Editorial Product Review:Description:In January 2007, superstar soprano Natalie Dessay, joined on stage by acclaimed tenor Juan Diego Florez dazzled British audiences in Laurent Pelly's new production of Donizetti's 'LA FILLE DU REGIMENT'. The perfectly staged & cast production became the operatic event of the year, receiving rave press reviews & rapturous audience ovations. :This DVD version of Donizetti’s comic opera zooms right to the top of any list of essential videos for opera fans. It may not be the composer’s best work, but given a top-notch ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:The irrepressible Eric Idle (Monty Python’s Flying Circus) teams up with the English National Opera in this hilarious performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s beloved comic opera, THE MIKADO. This rollicking version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular tale relocates the action from ancient Japan to a 1920s English seaside resort. Here the rule of the Mikado is absolute--and often prone to whimsy. Ko-Ko (Eric Idle) is sentenced to death for the crime of flirting, but in a strange turn of events is instead named ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:The irrepressible Eric Idle (Monty Python’s Flying Circus) teams up with the English National Opera in this hilarious performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s beloved comic opera, THE MIKADO. This rollicking version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular tale relocates the action from ancient Japan to a 1920s English seaside resort. Here the rule of the Mikado is absolute--and often prone to whimsy. Ko-Ko (Eric Idle) is sentenced to death for the crime of flirting, but in a strange turn of events is instead named ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Royal reality in a landmark series produced for the BBC. For the first time ever, cameras go behind the scenes at Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in the world and home to Queen Elizabeth since childhood. The result is an intimate glimpse of castle life above and below stairs over the course of a year that includes a historic state banquet and the wedding of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker-Bowles. Meet some of the 300 people who live and work in the castle’s ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Royal reality in a landmark series produced for the BBC. For the first time ever, cameras go behind the scenes at Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in the world and home to Queen Elizabeth since childhood. The result is an intimate glimpse of castle life above and below stairs over the course of a year that includes a historic state banquet and the wedding of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker-Bowles. Meet some of the 300 people who live and work in the castle’s ...
Editorial Product Review: :Experience again Basil Fawlty the sharp-tongued short-tempered owner of Fawlty Towers and the quiet humor of Lionel Hardcastle ( As Time Goes By) the once dashing young Army officer. Remember Father Dougal (Father Ted) the priest oblivious t anything outside of his always-sunny world; a character that Ardal O'Hanlon modeled after a dog. And who can forget the two words from Mr. Humphries (Are You Being Served) that can always make you smile 'I'm free!' Revisit these and many more of your favorite ...
Editorial Product Review: :Experience again Basil Fawlty the sharp-tongued short-tempered owner of Fawlty Towers and the quiet humor of Lionel Hardcastle ( As Time Goes By) the once dashing young Army officer. Remember Father Dougal (Father Ted) the priest oblivious t anything outside of his always-sunny world; a character that Ardal O'Hanlon modeled after a dog. And who can forget the two words from Mr. Humphries (Are You Being Served) that can always make you smile 'I'm free!' Revisit these and many more of your favorite ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Tobias Hoheisel's designs and the neurotic flaring colors of Edvard Munch's expressionistic world provide the setting for Nikolaus Lehnhoff's production of Janácek's three-act opera for the lyndebourne Festival Opera. Lehnhoff's sparse and intense production achieves a harrowing realism in its depiction of the suffocating and frustrated emotions that are destroying a straight-laced, middle-class household. Janácek's incandescent score, played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Andrew Davis, has seldom achieved such perfect unity with the dramatic action as it has in this ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:The 1992 Glyndebourne Festival Opera production of Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades) won unanimous critical acclaim for its revelatory interpretation of the mesmeric and psychologically harrowing work which Tchaikovsky himself regarded as his masterpiece. The cast features three top Russian singers: Sergei Leiferkus, who 'brings imposing vocal distinction to the part of Herman's free-living friend Count Tomsky,'--Daily Telegraph; Dimitri Kharitonov, 'a soft-grained, notably stylish Yeletsky,'--Financial Times; and Yuri Marusin, 'the indisputable star of the show... from whom Vick secures an astonishing physical portrait ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:The 1992 Glyndebourne Festival Opera production of Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades) won unanimous critical acclaim for its revelatory interpretation of the mesmeric and psychologically harrowing work which Tchaikovsky himself regarded as his masterpiece. The cast features three top Russian singers: Sergei Leiferkus, who 'brings imposing vocal distinction to the part of Herman's free-living friend Count Tomsky,'--Daily Telegraph; Dimitri Kharitonov, 'a soft-grained, notably stylish Yeletsky,'--Financial Times; and Yuri Marusin, 'the indisputable star of the show... from whom Vick secures an astonishing physical portrait ...
This raw work-flow application isn't the Holy Grail many hoped it would be, but Apple Aperture 1.5 could make life easier for photographers who need to cull, retouch, and output large numbers of photographs quickly and efficiently.
This raw work-flow application isn't the Holy Grail many hoped it would be, but Apple Aperture 1.5 could make life easier for photographers who need to cull, retouch, and output large numbers of photographs quickly and efficiently.