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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Luciano Pavarotti - Opera BoxsetArthaus is proud to present this commemorative box set featuring one of the most outstanding tenors in living memory – the great Luciano Pavarotti
Running Time: 551 min
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: PCM Stereo
Language: GB, I
Menu Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, I, SP
Subtitle Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, I, SP
“The Italian singer whose ringing, pristine sound set a standard for operatic tenors of the postwar era.” New York Times | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Francesca Patane, Jose Cura and Renato Bruson Orchester der Bari and the Chor des Teatro Petruzzelli, Pier Giorgio Morandi live performance | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Puccini GoldTo mark Puccini’s 150th anniversary, a new compilation of the best-loved Puccini arias and ensembles sung by a host of the greatest opera stars.
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| |  | Recorded at the Puccini Festival, Torre del Lago in August 2007
Norma Fantini (Mimì), Massimiliano Pisapia (Rodolfo), Donata d’Annunzio Lombardi (Musetta), Gabriele Viviani (Marcello), Massimiliano Valleggi (Schaunard) Orchestra and Chorus of the Puccini Festival & Children’s Choir of the Puccini Festival, Stewart Robertson (conductor) & Maurizio Scaparro (director) The stage set and the costumes were created by the famous Belgian artist Jean-Michel Folon, who was awarded with the Abbiati Prize as the last contribution that Folon was able to give to the theatre before his death “'La Bohème'…is without question [Puccini’s] greatest achievement.” Kobbé’s Opera Book | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Tony Palmer’s Film about Puccini
The film tells the story of Doria Manfredi and of her relationship with Puccini, and the opera that resulted, Turandot. It was a disaster that was suppressed by either Puccini’s publishers (Ricordi) or his family or both for almost 80 years, fearing that the consequences of revealing the truth of what had happened would damage sales of his work and further sully his already tarnished reputation as a philanderer. Robert Stephens gives a devastating performance as Puccini, and Virginia McKenna, lured out of semiretirement, gives an emotionally draining performance as his wife Elvira. When the finished film was shown to Simonetta, Puccini’s granddaughter, she said she was astonished at how close the film had come to the heart of the matter and in particular to the heart of that extraordinary – and still underestimated – great composer, Giacomo Puccini. Written by Charles Wood, starring Robert Stephens and Virginia McKenna “An Extraordinary virtuoso film, with wave after wave of emotion.” The Listener | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Summer 2007Production: Philipp Himmelmann / Stage Setting: Johannes Leiacker
The Bregenz Festival is a critically acclaimed highlight of the opera summer. The ‘Opera on the Floating Stage’ entrances thousands every year. A short extract from this film will appear in the forthcoming James Bond Film Quantum of Solace. This spellbinding production stars Nadja Michael, Zoran Todorovic and Gidon Saks, with Ulf Schirmer at the helm of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. “Nadja Michael….sings with glittering, cool, unvaried assurance and looks stunning” Evening Standard on her recent performance as Salome at ROH. “…there are… many interesting features of this performance, the most impressive of which is Scarpia as played by Gidon Saks. This is the most disgusting and convincing portrayal I have ever seen on stage. …Nadja Michael's Tosca is elegant if squally, and Zoran Todorovich is a convincing actor, though he sings in an almost unremitting forte...” BBC Music Magazine, February 2009 **** “The singing of the main characters is impressive. Nadja Michael's Vissi d'arte and Zoran Todorovich's E lucevan le stelle do not disappoint, and Scarpia's performance exudes sheer villainy. The chorus and orchestra, directed by Ulf Schirmer, are strongly supportive.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition */** | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Nessun Dorma - Puccini’s Greatest Arias
The ultimate Puccini DVD from the world’s greatest tenor, includes all the best-loved arias and FIVE performances of Pavarotti’s iconic success, "Nessun Dorma". To mark Puccini’s 150th anniversary, Decca releases a brand new all-Pavarotti compilation, devoted to the great tenor arias and songs by the world’s favourite operatic composer. This DVD includes Pavarotti's great performances from London’s Hyde Park, New York's Central Park and Rome's Caracalla Baths. As fits the title of the DVD, included are no less than 5 different performances of his greatest-ever success "Nessun Dorma". | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Recorded at Festival Puccini Opera Festival, Torre del Lago – May 2004
On the anniversary of the first success of Madama Butterfly in Brescia on 28th May 1904, Placido Domingo conducted, from the podium of Torre del Lago Puccini, Daniela Dessì, Fabio Armilato and Juan Pons in a new production by Stefano Monti with sets designed by Arnaldo Pomodoro and costumes of Maison Gattinoni. After Maria Stuarda, Thaïs and Agrippina Dynamic is proud to announce this new, prestigious, DVD release. Subtitles in 7 languages (Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese). | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Renata Tebaldi (Tosca), Eugene Tobin (Cavaradossi), George London (Scarpia), Gustav Grefe (Angelotti) Orchestra and Chorus of the Staatsoper, Stuttgart, Franco Patanè Filmed live at the Stuttgart Staatsoper in 1961. From the archives of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk. 130 minutes, black & white, with optional English subtitles. “Coming to this historic video recording after Muti's La Scala version is to register a quite different operatic world. Recorded in black and white at a performance in the Stuttgart Staatsoper in June 1961, it offers a sound, conventional production with in-period costumes and realistic if symmetrical sets by Max Fritzsche.
