"Actor: Maria Bayo"

• Cavalli - La Calisto | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

• Rossini: Tancredi | DVD | (22/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Tancredi was the work on which Rossini's reputation as a composer of tragic operas rested, just as L'Italiana in Algeri ("The Italian Girl in Algiers") had been his first comic masterpiece. Inevitably, given the opera seria conventions within which he was working, it can seem terribly static nowadays--this is a work whose stage action consists almost exclusively of entrances and exits, and of characters emoting in various combinations--but when the emotions are as powerful as those here it hardly matters. The breeches part of Tancredi is one of Rossini's most powerfully lyrical: Bernadette Manca de Nisa is especially moving in the famous aria "Di Tanti Palpiti". The heroine Amenaide, wrongfully accused of treason, has the most to do emotionally, and Maria Raul is suitably touching, collapsing decorously to the floor as a way of conveying extremes of shame or incredulous hurt. Ildebrando D'Arcangelo does what he can with the stiff villain, Orbazzano. In some ways, the star of the performance is Raul Giménez in the unpromising role of Amenaide's much-deceived father Argirio, combining authority with pain and making both highly musical. Throughout, Gianluigi Gelmetti's intelligent conducting of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra makes the delicate sides of the scoring matter most:he has learned from original instrument performances how to bring out the plangency of Rossini's woodwind writing.On the DVD: The DVD has no additional features except for subitles in Italian, French, German, English and Spanish and menus in French, Spanish, German and English. The sound is presented perfectly adequately but unexcitingly in PCMstereo and the picture ratio is 4:3. --Roz Kaveney

• Essential Opera Collection | DVD | (11/10/2013) from £84.29   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Donizetti: Elisir d'amore | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £10.49   |  Saving you £3.50 (33.37%)   |  RRP £13.99

• Il Viaggio A Reims - Rossini | DVD | (22/10/2004) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-10.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  From theGRAN TEATRE DEL LICEU BARCELONAGIOACHINO ROSSINIIl Viaggio a ReimsOssia l'Albergo del Giglio d'OroDramma giocoso in one act

• Rossini - Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (Weikert, Met. Opera Orch) | Blu Ray | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This sparkling new production of Rossini's comedy is led by two of today's greatest opera stars - Maria Bayo as the young ward Rosina and Juan Diego Florez as her handsome suitor, Count Almaviva. The wily Figaro (the Barber) is Pietro Spagnoli, Bruno Practico is the hapless guardian Don Bartolo, and the cunning singing teacher Basilio is the renowned Ruggero Raimondi. Filmed in widescreen High Definition, this blu-ray captures brilliantly the Teatro Real production as it progresses from an elegant silver and white to a kaleidoscope of colour for the boisterous finale.

• Bianca E Falliero | DVD | (01/07/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Offenbach: Les Contes D'Hoffmann | DVD | (04/09/2013) from £6.73   |  Saving you £9.52 (174.04%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Recorded live at the Opera de Bilbao in May 2006, Giancarlo del Monaco's passionate production of Jacques Offenbach's magnum opus is played by a cast including Maria Bayo, Milagros Poblador and Valentina Kutzarova, accompanied by the Chorus of the Opera of Bilbao and the Bilbao Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by Alain Guingal.