Dear HM & any other Screen-L'ers looking for a copy of H&G (!), There are any number of places to purchase a copy of Hansel & Gretel, but in case you want to maximize your Kitsch-purchasing power, you might want to call Facets Video, which is selling the astonishingly overdetermined and, I suppose, unwittingly camp Met production ("filmed on Christmas Day, 1982") at a discount: only $22.95. The (VHS format) order number is S02629, and the Facets phone number is 800-331-6197. Other places to call would be any opera company book/record/cd/video shop, including, for example, the SF Opera Gift Shop or the Met Gift Shop - the latter's phone # is 212/ 580-4090. Both carry a variety of video productions, not just in-house productions. I hope that's helpful. By the way, this response seems to open up a further area of discussion for the question of gender-bending, for cross-dressing in opera is, of course, another realm where "passing" is at issue, even if the issue is largely suppressed in operatic criticism... But that's another posting. David Levin Dept of German Columbia University e-mail: [log in to unmask]