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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Stage Director - Lotfi Mansouri
Joan Sutherland (Marguerite de Valois), Amanda Thane (Valentine), Anson Austin (Raoul de Nangis), Suzanne Johnston (Urbain), John Pringle (Count de Nevers), Clifford Grant (Marcel), John Wegner (Count de Saint Bris) The Australian Opera Chorus & The Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra, Richard Bonynge PICTURE FORMAT: 4:3
LENGTH: 200 Mins
SOUND: STEREO
SUBTITLES: EN
“Sutherland’s voice retains the sheen of old gold, and can still get up to its agile, vertiginous tricks” The Observer | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Edition Fondazione Teatro La Fenice, edited by Franco Rossi and Carlo Stefano RossiDirector, Set & Costume designer: Pierluigi Pizzi
Michael Maniaci (Armando d'Orville), Patrizia Ciofi (Palmide), Marco Vinco (Aladino), Laura Polverelli (Felicia), Fernando Portari (Adriano di Monfort), Iorio Zennaro (Osmino), Silvia Pasini (Alma), Luca Favaron (Primo Schiavo), Emanuele Pedrini (Secondo Schiavo) & Stefano Gibellato (fortepiano) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice, Emmanuel Villaume Live Recording at Teatro La Fenice, Venezia, January 2007 “Meyerbeer's Il Crociato in Egitto this week opened La Fenice's current season. This production, the first staging in modern times of the last and most famous of the six operas Meyerbeer wrote for Italy early in his career, has already won praise from Milan's Corriere della Sera as ‘the most important musical event of 2007’….. Marco Vinco excelled” International Herald Tribune “The great performances come from Patrizia Ciofi, exquisite as the put-upon Palmide, and Marco Vinco, marvellously authoritative as Aladino.” The Guardian, 8th April 2010 **** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Placido Domingo: Live From Miami
and zarzuela excerpts: Madrilena bonita. Los vareadores. Intermezzo from Las Bodas de Luis Alonso.
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Isabelle Philippe (Dinorah), Armand Arapian (Hoël), Frédéric Mazzotta (Corentin), Lucile Vignon (Le chevrier), Philippe Le Chevalier (Un chasseur), Pierre Espiaut (Un faucheur), Céline Victores-Benavente & Ruth Delaria (Deux pâtres) Orchestre de L’Opéra d’Etat Hongrais Failoni, Olivier Opdebeeck The second release in ‘L’Opéra Français Collection’ series of DVDs, covering the diverse repertoire of French Opera. This DVD, with a duration of 180 mins, comes in glowing 5.1 surround sound. “The production is attractively old-fashioned...It is very much in the style of a silent film of about 1920, with exaggerated gesticulating: pleasingly quaint.” International Record Review, April 2011 | | | This item is currently out of stock at the UK distributor. You may order it now but please be aware that it may be six weeks or more before it can be despatched. |
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| |  | Plácido Domingo
Arthaus presents a Homage to one of the most outstanding and charismatic operatic artists in the last 50 years: Plácido Domingo. Box Set Plácido Domingo including legendary documents available now. Sound Format: PCM Stereo Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: 4 x DVD 9, NTSC (L’Africaine, La Gioconda) / PAL (Samson et Dalila) Subtitle Languages: GB, DE, FR, IT, ES / GB, DE, ES (Samson et Dalila) Running Time: about 470 mins FSK: 0 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Frederick Ashton: Les Patineurs, Divertissement & Scènes de ballet
Meyerbeer: | Les Patineurs Laura Morera, Samantha Raine, Steven McRae, Sarah Lamb, Rupert Pennefather, Christina Arestis, Francesca Filpi, Ryoichi Hirano, Kenta Kura, Liam Scarlett & Andrej Uspenski Paul Murphy | Stravinsky: | Scènes de ballet Miyako Yoshida, Ivan Putrov, Edward Watson & Lauren Cuthbertson Barry Wordsworth |
Divertissement Tchaikovsky: Awakening Pas de deux (1968) Darcey Bussell & Jonathan Cope Massenet: Thaïs Pas de deux (1971) Mara Galeazzi & Thiago Soares Paganini: Devil’s Holiday Variation (1939) Viacheslav Samodurov Brahms: Five Brahms Waltzes in the manner of Isadora Duncan (1975) Tamara Rojo Strauss: Voices of Spring Pas de deux (1977) Leanne Benjamin & Carlos Acosta Tommasini after Paganini: Devil’s Holiday Pas de deux (1939) Laura Morera & Ricardo Cervera Conductor Barry Wordsworth
Founder choreographer of The Royal Ballet, Frederick Ashton created more than 100 ballets over a 60 year career. Showcasing three of his shorter works, this disc reflects the breadth of his sophisticated, elegant and widely popular style. Les Patineurs evokes the Edwardian skating rink, with all its youthful charm and humour, in contrast to Scènes de Ballet where sharp geometric shapes and the music of Igor Stravinsky are combined to create perhaps Ashton’s most modernist work. Divertissements, a collection of eight short dances, features some of Ashton’s most lyrical choreography, including pas de deux set to Romantic masterpieces by Tchaikovsky and Massenet. Extra features: Interviews with dancers from Les Patineurs Running time 96 mins approx Region Code All regions Picture format 16:9 Anamorphic Sound format 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS Menu languages EN Subtitles EN/FR/DE/ES | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Live Recording from The Deutsche Oper Berlin, 1991sung in German as 'Die Hugenotten'
