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• La Finta Giardiniera - Mozart | DVD | (12/01/2005) from £14.34   |  Saving you £11.91 (91.06%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This sorely-neglected opera comes from Mozart's early catalogue. Written in 1774 it tells the story of a Countess who disguises herself as a gardener in order to find and forgive her lover who thinks he has killed her in a quarrel. The opera contains elements of both opera seria and opera buffa and contains a rich and full orchestration with prominent parts for wind in particular being an unusual feature. Stage direction comes from Swedish director Goran Jarvefelt who sadly die

• Die Zauberflote - Mozart | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mozart: Die Zauberflote (Ostman)

• Cosi Fan Tutte - Mozart | DVD | (02/05/2006) from £18.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (8.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From his initial appointing as Drottningholm's Artistic Director Arnold Ostman set about establishing a unique Mozart style attempting to recapture an authentic flavour through detailed historical research and the use of period instruments / he collaborates with German producer Willy Decker on this ever-popular Mozart comedy with an extensively rehearsed cast of young swedish singers.

• Idomeneo - Mozart | DVD | (02/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This revised revival of the acclaimed 1986 Drottningholm production by Michael Hampe conducted by Arnold Ostman was staged during the Mozart Bicentenary year. Combining both tragedy and comedy with drama Idomeneo boasts a series of superbly expressive pieces which Einstein described as one of those works that even a genius of the highest rank like Mozart could write only once in his life.