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• The Palace - Sallinen | DVD | (09/07/2006) from £22.55   |  Saving you £2.44 (9.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This recording features the world premier of Aulis Sallinen's fifth opera The Palace. The opera is based on the libretto by the distinguished writers Hans-Magnus Enzensberger and Irene Dische. Inspired by Mozart's Entfuhrung aus dem Serail and Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor they created a satirical story of the collapse of a thoroughly corrupt court. It shows how absurd an autocrat can get in the setting of ludicrous ceremonies and bizarre rules of precedence.