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ID: TPDVD115 CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
Subkolektion: Biography Movie This documentary is an intimate look into the story of Doria Manfredi and of her relationship with Puccini, and the opera that came about as a result. “Turandot” tells the story of a local girl that went to work for the Puccinis as a maid. After a few years, Puccini’s wife, Elvira, became convinced that her husband had been having an affair with the young girl. As a result of the rumors she spread, Doria was shunned by the community, and eventually took her own life.
Robert Stevens and Virginia McKenna stars in this Charles Wood film about Puccini. Included is music performed by The Scottish Opera Chorus and Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Sir Alexander Gibson. The film is produced by Simon Channing-Williams. Judith Howarth, Robert Urquhart, Bil Fraser, William Squire, Peter Woodthorpe, Andrew Cruickshank, Phil McCall, Rupert Graves, Ronald Pickup, Linda Esther Gray, Willard White, Eduardo Alvares, Marie Slorach, Alan Okie, Hugh Hetherington, and Gordon Christie also star.
Performance Credits
Robert Stephens -(Films), (Biography), (Music) Actor
Virginia McKenna -(Films), (Biography) Actor
Judith Howarth -(Films) Actor, Doria Manfredi
Eduardo Alvares -(Films) Calaf
Phyllis Cannan - Turandot
Gordon Christie - Pong
Andrew Cruickshank - Father Michelucci
Bill Fraser - Fucini, the Lawyer
Rupert Graves - Tomio, Puccini's Son
Linda Esther Gray - Turandot
Hugh Hetherington - Pang
Phil McCall - Gnicche
Alan Okie - Ping
Ronald Pickup - Giulio Ricordi
Elvira Puccini - Actor
Marie Slorach - Liu
William Squire - Giacchi, the Doctor
Robert Urquhart - Doria's Father
Willard White - Timur
Peter Woodthorpe - Umberto Manfredi
Sir Alexander Gibson - Conductor
Technical Credits
Tony Palmer Director
Simon Channing-Williams Producer
Charels Wood Screenwriter
Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: French, German, Italian, Spanish
Region: NTSC, All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tony Palmer Films
Run Time: 113 minutes |
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ID: TPDVD124 CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
Kolektion: DocumentarySubkolektion: Ballet This is the story of how the most famous dancer that England has ever produced was deceived and betrayed by those closest to her; of how a little girl called Peggy Hookham, brought up in Shanghai, told her mother she would one day become the greatest dancer in the world; and of how, in spite of being almost unable to walk, she was still performing when she was 67.
It is a story of courage and tenacity, of unbelievable devotion - to her art and to those whom she loved who, in the end, left her penniless and alone, even to the extent that she was buried at first in a pauper’s grave. It is the stuff of fiction - except that it is true.
Among the ballets featured are: “Romeo & Juliet,” “Swan Lake,” “Giselle,” “The Sleeping Beauty,” “Marguerite & Armand,” and “The Nutcracker” with Rudolf Nureyev, Frederick Ashton, Robert Helpmann, Ninette De Valois, Roland Petit, Monica Mason, Lynn Seymour, Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell & Beryl Grey.
Actors: Frederick Ashton, Robert Helpmann, Lynn Seymour, Rudolf Nureyev, Roland Petit
Directors: Tony Palmer
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Stereo)
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tony Palmer Films
DVD Release Date: October 28, 2008
Run Time: 163 minutes |
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ID: TPDVD123 CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
Kolektion: DocumentarySubkolektion: Biography Movie Michael Crawford has starred in some of the biggest box-office hits of all time. From Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, to the original Phantom in Phantom of the Opera, both in London's West End and on Broadway; from circus showman in Barnum to EFX, the multi-million extravaganza at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the biggest hotel in the world, which he dominated for over two years, playing Merlin, Houdini and H.G.Wells, and which broke all existing box office records. He is the only actor to have won an Olivier Award as 'Best Actor' at the same time as 'Best Actor in a Musical'. And then there was Hello Dolly with Barbra Streisand, The Knack, How I Won the War with John Lennon… And all this for a man whose first stage role was in an opera by Benjamin Britten!
This is a behind-the-scenes intimate portrait of one of the funniest and most versatile of actors, whose popularity in the United States outshines any other British entertainer in the last 30 years, and whose television shows in Britain are just repeated and repeated in all English-speaking countries purely by public demand.
Actors: Michael Crawford
Directors: Tony Palmer
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tony Palmer Films
DVD Release Date: November 11, 2008
Run Time: 91 minutes |
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ID: OAHD5005D CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
Kolektion: Vocal CollectionRecorded live in Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes, Sussex, 24th April 1999.
Note: This HD-DVD is not compatible with standard DVD players.
