Tolstoy and the New York Times

[Olga Meerson]

Alinochka, darling, lowering the tone by one octave already gives you the difference between the female mezzo and the male baritone range :)
I love the Pevears and, just back from Italy, saw the ads for the Italian TV production. What do you think of it? Anyone else?
o.m.

----- Original Message -----
From: Alina Israeli <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU>
Date: Sunday, November 4, 2007 10:58 am
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Tolstoy and the New York Times

> On Nov 4, 2007, at 8:26 AM, John Dunn wrote:
> 
> > Lowering the tone by several octaves (if that's what tones are  
> > measured in), I should perhaps alert you to the sumptuous, multi- 
> > national, multi-lingual adaptation of War and Peace that RAI Uno  
> > (the first channel of Italian state television) has just shown in 
> 
> > four 2-hour episodes.  The production involved six different co- 
> > producers and actors from ten different countries, and while I 
> have  
> > no skills in multi-lingual lip-reading, I calculated that the  
> > actors between them probably spoke their lines in six different  
> > languages, though all was, naturally, dubbed into Italian.
> >
> 
> Yes, here's the backstage clip:
> www.dailymotion.com/video/x36o2p_guerra-e-pace-backstage-dal-21-
> otto_adsKostalevsky speaking Italian is at the very end.
> 
> 
> 
> Alina Israeli
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