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• Verdi: Rigoletto | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £15.86   |  Saving you £-0.87 (-5.80%)   |  RRP £14.99

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• Liszt - Mayerling | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £13.79   |  Saving you £1.20 (8.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Recorded live at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden London on 1st and 5th February 1994.

• Mozart: Operas Box Set | Blu Ray | (29/09/2014) from £29.86   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Puccini: Madama Butterfly -- Verona/Arena | DVD | (11/06/2001) from £3.49   |  Saving you £15.76 (706.73%)   |  RRP £17.99

  This traditional production of Puccini's enduringly popular opera Madama Butterfly should give much pleasure. It was recorded at the open-air theatre in Verona in 1983 with the local orchestra and chorus under the aptly named Maurizio Arena. The video direction is by an expert in the field, Brian Large, who brings home all the intimate moments of Puccini's drama from an open set that ascends and sprawls across rows of seating. His camera draws the viewer into scenes that the audience cannot witness at their distance--most movingly when Sharpless, the American consul in Nagasaki, gives up his attempt to read Pinkerton's letter to Butterfly saying he has no intention of seeing her again (set to that magical melody which will recur as the humming chorus). It's of little matter that there are no operatic stars in the cast for this ensemble consists of experienced singers who fill the night air with lungs to match Puccini's heaviest demands. The audience, many of them evidently on holiday, greet the show-stopping moments with waves of applause. Their enthusiasm may drown a few bars of orchestral continuity but the orchestra itself is always at the service of the singers on a soundtrack that captures the atmosphere of an open-air performance with astonishing verisimilitude. Butterfly, sung by the statuesque Raina Kabaivanska, may not see Cio-Cio San (to give "butterfly" her real name) 16 years again and some of her arm movements are overdone but her big number "Un bel di" and its reprise when she's holding her child by Pinkerton are touchingly conveyed. Neither does she overplay the final scene where she prepares to follow her father's example using the Mikado's dagger to commit suicide--a moment that sends a shiver down the spine in its economy. Nazzareno Antinori as her Pinkerton, with his matinée idol looks and resonant voice, complements her well; their singing of Puccini's spacious love duet at the close of Act One goes down a treat with the crowd. --Adrian Edwards

• R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier - Royal Opera House/Solti | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Strauss' dazzling opera Der Rosenkavalier set in 1740's Vienna combines farce romance and a world of weary acknowledgement of getting older. It features some of the most gorgeous music ever written for the female voice.

• Gounod-Romeo Et Juliette | DVD | (28/07/2008) from £17.49   |  Saving you £-2.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Charles-Francois Gounod's 'Romeo et Juliette', performed by the Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, and conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.

• Rodelinda - Glyndebourne Festival Opera | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £28.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Handel wrote his Italian opera Rodelinda at the height of his musical powers and it is considered to be one of his greatest with music of astonishing power and beauty. This highly praised production filmed in 1998 was the first ever staging of a Handel opera by the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Jean-Marie Villegier's stylish production sets Handel's tale of royal exile and fidelity in the silent movie era. Starring Anna Caterina Antonacci in a glamorous portrayal of Rodelinda an

• Verdi - La Traviata | Blu Ray | (01/04/2011) from £20.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Tchaikovsky: Classic Ballets | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £27.25   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Talbot: Wheeldon: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland | Blu Ray | (26/09/2011) from £31.12   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Wagner: Tristan und Isolde | DVD | (15/05/2000) from £26.75   |  Saving you £3.24 (12.11%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Waltraud Meier is the stuff of which great Isoldes are made--a passionate actress who sings her heart out at every point and yet somehow keeps something in reserve from the narration and curse of the first act for the love duet of the second and the "Liebestod" of the third. Her Tristan, Jon Fredric West, is more or less her equal--he is particularly impressive in the mad death agony of the third act; his Tristan is an ordinary hero who becomes something larger. Among the other principals, Kurt Moll's Mark stands out in its eloquent heart-break, not so much a cuckold as a man who wants everything to work out right; Weikl's Kurwenal and Lipovsek's Brangane are, credibly, ordinary people caught up in great tragedy. Mehta's account of the score is solid and professional--he gets nothing wrong and everything right in a performance which survives occasionally perversely innovative staging to touch greatness. On the DVD: The DVD includes subtitles in French, German, English and Dutch. --Roz Kaveney

