"Actor: Patrizia Ciofi"

• Donizetti - La Fille Du Regiment | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £20.00   |  Saving you £1.99 (9.95%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Donizetti: La Fille Du Regiment (Genoa Opera Florez)

• Meyerbeer - Il Crociato In Egitto | DVD | (31/12/2007) from £28.84   |  Saving you £-2.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Giacomo Meyerbeer - Il Crociato In EgittoMelodrama in two acts by Gaetano Rossi

• Donizetti: Lucie de Lammermoor - Lyon National Opera | DVD | (15/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Based on one of Walter Scott's most melodramatic novels, what is arguably Donizetti's best tragic opera is here presented in its French version, Lucie de Lammermoor. The hapless Lucia (Patrizia Ciofi) tries to refuse the marriage to a minister that will rescue her family's fortunes in favour of her beloved, the family's worst enemy Edgard (Roberto Alagna). Predictably this all ends in many deaths and the audience's tears. Evelina Pido and the Orchestre Nationale de Lyon tear through the fairly unsubtle score with considerable brio and they and the cast are admirable in the opera's quieter more thoughtful moments--the famous Act Two sextet and Lucia's mad scene, in which Ciofi is solidly excellent rather than deeply memorable. Alagna turns in his usual high-gloss performance as Edgard and manages to make his final aria more moving than the quality of the piece deserves. This is an idiomatic and effective performance in a solid made-for-TV production, albeit one that never comes across as notably original. On the DVD: Lucie de Lammermoor is presented on disc in 16:9 ration with Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS or LPCM stereo sound options. It has subtitles in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian. --Roz Kaveney

• Meyerbeer: Robert Le Diable | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £25.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (16.92%)   |  RRP £29.99

  OA 7121; OPUS ARTE - BBC - Inghilterra; Classica Lirica

• Donizetti - Pia De' Tolomei (Arrivabeni, Ciofi, Schmunck) | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £25.79   |  Saving you £-0.80 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Donizetti - Pia De' Tolomei (Arrivabeni Ciofi Schmunck)

• Massenet - Cherubin (Villaume, Breedt, Ciofi) | DVD | (27/11/2006) from £16.85   |  Saving you £3.14 (15.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cherubin.Jules Massenet (Montaud, St. Etienne, 1842 - Paris, 1912).

• Mozart: Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (Abduction from the Seraglio) -- Mehta | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The story of an escape from a Turkish harem in Mozart's comic opera. Recorded at the Teatro Della Pergola in Florence.

• TDK DVD Opera Sampler 2006 | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A compilation of opera excerpts from the 2006 TDK catalogue.

• La Traviata - Verdi | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Recorded live at the Teatro La Fenice Venice 18 November 2004.When the legendary Venetian Teatro La Fenice which had been completely destroyed by fire in 1996 rose like a phoenix from the ashes again its rebirth was celebrated with Verdi's La Traviata an opera that had seen its premiere more than 150 years earlier in the same theatre. Led by star conductor Lorin Maazel a cast of brilliant singer-actors brought an exact replica of the March 1853 version to the stage giving audiences the opportunity to experience the opera as the world first heard at its premier in Venice. The original score had been found in the archives of La Fenice so that La Traviata could relive its premiere without any revisions. The great Violetta-Germont duet the second act finale and the opera's last two numbers resounded through the theatre in just the way that Verdi initially intended.With Italian soprano Patrizia Ciofi in the title role German-Italian tenor Roberto Sacca as her lover and Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky as his father the live recording features highly eminent singers of the Italian repertoire and stars who are at home in opera houses throughout the world.

• Le Nozze Di Figaro - Mozart | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-10.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Zubin Mehta conducts a performance of Mozart's 'Le Nozze Di Figaro' recorded at the Teatro Comunale in Florence.

• Re-Opening Gala From Teatro La Fenice - Muti | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £15.49   |  Saving you £4.50 (22.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Recorded on December 14th 2003....