Opera, Operetta, and Musicals

• Who's afraid of opera?
  Call Number: M1500.A1 W4 v.1 1983
  Location: General
  Publication information: New York : MGM/UA Home Video, 1983
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., stereo, col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 text
  Description: In Faust, Marguerite loves a man who has sold his soul to the devil for youth and pleasure. In Rigoletto, Gilda is a jester's daughter in love with a fickle duke
  

• Who's afraid of opera?
  Call Number: M1500.A1 W4 v.2 1983
  Location: General
  Publication information: New York : MGM/UA Home Video, 1983
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., col. (stereo) ; 1/2 in. + 1 booklet ([16] p.)
  Description: As Violetta in La Traviata, Joan is a beautiful Parisian courtesan in love with a penniless nobleman. Joan also plays Donizetti's Marie, found as an infant on the battlefield and adopted by a whole regiment of adoring fathers
  

• Who's afraid of opera?
  Call Number: M1500.A1 W4 v.3 1985
  Location: General
  Publication information: W. Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur International, [198-]
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., col. (stereo) ; 1/2 in
  Description: As Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Joan is the rich and elegant ward of a strict guardian. When Figaro, the nosy barber, butts into her love life, all fun breaks loose! And as Lucy in Lucia di Lammermoor, betrayed by her own brother, Joan is a tragic heroine indeed!
  

• Who's afraid of opera.
  Call Number: M1500.A1 W4 v.4 1985
  Location: General
  Publication information: W. Long Beach, N.J. : Kultur International, [198-?]
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd. (stereo), col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: In the comic opera Mignon
  Contents: Joan portrays the exuberant Philine, whose attentions and affections are much sought after. As the title character in La Perichole Joan displays her lively flair for comedy as well as the rich vocalizing which characterizes her exceptional range and abilities
  

• Bizet's Carmen
  Call Number: M 1500 .B59 C3 1984
  Location: General
  Publication information: Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, c1984
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (151 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Film version of the classic opera, with Migenes-Johnson as Carmen who seduces and then spurns the young army corporal (Domingo). Made for the screen and shot on location in Andalusian Spain
  

• Carmen
  Call Number: M1500.B59 C3 1991
  Location: General
  Publication information: [England] : Royal Opera House ; [Chicago, IL] : Public Media Home Vision, c1991
  Physical description: 2 videocassettes (164 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 booklet (7 p. ; 18 cm.)
  Description: Carmen, a seductive gypsy, seduces, spurns and is killed by Don José
  

• Peter Grimes
  Call Number: M 1500 .B7 P4 1981
  Location: General
  Author: Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976
  Publication information: [London] : Covent Garden Video Productions Ltd., 1981
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Displays the universal theme of conflict between an individual and a society that sees him as an outsider
  

• Adriana Lecouvreur
  Call Number: M 1500 .C5 A4 1985
  Location: General
  Publication information: [S.l.] : Sony Corporation of America, c1985
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (142 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 1/2 in. + 1 booklet ([12] p. : ill., ports. ; 18 cm.)
  Description: A dramatic tale of love and jealousy, based on the life of Adriana Lecouvreur, considered the greatest French actress of the 18th century
  

• Lucia di Lammermoor
  Call Number: M1500.D66 L8 1983
  Location: General
  Author: Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848
  Publication information: Hollywood, Calif. : Bel Canto Paramount Home Video, c1983
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. 1 booklet (10 p. ; 18 cm.)
  Description: Encrico tries to force his sister to wed Arturo in order to save a family fortune
  

• The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
  Call Number: M1500.G4 P6 1993
  Location: General
  Publication information: [England] : EMI Records Ltd., 1993
  Physical description: 2 videocassettes (ca. 184 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Portrays the lives of the occupants of Catfish Row
  

• Jen?fa
  Call Number: M1500.J3 J4 1989
  Location: General
  Publication information: Chicago, IL : Home Vision, c1989
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: A tale of passion, betrayal, and the transfiguring power of love. The embittered widow, Kostelni?ka, drowns her infant grandson to save her beloved stepdaughter Jen?fa from the shame and hardship of raising an illegitimate child
  

• Amahl and the night visitors
  Call Number: M1500.M4 A6 1986
  Location: General
  Publication information: New York, N.Y. : Video Artists International, c1986
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Menotti's opera relates how a crippled young shepherd comes to accompany the three kings on their way to pay hommage to the newborn Jesus
  

