Catalogue Number:
988 9000
Barcode:
0602498890004
Label:
Verve DVD
Release date:
8 April

TRACKLISTING
1. Diana
2. For Once In My Life / Come Rain Or Come Shine
3. You Are My Destiny
4. Mack The Knife
5. Everybody Hurts
6. It's My Life
7. Put Your Head On My Shoulder
8. Lonely Boy
9. Do I Love You
10. Eye Of The Tiger
11. True
12. Smells Like Teen Spirit
13. I'm Not Anyone
14. Jubilation
15. Hello
16. Black Hole Sun
17. My Way
18. Tears In Heaven

Special features
1. Lonely Boy
2. Times Of Your Life
3. Live @ The Orange Lounge
- It's My Life
- Put Your Head On My Shoulder
- True
- Tears In Heaven

One of the biggest teen idols of the late '50s, Paul Anka moved to the adult sphere several years later and became a successful performer, songwriter, music businessman, and recording artist, remaining so well into the new millennium. Nowhere is it more apparent than this Live Concert DVD which is crammed full of some extraordinary cover versions of hits from unlikely artists such as Nirvana 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', Soundgarden 'Black Hole Sun' and Bon Jovi 'It's My Life' to name but a few. Also included on this release is some fantastic bonus live performances of 'Tears In Heaven' and 'True' etc. all in 5.1 surround sound. This is the sister product to the CD album of the same name released on the same day.

ALSO AVAILABLE:

Rock Swings (CD)

Verve 988 2600

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Catalogue Number:
073 4158
Barcode:
0044007341582
Label:
DG DVD
Release date:
8 April


Series Microsite : www.deutschegrammophon.com/dvd

ARTISTS
Basle Ballet
Wiener Symphoniker
John Lanchbery
Choreography Heinz Spoerli
Director José Montes-Baquer

TRACKLISTING
HÉROLD: La fille mal gardée

Premiered in Bordeaux two weeks before the storming of the Bastille, 'La fille mal gardée' is the only classic 18th-century ballet that continues to be performed in the international repertoire. This comic tale of two lovers features guest star Valentina Kozlova and the Basle Ballet with John Lanchbery conducting the Wiener Symphoniker. Heinz Spoerli's 1981 staging sparkles with vivacity, flashing humor and sensitive plot narration. This release appears for the first time on DVD.
Catalogue Number:
073 4234
Barcode:
0044007342343
Label:
DG 2DVD
Release date:
8 April

Series Microsite: www.deutschegrammophon.com/dvd

ARTISTS
 
Luciano Pavarotti
Idomeneo
Frederica von Stade          
Idamante
Ileana Cotrubas  
Ilia
Hildegard Behrens
Elettra

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus
James Levine
Production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Idomeneo

Filmed live during the first-ever performances of Idomeneo at the Metropolitan Opera in 1982, this production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle features Frederica von Stade, Ileana Cotrubas, and Luciano Pavarotti making a rare appearance in a Mozart role.

'Pavarotti takes Idomeneo to a new musical high,' wrote the New York Post of Pavarotti's first Idomeneo with the company, a performance of great dignity, impeccable musicality and remarkable diction. Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's opulent staging, James Levine's precision conducting, and stunning performances from a starry cast result in 'a brilliant Idomeneo' Daily News

A 2-DVD set in 5.1 DTS Surround Sound

Catalogue Number:
073 4237
Barcode:
0044007342374
Label:
DG 2DVD
Release date:

8 April


ARTISTS
 
Edita Gruberova
Fiordiligi
Delores Ziegler       
Dorabella
Teresa Stratas
Despina
Luis Lima   
Ferrando
Ferruccio Furlanetto          
Guglielmo
Paolo Montarsolo        
Don Alfonso

Wiener Philharmoniker
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Staged and Directed by: Jean-Pierre Ponnelle

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Così fan tutte
+ documentary

Così fan tutte, composed during in the winter 1789/90, centres on a wager that proves the dual inconstancy of two couples who had sworn eternal faithfulness. The work contains some of Mozart's loveliest arias and the largest number of ensembles of any of his operas. Nikolaus Harnoncourt leads Edita Gruberova (Fiordiligi) and the Wiener Philharmoniker in the Jean-Pierre Ponnelle staging of Mozart's most controversial work. Filmed in the stylized setting of a coastal Palladian villa in 1988, Ponnelle's production mirrors the musical and dramaturgical symmetry in Mozart's 2-act opera. Così fan tutte was the last film project of the internationally acclaimed director and stage designer Jean-Pierre Ponnelle for Unitel, who died later that year.

This release appears in 5.1 DTS Surround Sound and includes a bonus documentary DVD on Jean-Pierre Ponnelle and the making of his historic production.
Catalogue Number:
073 4241
Barcode:
0044007342411
Label:
DG DVD
Release date:

8 April

Series Microsite: www.deutschegrammophon.com/dvd

ARTISTS
 
Renata Scotto   
Manon Lescaut
Plácido Domingo         
Des Grieux
Pablo Elvira
Lescaut

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
James Levine
Production by Gian Carlo Menotti

TRACKLISTING
PUCCINI: Manon Lescaut

Filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera on March 29, 1980, James Levine conducts Plácido Domingo (Des Grieux) and Renata Scotto (Manon) in 'a stunning Manon .' New York Post

This luxurious production of Puccini's early masterpiece, a sweetly lyrical tragedy based on Abbé Prévost's poignant novel, appears in 5.1 DTS Surround Sound along with bonus interview footage.

Director Gian Carlo Menotti 'gives us a Manon Lescaut of fluid movement, eye-catching invention, sex appeal and above all, a sense of humor.' The Daily News

Catalogue Number:
070 1299
Barcode:
0044007012994
Label:
Decca DVD
Release date:
8 April

ARTISTS
 
Angela Maria Blasi 
Aminta
Sylvia McNair
Elisa
Iris Vermillion
Tamiri
Jerry Hadley  
Alessandro
Claes H. Ahnsjö  
Agenore

Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Sir Neville Marriner

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Il rè pastore  

This is the first release of Mozart's operatic masterpiece on DVD!

A Major release for 'Mozart 2006', this performance features Sylvia McNair, Jerry Hadley and Sir Neville Marriner.

In a major operatic addition to Mozart's 250th Anniversary, this release sees the first availability of Mozart's early masterpiece, his opera seria, 'Il re pastore', on DVD. Its story, set in Classical antiquity, tells of the thwarted love of Aminta (the innocent 'shepherd king' of the title) for the well-born Elisa, and that of the nobleman Agenore for the deposed tyrant's daughter Tamiri. No less a figure than Alexander the Great resolves these conflicts of private passion and public status.

Sir Neville Marriner conducts a top international cast, including Sylvia McNair, Jerry Hadley and Iris Vermillion, in this 1989 staging from Salzburg's Landestheater.

The disc features both CD-quality stereo and a DTS 5.1 surround sound, and subtitles in English, French, German, Spanish and Chinese.

Extra features consist of a Mozart Picture Gallery and Mozart Chronology.

This release follows the three new Mozart DVD releases in January 2006, marking the forthcoming 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth - John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Requiem and C Minor Mass, a collection of Mozart's choral works, sung by the legendary Vienna Boys' Choir, and a dazzling performance of Mozart's last two symphonies, given by Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic at a Salzburg Festival concert in 1991.