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• Der Freischutz | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £16.18   |  Saving you £1.81 (11.19%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In this production by the German artist Achim Freyer Weber's classic German opera is set in the style of a 19th century fairy tale but with the events in the plot seen through 20th century eyes. A blend of rustic humour a dash of the supernatural and the eventual triumph of good over evil Der Freioschutz has becomea much-loved work with international opera audiences.

• Wagner: Das Rheingold -- Stuttgart/Zagrosek | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £35.82   |  Saving you £-10.83 (-43.30%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The First part of Wagner's magnum opus comes to dvd this month with a starkly contemporary feel. For the first time in the history of the ring cycle each of Rheingold's four sections was given to a different stage-director providing an exciting range of varying perspectives with a unified theme. Without a winged helmet in sight this unique production casts Wotan as a coolly calculating businessman with his wife a director on the board. The whole was directed by Joachim Schlomer an

• Wagner - Das Rheingold (Zagrosek, Staatsoper Stuttgart) | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Wagner: Das Rheingold

• Gluck - Alceste | DVD | (02/01/2007) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Vienna version of Alceste was Gluck's second reform opera after Orfeo ed Euridice. The libretto and music revolve around a self-sacrificing main character, and it is quite probable that the courageous bearing of Empress Maria Theresia while mourning her husband provided Gluck with the impetus for this material.Alceste is reminiscent of Beethoven's subsequent Fidelio as a pure anthem to conjugal love. As Orfeo before it, Alceste did not achieve major success at the first performance of the Vienna version on 20 December 1767, but instead became widely-known when performed as a tragedie opera nine years later in Paris, after the addition of ballet music in French, the version we see performed here.This production from 2006 was acclaimed as the Opera Production of the Year, by German magazine Opernwelt. The title role is played by Catherine Naglestad, voted Female Opera Singer of the Year 2006.

• Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen (Lisa Gasteen/Robert Gambill/Stuttgart Opera/Lothar Zagrosek) | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £83.68   |  Saving you £-13.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen