"Actor: Bruson"

• Cavalleria Rusticana - Mascagni / Pagliacci - Leoncavallo | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £9.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (40.04%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The great Italian stage and screen director Franco Zeffirelli made these widely acclaimed films both starring Placido Domingo with Georges Pretre conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala. Pagliacci which co-stars the great singing actress Teresa Stratas brought Zeffirelli the coveted Emmy as Best Director in the category of Classical Music Programming. Cavalleria was filmed on location in Sicily which adds immeasurably to the power and atmosphere of this timeless story of love honour justice and violence.

• Verdi: Nabucco -- La Scala/Muti | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-2.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This magnificent production of Verdi's biblical epic Nabucco marked the return of Riccardo Muti as Musical Director of La Scala Milan Italy's greatest opera house. Nabucco was Verdi's first real success. This vast opera has great scenes for the chorus most famously in 'Va pensiero' the hymn of longing sung by the Hebrew slaves on the banks of the Euphrates. This DVD is a marvellous opportunity to hear La Scala's famous Chrous on top form.

• Ernani - Giuseppe Verdi - Teatro Alla Scala | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £15.43   |  Saving you £2.56 (14.20%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The hugely successful production of Verdi's romantic drama Ernani features four legendary opera stars: Placido Damingo Mirella Freni Renato Bruson and Nicolai Ghiaurov all at the height of their powers. They were described in The Times review as 'possibly the best quartet of singers any opera house has managed to assemble this year'. They give an impassioned electric performance under the conductor Riccardo Muti an acclaimed Verdi interpreter. The producer Luca Ranconi has cre

• Lucia Di Lammermoor | DVD | (21/05/2004) from £13.79   |  Saving you £-3.80 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Donizetti's great tragedy is his undisputed masterpiece of melancholic romanticism with the doomed love between Lucia and Edgardo retold from Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor. The 1992 production heightens the story's powerful libretto with its dramatic visual design and first-class musical performances. Unlocked from the archives of RAI television this is a classic recording from one of the world's great opera houses.

• Falstaff - Giuseppe Verdi - The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £13.82   |  Saving you £5.43 (43.23%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Verdi was almost eighty when he startled the musical world with his mastery of comic invention in his last opera Falstaff with its brilliant libretto by Arrigo Boito. The story is taken from Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor although the central character is much closer to the Falstaff of Henry IV. The roguish Sir John embroils himself in numerous plots and dupes of love and marriage until eventually the Merry Wives get their revenge on him and all plans are thwarted. When Carlo Maria Giulini returned to conducting public performances of opera after an absence of fourteen years he chose this comic masterpiece for the occasion. The great lyric baritone Renato Bruson sings the title role. Katia Ricciarelli leads the trio of merry wives with Lucia Valentini-Terrani as Mistress Quickly and Brenda Boozer as Meg Page. Leo Nucci sings the role of Ford and the young lovers are here portrayed by Dalmacio Gonzalez and Barbara Hendricks. Stunning designs by Hayden Griffen and Michael Stennett provide the perfect setting for this witty interpretation of Shakespeare's masterpiece.

• Nabucco - Arena Di Verona | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £29.91   |  Saving you £-11.92 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Nabucco was Verdi's first real success and its nationalistic theme of yearning for freedom made it highly popular in an Italy of 1842 under Austrian rule. The great chorus of the exiled Hebrews 'Va pensiero' has become one of the best-loved of operatic melodies and made Verdi the voice of the Italian people. This performance was recorded in Verona in 1981 where the huge open-air Roman Arena provides a magnificent setting for this vast and spectacular opera. The great baritone Renat

• Macbeth | DVD | (02/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Verdi - Macbeth (Sinopoli Orchestra/Chorus DOB)

• Verdi - La Traviata | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A lavish period production of Verdi's best -loved opera featuring two of today's most celebrated stars - American soprano Renee Fleming and Mexican tenor Rolando Villazon. The tragic love-story of the courtesan Violetts and her young admirer Alfredo Germont is set to some of the most popular in all opera, including the irresistible Brindisi (Drinking Song) and Violetta's thrilling Act One finale Sempre Libera. For this performance, filmed live in Los Angeles, the role of Alfredo's father is sung by the great Verdi baritone Renato Bruson.

• I Due Foscari | DVD | (20/08/2004) from £9.19   |  Saving you £0.80 (8.71%)   |  RRP £9.99

  I due FoscariGiuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)Renato Bruson takes the role of the Venetian Doge - Francesco Foscari - in Verdi's dark three-act tragedy based on a drama by Lord Byron set in 15th century Venice. Giandrea Gavazzeni directs the 1988 La Scala production of a work that is hailed among the best of Verdi's early operas and that led him to a career of operatic immortality. Unlocked from the archives of RAI television this is a classic recording from one of the world's great opera houses.

