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The home release Amadeus Mozart DVD Collection offers a compendium of excerpts from the most critically lauded operatic performances of Mozart arias over the past several decades -- a perfect release either for those unseasoned to the art form, or for those opera mavens who wish to relive the arias' finest moments again and again. Among the Mozart operas glimpsed here are Don Giovanni, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Così Fan Tutte, Mitridate, Re di Ponto, Idomenio, and Requiem, interpreted by 16 operatic giants including Maria Ewing, Mirella Freni, Kurt Moll, and Luciano Pavarotti. Seven conductors are featured including Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Leonard Bernstein, leading such ensembles as the Wiener Philharmoniker, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the English Baroque Soloists, and the Orchester der Bayerischen Staatsoper.