Actors: Cecilia Bartoli, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryn Terfel, Myung-Whun Chung, Joakim Svenheden
Format: Anamorphic, Classical, Colour, Dolby, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
Subtitles: Dutch, English, French
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: Opus Arte
DVD Release Date: 31 Dec 2007
Run Time: 90 minutes
Track list:
Donizetti:
Quanto amore (from L'elisir d'amore)
Handel:
Judas Maccabaeus: Arm, arm ye brave
Haydn:
Al Tuo arrivo felice
Mozart:
Le nozze di Figaro, K492: Overture
Cinque … dieci… (Le nozze di Figaro)
Si a caso madama (from Le nozze di Figaro)
Se vuol ballare (from Le nozze di Figaro)
Parto, parto, ma tu ben mio (from La Clemenza di Tito)
Madamina, il catalogo è questo (from Don Giovanni)
La ci darem la mano (from Don Giovanni)
Pa-pa-pa-pa-Papagena (from Die Zauberflöte)
Rossini:
Il barbiere di Siviglia Overture
Dunque io son? (from Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Bel raggio lusinghier (from Semiramide) |
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ID: TPDVD173 CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
Kolektion: DocumentarySubkolektion: Biography Movie Tony Palmer - Director, Editor
Region Code: 0, All regions, NTSC
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
Presentation: Wide Screen
Language: English
Time: 2:17:00
This new DVD from director Tony Palmer telling the story of Gustav Holst is the first ever film about this extraordinary composer.
The first ever film about this extraordinary man - who taught himself Sanskrit, lived on a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara Desert, allied himself during the First World War with a "red priest"who pinned on the door of his church "prayers at noon for the victims of Imperial Aggression," who hated the words used to his most famous tune "I Vow to Thee My Country" because it was the opposite of what he believed, who distributed a newspaper called The Socialist Worker, whose music - especially The Planets - owed little or nothing to anyone, least of all the English folk song tradition, but was a very great composer who died of cancer, broken, and disillusioned, before he was 60. |
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ID: OAHD5001D CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
Kolektion: DocumentaryFormat: Anamorphic, Classical, Colour, DTS Surround Sound, PAL, Subtitled, Widescreen
Language: English
Subtitles: Dutch, English, French, Italian, Spanish
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Classification: Exempt
Studio: Opus Arte
DVD Release Date: 2 April 2007
Run Time: 146 minutes
Agnès Letestu, José Martinez, Karl Paquette & Muriel Hallé
Paris Opera Ballet & Paris Opera Orchestra, Vello Pähn
Please note, this High Definition DVD is not playable on a standard DVD player.
Agnes Letestu and Jose Martinez take the central roles of Odette and Siegried in Rudolf Nureyev's passionate dreamlike interpretation of Tchaikovsky's famous ballet, performed by the Paris Opera Ballet and accompanied by the Paris Opera Orchestra directed by Vello Pähn. |
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ID: TPDVD150 CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
Kolektion: Popular MusicFormat: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Region: 0, All Regions
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tony Palmer Films
DVD Release Date: September 15, 2009
Run Time: 128 minutes
On May 8th 1956, Look Back in Anger changed theatrical history. It’s a fact. But why? And in what ways? And could it possibly be true that Osborne wrote very little else of consequence, as some of his harshest critics maintain? And what exactly did his outbursts against the world in which he found himself really represent?
Osborne believed in an England which he saw successive governments destroying, and saw himself as almost a lone voice screaming protest - it was as simple as that. But this protest was maintained at a terrible cost, to his wives, to his professional standing, to his health, to his pocket, and eventually to his own self-confidence. He made an epic journey from the most successful playwright of his generation, to a forlorn and almost forgotten figure, railing at those who preferred to ignore him. But what was really extraordinary was that throughout that journey, he never lost the fiery power of tongues.
A unique aspect of this two-hour film is the recent discovery of extracts from some of the original stage performances of Osborne’s most famous plays, material of great historical importance not seen for almost 40 years. - Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer; Albert Finney in Luther; Nicol Williamson in Inadmissable Evidence; Robert Stephens in Epitaph for George Dillon; Jill Bennett in A Patriot for Me, with a very young John Osborne as Reidl. Apart from a behind-the-scenes look at Osborne’s Oscar-winning film, Tom Jones, other contributions are from David Hare, Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, John Heilpern (Osborne’s authorized biographer), Peter Nichols, Christopher Hampton, Jocelyn Herbert, Claire Bloom, Charles Wood, Kenneth Tynan, Tony Richardson, Natasha Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, Peter Bowles, Ben Walden, Terence Frisby, Bill Bryden, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Page and the late Helen Osborne, with extracts from other plays performed by Peter Egan and Tom Hollander.
