Anton Rubinstein - The Demon (1960 & 2004) DVD9, ENG SUBS

[mikehopf]

Rare romantic operas on DVD! Another dream come true! Superb! More PLEASE...

[Nervous Gentleman]

Thanks for the kind words!

I am currently in the final stages of a custom-subbed DVD of Eduard Nápravník's "Dubrovsky," after an unfinished novel by Pushkin and with a libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky.

I have posted several clips to YouTube. Please note, though, that the final video
quality will be much better than what is represented here (I quickly
slapped together the video and subs in order to provide a preview of the
project, and the method I used degraded the quality). The audio on
YouTube is also a bit out-of-synch, a problem not present on the actual
video.
Re: the subtitles, for the preview I arbitrarily selected MS Sans-Serif
and the size is a bit small. This will be corrected later.

"Know, I Wasn't Broken By Illness, My Son..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57QPg3w1PxE

"O, Give Me Oblivion, Dear..." 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvDE-yy_DzQ

"I Have Gone Too Far..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efogMDVxfIg

I hope to finish this project by the end of the summer. I am also
working on an English, Russian and Ukrainian subtitled video of Mykola
Lysenko's "Taras Bulba" (in collaboration with two native
Ukrainain/Russian speakers).

Additional projects that I have been working on simultaneously the past
year include a custom DVD containing two versions of Riccardo Zandonai's
"I Cavalieri di Ekebu" with English and Italian subs. One version is
sung in Italian and the other in Swedish (which is only fitting, as the
opera is based on the classic Swedish novel "Gosta Berlings Saga" which
is situated in rural Sweden in the 1830s).
Also in the final stages is a custom English, Russian, Spanish and
German (!) subtitled DVD of the 1990 Bregenz video of Catalani's "La
Wally" (in collaboration with some opera friends), a custom-subbed DVD
of the 1981 RAI tv broadcast of Donizetti's "Maria de Rudenz" (the video
is a composite I created from two different sources, both of poor
quality), et al.

The projects have been taking me a long while as, in my enthusiasm,
I foolishly opted to do so many at once!

[Alan Howe]

Someone has posted elsewhere:

Some of the parts of the 34-parts video have yet disappeared...

[Nervous Gentleman]

Hello Alan,

Thank you.  I just checked on the files at Media Fire and they all seem to be there.  But if for some reason someone is having difficulty accessing a part, I can always re-post it at another link (provided I know the parts needed, of course).

Thanks very much!

Paul