"Actor: Natalie Dessay"

• Bellini: La Sonnambula | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £14.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (35.25%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tracklist 1. Opening Credits And Introduction Act I 2. Viva! Viva Amina! 3. Tutto Gioia, Tutto Festa 4. Care Compagne . . . Come Per Me Sereno 5. Sempre, O Felice Amina . . . Sovra Il Sen La Man Mi Posa 6. Io Pi Di Tutti, O Amina 7. Prendi: L'anel Ti Dono 8. Scritti Nel Ciel Gi Sono . . . Ah! Vorrei Trovar Parole 9. Domani, Appena Aggiorni10. Vi Ravviso . . . Tu Non Sai Con Quei Begli Occhi11. Contezza Del Paese . . . A Fosco Cielo12. Basta Cos. Elvino! E Me Tu Lasci13. Son Geloso Del Zefiro Errante14. Davver, Non Mi Dispiace15. Che Veggio?16. Oh Ciel! Che Tento?17. Osservate: L'uscio Aperto18. Menzogna19. D'un Pensiero E D'un Accento20. Non Pi Nozze21. Interview With Natalie Dessay And Juan Diego FlrezAct II22. Qui La Selva Pi Folta Ed Ombrosa23. Reggimi, O Buona Madre24. Vedi, O Madre25. Viva Il Conte! . . . Ah! Perch Non Posso Odiarti26. Lasciami... De' Lieti Auguri A Voi Son Grata27. E Fia Pur Vero, Elvino... Signor Conte, Agli Occhi Miei28. Lisa! Mendace Anch'essa!29. Signor? Che Creder Deggio?30. Oh! Se Una Volta Sola31. Ah! Non Credea Mirarti32. No, Pi Non Reggo33. Ah! Non Giunge Uman Pensiero34. Bows And Closing Credits

• Gaetano Donizetti - La Fille du régiment / Dessay, Florez, Palmer, Corbelli, French, Campanella, Pelly (Royal Opera House 2007) | DVD | (21/04/2008) from £14.25   |  Saving you £-0.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Laurent Pelly staged this new production and how the singers were perfectly cast. They gave Donizetti's opera a new life at the Royal Opera House

• Hamlet - Ambroise Thomas | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £16.69   |  Saving you £1.30 (7.79%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Staged at the Gran Teatro Del Liceu in Barcelona October 2003 this opera - written by Ambroise Thomas - is performed by the Symphony Orchestra And Chorus of the Gran Teatro Del Liceu; conducted by Bertrand De Billy.

• Strauss: Arabella | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Like most of his later operas, Richard Strauss' Arabella ends with a meltingly lovely duet. But then criticising Strauss for composing melodically enduring operas is as pointless as lambasting Vermeer for painting only exquisite interior scenes. Those who say Strauss never improved on Rosenkavalier may be right but when such beguiling sounds kept coming from his music for the next 30 years of his life, there shouldn't be any quibbles. Arabella is, in a nutshell, the story of a woman who cannot make up her mind about a suitor. Taped at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1994 under the baton of conductor Christian Thielemann, this production features Kiri Te Kanawa in the title role; her acting is mediocre but vocally she never forces anything and at least sounds like the perfect Arabella. Wolfgang Brendel does well with Mandryka, who finally ends up with Arabella and Marie McLaughlin makes a sympathetic younger sister to the heroine as Zdenka. Otto Schenk's production is sturdily conservative, the video transfer is acceptable if unspectacular and the sound mix is CD-quality. --Kevin Filipski, Amazon.com

• Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande | DVD | (23/11/2009) from £11.53   |  Saving you £1.72 (16.75%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Natalie Dessay: Debussy - Pell'as Et M'lisande

• Massenet - Manon | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £15.56   |  Saving you £4.43 (28.47%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For their first-ever encounter in a staged opera Natalie Dessay as Manon and Rolando Villazn as des Grieux were the much-awaited highlight of Barcelona's Liceu season in June 2007 in David McVicar's beautiful stage production of Massenet's Manon. The DVD captures this outstanding production of Massenet's most popular and enduring opera which has since its creation in Paris in 1884 maintained an important place in the repertory.

