Ruddigore

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Features: an introduction to the opera by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., "Making of featurette", Gilbert & Sullivan profile, song index and companion booklet featuring the Ruddigore libretto.
Vincent Price, John Treleaven, Sandra Dugdale, Keith Mitchell, Ann Howard ; London Symphony Orchestra ; Alexander Faris, conductor ; Ambrosian Opera Chorus ; John McCarthy, chorus master.
Each Lord of Ruddigore is cursed to commit a crime a day or die. Robin, who is the Lord of Ruddigore living incognito to avoid the family curse, is exposed and forced into a life of crime until logic offers an ingenious solution and reunion with Rose Maybud.
DVD Dolby digital ; Full screen.

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Awesome submitted by loire on June 28, 2012, 3:53pm You cannot beat Gilbert and Sullivan. These operettas are awesome, there is a reason there are countless societies devoted to their music. We are so fortunate to have the oldest consecutively producing society in North American here in Ann Arbor. Check out the University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society productions, they are incredible.

Sadly unwatchable submitted by acm on July 18, 2016, 6:22pm I had heard good things about this production, but I couldn't follow the DVD at all. The sound quality was sufficiently poor that I could only catch one word in fifteen or twenty even with the sound cranked up. This version isn't closed captioned, either, so I couldn't lean on that to help. I'm familiar with the plot of Ruddigore, but I just couldn't find anything to interest me in this. It's something that really relies on sound quality in order to be comprehensible.