"Director: Frank Corsaro"

• The Love Of Three Oranges | DVD | (05/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.25

  This Glyndebourne production of Prokofiev's comic fairy tale opera The Love of Three Oranges recorded in 1982 is nothing short of a sizzling visual extravaganza. The combination of Frank Corsaro's innovative direction and the brilliant creative designs of American book writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak have created an opera which mixes fantasy nightmare romance and satire. The whole production is alive with acrobats jugglers body-builders monsters outrageous inflatable figures colossal puppets and special animated sequences - creating a farcical carnival atmosphere. Willard White powerfully portrays the King whose son a doleful hypochondriac can only be cured through laughter. The antics of the court jester Truffaldino fail to raise even a giggle and it is only when the wicked witch Fata Morgana (Nelly Morpurgo) accidently loses her skirt that the Prince (Ryland Davies) breaks into hysterics. In revenge Morgana condemns the Prince to fall in love with three oranges which he pursues for three thousand miles. The exciting rhythms and brilliant orchestration of Prokofiev's score are conducted by Bernard Haitink. The cast also includes Nucci Condo (Clarissa) John Pringle (Leandro) Ugo Benelli (Truffaldino) Peter-Christoph Runge (Pantaloon) Richard Van Allan (Tchelio) Yvonne Lea (Princess Linetta) Susan Moore (Princess Nicoletta) Fiona Kimm (Smeraldina) Colette Alliot-Lugaz (Princess Ninetta) Roger Bryson (Herald/Cook) Hugh Hetherington (Master of Ceremonies) and Derek Hammond-Stroud (Farfarello).

• Five Operas From Glyndebourne | DVD | (25/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A collection of operas based on the books of children's author/illustrator Maurice Sendak: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE/HIGGLETY PIGGLETY POP, LOVE OF THREE ORANGES, and L'ENFANT ET LES SORTILEGES/L'HEURE ESPAGNOLE. Performed by the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

• Puccini: Tosca -- Canadian Opera | DVD | (10/12/2001) from £9.19   |  Saving you £15.80 (63.20%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Puccini's masterpiece Tosca is a tragic tale of love intrigue and betrayal set in Napoleaonic Rome of 1800 a highly successful collaboration of composer Puccini librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa and the original playwright Victorien Sardou that was first performed in Januray 1900 in Rome. The performance by the internationally renowned Canadian Opera Company stars Bulgarian soprano Stefka Evstatieva as Tosca the tempestuous opera singer whose stormy romance with art

• Ravel Double Bill: LHeure Espagnole / LEnfant et les Sortileges | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ravel Double Bill: LHeure Espagnole / LEnfant et les Sortileges

• Puccini - Tosca | DVD | (18/12/2006) from £5.38   |  Saving you £2.61 (48.51%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Puccini's three act opera remains one of the evergreens full of moving and heady arias and apt dramatic twists. Heady stuff beautifully performed on this outstanding DVD.