Taking Thomas Hardy's short story as its starting point, we are transported to the present for a contemporary take on the novella which explores the power the mind can have over that person's actions. A closed door sparks an obsession so strong that the boundaries between reality and fantasy begin to blur.Ella and her high-finance husband Stephen rent a room in a holiday home on the coast, owned by Susan. Ella discovers that a locked room in the house is rented by a poet - Ben Pascoe - whose work holds a deep fascination for her. The room is held for Pascoe, though he visits rarely.Ella's obsession with Pascoe grows in parallel with the progress of Stephen's biggest City deal. She begins by imagining the poet's voice as she reads his work, but this quickly grows to fantasised encounters with Pascoe in his locked room. Stephen returns from the City and makes love to Ella, but it is not him she wishes for. We see the real Pascoe only once, with Susan.As Stephen's financial dreams are realised and Ella's fantasy consumes her, she learns of Pascoe's death. Despite her changed circumstances, Ella chooses to stay in her new world. / Opéra

Le Mariage de Figaro, Don Giovanni et La Flûte enchantée sont trois des opéras les plus aimés et réalisé par Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, mis à livrets de Lorenzo da Ponte et Emanuel Schikaneder. Disponible depuis de nombreuses années, ces trois partitions vocales avec des réductions de piano dans 'La Royal Edition des opéras de la série chez Boosey and Hawkes disposent traductions chanter en anglais par Edward J Dent à côté du texte chanté original et les notes liminaires. / Voix Et Piano