"Actor: Michael Devlin"

• Hansel Und Gretel | DVD | (11/05/2010) from £22.50   |  Saving you £-2.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tracklist 1. Opening Credits (Hansel And Gretel) 2. Prelude 3. Suzy, Little Suzy, Now Listen With Care 4. All Right! And Now If You'll Stop Complaining 5. Hansel, Come And Dance With Me 6. Hansel! - Dread! It's Mother! 7. Oh, Why Do They Always Make Me Angry? 8. Tra La La La! Mother, Now At Last I'm Here 9. But Wait! I Don't See The Children10. There's A Witch Who Lives In The Wood Alone11. The Witch's Ride12. Now Once Upon A Time In The Wood Alone13. Gretel, I Think We're Really Lost14. When Night Comes Softly Creeping15. Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep16. Pantomime17. Prelude18. I'm Wide Awake Each Morning19. Where Am I? Dreaming?20. Stay There! Don't Move!21. Nibble Nibble Mousey22. Scat! You Gobbling Mousey23. Brrr! Hocus Pocus, Witches Curse!24. Now Gretel, You Must Stay Here Like That25. My Old Broomstick, You Must Be Quick26. Come, Wake Up, My Little Dunce27. Hurray! We're Free, We Broke The Charm28. We Are Safe! We Are Free!29. Tra La La La! I Can't Believe They'd Come This Far!30. Closing Credits (Hansel And Gretel)31. Hansel And Gretel At The MET / Picture Gallery

• Salome | DVD | (09/09/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £17.99 (89.95%)   |  RRP £37.99

  A one-act production performed at The Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Maria Ewing in the lead role ably supported by Michael Devlin and Kenneth Riegel. The Orchestra of The Royal Opera House is conducted by Edward Downes. Directed by Derek Bailey. English subtitles.

• L'Africaine - Meyerbeer | DVD | (02/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Meyerbeer - L'Africaine (Arena Orch/Chorus/Ballet SFO)

• Moon 44 | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The year is 2038. Giant intergalactic corporations have taken control of the universe locked in a ruthless battle for planets where men and robots mine the priceless chemicals that are now Earth's only source of fuel. Space pirates are systematically hijacking the vital space shuttle from the moon 44 mining base which is also the location of an experimental defence programme using highly advanced helicopter gunships. It is undercover investigator Felix Stone's task to hunt down the hijackers. But if Moon 44 base is attacked the orders are to sacrifice the men and save the robots.

• Meyerbeer: L'Africaine | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Enormously popular and influential in its time, Meyerbeer's L'Africaine has become a rarity--the conventions of grand opera which it embodies so thoroughly are only familiar as adapted by Verdi and Wagner, so this work usefully reminds us of how radical they were. Meyerbeer and his librettist Scribe give us a five-act plot full of confrontations and threats of death, a shipwreck and the suicide of the Indian heroine Selika and her rejected suitor by inhaling the poisonous aromas of a deadly tree. The expedition of Vasco Da Gama round the Cape of Good Hope and up to the spice ports of India becomes less a story about the crusade for profit and more a matter of messy triangular love affairs. Heavy fathers, Brahmin priests and Grand Inquisitors are handled with much facility and no intensity. What L'Africaine really amounts to is a singers' display piece, and the two principals here--Shirley Verrett as Selika and Placido Domingo as Vasco--are entirely up to its demands. Domingo reminds us that Vasco's Act 4 aria "Oh Paradis" was for decades a standard tenor showstopper. The other principals, Ruth Ann Svenson and Justino Diaz, are entirely admirable and Marco Arena and the San Francisco Opera give the work as a whole both the grandeur it certainly possesses and rather more subtlety than one might have expected. On the DVD: The DVD, presented in 4:3 ratio, and in PCM stereo, has no features apart from instructions and subtitles in French, German, English and Spanish. This failure to provide extras, or even an especially informative leaflet, becomes especially regrettable with a work whose conventions are now far out of the operatic mainstream. --Roz Kaveney

• Antony And Cleopatra | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99