 DVD REGION CODES
How does the DVD system work internationally?
The DVD system is a digital one, and is therefore not dependent on the regional television systems found internationally: NTSC in the USA and Japan, PAL in Europe. VHS tapes were/are dependent on these systems. DVD players sold in Europe are designed to connect to a European television set (PAL), whereas DVD players sold in the USA are designed to connect to an NTSC television, but the player itself is in neither.
Most European DVD players can theoretically play an NTSC disc. However this is complicated by the international region codes that are applied to DVDs: this is because most DVDs sold are governed by the strict control of the Hollywood studios which release movies in different countries at different times. Region coding the discs makes it possible for them to block DVD sales in a country until the film has been on general release there.
Some DVD discs are given multi-region coding, and some are coded 0, which means all regions. Code 0 is used on discs that might be regarded as of minority interest: opera and ballet fall into this category, and by issuing the discs in one code only, the distributors have an economical solution to international sales. However, it does mean that all the discs will be burned in one system or the other (PAL or NTSC). If a disc is NTSC and region 0, there should be no problem playing it in Europe.
It is increasingly common for DVD players to be sold as multi-region friendly: the machines are geared to play the local system but can easily be set to play all systems. The seller will generally tell you how to make the adjustment to play all regions when you buy the player.
DVD CODING
[ 0 ] PLAYABLE IN ALL REGIONS.
[ 1 ] BERMUDA, CANADA, UNITED STATES & U.S TERRITORIES.
[ 2 ] THE MIDDLE EAST, WESTERN EUROPE, CENTRAL EUROPE, EGYPT, FRENCH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES, GREENLAND, JAPAN, LESOTHO, SOUTH AFRICA & SWAZILAND.
[ 3 ] SOUTHEAST ASIA, HONG KONG, MACAU, SOUTH KOREA & TAIWAN.
[ 4 ] AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, CENTRAL AMERICA, THE CARIBBEAN, MEXICO, OCEANIA AND SOUTH AMERICA (SANS FRENCH GUYANA).
[ 5 ] THE REST OF AFRICA, FORMER SOVIET UNION, THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, MONGOLIA AND NORTH KOREA.
[ 6 ] MAINLAND CHINA.
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Alphabetical by Composer
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John Adams
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The Death of Klinghoffer
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) John Adams. Cast: Sanford Sylvan, Christopher Maltman, Yvonne Howard, Tom ... |
El Niño
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) John Adams. Cast: Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Willard White. ... |
Thomas Adès
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Powder Her Face
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Thomas Adès. Cast: Mary Plazas, Heather Buck, Dan Norman, Graeme Broadbent. ... |
Isaac Albnéiz
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Merlin
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Isaac Albnéiz. Cast: David Wilson-Johnson, Eva Marton, Stuart Skelton, Carol ... |
Franco Alfano
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Franco Alfano. Cast: Roberto Alagna, Nathalie Manfrino, Richard Troxell, Nicolas Rivenq, ... |
Béla Bartók
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Bluebeard's Castle
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Béla Bartók. Cast: Kolos Kováts & Sylvia Sass. London Philharmonic Orchestra, ... |
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Fidelio
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) A Royal Opera House Production. Ludwig van Beethoven. Cast: Gabriela Benackova, ... |
Fidelio
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Ludwig van Beethoven. Cast: Camilla Nylund, Jonas Kaufmann, Laszlo Polgar, Alfred ... |
Fidelio
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Ludwig van Beethoven. Cast: Marita Mattila, Ben Heppner, Rene Pape, Falk ... |
Fidelio
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Ludwig van Beethoven. Cast: René kollo, Gundula Janowitz, Hans Helm, Hans ... |
Fidelio
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Ludwig van Beethoven. Cast:Richard Cassilly, Anja Silja, Theo Adam, Hans Sotin, ... |
