"Actor: Carlo Maria Giulini"

• Classic Archive - Carlo Maria Giulini | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Carlo Maria Giulini: The Classic Archive

• 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.

• Carlo Maria Giulini In Rehearsal | DVD | (29/10/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In RehearsalCarlo Maria GiuliniwithRadio-Sinfonieorchester StuttgartAnton Bruckner:Symphony No. 9 in D MinorRehearsal and ConcertCarlo Maria Giulini - the enigmatic Italian conductor who found success in both the opera house and the concert hall. Modest reserved and unruled by ambition Giulini's interpretations are refined and precise marked by rich string textures and a lyrical warmth

• Carlo Maria Giulini | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Recorded at Watford town hall on the 3rd March 1964 Fairfield Hall Croydon on the 2nd of December 1964 and January 12th 1968 this DVD features Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the New Philharmonic Orchestra performing: Mussorgsky - Pictures at an exhibition Motzart - Symphony No. 40 in G minor Manuel de Falla - El Sombrero de tres picos suite No. 2 Verdi - Les Vepres siciliennes overture

• Carlo Maria Giulini - Classic Archive | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Maria Callas: Life and Art | DVD | (26/10/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.38

  Long before the media's obsession with celebrity scaled its current heights, Maria Callas commanded headlines and column inches equal to any of the jet-setting elite of her time. In those terms alone, and much as opera purists might flinch at the idea, she was the Madonna of her day. But that is only one reason why her legend extends well beyond her place in the pantheon of great sopranos and so long after her death in 1977. An excellent companion to Tony Palmer's 1987 documentary La Divina, this documentary provides a well-rounded picture of an extraordinary talent who defended her art with the courage of a tigress, but whose turbulent private life gave her little except restless grief. It is crammed with concert footage and archive interviews. She was, as one of the contributors Franco Zeffirelli says, a genius of hair-raising stature and one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. But she was also a rather fragile human being. The tension between the two makes the telling of her story utterly compelling. The DVD includes chronologies of Callas' life and the many roles she played during her career. --Piers Ford