CD-Charts Position 1
Average Rating:

The Outsider

starring: Tim Daly, Naomi Watts, Keith Carradine, David Carradine, Thomas Curtis
directed by: Randa Haines

Release Date November 18, 2003
This movie is divine. I challenge everyone to buy it if you love westerns!It is historically correct in every way. I want hollywood or whoever to make more like it! I love Tim Daly and Naomi Watts. I have always loved the Carridine men. I grew up watching them and their father John Carridine. The characters were great and the stars were perfect for the parts! Enjoy the movie! Melissa Frix

CD-Charts Position 2
Average Rating:

Georges Bizet - Carmen / Peter Hall, Bernard Haitink, Maria Ewing, Barry McCauley, London Philharmonic, Glyndebourne Festival Opera

starring: Barry McCauley, Maria Ewing, Marie McLaughlin, David Holloway
directed by: Peter Hall

Release Date September 27, 2005
Maria Ewing as 'La Carmen' is superb. Not only does she have a magnificent voice but she is such a tremendous actress that, by facial gestures and body movements alone, she passes through phases of temptress, seductress, harlot and more. Like a black widow in its web she draws foolish males into her lethal embrace. Her gestures and glances, at time, approach pure evil. Wonderful.

All this in the backdrop of Bizet's wonderful music and opera. The orchestra, sets and costumes are excellent and the other singers vary from good to superb but none of them approach Ewing's combination of singing and poise. She is 'La Carmen'.

Let me suggest to those who read this review that they might like to pick up Carlos Saura's 'Carmen'. ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 3
Average Rating:

Janacek - Kat'a Kabanova / Davis, Gustafson, Palmer, Glyndebourne Opera

starring: Barry McCauley, Felicity Palmer, Ryland Davies, Nancy Gustafson, John Graham-Hall
directed by: Derek Bailey

Release Date March 26, 2002
On the DVD the orchestra is really there. I liked the production, and the cast sang and acted well. Perhaps the sound was remixed for the DVD as I could not understand the negative reviews given this production.