Vincenzo Bellini
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Beatrice di Tenda
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Vincenzo Bellini Cast: Edita Gruberova, Michael Volle, Stefania Kaluza, Raul Hernandez, ... |
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Vincenzo Bellini [The Capulets and the Montagues] Cast: Robert Tagliavini, Valentina ... |
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Vincenzo Bellini [The Capulets and the Montagues] Cast: Patrizia Ciofi, Clara ... |
Norma
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Vincenzo Bellini. Cast Includes: Joan Sutherland, Margreta Elkins, Ronald Stevens, Clifford ... |
Norma
Price: £32.99 (Including VAT) Vincenzo Bellini. Cast: June Anderson, Shin Young Hoon, Ildar Abdrazakov Conducted ... |
Norma
Price: £29.99 (Including VAT) Vincenzo Bellini. Cast Includes: Montserrat Caballe, Jon Vickers, Josephine Veasey, Agostino ... |
Norma
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Vincenzo Bellini. Cast: Joan Sutherland, Tatiana Troyanos, Francisco Ortiz, Justino Diaz, ... |
Norma
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Vincenzo Bellini. Cast: Maria Dragoni, Gianluca Zampieri, Raffaella Angeletti, Giorgio Giuseppini, ... |
Norma
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Vincenzo Bellini. Cast: Dimitra Theodossiou, Nidia Palacios, Carlo Ventre, Riccardo Zenellato, ... |
Norma
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Vincenzo Bellini. Cast: Hasmik Papian, Hugh Smith, Irini Tsirakidis, Giorgio Giuseppini, ... |
Norma
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Vincenzo Bellini. Cast: Dimitra Theodossiou, Carlo Ventre, Daniela Bardellona, Simon Orfila, ... |
I puritani
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Vincenzo Bellini [The Puritans] Cast: Edita Gruberova, Konstantin Gorny, Simón Orfila, ... |
I puritani
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Vincenzo Bellini [The Puritans] Cast: Silvio Maionica, Gianna D'Angelo, Agostino Ferrin, ... |
I puritani
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Vincenzo Bellini. [The Puritans] Cast: Eduardo Valdes, Franco Vassallo, Anna Netrebko, ... |
La sonnambula
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Vincenzo Bellini [The Sleepwalker] Cast: Anna Moffo, Plinio Clabassi, Anna ... |
La sonnambula
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Vincenzo Bellini [The Sleepwalker] Cast: Giacomo Prestia, Nicoletta Curiel, Eva Mei, ... |
Alban Berg
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Lulu
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Alban Berg Cast Includes: Laura Aikin, Cornelia Kallisch, Peter Keller, ... |
Lulu
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Alban Berg Cast: Christine Schafer, Kathryn Harries, Patricia Bardon, Jonathan ... |
Lulu
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Alban Berg. Cast: Laura Aikin, Cornelia Kallisch, Peter Keller, ... |
Wozzeck
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Alban Berg Cast: Dale Duesing, Ronald Hamilton, Barry Banks, Dieter ... |
Wozzeck
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Alban Berg Cast:Toni Blankenheim, Richard Cassilly, Peter Haage, Gerhard Unger, Hans ... |
Wozzeck
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Alban Berg. Cast: Franz Hawlata, Angela Denoke, Reiner Goldberg, Vivian Tierney, ... |
Wozzeck
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Alban Berg. Cast: Franz Grundheber, Waltraud Meier, Graham von Kannen, ... |
Hector Berlioz
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La damnation de Faust
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Hector Berlioz [The Damnation of Faust] Cast: Vesselina ... |
La damnation de Faust
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Hector Berlioz Concert Performance [The Damnation of Faust] Anne Sophie von ... |
Roméo et Juliette
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Hector Berlioz Concert Performance Hanna Schwarz, Philip Langridge, Peter Meven From ... |
Les troyens
Price: £32.99 (Including VAT) Hector Berlioz [The Trojans] Cast Includes: Deborah Polaski, Jon Villars, ... |
Les troyens
Price: £35.00 (Including VAT) GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER Hector Berlioz [The Trojans] Cast: Susan ... |
Les troyens
