"Director: Robert Carsen"

• Dvorak: Rusalka | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £28.55   |  Saving you £1.44 (5.04%)   |  RRP £29.99

  ARTH 107031; ARTHAUS MUSIK - Germania; Classica Lirica

• A Midsummer Night's Dream - Britten | DVD | (09/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Britten's opera recorded live at the Teatro Del Liceu in April 2004.

• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin | DVD | (04/02/2008) from £11.03   |  Saving you £10.96 (99.37%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin performed at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, February 2007.

• Poulenc - Dialogues Des Carmelites (Muti) | DVD | (30/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Francis Poulenc - Dialogues des Carmelites.Recorded live at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi, Milan, February 2004.

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

• Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin | Blu Ray | (06/10/2008) from £22.38   |  Saving you £-0.39 (-1.80%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Eugene Onegin

• Rameau - Les Boréades / Robert Carsen, La La La Human Steps, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, Opéra National de Paris | DVD | (20/06/2004) from £5.62   |  Saving you £25.63 (587.84%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A performance of the Rameau opera which follows the tale of Queen Alphise who is contemplating abdication rather that an arranged marriage.

• Puccini: Manon Lescaut | DVD | (24/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Flemish Opera Symphony Orchestra conducted by Silvio Varviso perform The Manon Lescaut opera in four acts.

• Dvorak: Rusalka -- Paris Opera/Conlon | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £9.99 (49.95%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A performance of Dvorak's opera 'Rusalka' which tells the story of a water nymph who becomes human. James Conlon conducts.

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

• Verdi - Il Trovatore (Carsen, Rosner) | DVD | (30/07/2007) from £25.65   |  Saving you £4.34 (16.92%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A gigantic blood-red monster, made of steel and flames, floating on the still waters of Lake Constance - this is Robert Carsen's unconventional vision of the setting of Verdi's masterpiece II trovatore for the 60th anniversary of the Bregenz Festival. In this threatening set of fire and metal, designed by Paul Steinberg, the characters burn with the passions they experience - love, hatred, sexual desire and revenge - and which eventually destroy them. The High Definition live recording of this most spectacular outdoor production combines astonishing images, relevant reflections on today's world and superb musical expression from the soloists and the world-renowned Wiener Symphoniker, inspired by musical director Thomas Rosner.

• 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.

• La Traviata - Verdi | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Recorded live at the Teatro La Fenice Venice 18 November 2004.When the legendary Venetian Teatro La Fenice which had been completely destroyed by fire in 1996 rose like a phoenix from the ashes again its rebirth was celebrated with Verdi's La Traviata an opera that had seen its premiere more than 150 years earlier in the same theatre. Led by star conductor Lorin Maazel a cast of brilliant singer-actors brought an exact replica of the March 1853 version to the stage giving audiences the opportunity to experience the opera as the world first heard at its premier in Venice. The original score had been found in the archives of La Fenice so that La Traviata could relive its premiere without any revisions. The great Violetta-Germont duet the second act finale and the opera's last two numbers resounded through the theatre in just the way that Verdi initially intended.With Italian soprano Patrizia Ciofi in the title role German-Italian tenor Roberto Sacca as her lover and Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky as his father the live recording features highly eminent singers of the Italian repertoire and stars who are at home in opera houses throughout the world.

• Offenbach: Contes d'Hoffmann | DVD | (02/03/2009) from £28.55   |  Saving you £1.44 (5.04%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This rendition of French composer Jacques Offenbach's LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN is conducted by Jesus Lopez-Cobos and stars opera singers Neil Schicoff, Susanne Mentzer, Bryn Terfel, Ruth Ann Swenson and Desiree Rancatore. The opera was recorded at the Opera National De Paris, 2002.