Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9493 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-05-09
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Box set, Classical, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 469 minutes

Synopsis
A seven-hour epic film of the life of the composer Richard Wagner. The musical score is performed by the London, Vienna and Budapest Philharmonic Orchestras, conducted by Sir Georg Solti.

Customer Reviews

very poor sound quality...
...makes this edition much less enjoyable than it could and should be (excessive overmodulations all the time), along with strangely unsynchronized dubbing of a considerable amount of lines. fine acting, though.

The answer to our questions
I have had the opportunity to watch the US version and, as far as I remember for having watched the UK version some time ago, the US 4-DVD version has a couple of extended scenes here and there, nothing of great importance for the whole of the story. The US version is however of relatively poor image and sound quality, and has no language or subtitle options. I would like to find out if the UK version has language options (German).

Let down by sound quality
This was a great TV Epic, but this DVD version is let down by the poor quality 2 channel soundtrack. Could do with a digital makeover, including some softening of Burton's face in earlier scenes; you have to suspend belief in order to imagine Burton was playing 'young' 37 year-old Wagner.

Otherwise beautifully filmed, very 'arty', and close to history.