• Così fan tutte
  Call Number: M1500.M69 C6 1989
  Location: General
  Publication information: Milan, Italy : RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana/Teatro alla Scala ; Chicago, Ill. : HomeVision, 1989
  Physical description: 2 videocassettes (186 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + booklet (7 p.)
  Description: Comic opera in which two friends disguise themselves and seduce each others sweethearts for the sake of a bet
  

• Don Giovanni
  Call Number: M1500.M69 D6 2005
  Location: General
  Publication information: [Germany] : Arthaus Musik, c[2005?]
  Physical description: 1 videodisc (168 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 text (23 p. : port. ; 18 cm.)
  Description: The story centers around a young nobleman who is obssessed with amorous conquests and his encounters with Donna Anna, the woman who plots to destroy him
  

• Die Zauberflöte, K. 620
  Call Number: M1500.M69 M32 1988
  Location: General
  Author: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
  Publication information: Munich : Unitel ; [Netherlands] : Philips ; New York : PolyGram Records [distributor], p1988
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (161 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. 1 booklet (9 p. ; 18 cm.)
  

• The marriage of Figaro;a comic opera in 4 acts
  Call Number: M1500.M69 M37 1985
  Location: General
  Publication information: New York, N.Y. : Video Arts International, c1985
  Physical description: 2 videocassettes (168 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Opera based on Beaumarchais' sequel to his Barber of Seville
  

• Les Contes d'Hoffmann;The tales of Hoffmann
  Call Number: M 1500 .O35 C6 1981
  Location: General
  Publication information: New York, N.Y. : Thorn EMI Video, c1981
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (149 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 libretto
  Description: Seeking to exorcise the failure of his current love affair, the poet Hoffmann tells the tales of his three past loves and recalls how each was thwarted by the evil influence of his rival
  

• Dialogues of the Carmelites;an opera in three acts and twelve scenes
  Call Number: M1500.P68 D52 1985
  Location: General
  Publication information: [S.l.] : Sony Corporation of America, c1985
  Physical description: 2 videocassettes (155 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 synopsis
  Description: The plot, based on the true story of the persecution of sixteen Carmelite nuns during the French Revolution, depicts the tragic effects of civil war on all facets of society, including the religious orders. Confronted by the atheistic stand of the revolutionaries, the nuns refuse to deny God even at the risk of their own lives. Blanche, a timid young girl seeking a life of heroism, joins the Carmelites and adopts the name of Sister Blanche of the Agony of Christ. Eventually the nuns are expelled from the convent by a decree prohibiting religious organizations. Because of their defiance, the nuns are later arrested, imprisoned, and sentenced to death. As the last sister is lead to the guillotine, her face glows with radiance. Sister Blanche has arrived with new-found courage to fulfill her destiny
  

• Tosca
  Call Number: M1500.P8 6 1986
  Location: General
  Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924
  Publication information: Hollywood, CA : Paramount Home Video [distributor], c1986
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  

• La Bohème
  Call Number: M1500.P8 B62 1982
  Location: General
  Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924
  Publication information: New York, N.Y. : Thorn EMI Video, 1982
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + libretto (55 p.)
  

• La Bohème
  Call Number: M1500.P8 B62 1989
  Location: General
  Publication information: [Chicago] : Home Vision, c1989
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Puccini's bittersweet tale of high-spirited bohemians and doomed love
  

• La bohème
  Call Number: M1500.P8 B62 1999
  Location: General
  Author: Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924
  Publication information: Long Beach, Calif. : Pioneer Classics, c1999, c1982
  Physical description: 1 videodisc (141 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
  

• La Fanciulla del West
  Call Number: M 1500 .P8 F3 1983
  Location: General
  Publication information: New York, N.Y. : Thorn EMI Video, 1983
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 libretto (50 p. ; 17 cm.)
  Description: Minnie, owner of a saloon in a mining camp in California, falls in love with Dick Johnson who is in reality the bandit Ramirez. Sheriff Jack Rance is also in love with Minnie and they play poker to determine the bandit's fate. Minnie cheats and wins his freedom, but he is caught. About to be hanged, Johnson/Ramirez is saved when Minnie pleads for his life
  

