's positive response to this dedication can be sensed in her performance as the unfortunate wife of King Henry VIII. James Morris is best-known as a Wagnerian singer--perhaps the leading Wotan of our time--but he is equally at home in many of the villainous roles that are the fate of bass- baritones (Iago, Scarpia, Don Giovanni). In this sinister tale of an innocent woman ruthlessly destroyed, he shows a surprising knack for the bel canto style. Judith Forst is also excellent in the role of Jane Seymour. --Joe McLellan
