"Actor: Grace Bumbry"

• Verdi-Don Carlo | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £19.29   |  Saving you £5.69 (34.91%)   |  RRP £21.99

• Carmen - Bizet | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This famous film of the world's best loved opera, directed by Herbert von Karajan, features the three greatest exponents of their respective roles at the time: Grace Bumbry's magnificently seductive-toned Carmen, Mirella Freni's ineffably lovely, touching Micaela, and Jon Vickers's thrillingly manic-depressive Don Jose.

• Voices Of Our Time - Grace Bumbry | DVD | (23/07/2004) from £19.97   |  Saving you £0.02 (0.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the Theatre Musical de Paris - Chatelet.Grace Bumbry was born i St. Louis Missouri in 1937. At the age of eleven she joined the Union Memorial Methodist Church's Choir. She studied singing at colleges in Boston and Evanston and became one of Lotte Lehmann's students at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara California in 1955. She still pursues her concert career and is also active in the international civil rights movement and charity organisations having been appointed as UNESCO's Goodwill Ambassador in 1991.Meeting Lotte Lehmann (1888 - 1976) changed Grace Bumbry's life. In 1955 the 18-year-old Bumbry came to learn from the exceptional Strauss interpreter and passionate singer at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. Lehmann respectfully addressed by her students as 'Madame Lehmann' took the young mezzo-soprano under her wings for three years and was very active in promoting Bumbry's career. Bumbry arranged her Paris recital in memory of her teacher. It included songs which she had studied with Lotte Lehmann and songs that Lehmann enjoyed hearing her sing.

• Various Composers - the Art of Grace Bumbry | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £12.98   |  Saving you £4.01 (23.60%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Various Composers: The Art Of Grace Bumbry

• Berlin Opera Night | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Kent Nagano conducts some of opera's greatest names in performances of Handels's music for the royal fireworks the Finale to Die Fledermaus.

• Music to Watch - the Classics Sampler | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £3.33   |  Saving you £3.92 (189.37%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Includes excerpts from:Bizet - CarmenLeoncavallo - PagliacciMozart - Le Nozze Di FigaroPuccini - Madama Butterfly - ToscaVerdi - OtelloRossini - Il Barbiere Di SivigliaWagner - Der Fliegende HollanderTchaikovsky - Swan LakeIvo Pogorelich - Recital