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• Verdi - Simon Boccanegra | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Sir Georg Solti - Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

• New Year's Concert 2004 | DVD | (24/11/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Recorded Live at the Teatro La Fenice Venezia 1 January 2004Mascagni - Intermezzo sinfonico from Cavalleria rusticanaPonchielli - Dance of the Hours from La GiocondaRossini - Overtures from La gazza ladra & Il barbiere di SivigliaVerdi - Excerpts from Otello La Traviata Aida & Nabucco

• Berlin Philharmonic - New Year's Gala 1997 - A Tribute To Carmen | DVD | (15/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Not to be confused with the more famous Vienna New Year's Day concerts, this is a recording of the Berlin Philharmonic's New Year's Gala from 31st December 1997. The concert was billed as "Dances of Life, Love and Death", a homage to Carmen. Beginning with six of the most famous selections from Bizet's opera, the all-star cast features mezzo-soprano Anne Sophie Von Otter, baritone Bryn Terfel and tenor Robert Alagna. Other than being passionately romantic there is no direct link between Carmen and Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini, but a warm-hearted performance by pianist Mikhail Pletnev requires no excuse. Delivered with fiery virtuosity by violinist Gil Shaham, Pablo de Sarasate's Carmen Fantasy then transforms Bizet's melodies into a concentrated instrumental extravaganza. The mood continues with Ravel's Rhapsodie Espagnole and De Falla's Ritual Fire Dance, with the closing Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Brahms maintaining the theme by gypsy association. This is a wonderfully sultry concert for a cold winter's day, conductor Claudio Abbado delivering pure romance, winning uplifting performances from his fabulous gallery of musicians and stellar soloists. On the DVD: The packaging mistakenly states a picture format of 4:3. The DVD is actually presented at 16:9, anamorphically enhanced for widescreen TVs. There is no option for standard 4:3 viewing. When viewed on a "standard" television the programme is squeezed and distorted, making everyone too tall and thin. On a widescreen TV the picture, while vastly superior to VHS, shows grain and is not always well focused. The sound, in both PCM and Dolby Digital stereo, is excellent. Unless one counts the well-appointed booklet there are no bonus features. However, the disc is Region 0, and should work in any DVD player. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Valery Gergiev - New Year's Eve in St. Petersburg - The Mariinsky Ballet | DVD | (26/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

• The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In a small town in the north of England an experimental pest-control device is being used with horrific consequences. Edna (Cristina Galbo) and George (Ray Lovelock) are unlikey travelling companions - they met en-route when she backed her car into his motorbike and subsequently offered him a lift to his destination. Stopping over near Manchester Galbo is attacked by a man that the locals say has been dead for days. Edna's sister Katie (Jeannine Mestre) is a prostitute addicted to heroin and when her husband is brutally murdered Katie is the chief suspect according to bitter local inspector (Arthur Kennedy). But Edna and George soon realise that inhabitants are being murdered as meals for the re-animated corpses of the morgue: the new pesticides used in the area are bringing the dead back to life and for sustenance they need human flesh. The Living Dead is widely recognised by horror fans as one of the best zombie movies ever made and the unlikely setting of pretty English countryside makes the flesh-tearing bone crunching zombies all the more shocking.

• Johnny Stecchino | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-9.29 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Marx Brothers meet The Godfather when the bumbling Dante (Roberto Benigni) discovers that there's nothing organized about organized crime in this hilarious tale of mistaken identity. Dante finally meets the woman of his dreams; unfortunately she only wants him for his body his dead body. Dante doesn't realize he looks just like mobster Johnny Stecchino and that femme fatale Maria is setting him up to be the victim of a hit so that she and husband Johnny can escape their life of crime. Starring Italy's most popular film comedian as Dante and Johnny the Toothpick.

• The Last Victory | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The tradition and emotion politics and intrigue hopes and fears failure and fortune of a nation all contained within one breathless 90 second rush of excitement and adrenaline. This is the breathtaking story of 'Il Palio' the historic annual bare-back horse race that both unites and divides the passionate communities of Sienna in the picturesque heartland of Italy. Over the course of one year acclaimed documentary director John Appel (Senegal Surplace) follows the dreams of the

• Cimarosa - Il Matrimonio Segreto (Travis, Fissore, Baiano) | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £4.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (202.83%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Partly based on the 1766 English comedy 'The Clandestine Marriage' by David Garrick and George Colman, Domenico Cimarosa's Il Matrimono Segreto was a widely popular example of opera buffa in its day. This sparkling comedy tells the story of Geronimo, a wealthy citizen of Bologna, who is trying to arrange aristocratic marriages for his two daughters, Carolina and Elisetta. However his plans seem destined to fail as his daughter Carolina is already secretly married to Paolino, his young secretary. Through a series of humorous situations the young couple confess their marriage and all ends well.

