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• Britten: The Turn of the Screw -- Schwetzinger Festival 1990 | DVD | (25/05/2001) from £24.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Michael Hampe's celebrated production of Benjamin Britten's shattering opera based on the spine-chilling short story by the 19th century American novelist Henry James. The Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart performs under the renowned Britten specialist Stuart Bedford.

• Rusalka - Dvorak | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Pountney's landmark English National Opera staging of Dvorak's haunting fairy tale opera left critics and audiences spellbound. The production is set in a Victorian nursery where an adolescent girl on the brink of sensual awakening dreams of first love. Her story is that of Rusalka the wood nymph who like Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid sacrifices all for love destined to be betrayed. High above the stage Rusalka dreamily swings as the picturesque gives way to the surreal.