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Mono, Black & White, recorded 1956 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Recorded at the Teatro Massimo Bellini, Catania 2005
Dimitra Theodossiou (Norma), Nidia Palacios (Adalgisa), Carlo Ventre (Pollione), Riccardo Zanellato (Oroveso), Maria Grazia Calderone (Clotilde) Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, Giuliano Carella (conductor) & Walter Pagliaro (director) Bellini, unlike many of his colleagues - among them Donizetti - did not have to endure the disappointments and difficulties of rising from the ranks. His Bianca e Gernando, in 1826, was well received at Naples’s Teatro San Carlo, and one year later, at the age of twenty-six, the composer triumphed at Milan’s La Scala with Il Pirata. Norma is not only the high point of Bellini’s artistic parabola but also the quintessence of Italian belcanto. The present DVD was recorded at the Massimo Bellini theatre of Catania, native town of the great Sicilian composer, and features, in the title role, the famous Greek soprano Dimitra Theodossiou, one of today’s best interpreters of Norma. Subtitles in 6 languages (Italian, English, German, French, Spanish and Japanese). | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Directed by Lofti Monsouri. Live 1981 performance. | | | 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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| |  | Joan Sutherland: Bell Telephone Hour Performances 1961-68
Joan Sutherland (soprano) The Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra & Chorus, Donald Voorhees In the early 1960s, the Australian soprano Joan Sutherland emerged as an opera star of the first magnitude, setting new standards of vocal excellence in the bel canto repertoire that have yet to be matched. Fortunately, Miss Sutherland's American career included numerous television appearances, prominent among them her performances on the Bell Telephone Hour, from 1961to 1968. The earliest of these telecasts marked Miss Sutherland's American television debut, less than a month after her New York debut (in a concert performance of Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda) and well before her Metropolitan Opera debut (as Lucia, on November 26, 1961). | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Montserrat Caballé: Bel Canto
Never before available! This 1966 Paris concert with orchestra produced for French television features the great diva at the peak of her powers, lavishing gorgeous tone and depth of feeling on a group of bel canto arias and scenes. Mono. Black & White. 43 minutes. Playable in all regions. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | An Evening with Kiri Te Kanawa (1986)
The only known DVD program of opera arias sung by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, in her most radiant and graceful form: the camera and microphone vividly capturing her special affinity with this repertoire 60 minutes, color. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Luciano Pavarotti: Recital
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Subtitles: PAL - German, English, Dutch; NTSC - English, Japanese “This production was the sensation of the 1999 Salzburg Festival, and this riveting DVD captures most of the excitement that must have been felt at the time in the evocative Felsenreitschule. The staging is a joint venture. The spectacular scenic realisation of Berlioz's 'Légende dramatique' originated with the Spanish theatre troupe La Fura dels Baus; the staging itself is the work of Olle and Pedrissa. The sets and costumes were conceived by the Spanish sculptor Jaume Piensa.
The results were described in the press as 'extreme theatre' – and one can see why when viewing the virtuoso treatment of the vast stage area. It's dominated by a transparent cylinder which serves all sorts of purposes, depicting in particular the soul-searching struggles of Faust and Méphistophélès; while the complex choral movements and an elaborate lighting plot are all carried out without a hint of a hitch.
The producer certainly managed to inspire all the participants to heights of interpretative skill.
Cambreling and the Berlin Staatskapelle perform with discipline and fire, wanting only that extra dedicated vision evinced by Colin Davis and the LSO on CD. Kasarova and Willard White, stage beings to their fingertips, sing and act with total conviction. Kasarova is the vulnerable, insecure, beautiful Marguerite to the life, every gesture and facial expression supporting her intense reading of the glorious music Berlioz wrote for her. Her vision of the great Romance is idiosyncratic to say the least, but a triumph of erotic communication on its own account, a cross between Callas and Ewing at their most individual. White is commanding throughout – at once demonic, cynical, relaxed and satirical, his huge voice absolutely in command of the role. Groves isn't quite on his colleagues' level of accomplishment, but acts and sings with the awe and sense of identity-seeking which this production requires of its Faust. The sound, as on most DVDs, is exemplary. Highly recommended.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | New Year's Gala 1996Dances and Gypsy Tunes - Music by Brahms, Ravel & Berlioz
Picture format: PAL 16:9 Sound format: PCM Stereo Region code: 0 (worldwide) Menu languages: English, German, French, Spanish Running time: 74 mins No. of DVDs: 1 (DVD 5) Recording Date: 1996
Place of recording: Philharmonie Berlin
Running Time: 74 min
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: PCM Stereo
Menu Languages PAL: D, GB, F, SP
Menu Languages NTSC: GB, F, SP, JP
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Deborah Polaski (Cassandre/Didon), Jon Villars (Enée), Russel Braun (Chorèbe), Yvonne Naef (Anna), Toby Spence (Hylas), Ilya Lavinsky (Iopas), Tigran Martirossian (Panthee), Robert Lloyd (Narbal), Gaële Le Roi (Ascagne) Orchestre de Paris, Salzburger Kammerphilharmonie, Sylvain Cambreling, stage direction by Herbert Wernicke Recording Date: 2000 Place of recording: From the Salzburger Festspiele 2000 Running Time: 2 DVD: 237 mins Picture Format: 16:9 Sound Format: Dolby Digital 5.1 Menu Languages PAL: D, F, GB, SP Subtitle Languages PAL: D, F, GB, SP Menu Languages NTSC: F, GB, JP, SP Subtitle Languages NTSC: F, GB, JP, SP | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Gramophone Awards 2001