"Actor: Marcelo Alvarez"

• Verdi: Rigoletto | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £15.86   |  Saving you £-0.87 (-5.80%)   |  RRP £14.99

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• La Boheme - Puccini | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  La Boheme - Recorded live at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi Milan February 2003 - Staged by the Teatro all Scala.

• Verdi: Rigoletto | DVD | (27/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  If there are doubts still lingering about the Royal Opera House's artistic renaissance after its mid-1990s doldrum years, David McVicar's gritty and sexy production of Rigoletto should blow them all away. One of the principal reasons is McVicar's decision to emphasise the tyrannical nature of the Duke (beautifully sung by Marcelo Alvarez), and the appalling social injustice that springs from a corrupt leader: his court is a place of physical and sexual abuse (graphically, but by no means gratuitously, depicted). This violence throws the dual nature of Rigoletto into relief, making his toadyism seem all the worse and his vengefulness all the more sympathetic. The singing and acting are first rate, with Paolo Gavanelli's energetic, insect-like Rigoletto worthy even to stand against Anthony Sher's Richard III. Christine Schafer has a gorgeous voice, an intelligent sense of phrasing, and plays Gilda as a frail, morbid creature whose ultimate self-sacrifice is as much an act of neurotic despair as of love. The production is also a visual and orchestral success. Michael Vale's set is a masterpiece of economy--both the Duke's palace and Rigoletto's home are surrounded by broken objects, wire fencing and gloomy shadows--and Edward Downes draws some stunning playing from the Royal Opera Orchestra. This is undoubtedly the best Rigoletto committed to DVD thus far. On the DVD Rigoletto comes with an entertaining 17-minute BBC biography of the composer, "Verdi Through the Looking Glass", presented by conductor Charles Hazlewood, as well as an illustrated synopsis of the opera, and a revealing 10-minute interview with the director. There are subtitles in English, French, German, Dutch and Spanish.--Warwick Thomson

• TDK DVD Opera And Ballet Sampler - 2004 And 2005 Catalogue Highlights | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £7.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-59.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  1. Beatrice di Tenda: Ah! Se un'urna e a me concessa (Vincenzo Bellini)2. Kiss Me Kate: So in love with you (Cole Porter)3. Manon: En fermant les yeux (Jules Massenet)4. Rusalka: Mesicku na nebi hlubokem (Song to the Moon) (Antonin Dvorak)5. Excelsior: Obscurantism (Romualdo Marenco)6. Cosi fan tutte: Non siate ritrosi...E voi ridete? (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)7. War and Peace: Kakoye pravo oni imyeyet (Sergei Prokofiev)8. Don Pasquale: Tornami a di che m'ami (Gaetano Donzetti)9. Lulu: Wenn sich die Menschen (Lulu's Song) (Alban Berg)10. Coppelia; Mazurka (Leo Delibes)11. Platee: Formons les plus brillants concerts (Jean-Philippe Rameau)12. Carmen: Les voice! Voici la quadrille! (Georges Bizet)13. Otello: Oh! Mostruosa colpa! (Giuseppe Verdi)14. Siegfried: Was strahlt mir dort entgegen? (Richard Wagner)15. Lucie de Lammermoor: Qu'une letter en ma misere (Gaetano Donizetti)16. Giselle: Pas de deux - Scene (Adolphe Adam)17. Turandot: Non piangere Liu (Giacomo Puccini)18. Paquita: Pas de deux (E. Deldevez and L. Minkus)19. Adriana Lecouvreur: Io son l'umile ancella (Francesco Cilea)20. Don Quichotte: Duel Don Quichottte & Gamache (Ludwig Minkus)21. Gotterdammerung: Ungeheure Macht wird dir (Richard Wagner)22. Le Coq d'Or: Otwets mne sorko swetilo (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)23. Le nozze di Figaro: Gente gente all'armi all'armi! (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)

• Werther - Massenet | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A 2005 production of Massenet's opera which tells the tragic story of Werther's intense passion for Charlotte who has married his best friend Albert fulfilling a pledge to her now deceased mother. But Werther's letters of love bring Charlotte to his side when he promises to take his own life. Philippe Jordan conducts the Vienna State Opera Orchestra.

• Songs of Love and Desire / Freni, Schäfer, Alvarez, Keenlyside, Berlin Phil., Abbado - Silvesterkonzert 1998 | DVD | (02/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Under the musical direction of Claudio Abbado a cast of singers perform works from Bach to Haydn from Donizetti to Verdi and from Schumann to Schonberg.

• Guiseppe Verdi's Rigoletto Story | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £7.77   |  Saving you £12.22 (157.27%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece Rigoletto is brilliantly brought to life in this unique production of the beloved opera performed under the stars of Siena Italy by Roberto Servile Inva Mula (The Fifth Element) Marcelo Alvarez and the Toscanini Foundation Orchestra conducted by Keri Lynn Wilson and costumes by Vivienne Westwood. In the 1550s Mantua the Duke (Alvarez) a celebrated ladies man seduces Gilda (Mula) the beautiful daughter of his sharp-tongued jester Rigoletto (Serv

• Massenet: Manon | DVD | (01/09/2009) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-2.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Manon (2 Dvd)

• TDK DVD Opera Sampler 2006 | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A compilation of opera excerpts from the 2006 TDK catalogue.

• Giuseppe Verdi - Rigoletto | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Verdi: Rigoletto (Cobos / Alvarez / Mula)

• Puccini-Tosca | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Verdi - Il Trovatore, Rigoletto, Falstaff (Haitink, Rizzi) | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £41.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (20.49%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Contains the operas:- Falstaff.- Il Trovatore.- Rigoletto.

• Adriana Lecouvreur, by Francesco Cilea (Tatro Regio di Torino 2008) | Blu Ray | (01/06/2010) from £18.16   |  Saving you £11.83 (39.40%)   |  RRP £29.99

  ARTH 101498; ARTHAUS MUSIK - Germania;

• Puccini - Tosca (Oren, Raimondi, Alvarez) | Blu Ray | (01/12/2008) from £18.94   |  Saving you £12.31 (69.63%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Fiorenza Cedolins stars as Tosca in this 2006 performance of Puccini's incomparable opera TOSCA, recorded live at the Arena of Verona in Italy.