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This release captures famed opera singer Robert Merrill performing selections from a variety of famous composers including Kurt Weill, Bizet, Rossini, and Verdi.

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Joan Sutherland: The Reluctant Prima Donna documents the career of the beloved opera singer. The filmmakers utilize interviews with the singer, as well as testimonials from many of her contemporaries including famed tenor Luciano Pavarotti and director Franco Zeffirelli.

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By all accounts an ardent enthusiast of folk music, iconoclastic and controversial English director Ken Russell (Lisztomania, The Rainbow) headlines the documentary In Search of the English Folk Song. In this program, Russell undertakes a...

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Before there was ballet, there was folkloric dance--a Russian tradition which translated the local culture into an upbeat, often loud, and always athletic form of dance. Narrated by Tony Randall, this video features several song and dance performances, both indoors and out, and offers a glimpse into the...

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Franco Zefferelli directs the Metropolitan Opera production of Puccini's Turandot in this live on-stage recording fromPolygram. Starring legendary performers Placido Domingo, James Levine, and Eva Marton, this opera is...

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This presentation of Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff (the final opera of his impressive career) features bass baritone Jose van Dam as the title character. The storyline is an amalgam of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windser and Henry...

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The Bolshoi Opera, Theater, Orchestra, and Choir unite to bring Alexander Pushkin's Pique Dame to life on the stage in this opera featuring music by Peter Tchaikovsky and libretto by his brother Modest. A theater event that is sure to be enjoyed by...

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Joan Sutherland first broke through to international success with her role in Lucia Di Lammermoor, Gaetano Donizetti's operatic interpretation of Sir Walter Scott's story of love, treachery and murder. In 1986, in the autumn of her career, the great...

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Mark Elder, longtime music director of the English National Opera, hosts the documentary Giuseppe Verdi: The Pursuit of Success and the Burden of Success. The program - one of the first feature length English-language documentaries to explore Verdi's life and career - couples...

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This production of Alexander Borodin's famed opera Prince Igor was filmed on location in a number of outdoor Russian locations.

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Many of today's most popular artists gathered to perform in a tribute to holiday music at this concert held by the Placido Domingo Society. Many well-loved chestnuts are aired here, performed by the likes of Tony Bennett, Charlotte Church, Vanessa Williams, and, of...

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This release captures famed opera singer Richard Tucker performing selections from a variety of famous composers including Verdi and Bizet.

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The Italian opera of love and disaster between an Oriental woman and the Westerner who takes advantage of her. Produced by J. P. Ponnelle and directed by Karajan. Featuring the music of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the vocal talents of Freni and...

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The Opera Australia mounted this lavish production of Giuseppe Verdi's 1842 opera Nabucco, starring Elizabeth Connell, Bruce Martin and Jonathan Summers. The Australian Opera Chorus and The State Orchestra...

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Something of a rarity - an early 20th century vocalist who effortlessly traversed the boundaries between classical and pop music with great aplomb - Irish-American tenor vocalist John McCormack (1884-1945) sold an estimated 200 million records and consistently packed concert...

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Celebrated divas Marilyn Horne and Joan Sutherland headline this opera tribute concert, staged and mounted by the Opera Australia at the famous Sydney Opera House. In it, Sutherland and Horne interpret arias by such composers...

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Numerous prominent classical divas, including Shirley Verrett, Karita Mattila, Edita Gruberova and Maria Ewing, headline this compilation film, comprised of extracts from some of history's best known and most-beloved operas. Selections include:...

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English operettist Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw - loosely adapted from the Henry James 1898 novella of the same name - receives a stage interpretation by the Opera Australia in this 1991 production. Elijah Moshinsky designed the sets;...

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The featured star of this production is Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. The beloved opera singer from New Zealand travels to neighboring Australia to give a live outdoor concert in a setting as gorgeous as her voice. The celebrated diva has made opera accessible to many new fans in Australia, New Zealand, and the...

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The Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu produced and performed Richard Wagner's most celebrated and impassioned operatic work, the 1865 Tristan and Isolde, with John Treleaven as Tristan and Deborah Polaski as...

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Loosely adapted from Virgil's Aeneid by Nahum Tate and mounted at the Hampton Court House in Surrey, England in 1995, the opera Dido and Aeneas stars Maria Ewing and Karl Daymond as the two title characters. Henry...

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Featuring the renowned mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and the equally celebrated bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, this 1999 production is considered one of the best opera recitals of the decade. The live performance includes selections from The Magic Flute, The...

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Conductor Vladamir Jurowski leads the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a lavish live performance of Sergei Rachmaniov's version of Alexander Pushkin's tragedy taped before a live audience at the Glyndebourne Opera House.

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Innumerable music superstars from a litany of genres, including Tony Bennett, Phil Collins, Dame Shirley Bassey, Rod Stewart and Sir Cliff Richard, headline this epic-length, three-hour concert mounted and performed in commemoration of Her Majesty...

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The Opera Australia mounted this 2007 production of Gilbert and Sullivan's rollicking operetta The Pirates of Penzance, starring David Hobson, John Bolton Wood and Anthony Harlow. Stuart Maunder...

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Actress-divas Sarah Walker, Kathleen Tynan and Yvonne Brennan co-headline this 1988 production of Ralph Vaughan Williams's one-act opera Riders to the Sea, adapted from the short play by J.M. Synge. Like its source material,...

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Total Results: 228 titles          Showing 176 - 210