This week's release of Handel's ALCINA can't be seen unless you live somewhere like Utrecht.
I was surprised to discover that I don't live in Europe - according to them
Hold onto your hat Neil McG, my husband and I want to investigate this one further. The same thing happens now from where we are: "Erreur: cette vidéo n'est pas disponible dans votre pays." But what a cheek that is to decide where "notre pays" is without asking us! Usefully, though, we have a VPN account, which enables notre pays to be whichever we want, or even nowhere - nationalism is such a twentieth century idea. The most obvious and simplest solution then will be if we simply download Alcina - and any other operas you would like - and pass them on to you. It won't be for a couple of days, since as it happens we are in the middle of downloading T & I at the moment. (The other way you might like is to start a VPN account of your own - the one we use, with bases ("servers") in many countries, including France, is at
www.goldenfrog.com/vyprvpn If you do that, make sure that they have a server that works in France - or maybe in any other European countries.)
Anyway, before T & I is finished, would you let us know whether you prefer the DE, EN or FR version, and also if you have any favourite and fairly fast "file-lockers" - is that the name? - such as mega (mega.co.nz), or uloz.to, or mediafire perhaps, etc., etc. These opera files are usually around two or three gigabytes.
