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Vivere Live in Tuscany [DVD/CD]
: :CAPTURING BOCELLI S FIRST EVER CONCERT PERFORMANCE OF HIS MOST POPULAR SONGS FEATURING GUESTS CHRIS BOTTI KENNY G. LANG LANG SARAH BRIGHTMAN HEATHER HEADLEY and more.Last July on the slopes of Andrea Boceli s home town Lajatico a rural village in Tuscany a special theater was constructed for a one-night-only concert of his greatest popular hits along with new songs performed to honor the occasion. Some famous musical friends dropped by and the magical result is Andrea Bocelli ...
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Gaetano Donizetti - La Fille du regiment / Dessay, Florez, Palmer, Corbelli, French, Campanella, Pelly (Royal Opera House 2007)
:Description:In January 2007, superstar soprano Natalie Dessay, joined on stage by acclaimed tenor Juan Diego Florez dazzled British audiences in Laurent Pelly's new production of Donizetti's 'LA FILLE DU REGIMENT'. The perfectly staged & cast production became the operatic event of the year, receiving rave press reviews & rapturous audience ovations. :This DVD version of Donizetti’s comic opera zooms right to the top of any list of essential videos for opera fans. It may not be the composer’s best ...
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Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin / Fleming, Vargas, Hvorostovsky, Gergiev, Carsen [Metropolitan Opera 2007]
:Description:Renée Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky triumph in Tchaikovsky's operatic masterpiece Eugene Onegin, filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera. Their onstage chemistry, emotional singing and outstanding acting make this a very special production. Valery Gergiev, Russia's greatest living conductor, leads Russia's classic opera, with a thrilling account of Tchaikovsky's most intense and passionate score. Robert Carsen's evocative staging is striking and beautiful and highlights the personal drama at the heart of Pushkin's tragic tale of young love unrequited. The opera ...
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Tommy
: :If you've ever wanted to hear Jack Nicholson sing (or try to) or marvel at the sight of Ann-Margret drunkenly cavorting in a cascade of baked beans, Tommy is the movie you've been waiting for. As it turns out, the Who's brilliant rock opera is sublimely matched to director Ken Russell's penchant for cinematic excess, and this 1975 production finds Russell at the peak of his filmmaking audacity. It's a fever-dream of musical bombast, custom-fit to the thematic ambition ...
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Puccini - La Boheme (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.Puccini's immortal classic of love and loss, with Franco Zeffirelli's sumptuous, iconic production and Nicola Luisotti's expressive conducting. Angela Gheorghiu, the leading ...
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Gilbert & Sullivan - The Pirates of Penzance / Kline, Ronstadt, Smith, Routledge, Delacorte Theater (Broadway Theatre Archive)
:Description:Gilbert and Sullivan's raucous operatic tale is captured in all its fun and glory in this production, recorded live at Central Park's Delacorte Theater. Kevin Kline sparkles as the swashbuckling and libidinous Pirate King while Linda Ronstadt makes her theatrical debut as the lovely and virginal Mabel. When Mabel and Frederic, a young pirate bound to serve the Pirate King, fall in love, complications arise and high spirited antics ensue. The incomparable cast offers the best in this boisterous ...
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Andrew Lloyd Webber - The Royal Albert Hall Celebration
: essential video:In 1998 a concert at the Royal Albert Hall celebrated Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber's 50th birthday and featured more than two hours of hits from a body of work spanning almost three decades. In this keepsake of a memorable night, star after star steps on to a massive, Eurovision-style set to revisit golden moments in their long association with Britain's most successful composer of musicals. Elaine Paige in big frocks and an even bigger voice delivers 'Don't ...
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Sarah Brightman - Live from Las Vegas
:Description:Recorded in March 2004 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas during Sarah Brightman’s Harem World Tour, this new live CD and DVD (sold separately) demonstrates the musical seductress’s penchant for fusing musical genres- musical theater, classical, rock and world music- and plays like a collection of greatest hits performed live. The DVD will be a double-disc containing the entire Las Vegas show on Disc 1 (approx. run time of 110 minutes). The show was filmed with 18 cameras ...
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On the Town
: :On the Town New York New York it's a wonderful town - especially when sailors Gene Kelly Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin have a 24-hour shore leave to see the sights - and when those sights include Ann Miller Betty Garrett and Vera-Ellen. Co-Directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen based on the Broadway hit and set to an Academy Award winning adaptation score On the Town changed the landscape of movie musicals opening filmmakers' eyes to what could ...
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Britten: Billy Budd
:Description:The first film of any Britten opera. The only version to star Peter Pears, who originated the role of Captain Vere. A cast of distinguished British singers, under the baton of a young Charles Mackerras.
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