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Our tour of Italy starts in the countryside near Orvieto, moves to the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, then to Montalcino and it's ancient abbey. We see the Tuscan landscape around Montepulciano, glimpse Siena, and...

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Release Date: February 28, 2012

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Also available on Blu-ray Giuseppe Saverio Mercadante was a contemporary of Donizetti and Rossini, and his prolific output of operas proved influential in founding dramatic techniques that were taken on by Verdi. Set in the...

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Release Date: June 14, 2019

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Also available on Blu-ray With Shakespearian operas all the rage in Paris during the 19th century, Ambroise Thomas and his librettists Michel Carre and Jules Barbier adapted Hamlet to create a romantic spectacle in which...

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Release Date: November 08, 2019

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Also available on Blu-ray The plot of Gounod’s opera La Nonne sanglante (‘The Bleeding Nun’) is drawn from Matthew Lewis’s once famous 1796 novel The Monk. The subject is a Gothic melodrama featuring warring families,...

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Release Date: August 09, 2019

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Also available on Blu-ray Ottorino Respighi’s La bella dormente nel bosco (‘The Sleeping Beauty’) was originally commissioned by the renowned puppeteer Vittoria Podrecca. The revised version we hear today preserves much of the kaleidoscopic approach...

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Release Date: March 13, 2020

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La Virtu de' Strali d'Amore was the first of 10 operas Cavalli wrote with librettist Giovanni Faustini. A follower of Monteverdi, Cavalli reveals the influence of the older man but also his own pronounced independence.

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Release Date: October 25, 2011

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Also available on Blu-ray Weber was at the forefront of the rise of German Romantic opera and sought to dethrone Rossini from his position as the leading operatic composer in Europe. In his breakthrough and...

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Release Date: April 12, 2019

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The famous traditional Chinese tale of La Fresque ('The Painting on the Wall') tells of two travellers who take shelter at a small temple, one of whom becomes so enraptured by the image of a...

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Release Date: May 10, 2019

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Giorgio Surian, Rachele Stanisci, Ivan Magri, Luca Grassi, and Luca Dall'Amico star in this Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti production of the Donizetti opera conducted by Bruno Cinquegrani.

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Release Date: April 26, 2011

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Described as 'the great Verdian bass' (Le Figaro) and a 'Mefistofele who stood out over all the others' (Der Neue Merker), Carlo Colombara brings some of the most famous bass roles to life in this...

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Release Date: December 13, 2011

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This tour starts with the ancient walled city of Pingyao, with visits to the Qu and Wang courtyard houses and the Shuanglin Temple. There are views of Mount Wutai, as well as the Hanging Monastery...

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Release Date: March 29, 2011

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Directed by Adriano.

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Release Date: August 30, 2011

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Start in the old town of Kashgar, where the tomb of Abakh Khoja contrasts with the busy city life of Urumqi. From strange rock formations in the countryside, to the alpine scenery of Kanas Lake...

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Release Date: March 29, 2011

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Also available on Blu-ray With its narrative of buccaneering bravado, exotic opulence, romance and traitorous intrigue, Le Corsaire is one of the most impressive narrative ballets of the 19th century, and it remains one of...

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Release Date: February 08, 2019

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Jules Massenet's fairy-tale opera Cendrillon ('Cinderella') was an immediate success at it's premiere in 1899 at the Op�ra-Comique in Paris. Massenet, then at the height of his powers, creates a magical sound-world full of wit,...

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Release Date: August 10, 2018