• Madama Butterfly
  Call Number: M1500.P8 M17 1983
  Location: General
  Publication information: [New York, NY] : Thorn EMI Video, c1983
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 booklet (40 p.)
  Description: An American naval officer falls in love with a Japanese geisha girl known as Butterfly and goes through a ceremony of marriage with her. He then goes back to America while Butterfly waits for his return, with their child. Pinkerton returns with his new American wife and learns that he has a son. The grief-stricken Butterfly kills herself
  

• Turandot
  Call Number: M1500.P8 T8 1984
  Location: General
  Publication information: New York : MGM/UA Home Video, c1984
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (138 min.) : sd., col. (stereo) ; 1/2 in
  Description: Set in Peking, the opera opens with the proclamation that Princess Turandot will become the bride of the royal suitor who can successfully answer three riddles. Unsuccessful suitors lose not only the hand of the princess, but their heads as well. Calaf, a handsome prince who has been travelling the countryside incognito, is so struck by Turandot's beauty that he tries to win her hand
  

• La Cenerentola;Cinderella
  Call Number: M1500.R6 C4 1983
  Location: General
  Publication information: New York : HBO/CANNON Video ; [S.l.] : NVC Arts International [distributor], 1983
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (152 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
  

• Samson et Dalila
  Call Number: M1500.S35 S3 1981
  Location: General
  Publication information: [London, Eng.] : Covent Garden Video Productions, Ltd. and Royal Opera House Covent Garden Ltd. ; [S.l.] : Arts International Ltd. [distributor], c1981
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: A dramatization of Chapter 16 of the Book of Judges in which Samson, an Israelite judge of extraordinary strength, was betrayed to the Philistines by Delilah, who cut his hair as he slept and thus deprived him of his strength
  

• Die Fledermaus
  Call Number: M 1500 .S8 F5 1984
  Location: General
  Publication information: New York : Thorn EMI Video, c1984
  Physical description: 2 videocassettes (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 booklet
  Description: Baron von Eisenstein is supposed to go to jail for eight days for a minor offense, but decides to attend a ball first. When the governor of the jail comes to take him away he finds the Baroness entertaining a former suitor. To avoid difficulty she persuades the suitor to pose as her husband and go to jail for a night. She then goes to the ball alone and faces other complications. The next morning everyone arrives at the jail and all confusions are eventually cleared up
  

• Aida
  Call Number: M1500.V4 A52 2000
  Location: General
  Publication information: Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon ; New York : Distributed by Universal Music & Video, [2000], p1991
  Physical description: 1 videodisc (158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (23, [1] p. : ill. : 19 cm.)
  Description: An Egyptian soldier falls in love with his Ethiopian captive
  

• Aida
  Call Number: M1500.V47 A5 1986
  Location: General
  Publication information: Framingham, Mass. : Home Vision, c1986
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (160 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 booklet
  Description: The action takes place in ancient Egypt, and tells of the love of Radames, the captain of the guard, for a slave girl, Aida. She is the daughter of the King of Ethiopia, who is captured by Radames and the Egyptian troops. Tricked into betraying military secrets, Radames is condemned to be buried alive. He is joined by Aida, who dies with him
  

• Il trovatore
  Call Number: M1500.V47 T7 1985
  Location: General
  Author: Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901
  Publication information: [United States] : Sony Corporation of America ; New York : Corinth Video [distributor], c1985
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 program notes
  Description: The plot revolves around its two female characters. Acuzena is the daughter of a gypsy who, fifteen years before, was burned as a witch for cursing the young son of a nobleman. In revenge, Acuzena abducted the son to throw into the embers of the same fire, but, in her distress, threw in her own son. She has brought up the other child as her own. Leonora (Sutherland) is a lady-in-waiting at court who is loved by two men, the Count di Luna, who is the older son of the nobleman who had Acuzena's mother burned, and Manrico, the troubadour, and leader of the rebel forces engaged in civil war against the count. Tragedy results when the four come together
  

• Rigoletto
  Call Number: M 1500 .V484 R52 1985
  Location: General
  Publication information: New York, N.Y. : Mastervision, [1985?]
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: A performance of the Verdi opera about the deformed court jester named Rigoletto who works for the licentious Duke of Mantua and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter, Gilda. Gilda falls in love with the Duke when he poses as a penniless student. Courtiers later abduct Gilda and take her to the Duke; Rigoletto vows revenge and hires an assassin to kill the Duke. Instead, Gilda sacrifices herself for her lover and dies in her father's arms
  

