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• Mozart - Cosi Fan Tutte (Fischer, Oae) | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £28.55   |  Saving you £1.44 (5.04%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Mozart's genius in setting to music Da Ponte's comic play of love, infidelity and forgiveness marks Cosi fan tutte as one of the great works of art from the Age of Enlightenment. Nicholas Hynter's beautiful new production, with its sure touch and theatrical know-how, lives up to its promise to be 'shockingly traditional', while Ivan Fischer teases artful performances from an outstanding international cast of convincing young lovers. Recorded using High Definition cameras with true surround sound.

• Alfano - Cyrano De Bergerac (Guidarini) | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alfano's opera in 5 acts starring Roberto Alagna.

• Donizetti: La Fille du Regiment -- La Scala | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Libretto by J.H. Vernoy de Saint-Georges / Jean F.A. Bayard Comical Opera in two acts recorded at the Teatro alla Scala MilanOrchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla ScalaConducted by Donato Renzetti

• Rameau - Les Boréades / Robert Carsen, La La La Human Steps, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, Opéra National de Paris | DVD | (20/06/2004) from £5.62   |  Saving you £25.63 (587.84%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A performance of the Rameau opera which follows the tale of Queen Alphise who is contemplating abdication rather that an arranged marriage.

• Offenbach - Les Contes D'hoffmann (La Scola, Rancatore) | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £18.48   |  Saving you £9.50 (61.33%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A vibrant and dazzling production.

• Rameau: In Convertendo | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £2.49   |  Saving you £12.50 (502.01%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Jean-Philippe Rameau was still a young musician when he moved to Lyon where he probably composed his few surviving motets including the Grand Motet In Convertendo here performed by Les Arts Florissants under William Christie which anticipates Rameau's orchestration in his later operatic works. This wonderful fugue on Psalm 126 (verse 6) Euntes ibant et flebant (They went forth and wept) bears comparison with similar works by his contemporary J.S. Bach. In addition to a full performance of In Convertendo this DVD presents some of Rameau's key chamber music pieces and an insightful music documentary The Real Rameau which sheds light on the life of a composer who thought only of music dreaming of a universal harmony and regarding music as an example to all arts and indeed to all the sciences as well. Pictured by his contemporaries as a gaunt and taciturn man ill-suited to courtly surroundings his work was described by Berlioz as 'one of the most sublime conceptions of dramatic music'.

• Tarare - Salieri | DVD | (21/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Salieri opera peformed at the 1988 Schwetzinger Festspiele. 'Tarare' tells the story of the Spirit Of Nature who creates new people in an attempt to cleanse the human race. The results bring love and jealousy. Sung in French.

• Joseph Merrick - The Elephant Man - Laurent Petitgirard | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £10.44   |  Saving you £9.55 (47.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Laurent Petitgirard is known mainly as a composer of orchestral works including concertos symphonic poems and film scores and as a conductor. Joseph Merrick who was born with horrifying deformities and exploited both as a freak show exhibit and as a medical curiosity. Petitgirard's compelling and moving score - the composer's melodic gift is very much his own - shows us Merrick at different stages of his tragic life until his death aged 27 in 1890.Filmed at Nice Opera on 2

• Fenice Re-Opening Concert 2003 | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £5.89   |  Saving you £15.36 (331.75%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Fondly called La Fenice - evoking the myth of the Phoenix bird that periodically burns itself in order to rise again from the ashes as a symbol of eternal renewal - the Venetian theatre has burned to the ground twice since it opened in 1792. Following the first fire, during the night of 12/13 December 1836 it was rebuilt according to the original plans by Tommaso and Giambattista Meduna on a new site, the Campo San Fantin, where it has now been rebuilt following the second fire on the night of 29/30 January 1996, which reduced the theatre to its bare foundations.When the legendary Phoenix finally rose from the ashes again in 2003, its rebirth was celebrated with a series of concerts. Riccardo Muti, musical director of Italy's other world-famous opera house - La Scala, conducted the official inaugural gala concert on December 14th. In the presence of the Italian President, Carlo Ciampi, Muti conducted La Fenice's choir and orchestra together with some of the best Italian singers in an unusual but truly Venetian programme.