"Actor: Maria"

• Massenet - Le Roi De Lahore (Viotti) | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The love between Sita the priestess of the temple of Indra and unknown stranger who is actually Alim the king of Lahore is hindered by Scindia who wants to take the throne and to marry Sita. When Scindia discovers the lover's true identity he accuses him before the high priest Timour who condemns him to go into battle against the Muslims. In the battle Alim is defeated and seriously wounded returns to Lahore where he dies in the arms of his beloved Sita. Having risen into the Hindu paradise and been reincarnated. Alim returns to Lahore just in time to witness the usurper's splendid coronation and to reveal Scindia's crimes to the entire populace. In the last act the two lovers take refuge in the temple of Indra to escape from Scindia: Sita takes her own life with a dagger thus provoking Alim's death. The two lovers will be together in the hereafter.

• Leo Nucci, Maria Guleghina, Coro dell´ Arena di Verona, Orchestra dell´ Arena di Verona, Daniel Oren - Nabucco | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A truly breathtaking production of Verdi's story of lust intrigue blackmail and deceit recorded live in summer 2007 at the glorious Roman amphitheatre at Verona. Renowned Verdi singers Leo Nucci and Maria Guleghina take on the roles of Nabucco and his daughter Abigail. Daniel Oren conducts Verona's resident orchestra. 1. Opening 2. Overture 3. 'Gli Arredi Festivi Giu Cadano Infranti' 4. Sperate O Figli! - D'Egitto La Sui Lidi 5. Come Notte A Sol Fulgente 6. Fenena! O Mia Diletta! 7. Prode Guerrier! 8. Io T'amava! 9. Lo Vedeste? 10. Viva Nabucco! 11. Tremin Gl'insani Del Mio Furore! 12. Mio Furore Non Pi'' Costretto 13. Ben Io T'invenni 14. Anch'io Dischuiso Un Giorno 15. Salgo Gi'' Del Trono Aurato 16. Vieni O Levita! 17. Tu Sul Labbro Dei Veggenti 18. 'Che Si Vuol?' / 'Il Maledetto Non Ha Fratelli' 19. Deh Fratelli Perdonate 20. S'appresan Gl'istanti 21. S'oda Or Me 22. Chi Mi Toglie Il Regio Scettro! 23. E Assiria Una Regina 24. Eccelsa Donna 25. Donna Chi Sei? 26. Oh Di Qual'onta Aggravasi 27. Deh Perdona 28. Va Pensiero Sull'ali Dorate 29. Oh Chi Piange? ... Del Futuro Nel Buoio Discerno 30. Son Pur Queste Mie Membra 31. Dio Di Giuda! 32. Cadran Cadranno I Perfidi .. O Prodi Miei Seguitemi 33. Marcia Funebre ... Va! La Palma Del Martirio 34. Oh Dischiuso ''ˆ Il Firmamento! 35. Viva Nabucco ... Qual Grido ''ˆ Questo? 36. Immenso Jeovha 37. Oh! Chi Vegg'io? - Su Me .. Morente ...Esanime 38. Credits

• Rameau - Zoroastre (Rousset, Drottningholm Theatre) | Blu Ray | (01/09/2008) from £14.94   |  Saving you £16.31 (119.23%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Zoroastre by Jean-Philippe Rameau is captured live in vibrant High Definition Video and true surround sound. Stage director Pierre Audi creates a production of Zoroastre that completely accords with the spirit of Rameau.

• Verdi: Falstaff | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £26.89   |  Saving you £-1.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This 1956 Falstaff from Radiotelevisione Italiana is one of the finest of the many studio productions that RAI presented in the 1950s. In addition to the presence of the legendary maestro Tullio Serafin there is the elegant physical production and brilliant staging by the renowned opera director Herbert Graf. the top-notch cast includes a number of singers particularly associated with this opera. Anna Moffo scored many of her early successes as Nannetta often opposite Luigi Alva's Fenton. Just a month after appearing in this production the two joined the cast of the studio recording of Falstaff under Karajan also featuring Fedora Barbieri as Mrs Quickly. Giuseppe Taddei Rosanna Carteri and Anna Maria Canali had also taken part in a 1949 Cetra recording of the opera. Taddei Rosanna Carteri and Anna Maria Canali had also taken part in a 1949 Cetra recording of the opera. Taddei who made a specialty of the title role began his long career in the mid-1930s.

