Giacomo Puccini - Madama Butterfly / Kaibaivanska, Antinori, Jankovic, Saccomani, Ferrara (Arena di Verona)

Giacomo Puccini - Madama Butterfly / Kaibaivanska, Antinori, Jankovic, Saccomani, Ferrara (Arena di Verona) Review

Undoubtedly one of the world's most popular operas, recorded from the open-air Arena di Verona. Stars Raina Kabaivanska in the title role, with Nazzareno Antinori as Pinkerton and Lorenzo Saccomani as Sharpless. Conducted by Maurizo Arena. Color, 144 minutes.Subtitled in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian.

Sutherland-Pavarotti-Bonynge Gala Concert, Opera Australia

Sutherland-Pavarotti-Bonynge Gala Concert, Opera Australia Review

Featuring arias and duets from operas which have been landmarks in the careers of Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti, including: La Traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor, Pagliacci and Tosca. "...Sutherland was superb, singing with that breathtaking assurance and jewel-like brilliance that has made her so outstanding in the world of opera today." The Canberra Times "(Pavarotti) proved...that this is truly one of the most phenomenal voices of our era, used with genuine musicality and artistry." The Australian. Featuring Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, The Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.

Berklee Workshop: Vocal Technique - Developing Your Voice for Performance

Berklee Workshop: Vocal Technique - Developing Your Voice for Performance Review

Berklee Workshop: Vocal Technique - Developing Your Voice for Performance Feature

• Training on how to warm up your voiceProper posture, breathing, and toneMaintaining vocal healthExercises to improve stamina, range, and sound

Enhance your singing career by learning proper vocal techniques to help prevent injuries and maximize your potential. Featured exercises will help you gain technical and expressive command of your voice. Lessons include: warm-ups, posture, breathing, tone, maintaining vocal health, and improving stamina, range and sound. Anne Peckham is a professor of voice at Berklee College of Music. 53 minutes.

The Wiggles: Toot Toot!

The Wiggles: Toot Toot! Review

The Wiggles: Toot Toot! Feature

• After one ride in the Wiggles' Big Red Car, you'll be giggling and wiggling nonstop. "Toot Toot" and "Chugga Chugga" along with Australia's hottest children's band as they sing and dance their way from space trips to pirate ships. Join Jeff, Murray, Greg and Anthony, as well as Wags the Dog, Officer Beaples, Zardo Zap and many more, for a ride you'll never forget. Start the car and honk the horn.

A beloved children's band from Australia, The Wiggles are four music-making guys: Jeff, Murray, Greg, and Anthony. When the Big Red Car (a whimsical dune buggy) won't start, or as the Wiggles say, no "Chugga, Cugga, Toot, Toot!," it's an ideal time to sing and dance. There are songs about walking across the street and eating foods that are healthy as well as some that are more familiar like "Head, Shoulder, Knees, and Toes" and "Look Both Ways." The lads stir up a whole lot of energy with the help of their costumed friends, including Wags the Dog, Officer Beaples, Dorothy the Dinosaur, Captain FeatherSword, and Zardo Zap. Their videos have a retro '60s feel, very upbeat and fun. It's easy to see why they are so popular in the land down under. Ages 3 to 6. --Peggy Maltby-Etra After one ride in the Wiggles' Big Red Car, you'll be giggling and wiggling nonstop. "Toot Toot" and "Chugga Chugga" along with Australia's hottest children's band as they sing and dance their way from space trips to pirate ships. Join Jeff, Murray, Greg and Anthony, as well as Wags the Dog, Officer Beaples, Zardo Zap and many more, for a ride you'll never forget. Start the car and honk the horn. It's time to "Toot Toot" with The Wiggles. SONGS Look Both Ways John Bradelum Harry's Underwater Big Band Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes Food Food Food (Oh How I Love My Food) Go Captain Feathersword, Ahoy! Do The Wiggle Groove Dorothy the Dinosaur (Tell Me Who Is That Knocking?) Balla Balla Bambina I Climb Ten Stairs Move Your Arms Like Henry Silver Bells That Ring In The Night Wags The Dog, He Like To Tango We're Dancing With Wags The Dog Officer Beaples' Dance Zardo Zap Let's Have A Ceili Toot Toot, Chugga Chugga, Big Red Car

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2 DVD's-The Piano Styles of Dr John

2 DVD's-The Piano Styles of Dr John Review

These two DVDs and videos provide a rare opportunity to visit with Mac Rebennack (a.k.a. Dr. John), one of America's most brilliant and distinctive musical voices. This masterful piano player, prodigious songwriter, two-time Grammy Award winner and celebrated ambassador of New Orleans music demonstrates his remarkable instrumental technique, discusses his influences, and shares intriguing stories of a life in music. With his encyclopedic knowledge of musical styles, Mac plays and analyzes more than 30 tunes, from traditional New Orleans blues to the compositions of Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Doc Pomus and others. 2 DVDs or 2 VIDEOS * INCLUDES MUSIC * LEVEL 4

Another Gay Sequel- Uncut Theatrical Version

Another Gay Sequel- Uncut Theatrical Version Review

Another Gay Sequel- Uncut Theatrical Version Feature

• The boys are back and they are as horny as ever! Packed with celebrity cameos and total gross-out humor, this outrageous follow-up to Another Gay Movie centers around the Spring Break adventures of Andy, Nico, Jarod and Griff when they enter the Fort Lauderdale Gays Gone Wild contest (a contest to see who gets laid the most). The frisky foursome become entwined in all sorts of sexual misadventures

The boys are back and they re as horny as ever! Packed with celebrity cameos and total gross-out humor, this outrageous follow-up to Another Gay Movie centers around the Spring Break adventures of Andy, Nico, Jarod and Griff when they enter the Fort Lauderdale Gays Gone Wild contest (a contest to see who gets laid the most). The frisky foursome become entwined in all sorts of sexual misadventures in this scandalously funny un-PC comedy.

Black Orpheus (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Black Orpheus (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Review

Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was a cultural event, kicking off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.

TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Broadway Musicals (Show Boat / Annie Get Your Gun / Kiss Me Kate / Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)

TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Broadway Musicals (Show Boat / Annie Get Your Gun / Kiss Me Kate / Seven Brides for Seven Brothers) Review

SHOW BOAT (1951) A vivid and vibrant saga of riverboat lives and loves has glorious stars (Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Marge and Gower Champion) in Technicolor radiance, timeless Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II songs and an equally timeless outcry against racial bigotry. Like Ol' Man River, its delights just keep rollin' along. ANNIE GET YOUR GUN Betty Hutton (as Annie Oakley) and Howard Keel (as Frank Butler) star in this sharpshootin' funfest an Oscar winner for adaptation scoring based on the Broadway smash boasting Irving Berlins beloved songs, including Doin' What Comes Naturally, I Got Lost in His Arms and the anthemic There's No Business like Show Business. SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS The perfect marriage of song and dance! Backwoods boys inspired by romance and the lure of hot biscuits raid the local town for brides. Un-uh: The would-be brides insist the fellas first become respectable! Howard Keel and Jane Powell head a leaping whoop for joy in this exuberant Oscar winner. KISS ME KATE When squabbling ex-married's Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical The Taming of the Shrew, life imitates art, art imitates life and it all proves no musical comedy imitates this backstage/onstage delight from the Broadway hit with 14 peerless Cole Porter songs. It's all Too Darn Hot!