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  1. Cosi Fan Tutte (2017)

    aka: Così Fan Tutte: W.A. Mozart

    Director
    Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
    Subject
    Dance; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 188 minutes), £21.58

    An unconventional ballet production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte for the Opéra National de Paris. Così is an opera of double meanings, plot twists and partner-swapping. Choreographer Anne Teresa De...

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  2. Matthew Bourne’s the Car Man (2017)

    aka: The Car Man

    Director
    Matthew Bourne
    Subject
    Dance; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 115 minutes), £19.99

    Dance show loosely based on Bizet’s classical opera Carmen, and the film adaptations of James M. Cain’s novel The Postman Always Rings Twice. Sexy drifter Luca arrives to Harmony, a small Italian...

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  3. Hamlet (2017)

    Subject
    Music; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (145 minutes), £26.12

    An operatic staging of Hamlet with music by two contemporaries of Verdi, Franco Faccio and Arrigo Boito.

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  4. Score: A Film Music Documentary (2017)

    Director
    Matt Schrader
    Subject
    Film studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 94 minutes), £9.99

    What makes a film score unforgettable? This film brings Hollywood’s elite composers together to give viewers a privileged look inside the musical challenges and creative secrecy of one of the world’s...

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  5. Anthony and Cleopatra (2017 Video)

    Director
    Iqbal Khan; Robin Lough
    Producer
    John Wyver
    Subject
    Drama; Music; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 195 minutes), £19.99

    Following Caesar’s assassination, Mark Antony has reached the heights of power. Now he has neglected his empire for a life of decadent seduction with his mistress, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Torn between...

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  6. David Starkey’s Music & Monarchy (2017)

    Subject
    History; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 135 minutes), £7.99

    Presented by renowned historian David Starkey, this BBC series reveals how British kings and queens shaped the story of the nation’s music as patrons and taste makers, and even as composers and performers....

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  7. Ken Russell: The Great Composers: Elgar; The Debussy Film; Song of Summer (2016)

    Director
    Ken Russell
    Subject
    Music; Television studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 56 minutes + 82 minutes + 73 minutes), £29.99

    This collection brings together three of Ken Russell’s films which were made at the BBC during the sixties, for award-winning arts documentary series Monitor and Omnibus. The first of the three films,...

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  8. Verdi: The Shakespeare Operas (2016 Video)

    aka: Verdi: The Shakespeare Operas

    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 457 minutes), £29.99

    A 4-DVD boxed set. Contents: MACBETH staged by Phyllida Lloyd with Simon Keenlyside and Liudmyl Monastryska as the Macbeths, Antonio Pappano conducts from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. OTELLO staged...

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  9. Einstein on the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts (2016)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 264 minutes), £29.99

    Avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson. The plot revolves, loosely, around Einstein’s relationship to the creation of the atomic bomb. Originally premiered in 1976, this...

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  10. Swiss Yodelling - Thirty Years Later (2015)

    Producer
    Hugo Zemp
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 71 minutes + 21 minutes of extras), $340.00

    Thirty years after the first four documentaries, this film continues the research of the particular yodel style of the Muotatal, a Swiss alpine valley. In the 1980s, ethnomusicologist Hugo Zemp found the...

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