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An evocative production of Janacek's 20th-century opera featuring Ana Silja and Kim Begley and conducted by Andrew Davis, featuring the Glyndebourne Festival Opera. As presented by director Nikolaus Lehnhoff, this story of love and immortality is as relevant and stirring as when Janacek wrote it.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseFull Frame - 1:33Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access

Bernard Haitink conducts this performance by the Glyndebourne Gestival Opera Company of Richard Strauss' opera about the trials and tribulations of a young woman who is betrothed to a rich landowner.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseFull Frame - 1:33Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access

A modernized version of the Greek myth with Orfeo in leather jacket and jeans taking his electric guitar to the city to charm the gods that be to bring Euridice back to life. Hartmut Haenchen conducts the Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33

Written just before his death, Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE provides a highly entertaining operatic drama that follows the efforts of Tamino (Piotr Beczala) to rescue the beautiful Pamina (Malin Hartelius), the daughter of the forbidding Queen of Night (Elena Mosuc). Armed only with a magic flute, Tamino makes his way to Pamina, but with great risk to his own life. This 2000 Zurich Opera production, directed by Jonathan Miller, with set designs by Philip Prowse, sets the opera in 1791, at the time of Mozart's original creation, shortly after the French Revolution.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep Case

Sergei Prokofiev wrote this opera while Nazi troops were mounting at the Russian border, capturing in an opera all the human touches of Tolstoy's novel. This production was conducted by Valery Gergiev at the Kirov Opera house in St. Petersburg, while Russia was undergoing another round of historic changes at the end of the twentieth century.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1:33Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access

Mandolin virtuoso Steve James carefully coaches the viewer in playing blues on the instrument, starting with the most elementary basics and moving forward into techniques such as pick strokes and blues scales, then advancing into double stops and turnarounds. The featured songs Steve teaches include Saturday Night in Jail, The Lonesome Train That Carried My Gal Away, Divin' Duck Blues, Shotgun Blues, and Juanita Stomp.DVD Features:Region (unknown)Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33

The last opera by Richard Strauss, this San Francisco Opera production features Kiri Te Kanawa as the Countess Madelaine, a widow pursued by both a musician and a poet in 18th century France.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1:33Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access

Noted stage and opera director Peter Sellars directs this adaptation of Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins. Famed legendary conductor Kent Nagano conducts the Orchestra of the Lyon Opera, and Teresa Stratas and Nora Kimball head the cast.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseFull Frame - 1:33Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access