• Giovanna D'Arco - Teatro Comunale Di Bologna | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A performance of Verdi's seventh opera 'Giovanna D'Arco ' performed by the Orchestra Communale Di Bologna and conducted by Riccardo Chailly

• La Traviata - Verdi | DVD | (02/05/2006) from £22.87   |  Saving you £7.12 (23.70%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Norah Amsellem as Violetta leads a cast of outstanding talent in Pier Luigi Pizzi's beautiful production filmed with High Definition cameras and recorded in multi-track surround sound. Jes''s L''pez Cobos conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real (Madrid Symphony Orchestra and Chorus) in an acclaimed reading of one of Verdi's greatest works.

• Renee Fleming/Rolando Villazon/Renato Bruson/Los Angeles Opera Chorus/Los Angeles Opera Orchestra/James Conlon - Verdi: La Traviata | Blu Ray | (17/03/2009) from £25.95   |  Saving you £-5.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rene Fleming shines as Violetta and Rolando Villazn gives a powerful performance as her lover in the Los Angeles Opera's elaborately staged 2006 production of Verdi's beloved tragic opera.

• Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana / Leoncavallo: Pagliacci | DVD | (14/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Verdi: Macbeth | DVD | (29/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  One of the best of Verdi's earlier operas, Macbeth has a distinctive energy to which, in this performance, conductor Sinopoli gives full rein. His excellent chorus--terrifyingly skittish witches, mournful exiles, sinister-facetious murderers, outraged and vengeful courtiers in the aftermath of Duncan's murder--is as much a participant as the principals, and the orchestral accompaniment reminds us that what the young Verdi lacked of his later subtlety he made up in sheer vigour. Renato Bruson is an extraordinary Macbeth, caught in a nightmare of his own making and unable to find release save through further killings and eventually self-destruction; Maria Zampieri has the sort of voice Verdi specified and which many productions avoid, a voice prepared to give its all, not to any sort of lyric beauty but to a harshness that is dramatically appropriate--this is a fine characterisation. Dennis O'Neill has comparatively little to do, but makes his vengeance aria a memorable reminder that guilt and shame are not all that this opera is about. --Roz Kaveney

• Verdi: Giovanna D'Arco (Parma 2008) (Bowers/ Bruson/ Vassileva/ Bruno Bartoletti/ Gabriele Lavia) (C Major: 721304) | Blu Ray | (03/12/2012) from £23.85   |  Saving you £6.14 (25.74%)   |  RRP £29.99

  CMJ 721304; CMAJOR ENTERTAINMENT; Classica Lirica

• Verdi Favourites | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This stunning compilation includes some of the greatest scenes from favourite Verdi operas taken from spectacular productions filmed at La Scala Milan The Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Arena di Verona. The DVD features superb performances from major opera stars including Jos Carreras as Oronte in scenes from I Lombardi Mirella Freni as Elvira in Ernani Renato Bruson as Falstaff Nicola Martinucci and Maria Chiara in Aida Ghena Dimitrova as Abigaille in Nabucco an

• Highlights From La Scala | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This DVD features some of the opera world's greatest artists on extracts from works by Verdi and Giordano performed at Italy's leading opera house Teatro alla Scala in Milan. The extracts are from: 1.Verdi's Ernani in an exceptionally strong production from 1982 featuring Placido Domingo Mirella Freni Renato Bruson and Nicolai Ghiaurov conducted by Riccardo Muti. 2.Giordano's Andrea Chenier in a 1985 production starring Jose Carreras Eva Marton and Piero Burchuladze conducted by Riccardo Chailly. 3.Verdi's Nabucco in a 1986 production featuring Renato Bruson Ghena Dimitrova and Paata Burchuladze conducted by Riccardo Muti. 4.Verdi's I Lombardi in a 1984 production with Jose Carreras Ghena Dimitrova and Silvano Carroli.

• Perosi - Lo Resurrezione Di Cristo (Colino, Easter Fo) | DVD | (01/01/2007) from £26.57   |  Saving you £-9.58 (-56.40%)   |  RRP £16.99

• Jubilaeum Collection 2000 AD - Merry Christmas From Rome | DVD | (04/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Merry Christmas from Rome with Cecilia Gasdia (soprano) Pietro Ballo (Tenor) Renato Bruson (baritone) and Mstislav Rostropovic (cello) with Capella Giulia S Peter Choir the Orchestra Sinfonica Di Roma The Accademia Filarmonica Romana Choir with a special performance by the Galina Vishnevskaya Boys Choir. Conducted by Pablo Colino. Filmed live at the Basilica di S. Maria delgi Angeli in Rome Italy. Selections include: Bach - Magnificat Gounod - Ave Maria Verdi - Ave Maria (Dante) Mozart - Ave Verum Teofano - Cristo e Nato Bizet - Agnus Dei Mascgani - Ave Maria Chesnokov - Santo e Dio Schubert - Ave Maria Gruber - Stille Nacht Franck - Panis Angelicus Zinoviev - Dio e Con Noi Christmas Traditional Adam - Minuit Chretiens