Opera

• Wagner: Das Rheingold | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £3.54   |  Saving you £22.71 (996.05%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Ivan The Terrible - Prokofiev And Grigorovich | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Recorded at the end of 2003 this production features in the title role of the amazing star of the Paris Ballet Nicolas Le Riche one of the foremost dancers of today. Famous all over the world of his elegant strength the beauty of his expression and the musicality of his movements he has created leading roles for choreographers such as Rudolf Nureyev Mats Ek and John Neumeier. As the Czar Ivan he dances opposite Elonora Abbagnato his fellow dancer at the Paris Opera Ballet whose highly refined dancing in the role of his wife Anastasia gives rise to great hopes for her future.

• Andrea Chenier - La Scala Milan | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Set in Paris at the time of the French Revolution Andrea Chenier is an opera of great passion and real drama and is Umberto Giordano's most popular work. This 1985 production from La Scala Milan conducted by Riccardo Chailly was a great success and features Jose Carreras as the poet Andrea Chenier. His sensitive passionate performance his elegant artistry together with his good looks make him ideal for this part and demonstrate why this became one of his signature roles. There

• Mozart: Die Enftuhrung Aus Dem Serail (Abduction from the Seraglio) -- Bavarian Opera/Bohm | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Il Ritorno D'Ulisse In Patria - Monteverdi | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £26.89   |  Saving you £3.10 (11.53%)   |  RRP £29.99

  In his penultimate opera based on text adapted from Homer's Odyssey Monteverdi ventures further than ever before into the depths of human emotion. In this 'dramma in musica' human frailty falls victim to time fortune and love. Gods and humans comic and intensely serious characters and spectacular scenic effects are brought together in a wonderfully rich and effective texture. Pierre Audi's highly stylised and timeless production is captured here in a live recording from Het Muziektheater Amsterdam in 1998.

• Rameau - Platée / Marc Minkowski, Laurent Pelly, Opéra de Paris | DVD | (19/03/2004) from £27.55   |  Saving you £2.44 (8.86%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Platee - Rameau

• Verdi - La Traviata (Domingo) | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Giuseppe Verdi - La TraviataRecorded at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Busseto, February 2002.

• Homage A Sevilla - Placido Domingo | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Placido DomingoHommage A SevillaWith scenes from Don Giovanni, Carmen, Fidelio, Il Barbiere Di Siviglia, La Forza Del Destino, El Gato Montes.

• Madama Butterfly - Puccini | DVD | (27/02/2006) from £22.41   |  Saving you £2.58 (10.30%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The production stars Fiorenza Cedolins in the lead role and renowned tenor Marcello Giordani as her Pinkerton. The performance was conducted by Daniel Oren who has worked with the opera festival for more than two decades.Recorded live at the Arena di Verona 10 July 2004.

• Lucia Di Lammermoor | DVD | (24/05/2002) from £20.95   |  Saving you £4.04 (19.28%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Donizetti - Lucia Di Lammermoor (Cillario RAI Chorus)

• Don Carlo | DVD | (09/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Opera in four Acts.

• Hercules - Handel | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £19.32   |  Saving you £13.66 (83.65%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Musical drama in three acts.

• L'Incoronazione Di Poppea - Monteverdi | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £16.10   |  Saving you £13.89 (86.27%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Almost four decades before creating his Poppea Monteverdi wrote in the preface to his fifth book of madrigals The modern composer must create his works solely on the basis of the truth - a credo to which the music of his final opera is utterly faithful.Poppea is a potent work from opera's first true creator and pioneering genius. The fact that at the close of this highly charged 'dramma in musica' he allows evil to triumph over good (albeit temporarily) has frequently led to his being decried as amoral.Monteverdi's timeless masterpiece which creates a deep involvement in performers and audiences alike is brilliantly captured in this High Definition live recording of Pierre Audi's moving and beautifully style production from Het Muziektheater Amsterdam in 1994.

• Moise Et Pharaon - Rossini | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-10.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Rossini opera performed at the La Scala in Milan which tells the story of Moses and Egypt. Riccardi Muti conducts.

• Canterbury Tales - the Man of Law's Tale | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Constance (Nikki Amuka-Bird) is a Nigerian refugee found on a small boat in the Chatham docks by a couple Mark and Nicky who take her in. A devout Christian Constance cannot remember what has happened to her. At church a young man Terry falls for her but the feelings are no mutual as Constance is falling in love with Marks Boss Alan (Andrew Lincoln). When Constance rejects Terry's physical advances his violent revenge has tragic consequences for all involved

• Der Fliegende Hollaender | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Ilkka Backman's acclaimed production takes place outdoors in the huge courtyard of Finland's 500 year old Olavinlinna Castle - a majestic and impressive setting which gives the production an atmosphere and realism almost impossible to create in a conventional theatre.

• Sette Scialli Di Seta Gialla (AKA Crimes of the Black Cat) | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £27.59   |  Saving you £-21.60 (-360.60%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sette Scialli Di Seta Gialla (Aka Crimes Of The Black Cat)

• Peter Grimes - Benjamin Britten (Wide Screen) | DVD | (17/10/2006) from £22.97   |  Saving you £2.02 (8.79%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From The English National Opera At The London Coliseum.Benjamin Britten.Peter Grimes.Words by Montagu Slater after the poem by George Crabble.

• Madama Butterfly - Puccini | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £25.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (16.92%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Robert Wilson's pure and highly stylized 2003 production enhances the timeless beauty of Puccini's moving Japanese tragedy. Cheryl Barker and Martin Thompson lead an inspired cast in a highly charged recording from the Amsterdam Muziektheater with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by a masterful and passionate Edo de Waart.

• Verdi: La Traviata -- Sills | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £27.29   |  Saving you £-2.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Before live opera telecasts became regular television events The Grater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association ( WETA ) embarked on an ambitious project. In the summer of 1974 WETA began videotaping live operatic and concert performances at the Filene Center Auditorium in Wolf Trap Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna Virginia for broadcast in a series entitled In Performance at Wolf Trap. The overwhelming success of the series proved to public television stations throughout the country that audiences were eager for this kind of programming.In 1976 In Performance at Wolf Trap presented Beverly Sills in one of her most celebrated portrayals that of Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata. Just months earlier Sills had performed the role at the Metropolitan Opera to great acclaim.