Inger Åby

"The Crown Bride" - Kersti, Mats fiancee, has given birth to their illegitimate son with the help of an old midwife. Kersti and Mats are about to get married. But Mats's family demand that Kersti must be a virgin.

A production of the classic opera about Count Almaviva, Rosina, and Figaro.

The women of Athens plotting to end the war with Sparta by refusing to have sex until there is peace.

This lavish, cinematic realisation of Stravinsky's neo-classic masterpiece, performed in English, is filmed both in studio and on location. The imaginative richness in the music is complemented by costumes and sets which are, by turn, exquisitely garish and darkly grotesque to intoxicating effect.