"Actor: Gwyneth Jones"

• Wagner - Die Walkure (Boulez, Bayreuther Festspiele) | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £26.33   |  Saving you £-1.34 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Opera in Three ActsThe Second part of Patrice Chereau's epoch-making Bayreuth Ring is a radical re-imagining of Die Walkure unprecedented in its psychological penetration.

• Wagner-Tannhauser | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £23.54   |  Saving you £1.45 (6.16%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Richard Wagner's Tannhauser, performed by Orchester Der Bayereuther Festspiele and conducted by Sir Colin Davis.

• Rosenkavalier - Strauss | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Comedy for music in three acts.

• Wagner: Siegfried | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

• Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £4.93   |  Saving you £25.06 (83.60%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Of all operas, perhaps the one that least needs ingenious extramusical assistance is 'Tristan, this aurally erotic work that speaks so vividly to the listener`s inner eye. Wagner`s score is simply more illustrative and sensuously pictorial than any series of stage pictures could be. With Ren� Kollo and Gwyneth Jones in the title roles, this DVD represents a historical milestone and document of highest value in the reception of Richard Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde'.

• Vanity Fair / Sense And Sensibility / Shakespeare In Love | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Vanity Fair (Dir. Mira Nair 2004): Based on William Thackeray's 1828 novel Vanity Fair introduces Becky Sharp (Reese Witherspoon) a poor but well educated girl born into a 19th-century society offering little in the way of career advancement for women. She becomes a governess for Sir Pitt Crawley (Bob Hoskins) and aims to find a rich husband. True to the novel's tone everyone in Vanity Fair is deliciously devious throughout. Sense & Sensibility (Dir. Ang Lee 1995): Sense and Sensibility is the story of two sisters; pragmatic Elinor (Emma Thompson) and passionate wilful Marianne (Kate Winslet). When their father Henry Dashwood dies by law his estate must pass to the eldest son from his first marriage. Suddenly homeless and impoverished his current wife and daughters find themselves living in a simple country cottage. The two sisters are soon accepted into their new society. Marianne becomes swept up in a passionate love affair with the dashing Willoughby (Greg Wise) while Elinor struggles to keep a tight rein on the family purse strings and to keep her feelings for Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant) whom she left behind hidden from her family. Despite their different personalities they both experience great sorrow in their affairs but they learn to mix sense with sensibility in a society that is obsessed with both financial and social status. Shakespeare In Love (Dir. John Madden 1998): Triumphant winner of 7 Academy Awards - including Best Picture - this witty sexy smash features Oscar-winning Best Actress Gwyneth Paltrow and an amazing cast that includes Academy Award winners Judi Dench Geoffrey Rush and Ben Affleck! When Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola (Paltrow) starts the words flowing like never before! There are just two things he'll have to learn about his new love: not only is she promised to marry someone else she's successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will's latest production! A truly can't-miss motion picture event with outstanding critical acclaim to match its impressive collection of major awards - everyone will love this funny behind-the-scenes look at the writing of the greatest love story ever told!

• Beethoven - Fidelio | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Ludwig Van Beethoven - Fidelio:From Berlin's Deutsche Oper in 1970.

• Wagner - Gotterdammerung (Boulez, Altmeyer, Jones) | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £9.93   |  Saving you £16.32 (188.24%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In 1976 French director Patrice Chereau's centenary staging of Wagner's Ring cycle unleashed the greatest scandal in Bayreuth Festival history but by the end of its last performances in 1980 this epoch-making production was acclaimed with an hour and a half of thunderous applause.

• Wagner - Siegfried (Boulez, Bayreuther Festspiele) | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £21.41   |  Saving you £3.57 (19.38%)   |  RRP £21.99

  The opera Siegfried.

• Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen -- Complete | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £95.99

• Wagner: Gotterdammerung | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Gotterammerung is the 'third day' of Wagner's great tetra logy of music dramas Der Ring Des Nibelhngen.

• Wagner: Die Walkure -- Bayreuth | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Die Walkure is the 'first day' of Wagner's great tetra logy of music dramas Der Ring des Nibelungen.Conducted by Pierre Boulez and directed by Patrice Chereau this 1976 production commemorating the centenary of the first Bayreuth Ring has come to be seen as the most illuminating and significant of modern times.

• Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde (Tokyo 93) | Blu Ray | (08/07/2013) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-2.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  ARTH 108083; ARTHAUS MUSIK - Germania; Classica Lirica

• Weill: Aufsteig und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny | DVD | (30/01/2001) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Kurt Weill's complex score reigns supreme in Peter Zadek's 1998 Salzburg Festival staging of The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, the collaboration with Brecht which became a target for Nazi insurrection on its 1930 premiere. The city itself is suggested by the attitudes and personalities of the singers rather than by Richard Peduzzi's Spartan sets. It's bleak stuff in many ways, not least in its vision of the human state: squaring up to corruption is a lonely and fatal business. But thanks to Weill's musical eclecticism, which ranges from barbershop to lieder, there are moments of intense beauty, not least in the duets between lumberjack Jimmy Mahoney and prostitute Jenny. There are, too, flashes which anticipate Weill's American future on Broadway. The lilting "Alabama Song", that gift to every would-be cabaret artist in search of a Lotte Lenya moment, works wonderfully as an ensemble piece. Despite occasional inaudibility, the singing is often breathtaking. Gwyneth Jones is a majestic Begbick, Catherine Maltifano's voluptuous and earthy Jenny also has a rarely seen sweetness and Jerry Hadley's Jimmy Mahoney is ultimately almost unbearably moving. Food for thought, indeed. On the DVD: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is presented in 16:9 picture format, but would have benefited from the scale of a widescreen treatment. It can be difficult to keep track of everything that's going on. The cavernous stage is probably responsible for the acoustics which sometimes allow the orchestra to overwhelm the singing, otherwise well served by the PCM stereo sound. There are no DVD extras but the excellent booklet and production notes are welcome.--Piers Ford

• Tristan Und Isolde - Richard Wagner | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Wagner's erotic opera in a production by the German Opera of Berlin under the direction of Gotz Friedrich with music conducted by Jiri Kout.

• Wagner - the Making of Der Ring Des Nibelungen | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The partnership of Boulez Chereau and Peduzzi put Wagner's Ring back where it belonged - at the centre of controversy. By the time it was last seen on the stage of the Festspielhaus in 1980 the production had taken its place as one of the historic achievements of the Bayreuth Festival. Working closely with video director Brian Large Chereau re-rehearsed his staging for the films taped at that time to recreate the experience on screen and to preserve career-defining performances from the original cast headed by Donald McIntyre Gwyneth Jones and Manfred Jung.

• Gwyneth Jones in Concert | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £12.98   |  Saving you £4.01 (23.60%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Gwyneth Jones in concertTracklist:01 Tannhauser: Dich teure Halle (Wagner) 02 Macbeth: Vieni t'affretta... Or tutti sorgete (Verdi)03 La Forza Del Destino: Sinfonia - Pace pace mio Dio (Verdi)04 Tosca: Vissi d'arte (Puccini)05 Turandot: In questa reggia (Puccini) 06 Die Lustige Witwe: Vilja-Lied (Lehar)07 Cats: memory (Lloyd-Webber)Live concert August 23 1988Eglise Saint-Jacques de Montcalm Festival d'ete de Lanaudiere

• The Talented Mr. Ripley | Blu Ray | (26/09/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A