• Verdi: La Traviata (Aix-en-Provence, 2011) | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Natalie Dessay made her first European appearances as Violetta in La traviata in a new production by the French director Jean-Franois Sivadier at the 2011 Aix-en-Provence Festival. This DVD captures her intense performance in the company of American tenor Charles Castronovo as Alfredo and French baritone Ludovic Tzier as his father, Giorgio Germont. Her theatrical impact is devastating, wrote the Financial Times. With this new production of La traviata at the 2011 Aix-en-Provence Festival, Natalie Dessay made her first European appearances as Verdi's Violetta, a pinnacle of the soprano repertoire. She made her debut in the role in 2009 at the Santa Fe Festival in the US, and subsequently sang Violetta in Japan. Dessay's 2011-12 season will include La traviata at the Vienna State Opera (in this Aix-en-Provence production by French theatre and opera director Jean-Franois Sivadier) and the New York Metropolitan. Violetta makes tremendous demands on a singer, both vocally and dramatically, and signals Dessay's transition from lighter coloratura roles to the more full-blooded lyric repertoire. I'm tired of playing weeping girls, she told the French magazine Tl 7 Jours, Violetta is a real woman. That makes a nice change! The change was clearly successfully achieved: describing Dessay’s performance, the Financial Times wrote that her theatrical impact is devastating. Sivadier's production was staged in the open air, in Aix-en-Provence's exquisite Thtre de l'Archevch with its huge spiral staircases, medieval arches and 18th-century wings. The stage dcor was minimal, the simple costumes evoked the 1940s or 1950s, and the prime focus was on intense characterisation.

• Natalie Dessay - Greatest Moments on Stage | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £14.48   |  Saving you £1.51 (10.43%)   |  RRP £15.99

  While hearing Natalie Dessay is great: seeing her is even better. There is no other singer in the opera world today who knows how to inhabit the character like Natalie. Whether playing Manon Lakm'' Oph''lie or Lucia she always manages to find some element to satisfy her incredible talents as an actress. She has also an immediate rapport with the audience a presence which enables her to light up the stage and communicate so eloquently that she deserves every one of her accolades. The DVD brings together excerpts of Natalie performing in productions worldwide which have made her name including her signature role of Olympia in Offenbach's Le Contes d'Hoffman the Queen of Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute the character of Fire in Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortileges and many more. In addition to the live footage Natalie offers little anecdotes on the productions prior to each performance.

• Becoming Traviata | DVD | (26/05/2014) from £8.85   |  Saving you £7.14 (80.68%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An intimate and fascinating documentary that invites you to go behind the curtains of one of the world's greatest operas Verdi's masterpiece La Traviata. Director Philippe Béziat offers a rare glimpse into the creative process of renowned singers and musicians as they collaborate to produce a contemporary re-telling of this classic opera at the prestigious Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in France. French theatre/opera director Jean-François Sivadier and celebrated Met Opera soprano Natalie Dessay work side by side to tirelessly craft and mould with perfect precision Verdi's heroine Violetta. Dessay's metamorphosis is truly mesmerising. Other collaborators include the London Symphony Orchestra musicians Estonian Philharmonic Choir singers performers lighting technicians and set designers who work in unison to bring to life one magnificent artistic expression. Special Features: Interviews with Jean-François Sivadier Natalie Dessay Louis Langrée Charles Castronovo Ludovic Tézier and director Philippe Béziat

• Offenbach: Des Contes D'Hoffmann | DVD | (25/04/2001) from £19.85   |  Saving you £6.40 (34.43%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Unfortunately the qualities that make Jacques Offenbach's operetta The Tales of Hoffmann an irresistible melodic profusion of wit, dash and unfailing high spirits are only in evidence in the playing of the Lyon Opera Orchestra under Kent Nagano: operetta, more than its serious cousin, continues to be fair game for the whims of producers and designers. In this case an excellent cast including Daniel Galvez-Vallejo as Hoffmann, Natalie Dessay as Olympia, Brigitte Balley as Nicklausse and Isabelle Vernet as Giulietta, as well as Gabriel Bacquier who sings three roles, are obliged to perform Offenbach's operetta in a lunatic asylum designed by Philippe Starck as a three-dimensional grey set, topped with barbed wire. The production by Louis Erlo adapts and cuts scenes to fit this concept, so the tavern scene where Hoffmann sings his celebrated number "The Legend of Kleinzack" disappears, as do the chorus who are banished to the wings. In this environment there's no room for charm or even a kind of mad-hatter behaviour. The cast are reduced to stereotypes and of necessity singularly unlovable ones. What a wasted opportunity. The sound is excellent as it is on two fillers: a short film of Penderecki conducting his choral work, The Seven Gates to Jerusalem from the Midem festival at Cannes and a trailer for a Lyon Opera House production of Berlioz's Damnation of Faust. --Adrian Edwards

