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G. Puccini - Boheme - Orchestrated and Directed by Tony Britten

G. Puccini - Boheme - Orchestrated and Directed by Tony Britten
ID: SIGDVD004
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection: Opera Collection

DVD Format: DVD5
Duration: 93 mins
AC3 5.1 PCM stereo
Screen Format: 16:9
Region Code: PAL. Region 0, Plays in all territories
Menu screens: English
Colour mode: Colour


The third DVD to be released between the collaborative foce of Signum Vision and Tony Britten.

Puccini's original masterpiece has been brought up to date in this moving English speaking version filmed in South East London.

Mary Lincoln - Mimi
Graham MacKay-Bruce - Rudolfo
Darryl Knock - Marcello
Ian K, Jervis - Colline
Simon Masterton-Smith - Alcindoro
Maria Kesselman - Musetta
Nigel Planer - Benoit
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Falstaff - In a new version by Tony Britten - Based on the opera by Verdi and Boito

Falstaff - In a new version by Tony Britten - Based on the opera by Verdi and Boito
ID: SIGDVD001
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection: Opera Collection

Region Code: PAL.Region 0, Plays in all territories
Menu screens: English
Color mode: Colour.Dolby Surround AC-3 Sound; Qualiton Imports LTD.
Screen Format: 16.9
DVD Format: DVD 9
Duration: 118 mins
Subtitles: none
Sound Format: AC3 5.1, PCM stereo

John Falstaff - Ian Jervis, baritone
Alice Ford - Jan Hartley, soprano
Francis Ford QC - Julian Forsyth, baritone
Doctor Caius - Simon Butteriss, tenor
Bardolph - Daniel Gillingwater, tenor
Pistol - Simon Masterton Smith, bass
Mrs Quickly - Marilyn Cutts, contralto
Meg Page - Rosamund Shelley, mezzo-soprano
Nanetta Ford - Katie Lovell, soprano
Fenton - Andy Morton, tenor

Verdi’s timeless masterpiece brought up to date in a hilarious new English version, shot on and around a golf course.

At a golf club near Windsor, “Big John” Falstaff props up the bar at the nineteenth hole, (the member’s bar) which is where he is invariably to be found. He doesn’t actually play golf, because no-one wants to play with him - and anyway he’s probably too plump to make it beyond the first green. However he takes comfort in the fact that his bar bill is about to be settled, and all he has to do to achieve this extraordinary feat is to seduce the lovely Alice Ford, a task that he considers himself eminently qualified to undertake. As the big man blunders from one catastrophe to another and the plot races towards its uproarious conclusion, Tony Britten’s trademark wit and accessibility perfectly compliments Verdi’s glorious comedy.

Falstaff is an operatic commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV.
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Tony Palmer’s Film About Puccini

Tony Palmer’s Film About Puccini
ID: TPDVD115
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Subcollection: Biography Movie

This documentary is an intimate look into the story of Doria Manfredi and of her relationship with Puccini, and the opera that came about as a result. “Turandot” tells the story of a local girl that went to work for the Puccinis as a maid. After a few years, Puccini’s wife, Elvira, became convinced that her husband had been having an affair with the young girl. As a result of the rumors she spread, Doria was shunned by the community, and eventually took her own life.

Robert Stevens and Virginia McKenna stars in this Charles Wood film about Puccini. Included is music performed by The Scottish Opera Chorus and Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Sir Alexander Gibson. The film is produced by Simon Channing-Williams. Judith Howarth, Robert Urquhart, Bil Fraser, William Squire, Peter Woodthorpe, Andrew Cruickshank, Phil McCall, Rupert Graves, Ronald Pickup, Linda Esther Gray, Willard White, Eduardo Alvares, Marie Slorach, Alan Okie, Hugh Hetherington, and Gordon Christie also star.