• Mozart: Don Giovanni (Kate Royal, Gerald Finley, Luca Pisaroni, Anna Samuil , Vladimir Jurowski, Jonathan Kent, The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Glyndebourne Chorus) | DVD | (11/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Tracklist: Disc 1: 1. Don Giovanni - Overture 2. Don Giovanni - Act I No.1 Notte E Giorno Faticar 3. Don Giovanni - No.2 M Qual Mai S'offre - Fuggi Crudele Fuggi! 4. Don Giovanni - No.3 Ah! Chi Mi Dice Mai? 5. Don Giovanni - No.4 Madamina! Il Catalogo Questo 6. Don Giovanni - No.5 Giovinette Che Fate All'amore 7. Don Giovanni - No.6 Ho Capito 8. Don Giovanni - No.7 L Ci Darem La Mano 9. Don Giovanni - No.8 Ah Fuggi Il Traditor! 10. Don Giovanni - No.9 Non Ti Fidar O Misera 11. Don Giovanni - No.10 Don Ottavio Son Morta! 12. Don Giovanni - No.10b Dalla Sua Pace 13. Don Giovanni - No.11 Finch' Han Dal Vino 14. Don Giovanni - No.12 Batti Batti O Bel Masetto 15. Don Giovanni - No.13 Finale. Presto Presto! Pria Ch'ei Vengo! 16. Don Giovanni - S Svegliatevi 17. Don Giovanni - Bisogna Aver Coraggio 18. Don Giovanni - Signor Guardate Un Poco 19. Don Giovanni - Protegga Il Giusto Cielo 20. Don Giovanni - Riposate Vezzose Ragazze! 21. Don Giovanni - Venite Pur Avanti 22. Don Giovanni - L'iniquo Da Se Stesso 23. Don Giovanni - Ecco Il Birbo Disc 2: 1. Don Giovanni - Act II. No.1 Eh Via Buffone 2. Don Giovanni - No.2 Ah Taci Ingiusto Core! 3. Don Giovanni - No.3 Deh Vieni Alla Finestra! 4. Don Giovanni - No.4 Met Di Voi Qua Vadano 5. Don Giovanni - No.5 Vedrai Carino 6. Don Giovanni - No.6 Sola Sola In Bujo Loco 7. Don Giovanni - No.7 Ah Piet Signori Miei! 8. Don Giovanni - No.8 Il Mio Tesoro Intanto 9. Don Giovanni - No.8c In Quali Ecessi O Numi! - Mi Trad Quall' Alma Intrata 10. Don Giovanni - Rez. Ah Ah Ah! Non Mi Dir Bell' Idol Mio 11. Don Giovanni - No.9 O Statua Gentilissima 12. Don Giovanni - No.10 Crudele! Non Mi Dir Bell' Idol Mio 13. Don Giovanni - No.11 Finale Gi La Mensa Preparata 14. Don Giovanni - L'ultima Prova 15. Don Giovanni - Don Giovanni! 16. Don Giovanni - Scena Ultima. Ah Dov' Il Perfido 17. Don Giovanni - Curtain Calls

• Shostakovich Against Stalin - The War Symphonies | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Shostakovich - Against Stalin (Gergiev)

• Don Quixote: The Royal Ballet | Blu Ray | (30/03/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Richard Strauss: Salome (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 2008) | Blu Ray | (01/06/2010) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Britten: Death In Venice | Blu Ray | (02/03/2014) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Macbeth - Verdi | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £4.99   |  Saving you £25.00 (501.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Carlos Alvarez takes the title role in the first of Verdi's Shakespearean operas with Maria Guleghina as the manipulative wife whose desire to gain the Scottish throne drives her husband to murder and leaves both with blood on their hands. Bruno Campanella conducts the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the 2004 recording of Phyllida Lloyd's powerful production first staged at London's Royal Opera House.

• Minkus: La Bayadere | Blu Ray | (04/01/2011) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• George Frideric Handel - Acis and Galatea (The Royal Opera / The Royal Ballet, 2009) | Blu Ray | (01/03/2010) from £25.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bizet: Carmen in 3D | Blu Ray | (01/01/2010) from £26.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A