Don Juan

Exploits d'un jeune Don Juan (L'iniziazione) / The exploits of a young Don Juan (Dedication)

A screen of the same novel of the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Even in the age, but with different shape, Marina Vlady brings a vast country mansion for the summer youth of sixteen. In the estate of a lot of cute and uninhibited girls and women of different age and origin. On the first walk, he sees a couple making love…. Ladies are washed in the pond, throwing the skirt, and young Don Juan watcheing all that.
Very beautiful film. Recommend even if you don't know italian language.

This four disc set from Erato opens with Gluck’s three act lyric tragedy Iphigénie en Aulide, his first original ‘French’ opera for the fashionable Paris Opéra. In 1773 Gluck had been persuaded that he could establish himself at the Paris Opéra (also known as L’Opéra) by François du Roullet, an attaché at the French Embassy in Vienna. Baille du Roullet provided Gluck with the libretto for Iphigénie en Aulide, based on the tragedy of Racine and founded on the play of Euripides. Initially the Director of L’Opéra hesitated in accepting Gluck’s score. Fortunately he had a influential ally in Marie-Antoinette, the Queen of France, to whom he had taught singing and harpsichord. The first staging of Iphigénie en Aulide was at the Paris Opéra in 1774.

Quatrième de couverture - Juan, bâtard de Charles-Quint et d'une jeune femme de Ratisbonne, où il naît en janvier 1547, est bientôt enlevé à sa mère et grandit dans une ferme de Castille tenue par deux hidalgos sortis tout droit d'un roman picaresque avant d'être repris en main par Quijada, un sévère baron qui a la confiance de l'empereur.
Devenu membre de la maison de Quijada, Juan est reconnu comme son demi-frère par Philippe II et, à ce titre, fait duc d'Autriche. Il recevra le commandement de l'Armada catholique rassemblée à Messine et battra les Turcs à Lépante…

Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra; Don Juan; Till Eulenspiegel - Wiener Philharmoniker; Herbert von Karajan; Label: DECCA
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Karajan was a great Straussian, and this collection, produced by John Culshaw in 1959-60, with the VPO (especially the strings) in superb form, shows him at his most charismatic. Also sprach Zarathustra was a famous early Decca stereo demonstration record, and remains as spectacular as ever. The many-faceted portrait of Till is delectably witty, Don Juan is exciting, racy, and full of sensuality, which is voluptuously shared by the dramatic and sinuous 'Salome's dance'. The transfers undoubtedly recreate the sonic excitement of the originals.
Ivan March, Gramophone

..The brilliance of Strauss' thematic manipulation and the skills of his orchestration were perceived from the beginning, while the exuberant presentation of his ideas came under suspicion as aimless meandering..