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Wagner's PARSIFAL is presented here with amazing acuity, the performance from Waltraud Meier as Kundry in particular bringing a strong sense of levity and grace to the character. A wonderful attention to detail and strong stage and costumer designs make this a work not to be missed.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Trailers - 1. Original TrailerText/Photo Galleries: Production Photos
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Carlos Saura has dedicated a good part of his career to bringing the diverse world of Spanish dance to an international audience. He is perhaps best known for the trilogy of CARMEN, BLOODWEDDING, and A LOVE BEWITCHED, taken from the works of Bizet and Garcia Lorca, but also for SEVILLANAS, which, like FLAMENCO, presents the talents of a variety of artists in a straightforward setting. The beautiful cinematography by Vittorio Storaro, who later shot the spectacular GOYA IN BORDEAUX for Saura, is the only element of the film that strays from its documentary feel. Using an old railroad station in Seville, fitted with mirrors, for the setting, Saura presents 300 singers, dancers and musicians. There are guitarists playing moving and mournful solos, women singing gypsy ballads and, of course, floor pounding, straight shouldered dancers who look right into the camera with those dark, smouldering, Spanish eyes. The clear star of the dance segments is the mesmerizing Joaquin Cortes. Doing what is deemed the New Flamenco style, Cortes combines elements of 18th century classical dance with more recent innovations.
His bare-chested Farruca push the erotic elements to the limit of the style and is certainly the high point of the film. Saura wants to demonstrate not just the flamboyance of flamenco, but the breadth and depth of its integration into Spanish culture, and so he includes a rich variety of styles and performers.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseWidescreenText/Image Galleries: Cast and Crew List Flamenco Fact Files FilmographiesInteractive Features: Scene Selections
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Rudolf Nureyev both choreographed and starred in this magical, lavish production of the full-length ballet. After many years of wanting a child, a King and Queen finally are blessed with a baby girl they name Aurora. The joyful parents invite all the fairies to the christening and ask them to bestow good wishes on the new princess. But they have overlooked one fairy: Carabosse -- and she's in a rage over the slight. Nothing will calm her, and she vows that when Aurora is 16, she'll prick her finger on a spindle and die. Only the intervention of the good Lilac Fairy can save the princess. But she hasn't the power to erase Carabosse's evil spell completely. Instead, the Lilac Fairy decrees that Princess Aurora and her court will fall asleep for 100 years... when a prince will awaken her with a kiss. Nureyev's legendary, Emmy-winning performance of Tchaikovsky's ballet is performed with the National Ballet of Canada.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseSingle Side - Single LayerFull Frame - 1.33
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It's a Christmas celebration like no other! Join Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, also known as the Three Tenors, for your favorite songs in this concert performed with the Vienna Boys Choir and filmed on location in the Austrian Alps. Among the songs performed are Jingle Bells, Silent Night, Ave Maria, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and many others. Hosted by Tony Randall.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1:33Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access
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This release features 2 back-to-back programs.
First, a legendary program thought lost forever-
a concert in which Frank, Judy Garland and Dean Martin perform an entire show together in color and stereo!
Then look back at the brilliant career of the man himself with clips from every stage of his amazing life in `The Man and His Music.`
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