"Actor: Doris Soffel"

• Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) | DVD | (04/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  L'Italiana in Algeri, Rossini's first real hit as a writer of comic opera, is one of those almost unsinkable works difficult to get entirely right. Michael Hampe's production for the 1987 Schwetzinger festival captures both its charm and its sense of menace--the court of the Bey is both a setting for farce and a place in which the Italian characters are at the mercy of a despot who will not necessarily find things funny. Gunther von Kannen's Mustafa is a convincing Bey of Algiers, with all the arrogance of power and the vulnerability to mockery that goes with it. His adversary, the tough witty proto-feminist Isabella, is given real presence in Doris Soffel's performance--it is entirely credible, listening to her throaty mezzo, that everyone else should be more-than-a-little in love with her. The slightly effete tenor of Robert Gambill as her lover Lindoro makes him a perfect partner in intrigue for her. Conducting Rossini is not just a matter of winding the crescendos up and letting them go; Ralf Weikert is particularly fine in the complicated finale of Act One with its imitations of bells and drums and its complicated vocal lines. The DVD comes with menu material in English, French, German and Spanish, and with English, French and German subtitles; the stereo sound is particularly crisp. --Roz Kaveney

• Silent Night, Holy Night | DVD | (22/10/2004) from £1.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (86.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Silent Night Holy Night From the Schauspielhaus Berlin1. Macht Hoch die Tur2. Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen3. Ave Maria4. Jubilate Domino5. Cantique de Noel6. In dulci jubilo7. Herrscher des Himmels (choir from the Christmas Oratorio)8. Russian Orthodox Hymns and Prayers9. Air (from the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major)10. Bereite dich Zion (Aria from the Christmas Oratorio)11. Concerto in B flat Minor for Harp and Orchestra12. Ombra mai fu (Aria from Xerxes)13. O Jesulein sub14. Joseph Iieber Joseph mein15. Tochter Zion Freue dich16. Stille Nacht heilige Nacht

• Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Choral | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A performance of Beethoven's renowned symphony under the baton of Kurt Masur.

• Wagner: Das Rheingold | Blu Ray | (02/09/2013) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-2.39 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The La Scala Rheingold in May 2010 inaugurated Guy Cassiers Ring- Cycle and introduces a completely new paradigm to this work. While before him Patrice Ch�reau had laid his focus on a historical analysis from 1870 to 1930 Germany, Guy Cassiers' Ring unfolds 'from our own present-day moment; it [takes] place in the now', the Jetztzeit (Walter Benjamin), placing our present and our future into the context of the promises and curses that we have inherited from history The Cassiers Ring shows how...

• Richard Strauss: Salome (Arthaus: 108037) | Blu Ray | (31/01/2012) from £30.05   |  Saving you £-0.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Live aus dem Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

• Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina (Munich 2007) (Paata Burchuladze/ Anatoly Kotscherga/ Camilla Nylund/ Bayerisches Staatsorchester/ Dmitri Tcherniakov/ Kent Nagano) (Euroarts: 2072424) | Blu Ray | (17/09/2012) from £12.19   |  Saving you £17.80 (146.02%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Khovanshchina

• Rossini - Le Barbier De Seville, L'italienne a Alger | DVD | (22/11/2002) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-2.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Rossini's 'Barber Of Seville' performed at the Schwetzinger Festpiele in 1988 under the musical direction of Gabrielle Ferro. Rossini's 'The Italian In Algiers' which was premiered when he was just 21 in 1813 is performed here at the Zurich Opera House.

• Celibidache And Bruckner's Mass In F Minor | DVD | (10/12/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A fascinating film by Jan Schmidt-Garre documenting the legendary Celibidache's rehearsal and performance of Bruckner's mighty Mass in F minor. This sixty-minute film records the process of preparing this magnificent work and includes rare footage of Celibidache discussing his special relationship to Bruckner and his F minor Mass.

• Haydn: Missa Sanctae Caeciliae | DVD | (15/11/2010) from £13.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (44.96%)   |  RRP £19.99

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