"Actor: Guleghina"

• Nabucco - Verdi | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £14.38   |  Saving you £5.60 (49.17%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Verdi - Nabucco

• Puccini: Turandot (Turandot - 2008 Production Staged By Chen Kaige) | DVD | (30/11/2009) from £25.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (16.92%)   |  RRP £29.99

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• Macbeth - Verdi | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £4.99   |  Saving you £25.00 (501.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Carlos Alvarez takes the title role in the first of Verdi's Shakespearean operas with Maria Guleghina as the manipulative wife whose desire to gain the Scottish throne drives her husband to murder and leaves both with blood on their hands. Bruno Campanella conducts the Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the 2004 recording of Phyllida Lloyd's powerful production first staged at London's Royal Opera House.

• Macbeth | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-6.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Andrea Gruber Roberto Aronica and Lado Ataneli star in Verdi's early operatic masterpiece Macbeth - filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in High-definition. EMI Classics continues its collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera with a new production of Verdi's richly haunting opera Macbeth as part of this season's 'Metropolitan Opera : Live in High-Definition series'. For the first time in 20-years the Metropolitan Opera presents the first of Verdi's three operas based on Shakespeare in a stylistically eclectic grimly effective and at times intriguingly playful production (New York Times) by English director Adrian Noble making his Met debut. At the time of composition Macbeth was unique. Not only was it considered both musically and dramatically bold but it was the first opera that can truly be described as Shakespearean. It was the first that altered operatic conventions to serve the play rather than converting the play into traditional operatic formulas. After 35 highly successful years as Music director of the Metropolitan Opera a relationship unparalleled and unique in the musical world today James Levine conducts Verdi's haunting score with tension and a type of brutality that this chilling work commands.

• Leo Nucci, Maria Guleghina, Coro dell´ Arena di Verona, Orchestra dell´ Arena di Verona, Daniel Oren - Nabucco | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A truly breathtaking production of Verdi's story of lust intrigue blackmail and deceit recorded live in summer 2007 at the glorious Roman amphitheatre at Verona. Renowned Verdi singers Leo Nucci and Maria Guleghina take on the roles of Nabucco and his daughter Abigail. Daniel Oren conducts Verona's resident orchestra. 1. Opening 2. Overture 3. 'Gli Arredi Festivi Giu Cadano Infranti' 4. Sperate O Figli! - D'Egitto La Sui Lidi 5. Come Notte A Sol Fulgente 6. Fenena! O Mia Diletta! 7. Prode Guerrier! 8. Io T'amava! 9. Lo Vedeste? 10. Viva Nabucco! 11. Tremin Gl'insani Del Mio Furore! 12. Mio Furore Non Pi'' Costretto 13. Ben Io T'invenni 14. Anch'io Dischuiso Un Giorno 15. Salgo Gi'' Del Trono Aurato 16. Vieni O Levita! 17. Tu Sul Labbro Dei Veggenti 18. 'Che Si Vuol?' / 'Il Maledetto Non Ha Fratelli' 19. Deh Fratelli Perdonate 20. S'appresan Gl'istanti 21. S'oda Or Me 22. Chi Mi Toglie Il Regio Scettro! 23. E Assiria Una Regina 24. Eccelsa Donna 25. Donna Chi Sei? 26. Oh Di Qual'onta Aggravasi 27. Deh Perdona 28. Va Pensiero Sull'ali Dorate 29. Oh Chi Piange? ... Del Futuro Nel Buoio Discerno 30. Son Pur Queste Mie Membra 31. Dio Di Giuda! 32. Cadran Cadranno I Perfidi .. O Prodi Miei Seguitemi 33. Marcia Funebre ... Va! La Palma Del Martirio 34. Oh Dischiuso ''ˆ Il Firmamento! 35. Viva Nabucco ... Qual Grido ''ˆ Questo? 36. Immenso Jeovha 37. Oh! Chi Vegg'io? - Su Me .. Morente ...Esanime 38. Credits

• Puccini: Tosca -- La Scala/Muti | DVD | (02/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Tosca was revived to great acclaim at La Scala in this 2000 production, which built on Luca Ronconi's 1996 version with musical direction from principal conductor Riccardo Muti and Lorenza Cantini's nightmarishly distorted set. Puccini's most recorded opera is loved and derided in equal measure for its high-octane dramatics, rich arias and the fire-spitting exchanges of the eponymous heroine and her wily tormentor Scarpia. Under Muti, the music takes precedence over the self-conscious theatricality of the book. As a result, some high dramatic points--the stabbing, always tricky, and Tosca's suicide, equally dicey--are underplayed here. Singers of the calibre of Maria Guleghina and baritone Leo Nucci can be relied upon for rounded, controlled performances. Guleghina eschews the ferocity of Callas for a less stately, earthier honesty and enjoys moments of great delicacy, particularly in a sweet "Vissi d'arte". And her grief at Cavaradossi's death is searing. The key to Tosca, though, is the ambivalent relationship between the singer and the chief of police. Scarpia is probably the most toxic antihero in opera, and Nucci could do with a touch more virulence. Even so, this is a fascinating production that strips away much of the traditional artifice and gives real insight into the complex emotions that make the opera so compelling for its devotees. On the DVD: Tosca, like so many operas recorded in the theatre, here relies on the performances to compensate for the camera's inability to convey the overall majesty of the production. The 16:9 anamorphic picture format gives no more than a hint of the crushing power of Cantini's set. Happily, the choice of Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1 surround sound means there is no compromise on the sound front. Orchestra, chorus and principals unite in a fluid homage to Puccini's score. There are no extras on the DVD. One minor niggle: careless editing of the booklet notes means that Puccini briefly becomes Verdi in the description of the opera's genesis. --Piers Ford

• Puccini: Turandot | Blu Ray | (30/11/2009) from £26.96   |  Saving you £3.03 (11.24%)   |  RRP £29.99

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• Manon Lescaut - Puccini | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  TDK presents a recording of Puccini's heart-breaking opera from one of the best opera houses of the world featuring star tenor Jose Cura and remarkable soprano Maria Guelghina as the two inseparable lovers. Riccardo Muti music director of La Scala at the time of this performance gives full weight to the alternation of social realism and private amatory psychology of crowds and intimacy body and spirit. And the director of this Milan production the famous Italian film director Liliana Cavani provides it with a realistic setting. Every scene looks like a genre painting from which Puccini's psychograms emerge musically. This forms the background for the two outstanding singer actors who take the lead roles.

• Nabucco - Verdi | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Giuseppe Verdi was a defining figure in Italian opera credited with reviving the form after the death of Rossini. Nabucco was his breakthrough opera and it was a great success playing across Europe and marking the beginning of a long and fruitful career for the composer. The opera includes one of the most famous melodies ever written created to express the Hebrews' homesickness and adopted by the Italian people as a kind of second national anthem. The song was ""Va Pensiero