• R. Strauss : Ariadne auf Naxos | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Tracklisting: 1. Ariadne Auf Naxos - Opening Titles 2. Ariadne Auf Naxos - Prologue 3. Ariadne Auf Naxos - Vorhang - 'Mein Herr Haushofmeister' 4. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Hier Finden Euer Gnaden...' 5. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Eselsgesicht' 6. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Wer Ist Dieses Entz''ckende M'dchen....' 7. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Hast Ein St''ckerl Notenpapier?' 8. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Im Gegenteil....' 9. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Ihnen Allen Habe Ich....' 10. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Ich Wei''Ÿ Nicht Wo Mir Der Kopf Steht' 11. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Der Ariadne M''ssen Sie Streichen' 12. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Sie H'lt Ihn F''r Den Todesgott' 13. Ariadne Auf Naxos - Sie Gibt Sich Dem Tod Hin!' 14. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Ein Augenblick' 15. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'An Ihre Pl'tze' 16. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Seien Wir Wieder Gut' 17. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Was Ist Das?' 18. Ariadne Auf Naxos - Ouverture 'Ariadne' 19. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Schl'ft Sie?' 20. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Wo War Ich' 21. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Wie Jung Und Sch''n' 22. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Ein Sch''nes War....' 23. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Lieben Hassen' 24. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Es Gibt Ein Reich....' 25. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Die Dame Gibt Mit Tr''bem Sinn' 26. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Gro''Ÿm'chtige Prinzessin' 27. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'H''bsch Gepredigt Aber Tauben Ohren' 28. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Elne St''rrische Zu Tr''sten' 29. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Ein Sch''nes Wunder' 30. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Circe Circe....' 31. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'T''ne T''ne....' 32. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Doch Da Ich Unverwandelt....' 33. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Circe Circe...' 34. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Das Waren Zauberworte' 35. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Gibt Es Kein Hin''ber?' 36. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Du! Alles Du!' 37. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'T''ne T''ne - 'Was H'ngt Mir....' 38. Ariadne Auf Naxos - 'Deiner Hab' Ich Um Alles Bedurft' 39. Ariadne Auf Naxos - Opening Titles

• Le Rossignol - Stravinsky | DVD | (03/01/2005) from £11.88   |  Saving you £4.11 (34.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This DVD is a stunning film adaptation of Stravinsky's Rossignol with Natalie Dessay in the title role. Inspired by Stravinsky's words: ""I said somewhere that it wasn't enough to hear the music you had to see it too..."" the firlm-maker Christian Chaudet made an innovative and ambitious animated film illustrating the opera score with 3 dimensial images into which the singers have been inserted. The film offers superb narrative and visual ingredients following Stravinsky's own st

• Offenbach: Orphee aux Enfers -- Lyon National Opera/Minkowski | DVD | (25/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In the role of Eurydice Natalie Dessay begins at once with a display of vocal and verbal pyrotechnics which are then taken up by Yann Beuron as Orpheus. Together they give us an ideal of the developments to follow. Dancers and singers melt into a unit. The stage setting and an unconventional choreography sparkle with inventiveness. When Pluto for example arrives on skis from the underworld onto Mt. Olympus and Offenbach quotes the famous can-can right in the middle of Pluto's aria it seems to be a parody of his own work. The production offers a wealth of material for modern interpretations and immorality. Thus we see a bored Eurydice lying on the sofa in her apartment as she zaps her way through the TV channels constantly looking for diversion showing us how timeless an opera buff can really be. Sometimes she sings upside down hopping around - a vocal masterpiece. Laurent Naouri also captivates in the role of Jupiter and costumed as a fly demonstrates his vocal and acting talent with Jacques Offenbach's Buzz aria. To sum up; the present production is a fountain-of-youth cure for Offenbach's operetta classic. A cascade of ideas and ironic allusions turns this ingenious work into a feast for eyes and ears.

• Quatuor Ebène Fiction - Live at the Folies Bergère | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £8.63   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A