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• CECILIA BARTOLI/HANDEL: SEMELE | DVD | (12/05/2009) from £18.23   |  Saving you £1.76 (8.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Orlando, opera by George Frideric Handel (Opernhaus Zürich 2007) | Blu Ray | (20/04/2009) from £21.24   |  Saving you £10.01 (50.10%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Orlando

• Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The opera La Clemenza di Tito was composed only a few months before Mozart's death. As this period of his life is not particularly well-documented there are many legends surrounding this composition - some say that it was composed in just 18 days! This production is unique because the secco-recitatives proven to not be Mozart's own are not up to the standard of the main musical numbers and Franz Welser-Mst decided to replace them with abridged spoken dialogue. The Opernhaus Zrich has aimed to look forward with this production and fuel discussions about the possibilities of modern Clemenza performances. Director Jonathan Miller was inspired by Tolstoi and Tchechov and the Flemish painters for this production. They gave the appropriate down to earth feel which he wanted to achieve. Jonas Kaufmann has sung all of the great Mozartian tenor roles so his excellent Titus rounds up his repertoire extremely well.

• Weber: Der Freischutz | DVD | (31/10/2000) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Der Freischutz spends much of its length being an amiable sing-along about young Max's need to win a shooting competition in order to be allowed to woo his sweetheart Agnes. It is charming and tuneful but not exceptional. It is only when the treacherous Caspar persuades Max to seek supernatural assistance and cast magic bullets with the aid of the demon Samiel that it suddenly becomes one of the touchstones of dark high-Romanticism. One of the strengths of this production is that Albert Dohmen's handsome and vocally impressive Caspar imposes a vivid presence at an early stage so that there is no sudden leap from one style to another. The Wolf's Glen scene is traditionally one in which the designer and director go over the top, and this production is no exception--strobes and sirens abound. Charlotte Margiano provides a soulful, slightly tear-stained Agnes; Sabine Rittersbusch makes the soubrette role of Annchen a source of real comic charm. The orchestral contribution is idiomatic and well served by vivid sound. --Roz KaveneyOn the DVD: The DVD comes equipped with scene selection and with subtitles in German, French and English; the menu is also available in Spanish. --Roz Kaveney

• Don Pasquale - Donizetti | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Donizetti: Don Pasquale - Juan Diego Florez

• Busoni - Doktor Faust (Jordan, Orch of the Zurich Opera) | Blu Ray | (05/01/2009) from £32.38   |  Saving you £-2.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  oktor Faust remained a fragment at the time of the composer?s death. Busoni died in 1924, unable to complete what he himself described as his 'state masterpiece' - an opera to which he had a deep personal attachment. The missing scenes from the score - the appearance of Helen and Faust?s closing monologue - were completed by his pupil, Philipp Jarnach, whom Busoni had become acquainted with during his period in exile in Z?rich. In this form the opera was given its fi rst performance in Dresden in 1925. Then in the 1980s the conductor Anthony Beaumont came across previously undiscovered sketches by Busoni and produced a new version of Doktor Faust, which was premiered in Bologna in 1985. The current recording uses the Jarnach score.

• Verdi: Rigoletto (Zurich Opera 2006) (Leo Nucci/ Elena Mouc/ Piotr Beczala/ László Polgár/ Gilbert Deflo/ Nello Santi) (Arthaus: 108057) | Blu Ray | (17/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  ARTH 108057; ARTHAUS MUSIK - Germania; Classica Lirica

• Handel: Semele | Blu Ray | (12/05/2009) from £15.47   |  Saving you £5.78 (40.68%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Mozart - Don Giovanni (Welser-Moest) | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni - Live From The Opernhaus Zurich.

• Handel - Orlando (Christie, Herzog) | DVD | (01/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  George Frideric Handel's Orlando performed by Orchestra 'La Scintilla' Of The Zurich Opera and conducted by William Christie.

• Busoni - Doktor Faust | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £30.05   |  Saving you £4.94 (16.44%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Ferruccio Busoni - Doktor Faust - Live Recording From The Zurich Opera House 2006.

• Bruckner Symphony No. 9 (Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Most) | DVD | (30/06/2008) from £20.60   |  Saving you £5.38 (30.55%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Bruckner:Symphony No.9

• Strauss: Ariadne Auf Naxos | DVD | (28/02/2001) from £20.03   |  Saving you £4.96 (19.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Ariadne Auf Naxos (Anthony Martinez Villars Davis)

• Verdi - Rigoletto (Santi, Orch. of the Zurich Opera House) | Blu Ray | (27/10/2008) from £30.05   |  Saving you £-0.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A powerful and stirring performance of Verdi's Rigoletto recored at the Zurich Opera House.

• Mozart: Magic Flute - Children (Live Recording From The Zurich Opera House) | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Live Recording From The Zurich Opera House

• Strauss-Elektra | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Performance of Richard Strauss' Elektra

• Rigoletto - Verdi | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £23.44   |  Saving you £1.55 (6.20%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto (Live Recording from the Zurich Opera House 2006)

• R.Strauss: Elektra (Live Recording From The Opernhaus Zurich 2005) | Blu Ray | (28/09/2009) from £48.58   |  Saving you £-18.59 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £29.99

  TDK OPELEK DVBD; TDK - EUROPA; Classica Lirica