• Lohengrin
  Call Number: M1500.W34 L6 1986
  Location: General
  Author: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
  Publication information: Hollywood, Calif. : Bel Canto : [Distributed by] Paramount Home Video, 1986
  Physical description: 2 videocassettes (220 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 guide ([12] p. : ill. ; 17 cm.)
  Description: Story of the Swan Knight, who comes to rescue the falsely accused Elsa, stays to marry her, and then must leave her when she disobeys his warning not to question his name or lineage
  

• Der Ring des Nibelungen
  Call Number: M1500.W34 R6 1991
  Location: General
  Author: Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
  Publication information: Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon ; New York : Marketed by Polygram Records, p1991, c1990
  Physical description: 7 videocassettes (941 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 in. + 4 booklets (31 cm.)
  Contents: [v. 1] Das Rheingold (163 min.) -- [v. 2-3] Die Walküre (244 min.) -- [v. 4-5] Siegfried (253 min.) -- [v. 6-7] Götterdämmerung (281 min.)
  

• Tannhäuser
  Call Number: M1500.W34 T3 1986
  Location: General
  Publication information: Hollywood, CA : Paramount Home Video, c1986
  Physical description: 2 videocassettes (VHS) (176 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: The story of Venus and Tannhäuser
  

• Distant harmony;Pavarotti in China
  Call Number: M1506 .D5 1988
  Location: General
  Publication information: Beverly Hills, CA : Pacific Arts Video, c1988
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (85 min.) : sd., col. ; l/2 in
  Description: A visual portrait of Luciano Pavarotti on his tour of China in the summer of l986. With selections from Rigoletto, L'Arlesiana, Pagliacci, La Boheme, and Turandot
  

• In concert
  Call Number: M1506 .I6 1990
  Location: General
  Publication information: [New York] : London ; London : Decca ; New York : Manufactured by PolyGram, p1990
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 booklet
  Contents: L'Arlesiana. Lamento di Federico (4:45) / F. Cilea -- L'Africaine. O paradis! (3:47) / G. Meyerbeer -- Tosca. Recondita armonia (3:08) / G. Puccini -- Das Land des Lächelns. Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (4:11) / F. Léhar -- Rondine al nido (4:05) / V. de Crescenzo -- Core 'ngrato (3:46) / S. Cardillo -- I Vespri siciliani. Sinfonia (9:19) / G. Verdi -- Torna a surriento (3:16) / E. De Curtis -- Granada (4:07) / A. Lara -- La Tabernera del puerto. No puede ser (3:28) / P. Sorozábal -- Andrea Chénier. L'improvviso (5:43) / U. Giordano -- Tosca. E lucevan le stelle (3:14) ; Turandot. Nessun dorma (3:39) / G. Puccini -- Finale (20:46). Medley (Maria ; Tonight ; 'O paese d' 'o sole ; Cielito lindo ; Memory ; Ochi tchorniye ; Caminito ; La vie en rose ; Mattinata ; Wien, Wien, nur du allein ; Amapola ; O sole mio) -- Encore. 'O sole mio (3:14) ; Nessun dorma (4:19),b11684768
  

• Luciano Pavarotti in concerto
  Call Number: M 1506 .L8 1991
  Location: General
  Publication information: Universal City, CA : MCA Universal Home Video, 1991, c1990
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (VHS) (78 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Luciano Pavarotti gives a gala concert in Milan to celebrate the World Cup heroes
  Contents: Ouverture dal Don Pasquale / G. Donizetti -- Quanto e bella, quanto é cara da l'Elisir d'amore / G. Donizetti -- Una furtiva Lagrima da l'Elisir d'amore / G. Donizetti -- Andante in do magg. K315 per flauto e orchestra / W.A. Mozart -- Tombe degli avi miei ... Fra poco a me ricovero da Lucia di Lammermoor / G. Donizetti -- La mia letizia infondere da I Lombardi alla prima crociata / G. Verdi -- Pourquoi me reveiller da Werther / J. Massenet -- Recondita armonia da Tosca / G. Puccini -- E lucevan le stelle da Tosca / G. Puccini -- Carmen Fantasy / Bizet-Borne --Vesti la guibba da I Pagliacci / R. Leoncavallo -- Ouverture da Semiramide / G. Rossini -- La serenata / P. Mascagni -- Girometta / G. Sibella -- Occhi di Fata / L. Denza -- Addio fiorito asil da Madama Butterfly / G. Puccini -- O sole mio! / E. Di Capua -- La mia canzone al vento / C.A. Bixio -- Torna a surrentio / E. De Curtis -- Nessum dorma da Turandot / G. Puccini
  

