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Set during the French occupation of Sicily, this performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Vespri Siciliani features the vocal talents of Susan Dunn and Leo Nucci.

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Following his arrival in Paris in 1958, American expatriate Kenny Clarke became a key figure in the development of the city's burgeoning jazz community. Not only was Clarke a valued teacher and mentor to aspiring jazz musicians growing up in Paris, but he also went...

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Opera Australia: Chorus - Great Opera Highlights features choral singing from such famous operas as Aida, Madama Butterfly, Turandot, and Tosca.

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Claudio Monteverdi's swan song, the tragic opera L'Incoronazione di Poppea, weaves its tale of the doomed, tempestuous affair between the Satanically immoral Emperor Nero and the bawdy, Machiavellian Poppea. Acclaimed theatrical director Peter Hall...

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Birgit Nilsson and Jon Vickers star in this filmed record of the Theatre Antique d'Orange's acclaimed 1973 production of Wagner's epic tale of doomed love in the Middle Ages. Tristan und Isolde also features the Orchestre National de R.T.F., under the...

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Tchaikovski's operatic adaptation of Pushkin's novel in verse comes to the stage in this performance captured live at the Kirov Opera in St. Petersburg. Featuring Sergei Leyferkus, Yuri Marusin, and Tatiana Novikova in the lead roles.

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This video presents the comic opera Albert Herring, staged at Glyndebourne in 1985. Peter Hall directs the cast in the coming of age story of a repressed young man whose life takes unexpected turns after he is named "King of May" in his English village. No honorable young woman can be found...

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Kultur International Films presents this live concert performance by Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, filmed at Stuttgart, Germany's Theaterhaus. Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames: Cool Cat Blues includes renditions of "You Came a Long Way From St. Louis," "I...

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Inspired by the outbreak of the Second World War, Soviet composer Sergei Prokofiev crafted his 1942 opera War and Peace - an opus based on Tolstoy's timeless novel - with his second wife, Mira Mendelson-Prokoviev), penning the libretto. Divided into two halves (comprising...

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The majesty of the stage comes to home video in this release featuring highlights from Royal Opera House performances of The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, La Fille Mal Gardée, and Manon. Featuring performances by such popular ballet dancers as Micheal...

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Explore the life and works of influential rock and roll legend John Cale in this documentary that follows the founding member of The Velvert Underground from his early days as a promising classical musician through his groundbreaking collaborations with Lou Reed...

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Three criminals - Fatty, Trinity-Moses and Mrs. Begbick -- on the lam from the police found the city of Mahagonny in a desolate area in America. Erecting the "Here-You-May-Do-Anything Inn," they dedicate the city to the hedonistic ideal of doing anything you want (as long as...

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This 1992 performance by jazz and funk vocalist Chaka Khan was recorded in the New York jazz club The Blue Note and includes such jazz songs as Take The 'A' Train and My Funny Valentine.

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Puccini's opera as staged in a 1982 production. ~ All Movie Guide

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This classic tale is of a musically gifted cobbler who competes in a songwriting contest, and is brought to life by the Australian Opera in Sydney. Takes place in Rennaisance Nürnberg. ~ All Movie Guide

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Directly from the stage of Milan, Italy's Teatro all Scala comes a collection of excerpts from the works of Giuspeppe Verdi and Umberto Giordano, and featuring some of the biggest names in contemporary opera. Performances include Placido Domingo and Mirella...

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The opera release Bonynge Gala Concert features Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti performing some of the most famous arias and duets. The Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra, conducted by Richard Bonynge, provides the music.

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Enrico Castiglione directs this 2001 production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's seminal two-act 1787 dramma giocoso Don Giovanni, an opera mounted at Teatro Argentina in Rome, with musical accompaniment by the Rome Philharmonic Orchestra...

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La Belle Hélène, Jacques Offenbach's 1864 three-act opera bouffe, unfolds just prior to the Trojan War. Offenbach opens with the goddess Venus promising to procure Helen's love for Paris, through Calchas, the...

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The heart and soul of Australia comes to the stage in playwright Ray Lawler's operatic drama, and the cameras are rolling to catch every magical minute of the acclaimed 1997 production in this release of a performance originally staged at the Playhouse, Victorian Arts Centre. Elizabeth...

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This three-act production of Leos Janacek's Kat a Kabanova was performed alongside the Glyndebourne chorus and the London Philharmonic, under the direction of conductor Andrew Davis. Starring Nancy Gustafson, Felicity Palmer, Ryland...

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovski's elaborate adaptation of Aleksandr Pushkin's passionate and tragic tale is performed before a live audience at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in a production featuring libretto by Konstantin Shilovsky and directed by Graham Vick....

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Conducted by Franz Welser-Most, this stage production of Mozart's classic The Magic Flute was filmed in Switzerland. The classic story of good and evil follows the romance of Tamino and Pamina, and features Matti Salminen, Anton...

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One of the great diva of the American operatic stage, Joan Sutherland closed the book on her career as a live performer in 1981 with her starring role in this production of Giacomo Meyerbeer's drama, which contrasts the beauty and romance of 16th Century France with the corruption which led...

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Igor Stravinski's neo-classic masterwork comes to the screen in a lavish 1995 production filmed both on location and in the studio and featuring English-language dialogue. American tenor Greg Fedderly stars as young innocent Tom Rakewell, whose soul is being fought for by devious elders...

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Originally filmed at the Covent Garden, this Royal Opera production features noted soprano Cheryl Studer in the title role, and also includes Dennis O'Neill and Luciana d'Intino. Verdi's classic is performed as it was originally intended -- in the...

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Carl Maria von Weber's wildly successful bohemian opera detailing a lovelorn man's reluctant deal with the devil is performed before a live audience in this release of a performance featuring libretto by Johann Friedrich Kind and offering the music of the Chorus and Orchestra...

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The Bolshoi Opera performs Schiller's take on the tragedy of Joan of Arc in this production featuring libretto by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and starring acclaimed soprano Nina Rautio in the title role.

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The classical concert release Messa per Rossini contains a performance of the title piece, originally composed by over a dozen Italian composers in the 19th century.

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This 1985 concert by jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughn features such jazz songs as Poor Butterfly and East of the Sun.

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Don Cherry is acclaimed for his unique and well-received contributions to the world of jazz. He is frequently referred to, along with greats like Ornette Coleman, when leaders of the vocal tradition are mentioned. He reached a creative peak in the '60s and helped propel the jazz genre to a...

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Conducted by Sir Colin Davis, this production of composer Richard Strauss' classic opera features Susan Anthony, Iride Martinez, Jon Villars, Sophie Koch, and Friedrich-Wilhelm Junge. The story follows...

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