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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Directed for Stage by Grischa Asagaroff
“Every step went exactly with the music, every gesture matching every note" Zurich Express) Recorded live at the Opernhaus Zürich, April 2001 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Spanish Recorded Live on 19th January 2005 | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | A Verdi Gala from Berlin
Verdi: | Excerpts from Un ballo in maschera, Don Carlo, Rigoletto, La Traviata & Falstaff |
Recorded live at the Philharmonie, Berlin, 30–31 December 2000 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Sung in German. Directed by Joachim Hess
Tom Krause (Count Almaviva), Arlene Saunders (Countess Almaviva), Heinz Blankenburg (Figaro), Edith Mathis (Susanna), Elisabeth Steiner (Cherubino), Maria Von Ilosvay (Marcellina) & Kurt Marschner (Don Basilio) Members of the Corps de Ballet of the Hamburg State Opera, Chorus of the Hamburg State Opera & The Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt Recording Date: 1967
Place of recording: Historical Studio Production from the Hamburg State Opera
Running Time: 170 min
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: PCM Stereo
Menu Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, SP
Subtitle Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, I, SP
“… the Count's aria [is] delivered with such clarity and calculated hatred by the never-better Tom Krause that it's positively terrifying. (Those who thought that Fischer-Dieskau's was the last word in vitriol should hear this.).” Classics Today on the Vienna State Opera production | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Sung in German. Directed by Joachim Hess
Hans Sotin (Sarastro), Nicolai Gedda (Tamino), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Speaker), Christina Deutekom (Queen Of The Night), Edith Mathis (Pamina), William Workman (Papageno), Carol Malone (Papagena), Franz Grundheber (Monostatos) & Kurt Moll / Bernd Rüter (Two Men In Armour) Members of the Corps de Ballet of the Hamburg State Opera, Chorus of the Hamburg State Opera & The Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg, Horst Stein Recording Date: 1971
Place of recording: Historical Studio Production from the Hamburg State Opera
Running Time: 156 min
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: Mono
Menu Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, SP
Subtitle Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, I, SP
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Simon Keenlyside (Orfeo), Juanita Lascarro (Euridice, la Musica, Eco), Graciela Oddone (la Messaggiera), Martina Dike (Proserpina), Stephen Wallace (la Speranza, Pastore), Tomas Tòmasson (Plutone), Paul Gérimon, Caronte (Pastore), Mauro Utzeri (Apollo), Anne Cambier (Ninfa), Yann Beuron, John Bowen, René Linnenbank (Pastori, Spiriti) Trisha Brown Company
Concerto Vocale, Collegium Vocale Gent, René Jacobs First seen at La Monnaie in Brussels on 13 May 1998, this production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo seen through the eyes of Trisha Brown and René Jacobs has become an operatic classic in a few short years. This is doubtless because it offers a total symbiosis of music, text and movement – described by the critic of the Daily Telegraph of London as being ‘as close to the perfect dance opera as I have ever seen’. Or to quote Gilles Macassar in Télérama: ‘In the pit and onstage, the Brussels production has only one watchword: mobility, nimbleness, dexterity. The singers run, fly, whirl like dancers defying gravity. From the flies down to the footlights, the whole theatre is under a fantastic spell.’ For Christophe Vetter, on ConcertoNet: ‘This Orfeo can be seen again and again with immense pleasure. . . . René Jacobs’s conducting continues to arouse admiration for its precision, its stylistic rigour, its inexhaustible inventiveness and its feeling for the contrasts so vital to this repertoire.’ “Monteverdi's Orfeo has many rivals and needs special reasons for us to see it again. One is the tremendous vocal cast - especially the lithe and mercurial Orfeo (Simon Keenlyside), the searingly affecting Messenger (Graciela Oddone) and sonorous Simon Gérmon as Caronte.” BBC Music Magazine “close to perfection in terms of casting...you're never quite sure whether L'Orfeo is a dance work being sung or an opera being danced. At the heart of this production is a quite magnificent performance by Simon Keenlyside as an Orpheus who really could have charmed the gods. He can also act and dance.” Opera Now, Summer 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Sung in Italian. Recorded at the San Francisco Opera in 1994
Eva Marton, Michael Sylvester, Lucia Mazzaria, Kevin Langan, Theodore Baerg, Dennis Peterson, Craig Estep & Joseph Frank Chorus & Orchestra of the San Francicso Opera House, Donald Runnicles Recording Date: 1994
Place of recording: From the San Francisco Opernhaus
Running Time: 123 min
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: PCM Stereo
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“The orchestral and choral forces are very well harnessed by Donald Runnicles, who fires on all cylinders and visually the designs by David Hockney are vivid and bold...although there are more subtle Turandots to be found than Marton, the performance is thoroughly gripping.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition **/*** “A brilliant fantasy of redemption... The visual splendours fuse with Puccini’s score, his most advanced harmonically and his most opulently orchestrated” San Francisco Chronicle | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Recording Date: 1988
Place of recording: Salzburger Festspiele
Running Time: 171 min
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: PCM Stereo
Menu Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, SP
Subtitle Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, JP, SP
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| |  | An Opera Feature Film by Petr Weigl, 1996
Felicity Palmer, Kate Flowers, Stephen Richardson, John Graham Hall, Lisa Milne, Liam Shena, Julia Campbell, Kevin Bloomer, Nigel Wall, Francesca Massey, Edward Yeo, Nettle & Markham (pianoduo) & Huw Ceredig (percussion) The Coull Quartet, City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Symphony Youth Chorus, Simon Halsey Let’s Make an Opera is divided into three parts. Act Three, which is an independent entity and suitable for performance on its own, narrates the actual tale of The Little Sweep. In this film, the director Petr Weigl has reworked and enriched the two-part prologue to the story through the introduction of additional characters. Recording Date: 1996
Running Time: 100 min
Picture Format: 4:3 Letterbox
Sound Format: PCM Stereo
Menu Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, SP
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Michele Pertusi (Marin Faliero), Roberto Servile (Israele Bertucci), Rockwell Blake (Fernando), Mariella Devia (Elena), Marco Spotti (Steno), Cesare Dina (Leoni), Cristina Baggio (Irene) Orchestra Teatro Regia di Parma, Ottavio Dantone Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Spanish Run Time: 159 minutes Recorded live on 5th January 2002 | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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