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Rated: Exempt
Staring:
Ann Murray,
Valerie Masterson,
Christopher Robson,
Jean Rigby,
Lesley Garrett
The English National Opera has always had an attractively light touch in Handel; this classic production, designed by Nicholas Hytner (director of The Madness of King George and The Crucible), manages to preserve both the work's occasional passion and its undercutting of that passion into urbane absurdity. Anne Murray's Xerxes is a tyrant in love, who learns the hard way that he can neither play with, nor command, his subjects' affections; her forthright declamatory singing, not least in the famous "Larghetto", conveys both the petulance and the final grandeur of a man undergoing a sentimental education. Valerie Masterson and Christopher Hudson, as the princ...
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Staring:
Eric Idle,
Lesley Garrett,
Bonaventura Bottone,
Richard Van Allan,
Felicity Palmer
Director:
John Michael Phillips
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Staring:
Teddy Tahu Rhodes,
Joseph McManners,
Mairead Carlin,
Willard White,
Lesley Garrett
Director:
Francesca Zambello
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Rated: Exempt
Staring:
Lesley Garrett,
Jose Cura,
Guy Barker
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Rated: Exempt
Staring:
Lesley Garrett
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Rated: Exempt
Staring:
Bill Oddie,
Amanda Redman,
Sue Johnston,
Jeremy Clarkson,
Ian Hislop
Director:
Archie Baron, Ian Leese, Matthew Thompson, Rieta Oord, Simon Chu
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Staring:
Gillian Anderson,
Sally Burgess,
Kim Criswell,
Judi Dench,
Lesley Garrett
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Rated: Exempt
Staring:
Lesley Garrett,
Christopher Robson,
English Nat'l Opera Orch And Chorus,
Ivor Bolton
Ariodante makes extraordinary vocal and acting demands, which the English National Opera brilliantly fulfils in a curious combination of baroque music and post-modern production styles. Handel's intensely emotional arias and the surreal staging combine their energies with powerful impact, aided by some imaginative choreography and a remarkable English singing translation of the Italian text. The subject is the painfully complex love entanglements of five characters: pure idealism and raging jealousy, nefarious plots and deceptions, unscrupulous exploitation, and opportunism, hopelessness mounting to the brink of insanity. The plot, as often happens in baroque opera...
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Rated: Exempt
Staring:
Elizabeth Taylor,
David Frost,
Stephen Fry,
John Barry,
Tony Bennett
Director:
Hamish Hamilton
Like all the best celebrity tributes, Dame Elizabeth Taylor: A Musical Celebration (2001) combines the essence of its subject--in this case, charity work for HIV and AIDS research and a legendary career in movies, both meriting every ounce of recognition--with the fascination of a spectacular car smash. The highlights are the screenings of trailers for some of her best films, including Giant and Butterfield 8 (she won an Oscar but derided the picture) and an archive interview in which she memorably describes a tiresome gossip columnist as "a frustrated old biddy". The live entertainment is far shakier than the event's inspiration, though. Presente...
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Rated: Exempt
Staring:
Anton Du Beke,
Erin Boag,
Julian Clary,
Lesley Garrett
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List Price: £19.99
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