• Pavarotti
  Call Number: M1506 .P3 1984
  Location: General
  Publication information: [Canoga Park, Calif.] : U.S.A. Home Video ; [S.l.] : [Distributed by Family Home Entertainment], c1984
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (77 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: A videotape of a performance by Luciano Pavarotti at the Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, in March 1984
  Contents: Overture to Semiramide / Rossini -- La Traviata: De miei bollenti spiriti / Verdi -- L'Elisir D'Amore: Una furtiva lagrima / Donizetti --Concertino for flute and orchestra in D major / Chaminade (Mr. Griminelli) --Un Ballo in maschera: Ma se m'e forza perderti / Verdi -- A selection from Overture to William Tell / Rossini -- Messa da requiem: Ingemisco / Verdi --Werther: Porquoi me reveiller / Massenet -- The tale of Tsar Sultan: Flight of the Bumble Bee / Rimsky-Korsakov (Mr. Griminelli) -- La Giocanda: Cielo e mar / Ponchielli -- La Boheme: Che gelida manina / Puccini -- O sole mio / Di Capua -- Torna a Surriento / de Curtis -- Turandot: Nessun Dorma / Puccini
  

• Pavarotti in London
  Call Number: M1506 .P32 1982
  Location: General
  Publication information: Burbank, CA : RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, 1982
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (76 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Contents: Overture to La Forza del destino [orchestral] / Verdi -- Recondita armonia (Tosca) / Puccini -- Ah, la paterna mano (Macbeth) / Verdi -- Dance of the Persian slaves (Khovanshchina) [orchestral] / Mussorgsky -- La mia letizia infondere (I Lombardi alla prima crociata) / Verdi -- Quando le sere al placido (Luisa Miller) / Verdi -- Fra poco a me ricovero (Lucia di Lammermoor) / Donizetti -- Lamento di Federico (L'Arlesiana) / Cilea -- Royal hunt and storm (Les Troyens) [orchestral] / Berlioz -- E lucevan le stelle (Tosca) / Puccini -- Una furtiva lagrima (L'elisir d'amore) / Donizetti -- Nessun dorma (Turandot) / Puccini -- Torna a surriento / de Curtis
  

• Eubie
  Call Number: ML410.B6247 E8 1984
  Location: General
  Publication information: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c1984
  Physical description: 1 videocassette : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: A slapstick musical venture into the career of composer Eubie Blake
  

• The 3 tenors in concert 1994;Tibor Rudas presents Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti with Mehta
  Call Number: ML421.T5 T45 1994
  Location: General
  Publication information: New York : A Vision, 1994
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. + 1 libretto (23 p. : ill. ; 18 x 10 cm.)
  Contents: The Star Spangled Banner -- Candide. Overture / Bernstein -- O Souverain, O Juge, O Pere / Massenet (Jose Carreras) -- Luise Miller. Quando le sere al placido / Verdi (Placido Domingo) -- Werther. Pourquoi me reveiler / Massenet (Luciano Pavarotti) -- Spring is here. With a song in my heart / Rodgers (Jose Carreras) -- Granada / Lara, arr. Hayes (Placido Domingo) -- Non ti scordar di me / De Curtis, arr. Mancini (Luciano Pavarotti) -- A tribute to Hollywood: My way; Moon river; Beacause; Singin' in the rain / medley arranged and orchestrated by Lalo Schifrin (the 3 tenors) -- La Damnation de Faust. Marche Honogroise (Rakoczy) / Berloiz -- Tu, ca nun chiagne / De Curtis, arr. Lozi (Jose Carreras) -- Maravilla. Amor, vida de mi vida / Moreno-Torroba (Placido Domingo) -- Ave Maria / Schubert, arr. Schifrin (Luciano Pavarotti) -- Tosca. E lucevan le stelle / Puccini (Jose Carreras) -- Pagliacci. Vesti la Giubba / Leoncavallo (Placido Domingo) -- Turnadot. Nessun Dorma! / Puccini (Luciano Pavarotti) -- Around the World: America; All I ask of you; Funiculi, funicula; Sous les ponts de Paris; Brazil; Be my love; Marechiare; Lippen schweigen; Santa Lucia luntana; Those were the days; Te quiero dijiste; Torna a Surriento / medley arranged & orchestrated by Lalo Schifrin (The 3 tenors) -- Encores. Rigoletto. La donna e mobile / Verdi ; La traviata. Libiamo ne' lieti calci (Brindisi) / Verdi; Turandot. Nessun Dorma! / Puccini (The 3 tenors)
  

