Movies & TV

Triple feature.

This DVD showcases 3 of Frederick Ashton's shorter works. Music is by Meyerbeer, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, and Massenet. The Royal Ballet performs with artists Ashton, McRae, Raine, Takada, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Murphy, Bussell, Cope, Morera, Cervera.

One of the first operas deserving of the name, Didone is our first surviving musical version of the famous episode in Virgil's Aeneid where the Trojan hero loves and then cruelly leaves the noble Dido. Cavalli learnt at the feet of Monteverdi, and his...

From Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Paolo Sorrentino, the ten-episode limited series The Young Pope tells the fictional story of Lenny Belardo, a.k.a. Pius XIII, the first-ever American Pope and the youngest elected by the College...

Television's favorite squad of detectives is back on the case in the thrilling third season of Major Crimes, the powerful crime drama that ranks as one of basic cable's Top 10 original series. The elite team is back, headed by two-time Oscar nominee Mary...

With Naruto as the Seventh Hokage, Hidden Leaf Village is planning to host the Chunin Exams to train new shinobi from the village and from five of their allied villages. Among the entrants are Sasuke's daughter, Sarada, who adores Naruto, Mitsuki, an...

Chamber Works DVD

Perhaps no opera is closely and affectionately associated with a single house as Le nozze di Figaro is with Glyndebourne. Michael Grandage's staging is the seventh production there and is set in a 60s ambiance. Marshaled by the "ideal pacing" of Robin...

Siegfried Kaminski On Air 3 DVD

One of the composer's most beguiling scores, La Favorite is Gaetano Donizetti's La favorita in it's original French form; a tale of love and war that represents a glorious mix of Italian bel canto and 19th c. grand opera. Vincent Boussard's arresting...

Roberto Alagna, Serena Gamberoni, and Marc Barrard star in this 2008 Bologna performance of the Gluck opera filmed in HD and conducted by Giampaolo Bisanti.

Marius Petipa's exotic ballet, set in legendary and mysterious India, is a story of love, death and vengeful judgment. Yuri Grigorovich's sumptuous recreation of Petipa's choreography, with breathtaking sets and costumes designed by Nikolay Sharonov,...