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Mozart's LE NOZZE DI FIGARO was given a triumphant staging in 1966 at the Salzburg festival, having sprung from the creative team of Karl Bohm and Gunther Rennert. This production ran for five years and became a yearly highlight. This film was created from a copy kept in the archives of Austrian television, with restored sound and video resulting in a stunning DVD experience.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Audio: LPCM MonoInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access
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I PURITANI is the final opera from Bellini before his tragic passing, and centers around the 17th century English civil war. This version from 1966 is faithfully rendered by a cast that includes Gianna D`Angelo and Luciano Salderi. Regarded alongside NORMA as the finest of his works, I PURITANI is an exquisitely written piece.
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Using elements of far and Middle Eastern dances to create abstract pieces called musical visualizations, Ruth St. Denis and her husband Ted Shawn have formed this legendary approach to modern dance.
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This entertaining musical, based on the Broadway hit inspired by the hysteria surrounding Elvis Presley's induction into the army, traces the shock waves a drafted rock& roll star, Conrad Birdie (Jesse Pearson), creates when he comes to a small town to kiss adoring fan Kim McAfee (Ann-Margret) good-bye on national TV. A fiesty secretary, Rosie DeLeon (Janet Leigh), has put the whole plan in motion, hoping that Birdie will sing a song composed by her beau, Albert Peterson (Dick Van Dyke), enabling Rosie's boyfriend to finally break free of his domineering mother (Maureen Stapleton) and marry her. Meanwhile, Kim's new steady, Hugo (Bobby Rydell), is less than pleased about the spotlighted embrace, as are her parents (Paul Lynde and Mary LaRoche)--at least until they get in on the action too. Ed Sullivan appears as himself, Ann-Margret is her usual perky, gyrating self, Van Dyke amply displays his wealth of talents, and Lynde and Stapleton nearly steal the whole production with their hilarious supporting roles. Director George Sidney, who would soon collaborate with the real King in the Presley tour de force VIVA LAS VEGAS, tightens the Broadway original without losing any of its verve and charm to create a rollicking uptempo joyride through a candy-colored early 1960s pop-culture landscape.DVD Features:Region 1 EncodingKeep CaseTalent and FilmographiesScene SelectionsTheatrical TrailerProduction Notes
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Internationally acclaimed conductor John Eliot Gardiner conducts this rendition of Mozart's most popular opera, THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO. Filmed live in 1993, this classic production features the incomparable talents of Bryn Terfel (as Figaro), Alison Hagley, Rodney Gilfry, and several others. The Monterverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists provide accompaniment.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Audio: PCM Stereo
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