This concert special features a number of the greatest opera singers of their time including Placido Domingo, Angela Gheorghiu, and Roberto Algna performing works created by some of the m...
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This holiday release features high definition ambient footage of a warm, crackling fireplace, playable with original sound, country style Christmas music, the 101 Strings Orchestra, or th...
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Thomas Stewart and Brigitte Fassbaender co-star in this filmed 1978 stage production of Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold, mounted by the Salzburg Festival and the Metropolitan Opera. ...
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Just in time for the holiday season, this classic is now available in a durable board-book edition. Rich, expressive illustrations bring the words and music of the beloved Christmas song ...
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Love and politics cross paths in a most unlikely way in this production of Gilbert and Sullivan's popular comic opera. In Iolanthe, a man who is half-human and half-fairy wishes to wed th...
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Pianist Eric Reed's touch has always been a sensitive one, but From My Heart marks the first time Reed has really consummated this side of his playing, going out of his way to bring a mos...
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This EMI release of The Four Seasons gives violinist Sarah Chang top billing (as would be expected) and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra a smaller, less significant listing. As far as the qu...
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"Tosca" is set in Rome at the end of the 18th century. Love and jealousy drive the story to its inevitable, tragic end. Tosca, an actress, kills her tormentor, Scarpia, and rushes to save...
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These ten John Denver tracks provide only adequate representation of the late singer/songwriter's best material. Unfortunately, two of his biggest hits from the '70s, "Sunshine on My Shou...
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Nine years after the Yuletide slasher flick Black Christmas, Porky's director Bob Clark once again took on the holiday genre, switching from gasps to laughs with A Christmas Story. Adapte...
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Christoph Willibald Gluck's classic tale of love in the afterlife gets a modern makeover in Harry Kupfer's restaging of Orfeo ed Euridice recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Ga...
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A dramatic turn of events on Christmas Eve forces Joy to make a painful choice. Can she summon enough faith to hold on to her newfound happiness? This modern-day fairytale tells the story...
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John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir, and the English Baroque Soloists come to Bach's St. John Passion after their ambitious traversal of all the church cantatas, so they are immerse...
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Find out how this misfit saves Christmas and becomes the most famous reindeer in history in this cheery retelling of the classic Rankin-Bass television production that has been an annual ...
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Conducted by the renowned Maurizio Arena, this production of Puccini's legendary Madam Butterfly features Raina Kabaivanska in the title role, and includes supporting performances from Na...
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The Wiener Philharmoniker mounted this production of Johann Strauss's 1874 operetta Die Fledermaus, directed by Otto Schenk and starring Erich Kunz, Gundula Janowitz, Eberhard Wächter ...
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This program offers two back-to-back stage works, pulled from the canons of Italian opera and performed at the Zurich Opera House in 2009. It begins with an interpretation of Pietro Masca...
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Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in this live concert recording of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 in D major. This post-Romantic work was the composer's last complete...
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Only months after Deutsche Grammophon released Anne-Sophie Mutter's recording of Bach's violin concertos, Decca released Julia Fischer's recording of the same pieces. The similarities bet...
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The Wiener Philharmoniker mounted, and Claus Guth directs for the stage, this lavish 2009 production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's seminal 1790 opera Cosi fan tutte. It stars Miah Persson ...
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This beautiful picture book captures the essence of Christmas. With glorious verse and artwork, the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "On the Night You Were Born" celebrates all the ...
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This is a reasonable performance of Holst's extremely popular orchestral suite The Planets, including a recording of the original version of the last movement of the same suite, Holst's m...
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Charles Mackerras turns in a fleet and elegant performance of Die Zauberfl te with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus. Barbara Hendricks is especially good as Pamina, singing with radi...
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The Bayreuth Festival Opera House mounted this production of Richard Wagner's 1865 opera Tristan und Isolde as part of the Bayreuther Festspiele. Staged by Heiner M ller, it stars Siegfri...
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This performance of Mozart's opera, Don Giovanni features the Glyndebourne Chorus and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi. Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Ge...
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The home video release East Meets West with Donal Lunny paints a documentary-style portrait of an extraordinary series of events. In the late 1990s, two musical acts of vastly different c...
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This all-star production of Verdi's Messa da Requiem contains performances by Luciano Pavarotti and Leontyne Price under the direction of Henri-Georges Clouzet. Conducting the orchestra i...
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The London Symphony Orchestra assists Eric Shilling, Keith Michell, Francis Egerton, and Tom McDonnell in a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers. The story concerns two go...
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"Bach purifies me: he offers me a new view on life, never mind what he brings in purely pianistic terms," said U.S.-born and Paris-trained pianist Nicholas Angelich. None of this makes a ...
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The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra has built up a special relationship with the orchestral music of Tchaikovsky. Its 1941 recording of the Symphony No. 2 under Eugene Goossens was the firs...
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In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Franz Liszt's birth, virtuoso pianist Stephen Hough recorded the Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major and the Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, a...
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Astonishingly, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart penned his first opera, Mitridate, Re di Ponto, at the tender age of 14. The work plunges into the dark heart of the inner circle of Mithridates, ki...
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Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's mos...
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