Performance Credits
Robert Stephens -(Films), (Biography), (Music) Actor
Virginia McKenna -(Films), (Biography) Actor
Judith Howarth -(Films) Actor, Doria Manfredi
Eduardo Alvares -(Films) Calaf
Phyllis Cannan - Turandot
Gordon Christie - Pong
Andrew Cruickshank - Father Michelucci
Bill Fraser - Fucini, the Lawyer
Rupert Graves - Tomio, Puccini's Son
Linda Esther Gray - Turandot
Hugh Hetherington - Pang
Phil McCall - Gnicche
Alan Okie - Ping
Ronald Pickup - Giulio Ricordi
Elvira Puccini - Actor
Marie Slorach - Liu
William Squire - Giacchi, the Doctor
Robert Urquhart - Doria's Father
Willard White - Timur
Peter Woodthorpe - Umberto Manfredi
Sir Alexander Gibson - Conductor

Technical Credits
Tony Palmer Director
Simon Channing-Williams Producer
Charels Wood Screenwriter


Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: French, German, Italian, Spanish
Region: NTSC, All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tony Palmer Films
Run Time: 113 minutes
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Tony Palmer’s Film of Hail Bop! - A Portrait of John Adams

Tony Palmer’s Film of Hail Bop! - A Portrait of John Adams
ID: TPDVD158
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Subcollection: Opera

Directors: Tony Palmer
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English, Dutch, Spanish, French, Italian
Region: 0, All Regions
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Voiceprint Records
DVD Release Date: February 9, 2010
Run Time: 98 minutes

He is the most performed composer of his generation. His operas "Nixon in China" and "The Death of the Klinghoffer" have been international hits. This is an intimate portrait of a great composer at work in his High Sierra log cabin and features rehearsals with soloists Emanuel Ax and Michael Collins.

This is an intimate portrait filmed over 12 months, of a great composer at work in his High Sierra log cabin and in rehearsal with soloists Emanuel Ax and Michael Collins.
The dramatic landscapes of America, which Adams brings to life so vividly in his music, provide the visual backdrop. Contributors include stage director Peter Sellars and librettist Alice Goodman. The music has been specially recorded for the film by Edo de Waart and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic.
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Tony Palmer's Film About - The Salzburg Festival

Tony Palmer's Film About - The Salzburg Festival
ID: TPDVD128
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection: Documentary
Subcollection: Opera

Directors: Tony Palmer
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tony Palmer Films
DVD Release Date: September 15, 2009
Run Time: 195 minutes

The Salzburg Festival has hosted every great star of the opera and concert hall, from Toscanini to Anne-Sophie Mutter, from Fischer-Dieskau to Barenboim, from Pollini to Mitsuko Uchida. In this film, the first to tell the story of this remarkable Festival, set in the birthplace of Mozart, director Tony Palmer has been granted unprecedented access to Austria’s film archives. Highlights include performances of Jedermann from 1920 to the present day featuring actors such as Maximilian Schell and Klaus Maria Brandauer; Don Giovanni (with Furtwängler in 1954 and a controversial performance directed by Peter Sellars in the 90s); a wealth of footage of Herbert von Karajan, including performances and never-seen-before home movies; and film of the Nazi hierarchy at the Festival during the Second World War. Alongside this historical footage, the film interviews contemporary stars such as Placido Domingo, Valery Gergiev, Lang Lang, James Levine, Anna Netrebko, Riccardo Muti and Simon Rattle, who tell their stories and open their hearts about this unique Festival.

Technical Credits
Tony Palmer - Director, Editor
Sabine Bauer - Producer
Felix Bauer - Cinematographer
Renate Bienert - Producer
Peter Lusk Executive - Producer
Arthur Reynolds - Associate Producer
David Sigall - Associate Producer
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Tony Palmer’s Film of Parsifal - The Search for the Grail

Tony Palmer’s Film of  Parsifal - The Search for the Grail
ID: TPDVD167
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Subcollection: Opera

Region Code: NTSC. Plays in all territories
Classification: Exempt
Presentation: Wide Screen
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: Dolby Digital Stereo
Language: English
Subtitles: None
Duration: 116 mins

Recorded: Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Ravello, Siena, Bayreuth

