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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro [Blu-ray]
:Description:With an image up to six times sharper than conventional DVD and superior high-definition sound, Blu-Ray lets you watch opera and ballet performances from the front row of the theater. Experience every detail, no matter how small, in the highest quality possible. With five times the memory of standard DVDs, Blu-Ray is a completely new way to experience the theater at home.
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Don Quixote / Baryshnikov, Harvey, American Ballet Theatre
:Description:Mikhail Baryshnikov’s sparkling full-length production of Don Quixote captures all the excitement, Spanish color, and humor of Cervantes’ original masterpiece. It is one of the most popular and joyful ballets surviving from the imperial Russian ballet’s repertory. The famous virtuosic pas de deux is danced in this performance by Baryshnikov 'like a dream,' according to the New York Post, 'a madcap bravado which combined with his pure classicism gives his dancing an edge of genius.' His partner, Cynthia Harvey, who takes the part of Kitri, was reviewed in the New York ...
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Humperdinck - Hansel and Gretel (The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Series)
: :The Metropolitan Opera's acclaimed Live in High-Definition series, which projects live performances into theaters across the globe, has met with unprecedented critical and commercial success and has made opera convenient and affordable to millions of viewers worldwide. Now, EMI Classics is proud to collaborate with The Met to release 6 new DVDs made from these broadcast performances.A striking new English-language production of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, starring Alice Coote and Christine Schäfer, with tenor Philip Langridge in the role of the Witch. Vladimir Jurowski, one of the world's most sought-after ...
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Berg - Lulu / Davis, Schafer, Bailey, Kuebler, Harries, Schone, Bardon, Glyndebourne
:Description:Winner of the 1997 Gramaphone Award for Best Video! This production by the Glyndebourne Festival Opera stars Christine Schafer, Kathryn Harries, and Wolfgang Schone. With its intensely beautiful score, this is one of the greatest operatic masterpieces of the 20th century. Andrew Davis conducts the London Philharmonic. Subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese. Color, 183 minutes. :Alban Berg's second and last opera Lulu is one of the monuments of modernism, constructed around serial technique and containing scenes conceived of as Sonata-form, Suite, and so on. The bliss of Andrew Davis's ...
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Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro
:Description:Winner of the 1997 Gramaphone Award for Best Video! This production by the Glyndebourne Festival Opera stars Christine Schafer, Kathryn Harries, and Wolfgang Schone. With its intensely beautiful score, this is one of the greatest operatic masterpieces of the 20th century. Andrew Davis conducts the London Philharmonic. Subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese. Color, 183 minutes. :Alban Berg's second and last opera Lulu is one of the monuments of modernism, constructed around serial technique and containing scenes conceived of as Sonata-form, Suite, and so on. The bliss of Andrew Davis's ...
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Nikolaus Harnoncourt: An Advent Concert of Music by Bach
:Description:Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Concentus Musicus of Vienna, along with the Arnold Schoenberg in this celebration of the coming of Christmas, through the extraordinary music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Mozart - Don Giovanni
:Description:Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Concentus Musicus of Vienna, along with the Arnold Schoenberg in this celebration of the coming of Christmas, through the extraordinary music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Christine Schäfer/Pierre Boulez (Schumann - Dichterliebe / Schönberg - Pierrot lunaire)
:Description:Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Concentus Musicus of Vienna, along with the Arnold Schoenberg in this celebration of the coming of Christmas, through the extraordinary music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Verdi Box Set: Falstaff, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore
:Description:Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Concentus Musicus of Vienna, along with the Arnold Schoenberg in this celebration of the coming of Christmas, through the extraordinary music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Mozart - Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) / Minkowski, Schafer, Groves, Tillawi, Salzburg Festival
:Description:The celebrated three-act opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart comes to life in this dynamic performance at the world-famous Salzburg Festival. Director Francois Abou Salem brings a modern Middle Eastern sensibility to this journey into Arabian and Muslim culture, filtering the comic tale of abduction for today's audiences. Soprano Christine Schafer portrays Constanze, a woman whose heart is torn between her fiance, Belmonte (Paul Groves), and her new master, Pasha Selim (Akram Tillawi). A sensual and resoundingly modern experience, this new interpretation casts new light on a classic musical work and infuses ...
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