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• Offenbach - Les Contes D'hoffmann (La Scola, Rancatore) | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £18.48   |  Saving you £9.50 (61.33%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A vibrant and dazzling production.

• Joseph Merrick - The Elephant Man - Laurent Petitgirard | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £10.44   |  Saving you £9.55 (47.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Laurent Petitgirard is known mainly as a composer of orchestral works including concertos symphonic poems and film scores and as a conductor. Joseph Merrick who was born with horrifying deformities and exploited both as a freak show exhibit and as a medical curiosity. Petitgirard's compelling and moving score - the composer's melodic gift is very much his own - shows us Merrick at different stages of his tragic life until his death aged 27 in 1890.Filmed at Nice Opera on 2