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Recorded in 2000, this live performance from New York's Metropolitan Opera features an inspirational interpretation of Beethoven's Fidelio. James Levine directs the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, with superb support from soprano Karita Mattila, Ben Heppener, and many other outstanding cast members.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - EnglishText/Photo Galleries: Stills/PhotosDVD-ROM Content: Weblinks
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This large-scale Technicolor musical is one of those over-the-top, maximalistic productions that the Golden Age of the Studio System was famous for! Based on the life and times of composer Jerome Kern, TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY features an all-star cast which includes the great crooner Frank Sinatra, the legendary musical starlet Judy Garland, and the notoriously beautiful Lena Horne. And of course, it features many of the hit tunes of the era.
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When a hat-check girl at the Stork Club inadvertently saves a billionaire's life she suddenly finds herself very wealthy, sparking the jealousy of her G.I.
boyfriend.DVD FeaturesRegion 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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RENT: Director Christopher Columbus (MRS. DOUBTFIRE, HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER S STONE) adapts the hit Broadway musical of the same name to the big screen in RENT. A modern spin on the opera LA BOHEME, RENT tells the story of eight friends dealing with life and love in Manhattan`s Alphabet City in 1989. Wannabe filmmaker Mark (Anthony Rapp) and singer/songwriter Roger (Adam Pascal) are facing eviction at the hands of their former roommate and current landlord, Benny (Taye Diggs). Benny has married rich, moved out of the neighborhood, and wants to build a state-of-the-art studio where the local tent city stands. Their downstairs neighbor, vivacious Mimi (Rosario Dawson), who strips at a local club to feed her heroin habit, takes a shine to Roger, a self-imposed recluse and former junkie whose last girlfriend died of AIDS. Their friend, Collins (Jesse L. Martin), returns to town and quickly falls for Angel (Wilson Jermaine Heredia), a glamorous, gracious, HIV-positive transvestite. Finally, there is the fiery Maureen (Idina Menzel), a performance artist who is planning a protest against Benny s plans and has dumped Mark for cerebral Joanne (Tracie Thoms), a lawyer.Over the course of a year, the friends face poverty, drug addiction, break-ups, reconciliations, eviction, and AIDS. Despite these challenges, they find support, hope, and acceptance in each other, all the while embracing the bohemian lifestyle that was so much a part of the Lower East Side. Newcomers Dawson and Thoms mix seamlessly with the original cast members, and Columbus introduces some interesting staging locations. With a concept, music, and lyrics by the late Jonathan Larson, RENT is an exuberant rock-&-roll musical with the underlying message that love can prevail despite all odds and that, ultimately, there really is no day but today. GODSPELL: The gospel according to `60s hippie counterculture in a film version of the stage musical. Jesus` life and teachings are illustrated in
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PBS took their cameras to Ireland to film singer Frank Paterson for IRELAND IN SONG. Breathtaking views of the Irish countryside are accompanied by a selection of songs by Paterson, which include
Galway Bay,
Fields of Athenry,
and the classic
Danny Boy.
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