• Three tenors;encore
  Call Number: ML421.T5 T452 1992
  Location: General
  Publication information: [Burbank, CA] : New Line Home Video ; [Culver City, CA] : Columbia Tristar Home Video ; [S.l.] : Distributed worldwide by Allied Vision, 1992
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (57 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Contents: Nessun dorma -- 'O sole mio -- A mare chiaro -- Rondine al nido -- Core 'ngrato -- 'O paese d' 'o sole -- Ochi tchorniye -- Sinfonia -- Caminito -- Amapola -- Cielito lindo -- No puede ser -- Maria -- Memory -- Wien, Wien, nur du allein -- Dein ist mein ganzes Herz -- L'improvviso -- Il lamento di Dederico -- Mattinata -- La vie en rose
  

• Three mo' tenors;live in concert
  Call Number: ML421.T52 T45 2001
  Location: General
  Publication information: New York : RCA Victor : [Distributed by BMG Distribution], c2001
  Physical description: 1 videodisc (81 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
  Description: Music spanning over four hundred years, three languages and seven different musical styles including: opera, broadway, jazz, soul, spiritual and gospel. Includes 4 bonus tracks not part of the PBS broadcast, exclusive interview footage, and photos
  Contents: La donna è mobile -- Let the good times roll -- Have you heard about the baby ; Glory to the newborn King -- Try to temember ; Not while I'm around -- You gotta be a rug cutter ; It don't mean a thing ; I let a song go out of my heart ; Drop me off in Harlem ; I'm beginning to see the light ; Take the A train -- Twisted -- A song for you -- Love train ; Oh girl ; Betcha by golly wow ; Midnight train to Georgia -- Ah! Mes amis -- Make them hear you -- O'cessate di piagarmi -- The jazz cat ; Minnie the moocher -- Today I sing the blues -- I'm a brass band -- Nessun dorma! -- Were you there -- America the beautiful -- Let the praise begin ; Just come ; It's my time to be blessed
  

• Broadway;the American musical
  Call Number: ML1711.8.N3 M372 2004
  Location: General
  Publication information: Alexandria, VA : PBS Home Video, c2004
  Physical description: 3 videodiscs (360 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide
  Description: This documentary series tells the story of the musical and theatre history on Broadway in New York City
  Contents: DISC 1. Episode one. Give my regards to Broadway (1893-1927) ; Episode two. Syncopated city (1919-1933) -- DISC 2. Episode three. I got plenty o' nuttin' (1929-1942) ; Episode four. Oh, what a beautiful mornin' (1943-1960) -- DISC 3. Episode five. Tradition (1957-1979) ; episode six. Putting it together (1980-2004)
  

• Gilbert & Sullivan's the gondoliers, or, The king of Barataria
  Call Number: MO 14 .S95 G65 1982
  Location: General
  Author: Sullivan, Arthur, Sir, 1842-1900
  Publication information: [S.l.] : Goldcrest Films International ; Concord, MA : Distributed by Opera World, c1982
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: With only 2 heart-throb gondoliers and 24 prospective brides, there should be a problem, but no, Giussepe and Marco will let fate chose their mates. And one of them may be the King of nearby Barataria, but which one? They rule the palace in tandem, until all is resolved with typical Gilbertian ingenuity
  

• Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore, or, The lass who loved a sailor
  Call Number: MO 14 .S95 H6 1982
  Location: General
  Author: Sullivan, Arthur, Sir, 1842-1900
  Publication information: [S.l.] : Goldcrest Films International ; Concord, MA : Distributed by Opera World, c1982
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: On the quarter-deck of H.M.S. Pinafore, Captain Corcoran and his crew await the coming of Sir Joseph Porter, who is going to inspect Corcoran's ship and marry his daughter, Josephine. But Josephine is secretly in love with Ralph Rackstraw, a member of the crew. They attempt to elope, but are apprehended. Through a strange twist revealed by Buttercup, the bumboat woman, Ralph and the Captain end up exchanging places, and all ends happily after all
  

• Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe, or, The peer and the peri
  Call Number: MO 14 .S95 I65 1982
  Location: General
  Author: Sullivan, Arthur, Sir, 1842-1900
  Publication information: [S.l.] : Goldcrest Films International ; Concord, MA : Distributed by Opera World, c1982
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Iolanthe used to be the life and soul of Fairyland but was banished 25 years ago for marrying a mortal. Now, pardoned by the Fairy Queen she returns as a beautiful teenager, but with a 24-year-old son, Strephon, who is half fairy, half mortal. He is in love with Phyllis, a ward of the rather susceptible Lord Chancellor. For a while, these complications wreck havoc with the proceedings of the House of Lords, giving Gilbert a chance to poke fun at that august institution
  

• Gilbert & Sullivan's the mikado, or, The town of Titipu
  Call Number: MO 14 .S95 M5 1982
  Location: General
  Author: Sullivan, Arthur, Sir, 1842-1900
  Publication information: [S.l.] : Goldcrest Films International ; Concord, MA : Distributed by Opera World, c1982
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: A wandering minstrel, Nanki-Poo, is searching for Yum-Yum, with whom he has fallen in love. But Yum-Yum is betrothed to Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner. Ko-Ko is under pressure from the absent Mikado to perform an execution and persuades the suicidal Nanki-Plo to be his victim. The fact that Nanki-Poo is in fact the heir to the throne of Japan creates an awkward situation when the Mikado arrives in person
  

• Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience, or, Bunthorne's bride
  Call Number: MO 14 .S95 P3 1982
  Location: General
  Author: Sullivan, Arthur, Sir, 1842-1900
  Publication information: [S.l.] : Goldcrest Films International ; Concord, MA : Distributed by Opera World, c1982
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: The lovesick maidens of Castle Bunthorne forsake their handsome soldier suitors to pursue poet, asthete and fake Reginald Bunthorne. But he loves the village milkmaid Patience, who doesn't like poetry or understand love. When she finally discovers what it means, it is Reginalds's rival that she decides to marry. While all around agree to wed, Reginald is left wife-less ... and happy
  

• Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance, or, The slave of duty
  Call Number: MO 14 .S95 P57 1982
  Location: General
  Author: Sullivan, Arthur, Sir, 1842-1900
  Publication information: [S.l.] : Goldcrest Films International ; Concord, MA : Distributed by Opera World, c1982
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: A group of pirates celebrate the coming of age of their apprentice, Frederic. But Frederic has only been a pirate because of his sense of duty. He plans to go to the police and have them arrested. The arrival of a chorus of beautiful 17-year-old girls on a beach outing with their guardian, Major-General Stanley, leads to one complication after another
  

• Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida, or, Castle Adamant
  Call Number: MO 14 .S95 P75 1982
  Location: General
  Publication information: [United States?] : Goldcrest Films International ; Concord, MA : Distributed by Opera World, c1982
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 112 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Hilarion, awaiting the arrival of Princess Ida, who was betrothed to him twenty years earlier at the age of one, learns that she has renounced mankind and formed a women's university from which men are strictly barred
  

• Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore, or, The witch's curse
  Call Number: MO 14 .S95 R84 1982
  Location: General
  Author: Sullivan, Arthur, Sir, 1842-1900
  Publication information: [S.l.] : Goldcrest Films International ; Concord, MA : Distributed by Opera World, c1982
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: A witch's curse binds each Lord of Ruddigore to commit a crime a day or die. Meantime, in the local fishing village, all the young men are in love with pretty Rose Maybud. Her secret favorite is Robin who, unfortunately, is really the Lord of Ruddigore living incognito to avoid the family curse. He is exposed and forced into a life of crime, until faultless logic offers an ingenious solution and a blissful reunion with Rose
  