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Hector Berlioz. Cast:Plácido Domingo, Allan Monk, John Cheek, Paul Plishka, Douglas ... |
Leonard Berstein
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Candide
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Leonard Berstein Cast: Jerry Hadley, June Anderson, Adolph Green, Christa Ludwig, ... |
Mass
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Leonard Bernstein The Musical - Mass at the Vatican City ... |
Trouble in Tahiti
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Leonard Bernstein Cast: Karl Daymond, Stephanie Novacek,Tom Randle, Toby Stafford ... |
Georges Bizet
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Carmen
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) A Royal Opera House Production Georges Bizet Cast Includes: Maria Ewing, ... |
Carmen
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Georges Bizet Recorded live at Earls Court London Cast Includes: ... |
Carmen
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Georges Bizet Cast: Elena Obraztsova, Isobel Buchanan, Placido Domingo, Yuri Mazurok ... |
Carmen
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Georges Bizet Glyndebourne Festival Opera Cast: Anne Sophie von Otter, Marcus ... |
Carmen
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Georges Bizet Cast: Belen Amparan, Franco Corelli, Elda Ribetti, Anselmo Colzani ... |
Carmen
Price: £27.99 (Including VAT) Georges Bizet Cast: Agnes Baltsa, Jose Carreras, Leona Mitchell, Samuel Ramey ... |
Carmen
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Georges Bizet Cast: Marina Domashenko, Maya Dashuk, Cristina Pastorello, Milena Josipovic, ... |
Carmen
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Georges Bizet Cast: Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni, Justino Diaz, ... |
Carmen
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Georges Bizet Cast: Nadia Krasteva, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Sebastian Holecek, Asa Elmgren, ... |
Carmen
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Georges Bizet Cast: Maria Ewing, Barry McCauley, Marie McLaughlin, David Holloway ... |
Carmen
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Georges Bizet Cecil B. DeMille's 1915 Film Classic Cast: Geraldine Farrar, ... |
Noé
Price: £27.99 (Including VAT) Georges Bizet & Fromental Halévy Theatre Imperial de Compiegne Cast: ... |
Les Pecheurs de Perles
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Georges Bizet [The Pearlfishers] Cast: Annick Massis, Yasu Nakajima, Luca Grassi, ... |
Philippe Boesmans
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Julie
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Philippe Boesmans. Cast: Malena Ernman, Garry Magee, Kerstin Avemo. Chamber Orchestra ... |
Arrigo Boito
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Mefistofele
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Arrigo Boito Cast: Samuel Ramey, Gabriela Benackova, Dennis O'Neil, Judith Christin, ... |
Alexander Borodin
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Prince Igor
Price: £29.99 (Including VAT) Borodin Cast: Nikolai Putilin, Galina Gorchakova, Yevgeny Akimov, Sergei Aleksashkin Kirov ... |
Benjamin Britten
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Albert Herring
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Benjamin Britten Cast: John Graham-Hall, Patricia Johnson, Alan Opie, Felicity Palmer, ... |
Billy Budd
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Benjamin Britten Cast Includes: Thomas Allen, Philip Langridge, Richard Van Allan, ... |
Death in Venice
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Benjamin Britten Cast Includes: Robert Tear, Alan Opie, Michael Chance The ... |
Gloriana
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Benjamin Britten Cast: Sarah Walker, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Jean Rigby, Richard ... |
Gloriana A Film
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Benjamin Britten Cast Josephine Barstow, Tom Randle, Emer McGilloway, David Ellis, ... |
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Benjamin Britten Cast: Ileana Cotrubas, James Bowman, Curt Appelgren, Cynthia Buchan, ... |
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Benjamin Britten Cast: David Daniels, Ofelia Sala, Gordon Gietz, Deanna Meek, ... |
Owen Wingrave
