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Gaetano Donizetti - La Fille du regiment / Dessay, Florez, Palmer, Corbelli, French, Campanella, Pelly (Royal Opera House 2007)
(more) »rank: 2273starring: Natalie Dessay, Juan Diego Florez, Felicity Palmer, Alessandro Corbelli, Dawn French
directed by: Laurent Pelly
:Description:In January 2007, superstar soprano Natalie Dessay, joined on stage by acclaimed tenor Juan Diego Florez dazzled British audiences in Laurent Pelly's new production of Donizetti's 'LA FILLE DU REGIMENT'. The perfectly staged & cast production became the operatic event of the year, receiving rave press reviews & rapturous audience ovations. :This DVD version of Donizetti’s comic opera zooms right to the top of any list of essential videos for opera fans. It may not be the composer’s best work, but given a top-notch production with world class singing actors, it brings vocal thrills and ...
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Gilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado / Eric Idle, Lesley Garrett, Richard Van Allan, Felicity Palmer, Richard Angas, Bonaventura Bottone, Susan Bullock, English National Opera
(more) »rank: 15410starring: Eric Idle, Lesley Garrett, Bonaventura Bottone, Richard Van Allan, Felicity Palmer
directed by: John Michael Phillips
:Description:The irrepressible Eric Idle (Monty Python’s Flying Circus) teams up with the English National Opera in this hilarious performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s beloved comic opera, THE MIKADO. This rollicking version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular tale relocates the action from ancient Japan to a 1920s English seaside resort. Here the rule of the Mikado is absolute--and often prone to whimsy. Ko-Ko (Eric Idle) is sentenced to death for the crime of flirting, but in a strange turn of events is instead named 'Lord High Executioner.' A delightful farce ensues as Ko-Ko can’t behead ...
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Gianni Schicci [Blu-ray]
(more) »rank: 18441starring: Alessandro Corbelli, Sergei Leiferkus, Marie McLaughlin, Felicity Palmer, Sally Matthews
directed by: Francesca Kemp, Ann Abel Arden
:Description:The irrepressible Eric Idle (Monty Python’s Flying Circus) teams up with the English National Opera in this hilarious performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s beloved comic opera, THE MIKADO. This rollicking version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular tale relocates the action from ancient Japan to a 1920s English seaside resort. Here the rule of the Mikado is absolute--and often prone to whimsy. Ko-Ko (Eric Idle) is sentenced to death for the crime of flirting, but in a strange turn of events is instead named 'Lord High Executioner.' A delightful farce ensues as Ko-Ko can’t behead ...
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Windsor Castle - A Royal Year
(more) »rank: 20050starring: Barbara Flynn, Queen Elizabeth II, Edward Griffiths, Jodie Kidd, Ray Wheaton
directed by: Matt Reid (II)
:Description:Royal reality in a landmark series produced for the BBC. For the first time ever, cameras go behind the scenes at Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in the world and home to Queen Elizabeth since childhood. The result is an intimate glimpse of castle life above and below stairs over the course of a year that includes a historic state banquet and the wedding of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker-Bowles. Meet some of the 300 people who live and work in the castle’s 900 rooms: the Queen’s housekeeper, grooms, fendersmiths, and military knights, to ...
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Puccini - Gianni Schicchi / Corbelli, Palmer, Giordano, Matthews, McLaughlin, Jurowski, Glyndebourne Opera
(more) »rank: 18721starring: Massimo Giordano, Felicity Palmer, Alessandro Corbelli, Vladimir Jurowski, Marie McLaughlin
:Description:Royal reality in a landmark series produced for the BBC. For the first time ever, cameras go behind the scenes at Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in the world and home to Queen Elizabeth since childhood. The result is an intimate glimpse of castle life above and below stairs over the course of a year that includes a historic state banquet and the wedding of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker-Bowles. Meet some of the 300 people who live and work in the castle’s 900 rooms: the Queen’s housekeeper, grooms, fendersmiths, and military knights, to ...