• Violence In A Woman's Prison | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Shot back to back with 'Emanuelle In Prison' 'Violence In A Woman's Prison' is along the lines of 'The Concrete Jungle' and such other caged delights. Laura Gemser plays yet another Emanuelle a reporter who goes to prison undercover on trumped up charges to expose the corruption within the prison and to secure a scoop about the bad conditions run by sadistic warden Lorraine De Selle. Naturally the place is a hellhole. Gemser bares her fabulous body has sex with Gabrielle Tinti dumps a bucket of faeces on a guard and spends time in the hole where she is devoured and chewed on by hungry rats! Extremely kinky as expected with Mattei managing to stage a somewhat bizarre art rape-scene which looks like something from a Tinto Brass movie where the warden and her lover gets horny while watching a girl being raped and beaten up by male inmates (oh yes there are male inmates here too!). Lorraine De Selle is great as the evil warden and there's another loud great soundtrack by Luigi Ceccaralli.

• Hostile Advances - The Kerry Ellison Story | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Kerry Ellison becomes the object of desire for Sterling Gray who deals with his attraction by stalking and terrorising Kerry's life. When her official complaint of sexual harassment is dismissed by the courts she realises she is the only one with the power to get her life back.

• City Of Life | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £64.25   |  Saving you £-51.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A privileged young male Arab at odds with his cultural identity and his less fortunate street smart friend; a disillusioned Indian taxi driver who bears an uncanny resemblance to a famous Bollywood star; and a former Romanian ballet dancer now working as a flight attendant and searching for love and companionship ... these individuals all live in Dubai and their lives are about to collide for better or for worse in a city where ambition, growth and opportunity are encouraged and dreams can still manifest. An urban drama that tracks the various intersections of a multi-ethnic cast, examining how random interactions and their consequences can irrevocably impact another's life.

• Faust | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  FAUST - CHARLES GOUNOD - Edizioni Choudens Parigi - Rappresentante esclusivo per l'Italia Casa Musicale Sonzogno Milano:The exceptional nature and high artistic content of this performance justify publication of this video even though it was made only for the theatre's archives and at times lacks somewhat in visual clarity.

• Fifi's Carnival | DVD | (25/05/2009) from £4.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (100.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Fifi And The Flowertots: Fifi's Carnival

• Maria Callas at Covent Garden (Pretre, Cillario) | DVD | (01/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Now for the first time Maria Callas' legendary live performances from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden are available on DVD. These 2 memorable concerts from 1962 and 1964 celebrate her triumphant return to the Covent Garden stage. This is Maria Callas as the world remembers her. Tracklisting: Verdi: Tu che le vanita (Don Carlo) Bizet: Habanera & Seguedille (Carmen) Puccini: Tosca (Act II complete)

• Cosi Fan Tutte - Mozart | DVD | (02/05/2006) from £18.49   |  Saving you £1.50 (8.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From his initial appointing as Drottningholm's Artistic Director Arnold Ostman set about establishing a unique Mozart style attempting to recapture an authentic flavour through detailed historical research and the use of period instruments / he collaborates with German producer Willy Decker on this ever-popular Mozart comedy with an extensively rehearsed cast of young swedish singers.

• House Of Witchcraft | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  HOUSE OF WITCHCRAFT is one of the two films Umberto Lenzi made for VIPCOS four part Houses of Doom Lucio Fulci helming the others. A young man dreams a recurring nightmare in which he is running away from someone before he's reaching an old house where an ugly old woman boils his own head in a big kettle! His girlfriend thinks it's good for him to take a few days off and they drive to an old house that belongs to her family. The house is the one the young man always enters in his

• Little Lips | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  A soldier returning from the horrors of war tries to re-focus on his writing but to no avail. When he meets a young orphaned girl named Eva he finds himself increasingly attracted to her but her burgeoning sexuality is just the beginning...

