"Actor: Rainer Trost"

• Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte --Gardiner | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A performance of Mozart's 'Cosi Fan Tutte' performed by the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists. Conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.

• Schubert - Alfonso Und Estrella (Mai, Trost, Muff, Werba) | DVD | (03/01/2005) from £4.25   |  Saving you £17.00 (568.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Most of Schubert's operas were written without a specific commission in the hope that once completed some theatre might find them interesting simply by virtue of their musical value. This unrealistic optimism proved almost always wrong and Schubert suffered bitter disappointments very often working for nothing. Begun on 20th September 1821 Alfonso und Estrella was completed on 27th February 1822 but was first staged on the initiative of Franz Liszt only in 1854 after Schubert's death. Alfonso und Estrella has the characteristic climate of a Romantische Oper. If it is true that Schubert lacks the sense of theatre which is typical of the best operatic composers of his day (for example Weber) the power of his creativity and beauty of many arias cannot be denied.

• Mozart: Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail (Abduction from the Seraglio) -- Mehta | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The story of an escape from a Turkish harem in Mozart's comic opera. Recorded at the Teatro Della Pergola in Florence.

• Capriccio - Richard Strauss | DVD | (06/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The new production in June 2004 was a huge success in Paris because of the illustrious cast especially Renee Fleming in the role of countess. She sung this part for the first time and impressed the audience with her exceptional voice and stage presence. She will sing the role also at the Met in 2006/07.The other singers Anne Sofie von Otter Rainer Trost Gerald Finley Dietrich Henschel and Franz Hawlata are all idiomatic and beautifully singing so that the performance was regarded as an ideal interpretation of Richard Strauss' last opera by the French press. Ulf Schirmer is a German conductor who is regularly appearing at the Paris Opera the Deutsche Oper Berlin or the Vienna State Opera and recorded the same opera with Kiri Te Kanawa on Decca. Stage director Robert Carsen created a luxurious stage with colourful costumes which links up the tradition with the modern chic.