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Léo Delibes' opera concerns Lakmé, the daughter of the Brahmin priest Nilakantha. While her father is away, a group of English visitors steal into their sacred garden, desecrating it with their presence. They make light of what they are doing, and one of them, an...

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This concert film captures one of the first full performances by the young Canadian singer Aselin Debison. The vocalist delivers over a dozen songs including "Rise Again, " "Out of the Woods," "Sweet Is the Melody," "Love Is So Rare," and "Once...

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Conductor Edward Downes leads The Royal Opera in Richard Strauss' one act drama in this performance offering libretto from Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of Oscar Wilde's original work. Peter Hall directs, and Maria Ewing,...

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Christoph Willibald Gluck's classic tale of love in the afterlife gets a modern makeover in Harry Kupfer's restaging of Orfeo ed Euridice recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Featuring German male alto Jochen Kowalski in the role of Orfeo and...

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This performance of Mussorgsky's opera about the beginning of Peter the Great's reign features the Bolshoi Opera Chorus & Orchestra.

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Kultur presents this collection of favorite moments from Giuseppe Verdi classics. Featured performers include José Carreras, Nicola Martinucci, Vladimir Atlantov, Kiri Te Kanawa, and others. The excerpts are taken from...

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Giuseppe Verdi was hired to pen the 1843 opera I Lombardi on the heels of Nabucco and on the basis of that earlier work's commercial and critical success. Set during the Crusades, the story of Lombardi opens with the rivalry of two brothers --...

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This performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Otello, based on the play by Shakespeare, features the vocal talents of Vladimir Atlantov in the title role.

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Accent on the Offbeat documents how musician Wynton Marsalis and choreographer Peter Martins collaborated on the creation of the ballet titled "Jazz." In addition to offering up footage from the performances, the filmmakers show how both men, who each possess very different...

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Librettist Ranieri de' Calzabigi and composer Christoph Gluck co-crafted the opera Orfeo ed Eurydice, adapting the basic narrative from the mythical legend that recounts Orpheus's rescue of his bride, Eurydice, from the underworld. This filmed record...

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In this performance captured live at London's Barbican Centre, José Cura is joined by Daniella Dessí, Pier Giorgio Morandi, and The London Symphony Orchestra in performing the works of acclaimed classical composer Guiseppi Verdi.

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{Richard Strauss's} Salome - one of the most physically and emotionally exhausting modern operas to perform - receives a home release in this film of the Berlin-based Deutsch Oper's 1990 performance. Featuring Catherine Malfitano as the titular femme fatale, Simon...

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A filmed version of the Verdi opera, Ernani is set in 1519 and concerns Ernani, an outlawed nobleman who is heading a resistance effort against the villainous kin, Don Carlo, who killed Ernani's father. The rebel also is planning to elope with his...

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Presented by Kultur video, this performance of Umberto Giordano's four-act French Revolution romance Andrea Chénier was performed at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. Directed by Michael Hampe, this special production features...

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The late great jazz singer Nina Simone is featured in this program from Kultur performing two scarcely seen studio sets in the early '60s. Among the songs included in Nina Simone Live are "Sunday in Savannah," "I'll Look Around," "I...

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French composer Christoph Willibald Gluck adapted his 1774 opera Orphée et Eurydice from the Greek myth that alternately inspired like works by Monteverdi, Offenbach, Haydn and Birtwistle, plus critically championed films by Marcel...

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An apprentice dies in a small town. It does not sound like the stuff opera is made of, but Britten brings it operatic glory in this three act production. ~ All Movie Guide

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This performance of Verdi's opera, Attila features the vocal talents of Evgeny Nesterenko and Silvano Carroli.

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In ancient Palestine, the Hebrews live as slaves under the Philistines. Samson, a Hebrew of enormous strength, appears and leads a revolt and kills the Philistine leader Abimelech after Abimelech tries to force the Hebrews to worship Dagon, a Philistine god. After his success,...

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This performance of Debussy's symbolist opera Pelleaset Melisande features the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Glyndebbourne Chorus.

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Gioachino Rossini's comic opera masterpiece is performed before a live audience in this release featuring libretto by Cesere Sterbini and featuring music by The Glyndebourne Chorus and London Philharmonic Orchestra performing under the wand of conductor Sylvian...

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Sabicas: El Maestro de Flamenco is a 37-minute video featuring footage of guitarist Sabicas, otherwise known as the King of Flamenco. This black-and-white footage was originally filmed during the late '60s. Sabicas plays four flamenco pieces:...

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Camille Saint-Saens' opera Henry VIII centers on the time in his life that saw the king discarding Catherine of Aragon in favor of Anne Boleyn, a move rejected by the religious leaders of the day. This production stars Philippe Rouillon, Michele Command, and...

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San Francisco hosted this version of the famous opera. ~ All Movie Guide

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The eighteenth century German composer Christoph Willibald Gluck strove for the ideal of pairing poetry - in its purest form - with operatic score, an end he came closest to achieving with his 1779 opera Iphigeneia in Tauris (Iphigénie en Tauride). The work boasts a French...

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The Gallic wit of Gaetano Donizetti's popular, two-act opera comes to the stage in this performance captured live on camera at the Sydney Opera House on August 9, 1986. An entertaining opera that features exceptional singing, La Filled u Régiment tells the tale of...

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In this production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's final collaboration, Peter Sellars inter-cuts footage he personally shot in on-location in America with original footage of the stage performance to achieve a striking visual effect. Teresa Stratas and...

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This musical performance features the classic Verdi opera and was taped at Italy's Arena di Verona with English subtitles. ~ All Movie Guide

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This performance of Rossini's opera, Le Compte Ory was recorded at Glyndebourne in July, 1997.

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Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa lead an outstanding cast in this production of Giuseppe Verdi's operatic adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy Othello. The moor Otello (Domingo), proclaimed a hero after a great military...

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Alban Berg's operatic take on a pair of previously-banned plays by fin de siècle satirist Frank Wedekind is performed before a live audience at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in this release featuring music by the London Philharmonic conducted by Andrew Davis. Christine...

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Richard Bonynge conducted and Lotfi Mansouri directed this version of Lehar's operetta. Dame Joan Sutherland plays the lead. ~ All Movie Guide

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Featuring opera legends Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras, this production includes selections from La Boheme, Carmen, La Traviata, Madam Butterfly, The Barber of Seville, and Turandot, among others. Noted...

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Tenor Luciano Pavarotti provides his singular talents to this production of La Boheme performed by the Genoa Opera Company in China. Pavarotti became famous after he appeared in this same role in 1961. He has sung in such other operas as Daughter of the...

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