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Benjamin Britten Cast Includes: Gerald Finley, Peter Savidge, Hilton Marlton, Josephine ... |
Peter Grimes
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) A Royal Opera House Production. Benjamin Britten. Cast: Jon Vickers, Heather ... |
Peter Grimes
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Benjamin Britten Cast Includes: Philip Langridge, Janice Cairns, Alan Opie, Ann ... |
Peter Grimes
Price: £15.99 (Including VAT) Benjamin Britten. Cast: Christopher Ventris, Emily Magee, Alfred Muff, Liliana Nikiteanu, ... |
The Rape of Lucretia
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Benjamin Britten Cast: Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Kathryn Harries, Jean Rigby, Russell ... |
The Turn of the Screw
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Benjamin Britten Cast Includes: Helen Field, Menai Davies, Richard Greager, Machiko ... |
The Turn of the Screw
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Benjamin Britten Cast: Mark Padmore, Lisa Milne, Catrin Wyn Davies, ... |
The Turn of the Screw
Price: £25.99 (Including VAT) Benjamin Britten Cast: Olivier Dumait, Mireille Delunsch, Gregory Monk, Nazan Fikre, ... |
The Turn of the Screw
Price: £16.99 (Including VAT) Benjamin Britten Cast: Eilene Hannan, Margaret Haggart, Anson Austin, Wendy Dixon ... |
Francesco Cavalli
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La Calisto
Price: £29.99 (Including VAT) Francesco Cavalli Cast: Maria Bayo, Marcello Lippi, Hans Peter Kammerer, ... |
La Didone
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Francesco Cavalli. Cast:Claron McFadden, Magnus Staveland, Jordi Domenech, Manuela Custer, Marina ... |
Marc - Antoine Charpentier
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Médée
Price: £39.99 (Including VAT) Marc-Antoine Charpentier Cast: Stephanie d'Oustrac, Francois-Nicholas Geslot, Gaelle Méchaly, Bertrand ... |
Gustave Charpentier
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Louise
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Marc-Antoine Charpentier Cast: Grace Moore, Georges Thill, Andre Pernet Black & ... |
Luigi Cherubini
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Medea
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Luigi Cherubini Cast: Carlo Cigni, Elisabetta Scano, Cesare Ruta, Denia Mazzola ... |
Unsuk Chin
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Alice in Wonderland
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Unsuk Chin. Cast: Sally Matthews, Piia Komsi, Julia Rempe, Dietrich ... |
Francesco Cilea
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Adriana Lecouvreur
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Francesco Cilea Cast: Mirella Freni, Peter Dvorsky, Ivo Vinco, Ernesto Cavazzi, ... |
Adriana Lecouvreur
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Francesco Cilea Cast: Joan Sutherland, Heather Begg, Anson Austin, John Shaw ... |
Domenico Cimarosa
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Il Matrimonio Segreto
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Domenico Cimarosa [The Secret Marriage] Cast: Carlos Feller, Barbara Daniels, David ... |
Il Matrimonio Segreto
Price: £15.99 (Including VAT) Domenico Cimarosa [The Secret Marriage] Cast: Enrico Fissore, Valeria Baiano, Antonella ... |
Carlo Coccia
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Arrighetto
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Carlo Coccia. Cast: Gezim Mishketa, Elisaveta Martyrosian, Enrica Fabbri, Filippo Adami, ... |
Chaya Czernowin
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Adama / Zaide
Price: £34.99 (Including VAT) Chaya Czernowin Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart M22 Salzburger Festspiele. FIRST TIME ON ... |
Pnima...ins Innere
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Chaya Czernowin 'Pnima...ins Innere is more than an opera about the ... |
Claude Debussy
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Claude Debussy. [Der Untergang des Hauses Usher] Ballet and Opera based ... |
Pélleas et Mélisande
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Claude Debussy Cast Includes: Colette Alliot-Lugaz, Francois Le Roux, Jose Van ... |
Pélleas et Méisande
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Claude Debussy Cast Includes: Alison Hagley, Neill Archer, Donald Maxwell, Kenneth ... |
