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• Cavalleria Rusticana - Mascagni / Pagliacci - Leoncavallo | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £9.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (40.04%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The great Italian stage and screen director Franco Zeffirelli made these widely acclaimed films both starring Placido Domingo with Georges Pretre conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala. Pagliacci which co-stars the great singing actress Teresa Stratas brought Zeffirelli the coveted Emmy as Best Director in the category of Classical Music Programming. Cavalleria was filmed on location in Sicily which adds immeasurably to the power and atmosphere of this timeless story of love honour justice and violence.

• Carmen - Bizet | DVD | (29/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Bizet: Carmen (Zeffirelli)

• Prokofiev: War and Peace (La guerre et la paix) -- Paris Opera/Bertini | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £9.62   |  Saving you £21.63 (258.73%)   |  RRP £29.99

  From the opera National de Paris TDK presents Prokofiev's monumental opera War and Peace in a tremendous production directed by Francesca Zambello.Based on Tolstoy's famous novel War and Peace is an opus of exceptional scale. Over 70 figures make up the enormous lyrical formation. The story tells of the fate of a Russian aristocrat who is overcome with shock at Napoleon's invasion. The core of the drama set against the backdrop of the war is the passionate love between the young Natacha Rostov to the Prince Andrei Bolkonski.

• Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana / Leoncavallo: Pagliacci | DVD | (14/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• The Great Singers of Russia - Vol 2 | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £9.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (150.15%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A video series of epic proportions documenting Russia's illustrious vocal tradition over the course of the 20th century. Hosted by soprano Ljuba Kazarnovskaya the videos feature interviews with Ivan Petrov Irina Arkhipova and Joan Dornemann and extensive performance segments includingIvan petrov - FaustZurab Andzhaparidze - RigolettoIrina Arkhipova - Carmen (with Mario del Monaco)Galina Vishnevskaya - AidaYuri Mazurok - Un Ballo in MascheraBella Rudenko - LakmeEvgeni Nesterenko - Prince IgorElena Obrazrsovas - Carmen; Don CarloVladimir Atlantov - Pagliacci; ToscaMakvala Kasrashvili - Un Ballo in MascheraOlga Borodina - Il Barbiere di SivigliaDmitri Hvorostovsky - Il Barbiere di SivigliaLjuba Kazarnovskaya - Song of Zemphira La Traviata; Salome

• Cotrubas/Obraztsova/Scotto - the Three Sopranos | DVD | (29/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tracklisting: 1. Qual flamma aveva nel cuardo (Pagliacci/Ruggero Leoncavallo)2. Se io lo sapessi (Le Ville/Giacomo Puccini)3. Mon cour s'ouvre a ta voix (Samson et Dalila/Camille Saint-Saens)4. Si mi chiamo Mimi (La Boheme/Giacomo Puccini)5. Morro ma prima in grazia (Ballo in maschera/Giuseppe Verdi)6. Oh belle nuit (Hoffmann's Erzahlungen/Jacques Offenbach)7. Oh mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicci/Giacomo Puccini)8. Musica Proibita (Stanislao Gastaldon)9. A Vucchella (Paolo Tosti)10. Habanera (Carmen/Georges Bizet)11. Czardas (il Pipistrello/Johann Strauss)12. Fu la sorte dell armi ... (Aida/Giuseppe Verdi)