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• Giulio Cesare - Handel | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £35.28   |  Saving you £-0.29 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  David McVicar's production of Giulio Cesare manages to combine serious insight with entertainment bringing Handel's masterpiece to life in a powerful convincing and highly intelligent way. In every line of the complex narrative the subtle nuances are apparent reflecting perfectly the transparent and exquisite nature of Handel's musical expression.

• The Cunning Little Vixen - Janacek | DVD | (15/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen is a real charmer of an opera, a tale that shows the natural world the composer had loved from childhood in its true colours: miraculous, beautiful, mysterious but also cruel. The inspiration came from a series of illustrated stories published in a Czech newspaper. The Vixen of the title is captured by a forester and taken home as a plaything for his children. She is soon thrown out of the house and has to make her own way in the world, encountering lust, stupidity, pride, love and ultimately death. This 1995 performance was taken from the Chatelet Theatre in Paris. Visually, Nicholas Hytner's production is a triumph, the animals wonderfully wittily wrought (the mosquito with its syringe for a nose, the mangey old dog, distasteful in baggy Y-fronts, the hideous, goggle-eyed frog). And it's also brilliantly cast: Eva Jenis's Vixen is funny, sexy, endearing and youthful enough in voice and figure to convince. Thomas Allen is a veteran of the role of the Forester, a huge presence and singing in impeccable Czech. In fact, there's not a weak performance here, and that goes for the dancers and instrumentalists as well as the singers. And at the helm, who better than Sir Charles Mackerras, arguably the greatest living interpreter of Janacek's music? This is in essence a grown-up fairy tale, ravishingly done and extremely highly recommended. On the DVD: The Cunning Little Vixen is presented on disc in vividly remastered PCM stereo, with 16:9 picture format that does full justice to the alluringly colourful designs. The disc is encoded for regions 2 and 5, and the menu and subtitle languages are English, German, French and Spanish. The useful booklet gives coherent background information and synopsis as well as full casting details. There's also a substantial (23-minute) trailer of other offerings from Arthaus Musik. --Harriet Smith

• George Frideric Handel - Giulio Cesare (Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2005) | Blu Ray | (02/03/2009) from £28.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (20.70%)   |  RRP £34.99

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• Opera, Ballet & Theatre (The Blu-ray Experience II) | Blu Ray | (30/08/2010) from £3.35   |  Saving you £2.90 (138.76%)   |  RRP £4.99

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• A Night With Handel | DVD | (25/10/1999) from £16.24   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.07%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sultry sopranos and contraltos brood in candle-lit churches or at the top of a shopping mall escalator; a shaven-headed tough menaces enemies with a knife, singing of vengeance and death in a terrifying counter-tenor rasp; a couple sing of fulfilment in the back of a limousine. Jonathan Keates remarks in his accompanying lecture that the heroes and heroines of Handel's opera are real people, whose passions transcend the baroque libretti they are singing; by taking them out of full-bottomed wigs and panniered frocks and putting them at large in contemporary London at night, this interesting documentary reminds us of the immediacy of these arias. This would not work, of course, were not the performances exemplary in their own right and presented with a driving urgency that takes us away from the pieties of the oratorio tradition and reminds us what a superb and popular man of the theatre Handel was. --Roz KaveneyOn the DVD: The DVD comes with the narration in English, French and German, and subtitles in those languages. The arias are also playable as audio only. --Roz Kaveney

• Capriccio: Metropolitan Opera (Davis) | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Saxon | DVD | (12/01/2009) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-2.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  London the present. Soon after leaving prison Eddie has his eye cut out by a loan shark chasing an old debt. Eddie's other eye will only be spared upon repayment. Desperate for cash Eddie phones Linda a childhood sweetheart. She lives in Saxon - a ghost-town of grim flats run by a corrupt council. Linda is very wealthy. Her husband Kevin won a million pounds on a TV quiz show. But Kevin has gone missing feared dead. Eddie offers his services as an amateur sleuth and so embarks on a comically gruesome journey through the surreal underworld of Saxon: the place where he grew up the place where his mother works as a prostitute the place where he murdered a bailiff.