Angela Denning (Marguerite de Valois), Lucy Peacock (Valentine de Saint-Bris), Richard Leech (Raoul de Nangis), Hartmut Welker (Comte de Saint-Bris) & Martin Blasius (Marcel) Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stefan Soltesz (conductor) & John Dew (stage director) The grand opera Die Hugenotten was one of the greatest operatic successes of the 19th century, and its creator was hailed as the foremost composer of his time. Yet today, he is largely forgotten by the opera-going public and his works lie gathering dust in opera house repertories around the world. Die Hugenotten was performed at the opening of the new Covent Garden Opera in London in 1858. However, it was a performance at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1890 which went into the history books. In the German translations by Ignatz Franz Castelli (1837 Vienna) and Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer (1838 Munich), the conflict between Catholics and Protestants was heavily disguised; a new version was created by Gustaf Gründgens and Julius Kapp in Berlin in 1932. John Dew’s modern production, conducted by Stefan Soltesz, caused somewhat of a sensation when it was first performed in 1987 at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Giving the period and content of the work new reference points, his staging becomes almost oppressively contemporary: he sets the opera in divided Berlin, where the wall is a symbol of the separation of the two German states. Angela Denning, Lucy Peacock, Richard Leech and Martin Blasius fascinate with their wonderful voices and impressive acting. Sound Format: PCM Stereo Picture Format: 16:9 DVD Format: DVD 9 NTSC Subtitle Languages: GB, FR, ES, JP Running Time: 156 mins FSK: 0 | 
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| |  | Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, December 2012
Bryan Hymel (Robert), Patrizia Ciofi (Isabelle), John Relyea (Bertram), Marina Poplavskaya (Alice), Nicolas Courjal (Alberti), David Butt Philip (Master of Ceremonies), Pablo Bemsch (Second Chevalier/Herald), Ashley Riches (Prince of Granada), Jihoon Kim (Fourth Chevalier/Priest), Jean-Francois Borras (Raimbaut) & Dušica Bijelic (Lady-in-waiting to Isabelle) Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Daniel Oren (conductor) & Laurent Pelly (director) A grand opera that dominated the stages of Europe for most of the 19th century, Robert le diable is a masterpiece. Director Laurent Pelly breathes new life into Giacomo Meyerbeer’s great spectacle and audaciously entertaining moral fable, in this colourful new staging for The Royal Opera. The wonderful score includes brilliant arias, dramatic ensembles, rousing choruses and a ballet of ghostly nuns, and with the wavering hero of the title sung by Bryan Hymel, acclaimed for his role as Énée in Les Troyens for The Royal Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, this is an unmissable experience. Premiered in 1831, it was one of the first grand operas staged at the Paris Opéra. Meyerbeer’s European fame was initiated with “Robert” – performed 470 times in Paris alone by the time of the composer’s death in 1864. “It is a masterpiece...Meyerbeer has made himself immortal” (Frédéric Chopin) Extra features: ‘The legacy of Robert le diable, and a cast gallery. Running time: 122 minutes Subtitles EN/FR/DE/JP/KR Sound format: 2.0LPCM + 5.1(5.0) DTS |
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| |  | Dame Evelyn Glennie - Percussion MasterclassPercussion Masterclass at the Royal Northern College of Music
Evelyn Glennie is without question the best known solo percussion player in the world. She gives more than 100 performances a year worldwide, performing with the greatest conductors, orchestras, and artists. Her diversity of collaborations have included performances artists such as Bjork, Bobby McFerrin, Sting, Emmanuel Ax, Kings Singers and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. In this masterclass she works on two twentieth century percussion compositions: Minoru Miki's "Marimba Spiritual" and Anders Koppel's "Toccata for Marimba and Vibraphone". | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Laurent Naouri (Christophe Colomb I), Michel Hermon (Christophe Colomb II) & Mary Saint-Palais (Isabelle) Theatre Imperial de Compiegne, Pierre Jourdan (stage director) Opera under the direction of Pierre Jourdan from the Theatre Imperial de Compiegne. No listed DVD competition “This DVD offers a rare opportunity to see as well as hear Milhaud's operatic masterpiece - one of the hidden glories of twentieth-century opera - in an excellent production.” International Record Review, October 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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