• Il Barbiere Di Siviglia - Rossini | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Gioacchino Rossini - Il barbiere di SivigliaA stage performance by the Opera National de Paris

• Alagna-Live in Paris | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Roberto Alagna and the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux recorded live in Paris at the Salle Gaveau on the 8th and 11th of January 2001. Track Listing: Bizet: 1.Carmen: Overture 2.Carmen: ""La fleur que tu m'avais jete"" (Don Jos) Buzzi-Peccia: 3.""Lolita"" Arrangements: David and Frdrico Alagna Curtis E: 4.""Senza nisciuno"" Arrangements: David and Frdrico Alagna 5.""Tu ca nun chiagne"" Arrangements: David and Frdrico Alagna Donizetti:

• Kiltro | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A fast-paced martial arts movie from South America 'Kiltro' is a real action epic starring legendary stuntman Marko Zaror as Zamir a two-fisted street fighter who is in love with the beautiful Kim (Caterina Jadresic) whom he once saved from a brutal assault. When Kim's father who runs a local Tae Kwon Do school is confronted by a villain from his past Zamir vows to protect his beloved and her father - but first he must travel to a remote desert for spiritual and physical training by an aged fight master a violent gangster out to avenge the killing of his mother.

• Michael Franti/Spearhead - Live in Sydney | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Michael Franti/Spearhead - Live In Sydney

• Tchaikovsky Gala (Swan Lake/Sleeping Beauty/The Nutcracker) Roberto Bolle / La Scala | Blu Ray | (24/11/2008) from £19.66   |  Saving you £10.33 (34.40%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Keillers Park | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Peter seems to have a very promising future - he is to take over the family business from his father and is in the process of starting his own family with his equally successful and attractive girlfriend. Peter believes he has all one could wish for. But one day his eyes are met by another's - eyes that reach all the way into his heart eyes that he will never forget - Nassim's eyes. It is a love which cannot be dismissed; they soon develop a relationship which makes unsympathetic friends and members of his family very indignant. There is soon a huge chasm between the old Peter and the new one who has broken out - or who tries to break out. Nassim is the one who wants to be open and declare their love for all to hear; Peter has to struggle for his freedom against his conservative background. The relationship is brought to an abrupt end; the police storm into Peter's flat and arrest him - he is suspected of a brutal murder the murder of Nassim.

• Guiseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £7.77   |  Saving you £12.22 (157.27%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece Rigoletto is brilliantly brought to life in this unique production of the beloved opera performed under the stars of Siena Italy by Roberto Servile Inva Mula (The Fifth Element) Marcelo Alvarez and the Toscanini Foundation Orchestra conducted by Keri Lynn Wilson and costumes by Vivienne Westwood. In the 1550s Mantua the Duke (Alvarez) a celebrated ladies man seduces Gilda (Mula) the beautiful daughter of his sharp-tongued jester Rigoletto (Serv

• Verdi: Aida | Blu Ray | (06/10/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Giuseppe Verdi's Aida, various performers conducted by Riccardo Chailly.

• The Passion Of Michelangelo | DVD | (10/03/2014) from £7.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Acclaimed Chilean director Esteban Larrain turns his attention to the true story of a street child who becomes a popular prophet, and of a people ready to give in, without questioning, to the luminous promise of a miracle. Chile, 1983. As the first street protests begin to pose a challenge for the Pinochet regime, 14-year-old orphan Miguel Angel, who claims to see and talk to the Virgin Mary, is anointed as a prophet. His tormented face is endlessly reproduced in the media; within weeks, th...

• Trinity Goes East | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Respected 'Gweilo' veteran Steve Tartalia stars as Trinity a loner obsessed with safely transporting his beloved piglet who constantly finds all his Kung Fu skills called upon...

• 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.

• The Way We Laughed | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set in Turin Northern italy Cosi Ridevano spans from 1958 to 1964. It tells the moving story of brothers Giovanni and Pietro who emigrate from Southern Italy to escape poverty and find riches. It is a psychological insight into the passionate but conflicted bond between brothers. When a murder takes place the power of filial love is tested to its limits. Winner of the Golden Ostella/Golden Lion at the 1998 Venice Film Festival.