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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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An opera performance video, with the Cologne Opera performing Rossini's work. It tells the story of a servant accused of stealing a silver spoon. At the last minute, the master's magpie is found to be the true thief. On two cassettes. ~ All Movie Guide

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This performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida features the vocal talents of Maria Chiara and Fiorenza Cossotto.

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It's a star-studded extravaganza of epic proportions as the biggest names in showbiz gather together on-stage to pay tribute to public television in a 1983 television special captured live at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas and hosted by acting veterans Diahann Carroll and Richard...

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This production of Jean Philippe Rameau's opera Platee features Paul Agnew in the title role. Marc Minkowski conducts the French orchestra that provides the music for the production. The television broadcast was directed by Don Kent.

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This performance of Handel's opera Rodelinda was filmed at Glyndebourne in 1998.

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The social and political upheaval of America at the dawn of the 20th Century sets the stage for this award-winning stage musical, captured in live performance. Incorporating a number of classic songs from the early days of Tin Pan Alley, Tintypes features five iconic figures sharing both...

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This performance of George Frideric Handel's opera, Giulio Cesare was recorded live at the Sydney Opera House.

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This video presents a performance of William Shakespeare's classic comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. The story of fairies and the hapless lovers caught in their magic spells has delighted audiences for centuries. This show takes place at Glyndebourne's Festival...

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This performance of Un Ballo in Maschera, one Verdi's most popular operas, was originally recorded in 1975 at the famous Covent Garden. Under the baton of conductor Claudia Abbado, celebrated tenor Placido Domingo is featured in the lead role of Gustavus, while...

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Elena Prokina and Giancarlo Pasquetto star in this stage production of Giuseppe Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, directed by Peter Hall and mounted at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. John Gunter designed the sets and costumes;...

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This performance of Verdi's opera Nabucco, tells the story of an oppressed people yearning for elusive freedom through the performances of vocalists such as Renato Bruson and Ghena Dimitrova.

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The opera La Voix Humaine concerns a woman who during the course of a desperate phone conversation attempts to convince her boyfriend to stay with her. The story was created by Jean Cocteau and the score was composed by Francis Poulenc.

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Maverick stage director Peter Sellars transfers George Frideric Handel's three-part oratorio to a modern sitting for this performance captured live at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival and featuring William Christie conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and...

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This production of the opera Samson et Dalila was staged originally in San Francisco. Plácido Domingo and Shirley Verrett star as the title duo. The storyline follows the Biblical tale of the conflict between the Philistines and the Hebrews and shows how...

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This performance of Benjamin Britten's opera, The Rape Of Lucretia marries Greek tragedy with English opera. This production features the English National Opera Orchestra.

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Il Trittico is the name given to three one-act Puccini operas, captured here in performance at La Scala. The first, Il Tabarro is set in Paris at the turn of the 20th century, is concerned with Michele, a barge owner, and his wife Giorgetta....

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Recorded at Glyndebourne's renowned new opera house and directed by Nikolaus Lehnhoff, this production of The Makropulos Case hones in on the many pros and cons of living for over three hundred years, as is the case with the mysterious Emilia Marty. A prima donna who has...

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The 1991 Salisbury Festival gets underway with an awe-inspiring concert spectacular featuring stunning special effects and appearances by a bevy of world-famous stars including Placido Domingo and Jessye Norman set against the backdrop of the magnificent Salisbury Cathedral. With an...

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Staged at the Glyndebourne Opera House, this production of Rossini's lesser-known opera Ermione features performances by Anna Caterina Antonacci, Diana Montague, Bruce Ford, and Jorge Lopez-Yanez.

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In addition to its status as the most frequently revived opera in modern history and the foremost exemplar of the bel canto operatic tradition, Vincenzo Bellini's Norma sustains a reputation as one of the most demanding operas to perform. Its soprano range is such, in fact, that only a...

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Falstaff, Elizabeth I, and William Shakespeare come together in a bizarre literary interaction in Ambrose Thomas' comic opera.

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Georg Frideric Handel's three act opera is performed live at the Prinzregententheater in Munich before a live audience in this release starring David Daniels and Deborah York, and featuring Harry Bicket conducting The Bavarian State Orchestra.

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This documentary is an immensely entertaining and educational look at the history of Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Opera. It includes rare photographs, film footage, and archival recordings of the top stars of Russian opera's illustrious past. Especially compelling are the performances by Fyodor Chaliapin, the...

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Musiciahn Doug Kershaw serves up ten Cajun-flavored tunes in this concert release from Kultur. Doug Kershaw: Ragin' Cajun - Doug Kershaw in Concert includes "Mama's Got the Know-How," "Louisiana Saturday Night," "Don't Mess with My Toot...

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The classic songs of legendary jazz composer Duke Ellington come alive on stage in this performance video. Duke Ellington's Sophisticated Ladies documents a performance of the popular Broadway revue, built around more than two dozen great tunes from Ellington's...

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This performance of Puccini's opera Tosca, a tale of innocent love and heinous crime, features the vocal talents of Eva Marton and Giacomo Aragall.

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This musical production features the Glydebourne Festival Opera as they perform the Mozart classic, Idomeneo. ~ All Movie Guide

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This television production of Benjamin Britten's opera Owen Wingrave stands apart from other productions by updating the time period to the 1950s. Gerald Finley performs the title character.

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Werner Herzog directs and Riccardo Chailly conducts the Teatro Communale di Bologna in this famous story of Joan of Arc. ~ All Movie Guide

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David Pountney adapts Antonin Dvorak's tale of a fragile water nymph who longs to become human after falling in love with a mortal in a stage production featuring libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil and featuring conductor Mark Elder leading the Chorus and Orchestra of the...

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