"Actor: Giuseppe Sinopoli"

• Puccini: Manon Lescaut -- Royal Opera House | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This famous production of Manon Lescaut from The Royal Opera recorded in 1983 features two of the biggest stars in opera Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa in their vocal prime. Placido Domingo's performance of Des Grieux is considered to be unsurpassed. Conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli made his British operatic debut with this production which has not been available on video for 10 years. Puccini's first masterpiece was rapturously received on its first night. It has his hallmark se

• Salome - Deutsche Oper Berlin | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Richard Strauss's powerful and erotic one-act opera caused such a sensation when it was first performed in 1905 that it caused protests and was banned in several cities. In Petr Weigl's production for the Deutsche Opera Berlin filmed in 1990 Catherine Malfitano gives a suitably graphic portrayal of Salome a role which demand the utmost physical and emotional commitment throughout the complex vocal passages and choreographed scenes. Simon Estes is Jokannan and Herodias is sung by one of the greatest dramatic singers of the 20th century Leonie Rysanek. The conductor is Giuseppe Sinopoli.

• Wagner: Parsifal | DVD | (06/05/2011) from £28.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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

  Verdi - Macbeth (Sinopoli Orchestra/Chorus DOB)

• 450 Years - Sachsische Staatskapelle Dresden | DVD | (20/07/2000) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An enticing live concert from the Semper Opera Dresden recorded on 22nd September 1998. Featuring a varied programme including Vivaldi's 'Concerto for Orchestra in G minor' von Weber's 'Jubel Overture Op. 59' Wagner's 'Overture to Rienzi' and Richard strauss' 'Alpine Symphony Op. 64'. Performed by the resident Sachsische Staatskapelle Dresden and conducted by the internationally renowned Giuseppe Sinopoli.

• 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

• Giuseppe Sinopoli And The Dresden Staatskapelle - The Two Eyes Of Horus / Dreampaths Of Music | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Two Eyes Of HorusArnold Schonberg: Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night) Op. 4.Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen.Dreampaths Of MusicRobert Schumann: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major ('Rhenish') Op. 97.Richard Wagner: Prelude to Parsifal.Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major Op. 92