Pelléas et Mélisande
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Claude Debussy Cast: Christiane Oelze, Richard Croft, John Tomlinson, Gwynne Howell, ... |
Pelléas et Mélisande - Act II
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Charles Gounod Mireille (Abridged). Cast: Pierrette Alarie, Léopold Simoneau, Robert Savoie, ... |
Frederick Delius
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A Village Romeo and Juliet
Price: £27.99 (Including VAT) Delius A Film by Petr Weigl Singers: Helen Field, Arthur, Thomas ... |
Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf
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Il Barone di Rocca Antica
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf Cast: Tamás Kóbor, Beatrix Fodor, Edit Károly, ... |
Gaetano Donizetti
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Anna Bolena
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti Cast Includes: Joan Sutherland, James Morris, Judith Forst, Michael ... |
Anna Bolena
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti Cast: Dimitra Theodossiou, Gian Luca Pasolini, Riccardo Zanellato, Sofia ... |
Don Pasquale
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti Cast: Eva Mei, Alessandro Corbelli, Antonino Siragusa, Roberto De ... |
Don Pasquale
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti Cast: Italo Tajo, Sesto Bruscantini, Cesare Valletti, Alda Noni, ... |
Don Pasquale
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti. Cast: Ferruccio Furlanetto, Lucio Gallo, Gregory Kunde, Nuccia Focile, ... |
Don Pasquale
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti. Cast: Ruggero Raimondi, Juan Diego Flórez, Isabel Rey, Oliver ... |
Don Pasquale
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donzetti. Cast: Simone Alaimo, Marzio Giossi, Norman Shankle, Patrizia ... |
La Favorita
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti. Cast: Fiorenza Cossotto, Alfredo Kraus, Sesto Bruscantini, Ruggero Raimondi, ... |
La Fille du régiment
Price: £17.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti. The Royal Opera House production of La Fille du ... |
La Fille du Régiment
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti. Cast: Juan Diego Flórez, Patrizia Ciofi, Francesca Franci, Nicola ... |
La Fille du régiment / Don Pasquale
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donzetti. La Fille du régiment cast: Patrizia Ciofi, Juam ... |
La Fille du Régiment
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti. Cast: Ewa Podles, Bruno Pratico, Paul Austin Kelly, Mariella ... |
La fille du Régiment
Price: £15.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti. Cast: Joan Sutherland, Anson Austin, Heather Begg, Gregory Yurisich. ... |
The Daughter of the Regiment
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti Cast: Beverly Sills, William McDonald, Spiro Malas, Muriel Costa-Greenspon, ... |
Pavarotti - The Italian Opera Collection (Including L'elisir d'amore)
Price: £39.99 (Including VAT) Pavarotti at the Met in three of his greatest roles. Giacomo ... |
L'elisir d'amore
Price: £24.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti Cast Includes: Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Scaltriti, Simone ... |
L'elisir d'amore
Price: £29.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti Cast: Valeria Esposito, Aquiles Machado, Enrico Marrucci, Erwin Schrott, ... |
L'elisir d'amore
Price: £26.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti Cast: Renata Scotto, Carlo Bergonzi, Giuseppe Taddei, Carlo Cava, ... |
L'elisir d'amore
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti Cast: Kathleen Battle, Luciano Pavarotti, Juan Pons, Enzo Dara, ... |
L'elisir d'amore
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti Cast: Gobbi, Tajo, Corradi, di Lelio, Sinimberghi Conducted by ... |
L'elisir d'Amore
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti Cast: Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Leo Nucci, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, ... |
L'elisir d'amore
Price: £22.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donzetti. Cast: Judith Blegen, Luciano Pavarotti, Brent Ellis, Sesto ... |
Linda di Chamounix
Price: £19.99 (Including VAT) Gaetano Donizetti Cast Includes: Edita Gruberova, Deon van der Walt, Jacob ... |
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