"Actor: Robert Gambill"

• Salome | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A performance of Strauss's biblical 'Salome' at the Royal Opera House.

• Strauss: Elektra Special Edition | Blu Ray | (19/05/2014) from £9.43   |  Saving you £-0.44 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  ARTH 108110; ARTHAUS MUSIK - Germania; Classica Lirica

• Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) | DVD | (04/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  L'Italiana in Algeri, Rossini's first real hit as a writer of comic opera, is one of those almost unsinkable works difficult to get entirely right. Michael Hampe's production for the 1987 Schwetzinger festival captures both its charm and its sense of menace--the court of the Bey is both a setting for farce and a place in which the Italian characters are at the mercy of a despot who will not necessarily find things funny. Gunther von Kannen's Mustafa is a convincing Bey of Algiers, with all the arrogance of power and the vulnerability to mockery that goes with it. His adversary, the tough witty proto-feminist Isabella, is given real presence in Doris Soffel's performance--it is entirely credible, listening to her throaty mezzo, that everyone else should be more-than-a-little in love with her. The slightly effete tenor of Robert Gambill as her lover Lindoro makes him a perfect partner in intrigue for her. Conducting Rossini is not just a matter of winding the crescendos up and letting them go; Ralf Weikert is particularly fine in the complicated finale of Act One with its imitations of bells and drums and its complicated vocal lines. The DVD comes with menu material in English, French, German and Spanish, and with English, French and German subtitles; the stereo sound is particularly crisp. --Roz Kaveney

• Wagner - Tristan Und Isolde | DVD | (18/01/2008) from £31.05   |  Saving you £3.94 (12.69%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Richard Wagner - Tristan Und Isolde.

• Wagner: Tannhauser (Live Recording From The Festspielhaus Baden-Baden 2008) | Blu Ray | (28/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Tannhauser

• L'Occasione Fa Il Ladro - Rossini | DVD | (28/04/2006) from £18.88   |  Saving you £6.11 (24.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  L'occasione fa il ladro is one of the five one-act operas - farsa giocosa - in which the teenage Rossini first demonstrated his operatic genius and in musical terms is by far the most riotous one This sparkling production continues the Rossini one-act opera series emerging from the Schwetzingen Festival.

• WAGNER: Die Walkure - Sir Simon Rattle / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Willard White / Eva-Maria Westbroek / Eva Johansson / Robert Gambill) | Blu Ray | (27/10/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £3.01 (10.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Die Walkure | DVD | (01/12/2003) from £25.00   |  Saving you £4.99 (19.96%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A performance of the Richard Wagner opera by the Stuttgart State Orchestra. Conducted by Lothar Zagrosek.