"Actor: Ileana"

• Puccini: La Boheme -- Royal Opera House/Gardelli | DVD | (21/08/2000) from £17.00   |  Saving you £0.99 (5.82%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This full-blooded 1982 performance of Puccini's most-loved opera demonstrates just how much drive and powerful emotion can make up for a certain lack of subtlety. Cotrubas' Mimi is entirely moving in both joy and death, while never quite feeling as thoroughly frail as some of her quieter rivals; stronger tenor voices than Neil Shicoff's have recorded the role, and yet he has a Romantic passion and a dignity that many of his rivals fail to bring to the role. That under-rated singer Gwynne Howell is especially moving in Colline's farewell to his cloak--one of those perfect little showcase sections Puccini sometimes gives to minor parts. Marilyn Zschau's Musetta is broad and comic and yet somehow includes the audience in the glorious joke that her sexuality is for her; when Thomas Allen sings, to her waltz theme, of youth that is not yet dead, his ardour transcends realism. Gardelli knew this score in his bones--the production bounces along from comedy to tears to eroticism to tragedy and neither cast nor orchestra miss a single one of Puccini's wonderful touches of emotional exploitation. --Roz Kaveney

• Mozart - Idomeneo (Levine, Pavarotti) | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £17.29   |  Saving you £32.70 (189.13%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Taped during the first-ever performances of Idomeneo at the Metropolitan Opera in 1982 this production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle features Frederica von Stade Hildegard Behrens Ileana Cotrubas and Luciano Pavarotti making a rare appearance in a Mozart role.

• Rigoletto - Verdi | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £16.69   |  Saving you £0.30 (1.80%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Opera in three acts produced live at the Metropolitan Opera on 7 November 1977.

• Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann -- Royal Opera House/Pretre | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This famous and highly-praised Royal Opera production by film director John Schlesinger filmed in 1981 is as good as we are ever likely to see. The spectacular designs by Maria Bjornson and William Dudley vividly bring Hoffman's nightmare world to life. The brilliant cast is led by Placido Domingo as Hoffmann in one of his towering portrayals. He has become wholly identified with this part in a way that no other artist has.

• Don Carlo - The Royal Opera | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Set in France and Spain in the second half of the sixteenth century Don Carlo tells the story of the political and amorous rivalry between Philip II of Spain and his son Don Carlo. Luchino Visconti's magnificent and definitive Royal Opera production of Verdi's Don Carlo was first seen in 1958 and is seen here in a staging by Christopher Renshaw filmed in 1985. The Visconti sets recreate the forest of Fontainebleau the monastery of San Yuste and Don Carlo's dark underground prison with equal effectiveness. The superb cast is led by Ileana Cotrubas as a tender and touching Elisabetta the fine lyric tenor Luis Lima in the title role and the great baritone Giorgio Zancanaro as Rodrigo. The conductor is Bernard Haitink.

• Killer Nun | Blu Ray | (24/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Phata Poster Nikla Hero | DVD | (17/03/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Fully Boxed and Sealed Original Hindi DVD with English/ Arabic Subtitles, All Regions, Hindi DVD NTSC Format .

• Cotrubas/Obraztsova/Scotto - the Three Sopranos | DVD | (29/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tracklisting: 1. Qual flamma aveva nel cuardo (Pagliacci/Ruggero Leoncavallo)2. Se io lo sapessi (Le Ville/Giacomo Puccini)3. Mon cour s'ouvre a ta voix (Samson et Dalila/Camille Saint-Saens)4. Si mi chiamo Mimi (La Boheme/Giacomo Puccini)5. Morro ma prima in grazia (Ballo in maschera/Giuseppe Verdi)6. Oh belle nuit (Hoffmann's Erzahlungen/Jacques Offenbach)7. Oh mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicci/Giacomo Puccini)8. Musica Proibita (Stanislao Gastaldon)9. A Vucchella (Paolo Tosti)10. Habanera (Carmen/Georges Bizet)11. Czardas (il Pipistrello/Johann Strauss)12. Fu la sorte dell armi ... (Aida/Giuseppe Verdi)

• Happy Ending | DVD | (09/02/2015) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-0.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Writer Yudi (Saif Ali Khan) wrote a hit book five and a half years ago but he is still living life king-size in Los Angeles, enjoying fame and affairs, avoiding commitment, doing no work, partying with his miserably married friend Montu (Ranvir Shorey) or having conversations with his fat, bearded inner voice Yogi (also Saif). Suddenly, Yudi's money runs out and his publishers dump him for hit romance novelist Aanchal (Ileana D'Cruz), visiting from Mumbai.

• Main Tera Hero | DVD | (14/07/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The story begins with Seenu the 'naughtiest kid in town' (Varun Dhawan) who travels from the lazy landscape of Ooty to a bustling college campus in Bangalore. Here he falls in love with the beautiful but mysterious Sunaina (Ileana D'cruz) and from there begins a crazy journey... From fighting corrupt cop Angad (Arunoday Singh) to battling his wits with Asias' most dreaded gangster Vikrant (Anupam Kher) whose daughter Ayesha (Nargis Fakhri) happens to be charmed by him and his ways. This summer watch the Hero getting screwed in love...David Dhawan Style!

• Mozart - Die Zauberflote, Fur Kinde (Levine, Vpo) | DVD | (02/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mozart's The Magic Flute (for Children). Recorded live at the Felsenreitschule, Salzburg, 26th August 1982.