<br><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005RIXS/ncdn"><IMG SRC="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005RIXS.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" alt="Maria Ewing bursts through vocal boundaries as Salome, mezzo-soprano turned soprano" hspace="3" vspace="3"></A>
<br><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000IPHT/ncdn"><IMG SRC="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000IPHT.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" alt="The ultimate ballet movie, The Red Shoes traces the career of dancer Victoria Page, torn between Boris Lermontov, the Svengali-like director of a ballet company, and Julian Craster, the nebbishy composer who wields a conductor's baton but little power." hspace="3" vspace="3"></A><p>
<br>Abduction of Figaro...This DVD opens with Peter Schickele introducing – in his characteristically deadpan manner – his special creation/ discovery of PDQ Bach. <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00018D58A/ncdn">THE DVD: P.D.Q. Bach - Abduction of Figaro / Peter Schickele, Minnesota Opera</A>
<br><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001FR1FG/ncdn"><IMG SRC="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0001FR1FG.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" alt="Voices of our Time - Felicity Lott / Graham Johnson, Chatelet Opera" hspace="3" vspace="3"></A>
<br><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000TWMSE/ncdn"><IMG SRC="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000TWMSE.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" alt="It took a visionary American lady to bring this monumental Russian work to the stage, ironically in Paris of all places. The result was glorious. Francesca Zambello pulled off the very difficult task of staging an opera like this spectacularly." hspace="3" vspace="3"></A>
<br><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005RIXK/ncdn"><IMG SRC="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005RIXK.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" alt="Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is Wagner's only comedy, a Wagner opera that will appeal to many who don't usually care for Wagner operas. It is handsomely staged by the Australian Opera in a witty, musically polished interpretation." hspace="3" vspace="3"></A>
<br><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00024INSK/ncdn"><IMG SRC="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00024INSK.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" alt="Kathleen Ferrier - An Ordinary Diva...It's about the British contralto who died from cancer in 1953 and, like Maria Callas, could project a complete emotional world in a single melodic line." hspace="3" vspace="3"></A>