Performance Credits
Laurence Olivier -(Films)(Music) - Participant
Albert Finney -(Films)(Biography)(Music) - Participant
Nicol Williamson -(Films)(Biography)(Music) - Participant
Robert Stephens -(Films)(Biography)(Music) - Participant
Jill Bennett - Actor
John Osbourne - Actor
Richard Burton - Actor
David Hare - Participant
Kenneth Tynan - Participant
Tony Richardson - Participant
Claire Bloom - Participant
John Heilpern - Participant
Peter Nichols - Participant
Christopher Hampton - Participant
Jocelyn Herbert - Participant
Charels Wood - Participant
Natasha Richardson - Actor
Lindsay Anderson - Actor
Peter Bowles - Actor
Ben Walden - Participant
Terence Frisby - Participant
Bill Bryden - Participant
Sylvia Syms - Participant
Ben Kenwright - Participant
Robert Fox - Participant
Anthony Page - Participant
Helen Osbourne - Participant
Technical Credits
Tony Palmer - Director |
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ID: TPDVD126 CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
Kolektion: DocumentarySubkolektion: Biography Movie Made at the request of the Stravinsky Estate to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Stravinsky’s birth, this highly-praised and award-winning film celebrates one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. As Paul Griffiths said in The Times, “this is a wholly wonderful film…much of this portrait is a like a miraculous image, filled with the sense of Stravinsky as man and musician, above all as Russian and believer”.R ’ S a b o u tThis autobiographical film includes documents, photographs and film neverseen publicly before. Stravinsky’s three surviving children talk about their father, and there are contributions from the late Madam Vera Stravinsky, his musical associates Robert Craft, Marie Rambert, Balanchine, Benny Goodman, Serge Lifar, Jean Cocteau, Diaghilev’s secretary, Nijinsky’s daughter, Rimsky Korsakov’s granddaughter, Nadia Boulanger, Georges Auric and many friends and colleagues. Also included in the film are important performances: Les Noces, heard here for the first time in its original scoring, Petrushka, specially recreated for the film by the Bolshoi ballet in its 1911 choreography, The Rite of Spring, the Symphonies, the Violin Concerto, The Rake’s Progress, The Symphony of Psalms…and much else.
Filmed in communist Russia, France, Switzerland, Latvia, New York and Los Angeles, with the London Symphony Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, Westminster Abbey Choir, the State Choir of Latvia, the National Radio Orchestra of the U.S.S.R., the Royal Ballet…… Finally, there is priceless film of Stravinsky himself, talking, remembering, conducting, at work and at home and in the room in which he actually composed The Rite of Spring, in this altogether unique portrait.
Directors: Tony Palmer
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Region: All Regions
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tony Palmer Films
DVD Release Date: November 18, 2008
Run Time: 166 minutes |
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ID: TPDVD128 CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
Kolektion: DocumentarySubkolektion: Oper Directors: Tony Palmer
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Region: All Regions
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Tony Palmer Films
DVD Release Date: September 15, 2009
Run Time: 195 minutes
The Salzburg Festival has hosted every great star of the opera and concert hall, from Toscanini to Anne-Sophie Mutter, from Fischer-Dieskau to Barenboim, from Pollini to Mitsuko Uchida. In this film, the first to tell the story of this remarkable Festival, set in the birthplace of Mozart, director Tony Palmer has been granted unprecedented access to Austria’s film archives. Highlights include performances of Jedermann from 1920 to the present day featuring actors such as Maximilian Schell and Klaus Maria Brandauer; Don Giovanni (with Furtwängler in 1954 and a controversial performance directed by Peter Sellars in the 90s); a wealth of footage of Herbert von Karajan, including performances and never-seen-before home movies; and film of the Nazi hierarchy at the Festival during the Second World War. Alongside this historical footage, the film interviews contemporary stars such as Placido Domingo, Valery Gergiev, Lang Lang, James Levine, Anna Netrebko, Riccardo Muti and Simon Rattle, who tell their stories and open their hearts about this unique Festival.
Technical Credits
Tony Palmer - Director, Editor
Sabine Bauer - Producer
Felix Bauer - Cinematographer
Renate Bienert - Producer
Peter Lusk Executive - Producer
Arthur Reynolds - Associate Producer
David Sigall - Associate Producer |
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ID: TPDVD171 CDs: 1 Type: DVD |
Subkolektion: Education Directors: Carl Frohlich
Commentary: Tony Palmer
Format: DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Region: 0, All Regions, NTSC
Number of discs: 1
DVD Release Date: December 6, 2011
Run Time: 82 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Sound: Stereo
Classification: E (Exempt from Certification)
Release Date 17th October 2011
The film ‘The Life and Works of Richard Wagner’, directed by Carl Fröhlich, was first released on 20th November 1913. It was the first ever ‘bio-pic’, and as such about who else but Wagner? What is extraordinary, however, is that it predates D.W.Griffiths and ‘Birth of a Nation’, usually described as the first ‘long’ silent, at a time when the great majority of silents ran for 10 minutes at most. Fröhlich’s film runs for over 80 minutes! The DVD includes commentary from acclaimed director Tony Palmer.
Starring Giuseppe Becce as the composer (he later became a distinguished composer himself for almost 100 talkies), and made when Wagner’s widow Cosima was still omnipotent in Germany, it raises the question for instance of who exactly was Wagner’s father? Was it Ludwig Geyer, the Jew? Fröhlich went on to have a chequered career. A member of the Nazi party from 1933, he was eventually appointed President of the Reichsfilmkammer, the Nazi trade organisation which controlled access to all film activities. At the end of the war he was arrested and, although de-Nazified in 1948, his studio having been badly damaged during the war never resumed production. His films were then confiscated by the Federal Republic! This film has been fully restored from the original print and keeping the authentic tints to ensure it is as close to what Carl Fröhlich would have wanted. |
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