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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Produced by David Pountney
Kirch, Thompson, Brück & Missenhardt Vienna Symphony, Ulf Schirmer “This film of a performance of Nielsen’s comic opera from the Bregenz Festival is of startling
brilliance…This is the same production that appeared at the Royal Opera House last September, but
I enjoyed it a good deal more on DVD, because I could read subtitles and anyway it is sung in
German. The cast is of an extremely high calibre and Ulf Schirmer’s conducting of them and the
Vienna Symphony Orchestra is full of conviction. Everything on stage is gorgeous to look at…and the
same can be said of the production. This is David Pountney at his absolute peak…with such
resourcefulness and verve, this production certainly merits watching.”
Michael Tanner, International Record Review | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Andrei Beschasny (Don Giovanni), Ludek Vele (Leporello), Nadezhda Petrenko (Donna Anna), Vladimír Doležal (Don Ottavio), Jirina Marková (Donna Elvira), Alice Randová (Zerlina), Zdenek Harvánek (Masetto), Dalibor Jedlicka (Commendatore) Prague National Theatre Chorus and Orchestra, Charles Mackerras Recorded 1st Dec 1991 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Running Time: 130 minutes | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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Valentina Farcas (Giulietta), Paola Farcas (Romeo), Giacomo Patti (Tebaldo), Gabriele Spina (Lorenzo), Roberto Tagliavini (Capello) Orchestra Lirica, I Pomeriggi Musicali, Pietro Mianiti Optional English, Italian, French, Spanish subtitles. Live performance from the Teatro Alighieri, Ravenna, on 20th November 2005 | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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Recorded in June 2003 at the Zurich Opera Festival | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Stage Director: Michael HampeSalzburg Festival 1983
“Muti's fizzing (1983) Salzburg Festival recording is fully traditional and visually a delight, with elegant sets and costumes...It is good to watch a completely fresh performance that carries out Mozart's intentions visually as well as musically. The recording itself is very lively and open, the voices resonant.” Penguin Guide, 2010 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Opera in Two Acts; Sung in GermanStage Direction by Göran Järvefelt & Directed and Produced for TV by Thomas Olofsson
Stefan Dahlberg, Ann Christine Biel, Mikael Samuelsson, Lászlo Polgár & Birgit Louise Frandsen The Drottningholm Court Theatre Chorus and Orchestra, Arnold Östman Recording Date: 1989
Place of recording: From the Drottningholm Court Theatre
Running Time: 161 min
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: PCM Stereo
Language: D
Menu Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, SP
Subtitle Languages NTSC: D, F, GB, I, SP
“This 1989 public performance conducted by Arnold Östman has two distinct features: the use of period instruments - the only one on DVD - and the location of the Drottningholm Court Theatre. This 400-seater is much as it was when built in 1766, including the original wooden machinery, wind machine and thunderbox.” MusicWeb | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Recorded live at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, on 1st and 3rd July 2005.
Cinzia Forte (Lisetta), Bruno Praticò (Don Pomponio Storione), Charles Workman (Alberto), Pietro Spagnoli (Filippo), Agata Bienkowska (Madama La Rose), Marisa Martins (Doralice), Simón Orfila (Monsù Traversen), Marc Canturri (Anselmo) Orchestra Academy of the Gran Teatre del Liceu & Intermezzo Choir, Maurizio Barbacini (conductor) & Dario Fo (stage director) World Premiere - this is the first ever recorded performance of Rossini’s La Gazzetta The Nobel Prize-winning writer Dario Fo applies his inventive genius to Rossini's comic opera in its premiere DVD release. Recorded in 2005 under the musical direction of Maurizio Barbacini, Fo's production brings fresh vitality and colour to the story of Lisetta, and of her father's attempts to find a husband for her through an advertisement in the newspaper La Gazzetta. ‘…a tour de force of acrobatic silliness and barbed social satire. Of the cast, which included the inimitable Bruno Praticò and the lovely Cinzia Forte … it can only be said that it is difficult to imagine the piece sung or acted better.’The Financial Times ‘…ironic and sensual, friendly but with a light taste of satire, La Gazzetta by Rossini has been reborn in this production that has the distinctive stamp of Fo, who has been able to handle with strength the Rossinian chaos without neglecting - and here his major virtue - the music.’ El Periodico de Catalunya PICTURE FORMAT: 16:9
LENGTH: 163 Mins
SOUND: DTS SURROUND / LPCM STEREO
SUBTITLES: EN/FR/DE/ES/IT/CA
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| |  | Stage director Robert Wilsonrecorded live in October 2004, at the Royal Opera House La Monnaie/De Munt in Brussels
Norma Fantini (Aida), Marco Berti (Radamès), Ildiko Komlosi (Amneris), Mark Doss (Amonasro), Orlin Anastassov (Ramphis), Guido Jentjens (Il Re di Egitto), Michela Remor (Una Sacerdotessa), André Grégoire (Un Messaggero) Symphony Orchestra and Choir of La Monnaie – De Munt, Kazushi Ono PICTURE FORMAT: 16:9
LENGTH: 159 Mins
SOUND: DTS SURROUND / LPCM STEREO
SUBTITLES: EN/FR/DE/ES/IT
“As ever with Wilson's work, we are in a world and style influenced by Noh theatre and silent films with a kind of distanced, glacial, intermittently effective lighting plot. The effect is hieratical in the extreme and initially has a strange fascination, its simplicity of setting and acting having for a while quite a hypnotic effect. But as the work progresses, one realises one is seeing Aida as some kind of staged oratorio, with the principals never touching, and emoting, if at all, only to themselves.” Gramophone Magazine, November 2006 “Monnaie orchestra was in tip-top rip-roaring form, brass firm focussed and cutting edge, woodwind, specially the flutes, longbreathed
and luminous, strings reaching to top and bottom of their ranges with exemplary certainty and clarity.” Opera | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Christine Douglas, Heather Begg, Anthony Warlow & Dennis Olsen Opera Australia & The Elizabethan Philharmonic Orchestra, David Stanhope PICTURE FORMAT: 4:3
LENGTH: 130 Mins
SOUND: STEREO
SUBTITLES: EN
‘…Warlow from the first moment of his
appearance on stage radiates star quality.’
The Financial Review | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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