"Actor: Edelmann"

• The Way We Were | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £6.93   |  Saving you £3.06 (44.16%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A classic early 1970s weepie, The Way We Were stars Barbra Streisand as a Communist activist in the late 30s and 40s and Robert Redford as the ambitious young writer who marries her, cheats on her and eventually leaves her in the early days of McCarthyism for the sake of his Hollywood screenwriting career. Arthur Laurent's intelligent screenplay, remarkable performances from the two stars and Marvin Hamlisch's Oscar-winning score and theme song combined to produce a film that even as hostile a critic as Pauline Kael had to admit worked. On the DVD: The DVD re-release includes the usual subtitling facilities, the theatre trailer and a documentary on the film's making, which includes one of the more political scenes deleted for commercial release; it is also possible to watch the film with a detailed commentary from Sydney Pollack about the problems of its making, problems which included writing new scenes so that Redford was not entirely upstaged by Streisand in the audience's sympathies. --Roz Kaveney

• California Suite | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  California Street is a classic Neil Simon comedy that takes place at the Beverly Hills Hotel during the weekend of the Academy Awards celebration. Herb Ross's film follows the misadventures of four groups of guests including a divorced couple battling over the custody of their daughter (Jane Fonda and Alan Alda) a husband who gets caught with a hooker in his room by his wife (Walter Matthau and Elaine May) a British actress nominated for an Oscar and her straying gay husband (Maggie Smith and Michael Caine) and two competing doctors and their wives forced to share a hotel room (Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor).

• Mozart: Don Giovanni -- Vienna/Furtwangler | DVD | (08/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The incomparable Cesare Siepi stars in this legendary Salzburg production of Mozart's masterpiece. Wilhelm Furtwangler conducts the internationally renowned Vienna Philharmonic in what has become one of the definitive productions of a classic opera.

• Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £4.93   |  Saving you £25.06 (83.60%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Of all operas, perhaps the one that least needs ingenious extramusical assistance is 'Tristan, this aurally erotic work that speaks so vividly to the listener`s inner eye. Wagner`s score is simply more illustrative and sensuously pictorial than any series of stage pictures could be. With Ren� Kollo and Gwyneth Jones in the title roles, this DVD represents a historical milestone and document of highest value in the reception of Richard Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde'.

• Der Rosenkavalier | DVD | (27/10/2011) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-0.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A colourful and inspiring performance of Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier under the conducting of Herbert Von Karajan, the Vienna State Opera Ballet, the State Opera Chorus, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the famous singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Otto Edelmann. The story is set in the Royal Court of Vienna, where the Princess is being wooed by Octavian, a handsome young cavalier, despite her married state. Complications arise when Octavian falls in love with her younger sister, Sophie, whom another is trying to win. Set to a rousing musical score, this opera is a classic love story. This DVD release features a brand new restoration of the film and a trailer.

• Strauss - Die Fledermaus (Bibl, Burgenland So, Dussmann) | DVD | (01/01/2005) from £33.21   |  Saving you £-8.22 (-32.90%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Strauss: Die Fledermaus (Bibl Burgenland SO Dussmann)