The film direction too is highly conventional.
This DVD is specially valuable for Renata Tebaldi's assumption of the title-role. So dominant in our memories has Maria Callas's characterisation become, that we tend to forget that the role of Tosca was just as central in the repertory of her great rival of the time, Tebaldi, whose firm, creamy tones, perfectly controlled, could hardly be more sharply contrasted with the thrillingly individual, if at times flawed, singing of Callas. Tebaldi seemed to represent the essence of the primadonna, grand in a traditional way, and who better to play the role of Tosca? There's ample evidence here of that commanding security in the role, with Tebaldi in 1961 still at her peak. Yet as recorded in limited mono sound, with voices well forward of the orchestra, at times there's an untypical edge on the creamy tone at the top. True to form, Tebaldi rises magnificently to the challenge of 'Vissi d'arte' in Act 2, with fine shading of tone and flawless legato in that moment of repose.
That said, one has to note that in her acting this Tosca isn't so much passionate as stately.
Eugene Tobin as Cavaradossi, like many tenors, starts lustily, and then gets more expressive as he goes along, never betraying signs of strain.
George London makes a handsome Scarpia, imperious and vehement both in his acting and in his singing. Yet as so often in recordings, his pitching is often vague. Franco Patanè as conductor is at times over-emphatic, again presenting a conventional view, and rarely conveying the sort of magnetism that makes the Muti performance so gripping.
Worth buying to hear Tebaldi in her prime.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Great Stars of Opera Vol. 2
Bizet: | Les tringles des sistres tintaient (from Carmen) Regina Resnik & Robert Merrill (1965) Votre toast je peux vous le rendre 'Toreador Song' (from Carmen) Regina Resnik & Robert Merrill (1965) Si tu m'aimes, Carmen (from Carmen) Regina Resnik & Robert Merrill (1965) | Cilea: | 'Del sultano Amuratte'…Io son l'umile ancella (from Adriana Lecouvreur) Renata Tebaldi Io son l'umile ancella (from Adriana Lecouvreur) Leontyne Price | Mascagni: | Voi lo sapete o mamma (from Cavalleria rusticana) Renata Tebaldi | Massenet: | Manon: 'Pardonnez-moi, Dieu de toute puissance (St. Sulpice Duet) Giuseppe Di Stefano & Teresa Stratas (1963) | Mozart: | La ci darem la mano (from Don Giovanni) Anna Moffo & George London (1962) | Ponchielli: | Suicidio! (from La Gioconda) Renata Tebaldi | Puccini: | In questa reggia (from Turandot) Birgit Nilsson (1963) Amaro sol per te (from Tosca) Franco Corelli & Lisa Della Casa (1962) Vissi d'arte (from Tosca) Renata Tebaldi (1961) | Rossini: | Nacqui all'affanno, al pianto...Non più mesta (from La Cenerentola) Teresa Berganza | Smetana: | The Bartered Bride: 'May I have your ear?' Nicolai Gedda & Giorgio Tozzi (1959) | Strauss, J, II: | Die Fledermaus Act I Trio Phyllis Curtin, Nicolai Gedda & Theodor Uppman | Verdi: | Vieni! t'affretta!…Or tutti sorgete (from Macbeth) Birgit Nilsson (1963) Vanne, la tua meta gia vedo…Credo in un Dio crudel (from Otello) George London (1962) Ah, fors'è lui che l'anima (from La Traviata) Anna Moffo (1962) O tu che in seno agli angeli (from La Forza del Destino) Richard Tucker & Robert Merrill (1965) Solenne in quest'ora (from La Forza del Destino) Richard Tucker & Robert Merrill (1965) Qui v'ha un ritratto…Egli è salvo (from La Forza del Destino) Richard Tucker & Robert Merrill (1965) Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino) Leontyne Price (1963) Tacea la notte (from Il Trovatore) Leontyne Price | Wagner: | Dich, teure Halle (from Tannhauser) Birgit Nilsson (1963) Allmächt’ge Jungfrau! (from Tannhäuser) Birgit Nilsson (1963) |
Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra & Chorus, Donald Voorhees Special Features: Donald Voorhees in conversation with Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price, and Renata Tebaldi (from the program “First Ladies of Opera”, originally telecast 01/01/67 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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