• Bianca E Falliero | DVD | (01/07/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• MGM Western Greats - Part 1 | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Includes the following classic 10 Westerns! 1. The Alamo (dir. John Wayne, 1960) 2. Apache (dir. Robert Aldrich, 1954) 3. The Big Country (dir. William Wyler, 1958) 4. A Fistful Of Dynamite (dir. Sergio Leone, 1971) 5. The Kentuckian (dir. Burt Lancaster, 1955) 6. Posse (dir. Mario Van Peebles, 1993) 7. Red River (dir. Howard Hawks, 1948) 8. The Scalphunters (dir. Sydney Pollack, 1968) 9. Vera Cruz (dir. Robert Aldrich, 1954) 10. Wild Bill (dir. Walter Hill, 1995)

• The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor | Blu Ray | (29/01/2018) from £7.20   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Brendan Fraser and Jet Li star in the action-packed adventure The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor! When a 2,000-year-old curse is broken, a ruthless dragon emperor (Jet Li) comes back to life with a diabolical plan to enslave the world. Mankind's only hope against him and his legions of undead warriors lies with the courageous O'Connell family, who chase him from the dangerous catacombs of China, to the icy Himalayas and beyond. Featuring intense battle sequences, breathtaking visual effects and extraordinary creatures, it's a thrilling journey that Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times calls the best in the series! Bonus Features Feature Commentary Know Your Mummy Creating New And Supernatural Worlds Preparing For Battle With Brendan Fraser and Jet Li Legacy Of The Terra Cotta, And More!

• Carmen - Glyndebourne Festival Opera | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-6.29 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Bernard Haitink conducts Maria Ewing and Barry McCauley in an interpretation of Bizet's Carmen. Maria Ewing's electric portrayal of the gypsy Carmen is one of the finest in recent memory. Her dark alluring looks and feline grace are exactly suited to playing the hot-blooded Spanish temptress who charms men with her sensuous wild spirit. Peter Hall's production filmed in 1985 reveals Bizet's opera as a torid drama of passion blood and squalor with sets by John Bury that capture the earthy warmth of Spain in an unglamorised view of the factory girls of Seville. Barry McCauley is a thrilling Don Jose Micaela is sung by Marie McLaughlin with Bernard Haitink conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

• I Could Read The Sky | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted by Nichola Bruce from the acclaimed photographic novel by Timothy O'Grady and Steve Pyke 'I Could Read The Sky' is a haunting and lyrical film about identity love loss and the isolation and loneliness of the immigrant. Dermot Healy movingly portrays a man reflecting upon his life from his rural upbringing on the West Coast of Ireland to his journey to London and experiences in the vividly modern metropolis. Driven by a dynamic music soundtrack that draws from both envir

• Spanish Night | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Plácido Domingo is no stranger to stadium events, though in the old days it was as a singer with his pals, Pavarotti and Carreras. In Spanish Night with baton in hand he has an appealingly avuncular manner, and he couldn't hope for a better class of orchestra than the Berlin Philharmonic, here playing in their annual open-air concert given at the city's Waldbühne. It's a real crowd-pleaser of a programme (and the audience's enthusiasm is immediately apparent and increasingly boisterous as the evening wears on). None of the works stretches the concentration unreasonably, and the views of Spain come not only from home-grown composers (Sarasate, Torroba, Serrano and Vives) but also as viewed through other eyes: Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnole, Chabrier's España and Johann Strauss II's Spanish March. A pair of soloists increase the sequin quotient of the evening: the consummately poised violinist Sarah Chang (who has been round for so long it's difficult to believe she's still only 20) and the full-voiced soprano Ana María Martínez, winner of the Plácido Domingo Vocal Competition in Barcelona. Given the visual limitations of such events, the camerawork is imaginative without being distracting, and the sound, if a little boxy, is perfectly acceptable. Above all there's a great sense of fun to the occasion, and in the final number, Lincke's Berliner Lufte, Domingo is unable to resist seizing the microphone and leading the singing. On the DVD Sound options are either Dolby Digital 5.1 or PCM stereo and the picture is formatted for 16:9 TVs. A variety of goodies have been added to the concert itself, including interviews with Domingo and Sarah Chang, footage of flamenco dancing in Berlin (which is vaguely relevant) and a behind-the-scenes documentary.--Harriet Smith

• The King's Beard | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A man who has plans to become a wealthy barber travels to the Mirrored Kingdom to seek his fortune. But none of the men in the town want a haircut for the King sports the longest beard in the world...