"Actor: Adrianne Pieczonka"

• Strauss: Elektra (Aix en Provence/Patrice Chereau) | DVD | (26/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Strauss: Elektra (Aix en Provence/Patrice Chereau) | Blu Ray | (26/05/2014) from £31.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Mozart: Don Giovanni -- Glyndebourne | DVD | (21/08/2000) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Deborah Warner's 1995 production of Don Giovanni for Glyndebourne is characterised by a central portrayal of the Don as at once evil and sexually magnetic. Gilles Cachemille has at one at the same time a raffish charm and a deep mean-spiritedness--many Don Giovannis don't bully his servant nearly as much as this one, and Warner pushes his sinfulness all the way into sacrilege--apart from mocking the Commendatore's grave effigy, this Giovanni also has his way with a statue of the Madonna. Pieczonka's Elvira is at once stately and sensual--there is no sense of hysteria here, rather more of a deep sadness and sense of a ruined life. Page's Leporello is a wonderful long-faced clown; his catalogue aria is at once genuinely funny and a rather sadistic tease of Elvira. Though Kreizberg is working with authentic forces, the feel of his performance has a passionate gloominess that teeters on the brink of Romanticism without ever exceeding the work's adventurousness. The DVD comes with subtitles in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish, as well as a full printable text of the libretto. --Roz Kaveney

• Don Giovanni - Mozart | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Riccardo Muti and an outstanding cast of singers were joined by the Vienna State Opera ensemble in a spirited and time-travelling interpretation of the eternal myth of Don Giovanni.

• Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Bychkov)