• Gilbert & Sullivan's the sorcerer
  Call Number: MO 14 .S95 S67 1996
  Location: General
  Publication information: [United States?] : Goldcrest Films International ; Concord, MA : Distributed by Opera World, [1996?]
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 116 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Alexis, son of Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre, determined that all share the purity of his true love to Aline, daughter of Lady Sangazure, arranges for a love potion to be administered to everyone in the village
  

• Gilbert and Sullivan's trial by jury
  Call Number: MO 14 .S95 T75 1996
  Location: General
  Publication information: [S.l.] : Goldcrest Films International ; Concord, MA : Distributed by Opera World, [1996?]
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Trial by jury: The judge in a breach of promise case delivers an unusual verdict after telling the story of his own rise to wealth and success which involved marrying and then deserting the daughter of a rich lawyer. Cox and Box: A London landlord rents the same room to two tenants, one by day and one by night. When the two tenants eventually meet, they discover they are both engaged to the same woman
  

• Gilbert & Sullivan's the yeomen of the guard, or, The merryman and his maid
  Call Number: MO 14 .S95 Y4 1996
  Location: General
  Publication information: [United States?] : Goldcrest Films International ; Concord, MA : Distributed by Opera World, [1996?]
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (ca. 115 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Phoebe Meryll's father has a plan to save Colonel Fairfax from execution. Fairfax needs to marry before he dies, and Elsie, the sweetheart of Jack Point, the professional jester, agrees to be his temporary bride
  

• Jonathan Miller on acting in opera
  Call Number: MT956 .J66 1987
  Location: General
  Publication information: [New York, NY] : Applause Theatre Book Publishers, c1987
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Stage rehearsal of La Traviata directed by Jonathan Miller
  

• Trollflöjten;The magic flute
  Call Number: ZD 0077;MO 12 .M69 M34 2000
  Location: dvdrn
  Publication information: Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection, [2000]
  Physical description: 1 videodisc (135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
  Description: An opera by Mozart, in which a handsome young man is enlisted to rescue the Queen of Night's daughter from an evil sorcerer
  

• A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum
  Call Number: ZD 0657;ML50.S705 F9 2000
  Location: dvdrn
  Publication information: Culver City, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, c2000
  Physical description: 1 videodisc (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + contents insert
  Description: A conniving slave uses his wiles to attain his freedom during the days of the Roman Empire
  

• Farinelli, il Castrato
  Call Number: ZD 0730;ML 420 .F25 F25 2000
  Location: dvdrn
  Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c2000
  Physical description: 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
  Description: The true story of a world famous castrato in the 18th century is told. With charisma, talent, drive and success, Farinelli had everything: money, talent, fame, women, and the voice of an angel. He becomes obsessed with earning the respect of his brother's rival, the composer Handel
  

• La traviata
  Call Number: ZZT 2317;M 1500 .V484 T7 1983
  Location: vbren
  Publication information: Universal City, Calif. : MCA Home Video, 1983
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: The story of a beautiful courtesan dying of consumption and her love for a poor nobleman. A film version of the opera by Giuseppe Verdi
  

• Tosca's kiss;Il bacio di Tosca
  Call Number: ZZT 3034;ML 3795 .T6 1985
  Location: vbren
  Publication information: Switzerland : Video Arts International, 1985
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: Visits Casa Verdi, a retirement home in Milan, Italy, which was founded by composer Giussepe Verdi for musicians who made their mark in the opera world. Observes the daily life of the residents, showing how they remain dedicated to their craft
  

• Madame Butterfly
  Call Number: ZZT 3812;M 1500 .P8 M18 1997
  Location: vbren
  Publication information: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, 1997
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: An American naval officer falls in love with a Japanese geisha girl known as Butterfly and marries her, with no intention of ever taking her home to America
  

• The Magic flute =;Die Zauberflöte = Trollflögten
  Call Number: ZZT 7679;M 1500 .M69 M3 1986
  Location: vbren
  Publication information: Hollywood, CA : Bel Canto Paramount Home Video, 1986
  Physical description: 1 videocassette (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in
  Description: A handsome young man is enlisted to rescue the Queen of the Night's daughter from an evil sorcerer
  

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