"Actor: Francisco Araiza"

• Mozart: Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) -- Metropolitan Opera/Levine | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £16.69   |  Saving you £0.30 (1.80%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A performance of Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' by puppet theatre.

• Mozart - Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail (Bohm, Gruberova) | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Don Giovanni - Mozart | DVD | (23/04/2004) from £9.77   |  Saving you £0.22 (2.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A performance of the Mozart opera Don Giovanni.

• Massenet-Manon | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £16.60   |  Saving you £0.39 (2.30%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Massenet: Manon (Fischer Wiener Staatsoper Gruberova)

• Rossini - La Cenerentola (Abbado) | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £12.61   |  Saving you £1.38 (10.94%)   |  RRP £13.99

• Mozart - The Magic Flute | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £18.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  With Wolfgang Sawallisch leading a starry cast featuring Lucia Popp Kurt Moll and Edita Gruberova this acclaimed 1983 live recording of August Everding's classic production of The Magic Flute is Mozart at his most inventive and inviting.

• Monteverdi: L'Orfeo | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £15.72   |  Saving you £4.27 (27.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Mozart: Die Enftuhrung Aus Dem Serail (Abduction from the Seraglio) -- Bavarian Opera/Bohm | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Rossini: La Cenerentola (Cinderella) -- Vienna/Chailly | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  La Cenerentola is one of the few operas to have an important subtitle, "The Triumph of Virtue". This Salzburg production makes a point of its being a moral tale rather than a mere fairy tale like the version reflexively sung by Angelina in her "Cavatina": the defeat and forgiveness of the stepsisters and their greedy father is a settling of moral accounts. The production is also tremendous fun--partly because of gimmicks like the mechanical coach and horses that arrives on stage in the high wind of the Act Two storm--but mostly because of the endlessly energetic pulse of Riccardo Chailly's conducting of the Vienna Philharmonic. Anne Murray is an ideal Angelina, equally good at the heroine's witty intelligence and at the complexity of her emotional situation--loyal to the family that mistreats her. Francisco Araiza is an attractive Don Ramirez; the byplay between him and his servant Dandini (Gino Quilico)--in the duet "Zitto, zitto. Piano, piano", for example is for once genuinely amusing. Parts like Don Magnifico were the late Walter Berry's stock-in-trade--his occasionally menacing portrayal is far richer and more interesting than a mere buffoon. On the DVD: As usual with Arthaus Musik, an excellent production and performance is left to sink or swim without any detailed production notes either on the disc or in the leaflet. The sound is standard PCM stereo and the picture ratio 4:3. There are instructions in French, German, English and Spanish and subtitles in all of those languages plus Italian. --Roz Kaveney

• Gioacchino Rossini - La Cenerentola | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A live recording from the Kleines Festspielhaus Salzburg 1982

• Cosi Fan Tutte - Mozart | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Dramma giocoso in due atti K588 in two acts.Recorded live at The Kleines Festspielhaus Salzburg August 1983.