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Baby Einstein - Baby Mozart - Music Festival Best Price: $8.90 This product was recommended to me by my cousin. It has been well worth the $15-and then some. ...	Bizet - Carmen Best Price: $19.97 I had great expectations for this DVD. First reviews were very good; secondly the cast promised...	Puccini - La Boheme (The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Series) Best Price: $15.50 This is another filming of Zeffirelli's well-known La Boheme production, but it still looks...	Gaetano Donizetti - La Fille du regiment / Dessay, Florez, Palmer, Corbelli, French, Campanella, Pelly (Royal Opera House 2007) Best Price: $11.53 I saw a tape of another production of "Daughter of the Regiment" and it was fantastic....	Verdi - Rigoletto / Luciano Pavarotti, Ingvar Wixell, Edita Gruberova, Victoria Vergara, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Riccardo Chailly Best Price: $18.09 This is one of my favorite operas. The production of this opera film is great. Outstanding! I...



Puccini - La Boheme / Pavarotti, Scotto, Niska, Wixell, Plishka, Levine, Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $13.68 This DVD performance has a way of drawing you into the story so that you feel that you're on the...	Chopin: Desire For Love Best Price: $4.02 First of all, the sound was terrible. The actors either whispered or shouted. I think there...	Tchaikovsky - Eugene Onegin / Fleming, Vargas, Hvorostovsky, Gergiev, Carsen [Metropolitan Opera 2007] Best Price: $16.43 This is a stellar performance by a superb cast and conducted expertly by Valery Gergiev....	Verdi - La Traviata Best Price: $18.09 I will admit to having some doubts about this performance before viewing it. First, several...	Puccini - Turandot / Franco Zeffirelli - Marton, Domingo, Mitchell, Plishka, Cuenod - James Levine, MET (1988) Best Price: $17.94 Where's Cecil Beaton when you need him. When you have the greatest singers of the last half of...



Puccini - Madame Butterfly / Huang, Troxell Best Price: $12.34 I actually bought this for my Mother's 77th birthday (at her request). She says she LOVES it!! I...	Britten - Peter Grimes (The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Series) Best Price: $17.37 I first saw this production of Peter Grimes when the Met broadcast it to movie theatres in March...	Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore / Eschwe, Netrebko, Villazon, Wiener Staatsoper Best Price: $11.59 Astounding audience reception of Villazon's virtuosity! Netrebko was great! Characters were...	Verdi - Otello / Domingo, Fleming, Morris, Croft, Levine, Moshinsky, Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $18.00 If there was anything to be replaced in this production, it would be Domingo. He is too old for...	Verdi - Aida / Levine, Domingo, Millo, Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $16.99 Aida is certainly one of my favorite operas. However this is not a great recording. Domingo...

Leoncavallo - I Pagliacci / Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana / Domingo, Stratas, Pons, Bruson, Obraztsova, Pretre Best Price: $18.09 Leoncavallo-I Pagliacci is an excellent video product. I strongly recommend this video to all...	Wagner: Tristan und Isolde Best Price: $22.48 I have been waiting for a good Tristan on DVD forever...Unfortunately I didn't get it with this...	Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen / Levine, Metropolitan Opera (Complete Ring Cycle) Best Price: $67.74 I RECOMMENDING THIS EDITION OF WAGNER'S MUSIC -Wagner: Complete Operas Label: ...	The Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden Best Price: $18.09 Do not hesitate to buy this DVD. It is worth every dollar. The four singers really stand out,...	Verdi - Macbeth (The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Series) Best Price: $16.95 In reviewing the Barcelona Opera DVD in which Maria Guleghina also appears as Lady Macbeth, I've...

Verdi - La Traviata Best Price: $18.08 I'm super bias on this make of La Traviata. It's the modern world of opera; besides, it's my...	Puccini - Manon Lescaut (The Metropolitan Opera HD Live Series) Best Price: $13.12 When I first started watching this DVD, I became very apprehensive. The two stars are among my...	George Gershwin - Porgy & Bess / Trevor Nunn ? Sir Simon Rattle ? W. White ? C. Haymon ? Glyndebourne Opera Best Price: $15.60 I read your reviews of P&B productions and settled on this one because of a glowing report...	Grieg, Chopin & Saint Saens Piano Concertos / Previn, Rubinstein, London Symphony Orchestra Best Price: $16.73 There's not much to add to what others have said about this DVD -- it's superb.	Mozart - Don Giovanni / Maazel, Raimondi, Te Kanawa, Paris Opera Best Price: $11.99 Although the colors are a bid faded, this is a beautifully shot movie. The scenery is very...

Verdi: Aida [Blu-ray] Best Price: $23.95 The luxurious Franco Zeffirelli production, live from La Scala, which marked his return to the...	Beethoven Lives Upstairs Best Price: $10.82 Unlike the CD, "Beethoven Lives Upstairs,"--which was of superb quality--I was very...	Puccini - Madama Butterfly Best Price: $17.08 From the David Belasco play to Puccini's opera to Schonberg's Miss Saigon, there are many faces...	The Goldberg Variations - Glenn Gould Plays Bach Best Price: $12.10 Let me begin by saying that the Goldberg Variations are somewhat of an acquired taste. Very few...	Mozart - Die Zauberflote [Blu-ray] Best Price: $26.77 A Russian friend e-mailed me asking me to buy this for him. We were to meet in Shanghai for a...

Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake / American Ballet Theatre, Murphy, Corella Best Price: $17.48 I could care less if others write less than stellar reviews for this DVD, as it is one of the...	Robert Schumann - Genoveva (Opernhaus Zurich) Best Price: $18.95 I have seen this production live at the Zurich opera house february 2008. Musically, people...	Barenboim on Beethoven - The Complete Piano Sonatas Live from Berlin Best Price: $96.89 First off Im not a musician, what I say is like 90% of the reviews, just plain old subjective...	Beethoven: The Piano Concertos [DVD Video] Best Price: $27.74 This DVD is brilliant in every respect. Faultless in its production and in the performance of...	Mozart - Die Zauberfl?te (The Magic Flute) / Keenlyside, Roschmann, Hartmann, Damrau, Selig, Allen, Sir Colin Davis, Covent Garden Best Price: $21.14 Sir Colin Davis has done it again! The genius has made another beautiful interpretation of the...

Giacomo Puccini - La Boh?me / Barker, Hobson, Luhrmann (Australian Opera) Best Price: $15.70 I have been a fan of this opera since I purchased my first album of it as a pre-teen in the late...	Leos Janacek - From the House of Dead / MCO, ASC, Boulez, Chereau (Festival Aix-en-Provence 2007) Best Price: $18.09 This, one of the greatest operas of the twentieth century which, because of its language and...	Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro [Blu-ray] Best Price: $23.95 With an image up to six times sharper than conventional DVD and superior high-definition sound,...	Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro Best Price: $30.45 At the risk of betraying my beloved Sir Thomas Allen, Gerald Finley may be my new favourite...	Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (The Royal Ballet) Best Price: $22.24 I have always been a great fan of Alina Cojacaru. So right when this DVD came out I had to buy...

Verdi - Requiem / Price, Pavarotti, Cossotto, Ghiaurov, von Karajan, Teatro alla Scala Best Price: $18.25 My opinion about this DVD is not at all as technical as the others I've read here. And it...	Mozart /Chopin/Rachmaninov: Richter - Classic Archive Best Price: $13.93 This recital was originally broadcast on BBC-TV in 1989. Richter was 74 then but clearly had...	Bizet - Carmen / Levine, Baltsa, Carreras, Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $18.09 For ages I have been familiar with this opera, and once upon a time designed costumes for it,...	Beethoven - Ode to Freedom (Symphony No. 9 )/ June Anderson, Sarah Walker, Klaus Konig, Jan-Hendrik Rootering, Leonard Bernstein Best Price: $15.70 Bernstein was past his height when he conducted this performance, and definitely showing his...	David Oistrakh: Brahms/Sibelius/Tchaikovsky Best Price: $16.62 I'd liked to say that I agree with Nabih Bulos' comments on this excellent release. I found the...

Wagner: Die Walkure [Blu-ray] Best Price: $38.95 This Die Walkure from the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence features the second installment of what is...	Puccini - Tosca / Kabaivanska, Domingo, Milnes, Luccardi, Mariotti, Bartoletti Best Price: $17.88 If you don't mind a movie version of an opera, then this is a great production to enjoy. It...	Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro / Te Kanawa, Cotrubas, von Stade, Luxon, Skram, Fryatt; Pritchard, Glyndebourne Opera Best Price: $12.32 As Cherubion, Frederica Von Stade made tingles race up my spine when she sang Voi che sapete che...	P.D.Q. Bach in Houston - We Have a Problem! Best Price: $10.32 If you have never seen Peter Schickele (aka PDQ Bach) in performance before, you should see this...	Puccini: La Boheme [Blu-ray] Best Price: $26.46 This is an excellent Boheme in every respect. I would note that I own the regular DVD in a...

Delibes: Sylvia Best Price: $22.08 This ballet has some of the most beautiful music you will ever have the pleasure to hear. Even...	Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore Best Price: $15.69 Biscuits O'bryan: Texas Storyteller (Texas Heritage) This opera, like most,has a silly love...	Harvest of Sorrow - Tony Palmer's Film About Sergei Rachmaninoff Best Price: $13.11 I agree with the person giving the DVD a one star rating and talking about mockery of the...	Tchaikovsky - Piano Concertos Nos. 1&3 - Acoustic Reality Experience [7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio Disc] [Blu-ray] Best Price: $21.95 I tried in three different Blu ray players: this disk doesn't work. and I open the box, I mean I...	Krystian Zimerman: Chopin/Schubert Best Price: $18.09 Krystian Zimerman interpretations of these pieces are simply superlative and unique, I really...

Tchaikovsky Best Price: $12.83 Despite the fact that this BBC documentary/drama is extremely watchable, it is also extremely...	Baby Mozart Best Price: $4.50 Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 35 minutes	Georges Bizet - Carmen / Peter Hall, Bernard Haitink, Maria Ewing, Barry McCauley, London Philharmonic, Glyndebourne Festival Opera Best Price: $16.20 I can only echo the praise for Maria Ewing...she is astonishing...as one reviewer said, not...	Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)/ Bartoli, G. Quilico, Kuebler, Feller, R. Lloyd; Ferro/Schwetzingen Festival Best Price: $19.99 This is a sprightly and riotous take on The Barber. Its charm lies in the smooth integration of...	Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2&3 - Acoustic Reality Experience [7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio Disc] [Blu-ray] Best Price: $21.95 THIS BLU-RAY SURROUND MUSIC DISC DELIVERS AN AMAZING ACOUSTIC REALITY EXPERIENCE THROUGH ANY...

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