Legendary Opera stars from the Golden Age of Television. Many performances released for the first time. All newly remastered from Voice of Firestone telecasts, 1949-1963, and issued for the first time with English subtitles. Arias from Aida, Semiramide, Faust, Don Pasquale, Barber of Seville, etc., sung by Leontyne Price, Joan Sutherland, Jussi Bjoerling, Richard Tucker, Hilde Gueden, Cesare Siepi, Leonard Warren, Jan Peerce, Rise Stevens, Jean Madeira, Eugene Conley, Patrice Munsel, Anna Moffo, Renata Tebaldi, Franco Corelli, Eleanor Steber, Bidu Sayao, and Mildred Miller. Black & White, Mono, NTSC (Playable all regions), 4:3, 94 minutes.
Legendary Opera stars from the Golden Age of Television. Many performances released for the first time. All newly remastered from Voice of Firestone telecasts, 1950-1963, and issued for the first time with English subtitles. Arias and duets from La Boheme, La Gioconda, Die Walkure, The Merry Widow, Romeo and Juliet, Mignon, Faust, Carmen, Ernani, Andrea Chenier, etc., sung by Renata Tebaldi, Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli, Lauritz Melchior, Hilde Gueden, Roberta Peters, Mimi Benzell, Robert Rounseville, Gladys Swarthout, Cesare Siepi, George London, Elena Nikolaidi, Eleanor Steber, Gabrielli Tucci, and more. Black & White, Mono, NTSC (Playable all regions), 4:3, 94 minutes.
Conductor Neeme Jarvi is one of the world's leading exponents of the music of Gustav Mahler. This unique interpretation of Mahler's First Symphony bears the personal stamp of an artist who finds "the deepest inspiration in this incredibly innovative masterpiece." With the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, and featuring the beautiful acoustics of the Estonia Concert Hall in Tallinn. Stereo, 53 minutes. MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 1 / NEEME JARVI
For the legendary comic actor Groucho Marx, playing the role of Ko-Ko in the Mikado "fulfilled a lifelong ambition." the Mikado was Groucho's favorite among the works of his beloved Gilbert and Sullivan, and the 1960 Bell Telephone Hour production was adapted for television and directed by Martyn Green, a man Groucho revered as an authority on interpreting the role of Ko-Ko. The strong supporting cast features distinguished veterans like Helen Traubel, Stanley Holloway, Robert Rounseville, and Dennis King, as well as young artists like the lovely soprano Barbara Meister as Yum-Yum and Groucho's 13-year-old daughter, Melinda, as Peep-Bo. Special features [46 minutes] include audio interviews with Dick Cavett, Melinda Marx, and Barbara Meister; Martyn Green in excerpts from H.M.S. Pinafore (Bell Telephone Hour, 1963, in color), cast bios, the commercials from the original telecast, and more!
Nelson Eddy, Gale Sherwood, John Conte, Otto Kruger. A wonderfully-done adaptation of Romberg's famous operetta as it was performed live for a 1955 TV telecast. Unlike earlier film versions, the live performance now captured on film illuminates the story in a much truer format to Romberg's original. 1955/b&w/76 min/NR/fullscreen.
Larisa Tuisova and Alexander Rumiantsev star in the Latvian State Opera & Ballet Theatre production of the Khachaturian ballet. Bonus: Gayne: Act 4 (Timofeeva, Zhdanov), Spartacus:"Adagio" from Act 2. (Liepa, Plisetskaya), Gayne: "Adagio".