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The Funny Blokes of British Comedy
(more) »rank: 59545starring: Judy Cornwell, Emily Joyce, Richard Briers, Geoffrey Palmer, Jon Plowman
directed by: Duane Huey
: :Experience again Basil Fawlty the sharp-tongued short-tempered owner of Fawlty Towers and the quiet humor of Lionel Hardcastle ( As Time Goes By) the once dashing young Army officer. Remember Father Dougal (Father Ted) the priest oblivious t anything outside of his always-sunny world; a character that Ardal O'Hanlon modeled after a dog. And who can forget the two words from Mr. Humphries (Are You Being Served) that can always make you smile 'I'm free!' Revisit these and many more of your favorite characters. Join host Lenny Henry (Chef!) in honoring the careers and ...
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Handel - Rodelinda / Roschmann, Chance, Palmer, Nilon, Robson, Chiummo, Bolton, Munich Opera
(more) »rank: 66662starring: Dorothea Roschmann, Felicity Palmer, Michael Chance, Paul Nilon, Ivor Bolton
directed by: Umberto Chiummo
: :Experience again Basil Fawlty the sharp-tongued short-tempered owner of Fawlty Towers and the quiet humor of Lionel Hardcastle ( As Time Goes By) the once dashing young Army officer. Remember Father Dougal (Father Ted) the priest oblivious t anything outside of his always-sunny world; a character that Ardal O'Hanlon modeled after a dog. And who can forget the two words from Mr. Humphries (Are You Being Served) that can always make you smile 'I'm free!' Revisit these and many more of your favorite characters. Join host Lenny Henry (Chef!) in honoring the careers and ...
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Janacek - Kat'a Kabanova / Davis, Gustafson, Palmer, Glyndebourne Opera
(more) »rank: 80156starring: Barry McCauley, Felicity Palmer, Ryland Davies, Nancy Gustafson, John Graham-Hall
directed by: Derek Bailey
:Description:Tobias Hoheisel's designs and the neurotic flaring colors of Edvard Munch's expressionistic world provide the setting for Nikolaus Lehnhoff's production of Janácek's three-act opera for the lyndebourne Festival Opera. Lehnhoff's sparse and intense production achieves a harrowing realism in its depiction of the suffocating and frustrated emotions that are destroying a straight-laced, middle-class household. Janácek's incandescent score, played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Andrew Davis, has seldom achieved such perfect unity with the dramatic action as it has in this landmark production. There is an extraordinary magnetic tension in the performance ...
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Tchaikovsky - Pique Dame / Davis, Marusin, Gustafson, Palmer, London Philharmonic
(more) »rank: 47991starring: Yuri Marusin, Nancy Gustafson, Felicity Palmer, Sergei Leiferkus, Dmitri Kharitonov
:Description:The 1992 Glyndebourne Festival Opera production of Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades) won unanimous critical acclaim for its revelatory interpretation of the mesmeric and psychologically harrowing work which Tchaikovsky himself regarded as his masterpiece. The cast features three top Russian singers: Sergei Leiferkus, who 'brings imposing vocal distinction to the part of Herman's free-living friend Count Tomsky,'--Daily Telegraph; Dimitri Kharitonov, 'a soft-grained, notably stylish Yeletsky,'--Financial Times; and Yuri Marusin, 'the indisputable star of the show... from whom Vick secures an astonishing physical portrait of Tchaikovsky's doomed hero, one that strikes terror and evokes pity,'--Sunday ...
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Britten - Let's Make an Opera
(more) »rank: 112276starring: Felicity Palmer, Lisa Milne, Kate Flowers, John Graham Hall, Stephen Richardson
directed by: Peter Weigl
:Description:The 1992 Glyndebourne Festival Opera production of Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades) won unanimous critical acclaim for its revelatory interpretation of the mesmeric and psychologically harrowing work which Tchaikovsky himself regarded as his masterpiece. The cast features three top Russian singers: Sergei Leiferkus, who 'brings imposing vocal distinction to the part of Herman's free-living friend Count Tomsky,'--Daily Telegraph; Dimitri Kharitonov, 'a soft-grained, notably stylish Yeletsky,'--Financial Times; and Yuri Marusin, 'the indisputable star of the show... from whom Vick secures an astonishing physical portrait of Tchaikovsky's doomed hero, one that strikes terror and evokes pity,'--Sunday ...