Placido Domingo (Parsifal)
Violeta Urmana (Kundry)
Matti Salminen (Gurnemanz)
Nikolai Putilin (Klingsor) & Anna Netrebko

Tony Palmer’s documentary about Richard Wagner’s opera ‘Parsifal’, with extracts from Tony Palmer’s stage production of Parsifal starring Placido Domingo, Violeta Urmana, Matti Salminen and Anna Netrebko.
The Grail - the cup which Jesus Christ is said to have used at The Last Supper - is one of the most powerful symbols in Western culture. Wagner’s three-act opera, Parsifal, is the most famous work which celebrates the search for the Grail. Parsifal is an opera about ideas, about philosophical questions rather than answers, where the questions themselves are what is important, and the power and eloquence with which they are expressed. With the help of a rare interview with Wolfgang Wagner, Richard Wagner’s grandson, who explains what his grandfather intended and why, plus an all-star cast including the first performance on film of Anna Netrebko, this documentary explores the explosive nature of Wagner’s dangerous ideas. Wagner was virulently anti-Semitic - to this day, it is not possible to perform Parsifal in Israel - and thus provided the Nazis with some powerful cultural propaganda, because for Hitler, Parsifal, the hero of the opera, was pure Aryan blood. When the film was originally released on DVD, the Germans censored 30 minutes of the film which they considered ‘political’, ‘uncomfortable’ and ‘irrelevant’. This is the original version, uncensored, as approved by Domingo.
“It succeeds in exploring the legend of Parsifal quite brilliantly, while making it brutally relevant to us today.” John Ardoin, Great Performances (PBS)
Interviews: With Placido Domingo, Wolfgang Wagner, Robery Gutman & Karen Armstrong
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Highlights from Russian Opera - Vol.2. Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky

Highlights from Russian Opera - Vol.2. Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky
ID: PTC5186090
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Subcollection: Opera

Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
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Richard Wagner - Wesendonck Lieder and Arias: Ch. Margiono, soprano and Limburg Symphony Orchestra, Maastricht - Ed Spanjaard

Richard Wagner - Wesendonck Lieder and Arias:  Ch. Margiono, soprano and Limburg Symphony Orchestra, Maastricht - Ed Spanjaard
ID: PTC5186077
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Subcollection: Opera

Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD
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Highlights from Russian Opera - Vol.1. Borodin, Dargomyzhsky, Glinka, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky

Highlights from Russian Opera - Vol.1. Borodin, Dargomyzhsky, Glinka, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky
ID: PTC5186089
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
Subcollection: Opera

Multichannel Hybrid SACD - DSD

Highlights of the Russian opera

During the eighteenth century, especially at the time of Catherine the Great, Russia enjoyed a lively opera life; however, it was not until the nineteenth century that the national Russian opera was created. Musical life at the court of the Czar was predominantly oriented towards the West and attracted, for example, many Italian composers to St. Petersburg. The works they wrote there were also mostly based on Italian libretti, and if a Russian opera was ever performed, it followed on musically in the tradition of the operas that could be heard in Naples, Milan or Vienna.
A slow change came about in this situation during the first half of the nineteenth century, after Russia also began to be influenced by the sense of nationhood which was spreading through great parts of Europe in that period. Furthermore, this was the time during which the well-to-do middle class began to participate increasingly in the cultural life, and therefore, it is not just a coincidence that the birth of the national Russian opera more or less concurred with the opening of the ‘Great’ or ‘Bolshoi’ Theatre in Moscow in 1825.
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Wagner - Die Walkure (1963) - Wiener Philarmoniker Knappertsbusch - Knappertsbusch

Wagner - Die Walkure (1963) - Wiener Philarmoniker Knappertsbusch - Knappertsbusch
ID: DV-CLHK63
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
Collection: Documentary
Subcollection: Opera

Claire Watson, Fritz Uhl, Josef Greindl (Actor)

Format: PAL
Language: Italian (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: G (General Audience)
Studio: TDK
DVD Release Date: 3 July 2006
Run Time: 72 minutes
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