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Television documentary on the making of Zeffirelli’s OTELLO and the problems of adapting Verdi’s opera for the cinema. There is comment from Zeffirelli and others involved in the film.
Feature film. A story about street hustlers that incorporates a reworking of the Hal/King Henry/Falstaff triangle. Some of the dialogue is taken from Henry IV Part 1.
Following his new stage production of Hamlet at The Old Globe in San Diego, Beth Accomando interviews the theatre’s artistic director, Barry Edelstein to explore how his interpretation compares with...
Film director and gay rights activist von Praunheim was given 40 000 Deutsche Mark by the West German public broadcasting station WDR to produce a television opera. Von Praunheim’s operatic take on Macbeth...
Retelling of Othello for a contemporary audience, with a teenage cast and set in a high school. A young man becomes blinded with jealousy and rage when his friend captains the basketball team instead of him....
Italian crime film based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
Emilio Cossira singing a tenor aria from Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette. Ball hazards a guess that the aria was ‘Ah! Lève-toi soleil’. The film experimented with a synchronised sound system outlined by...
Feature film. Romantic comedy very loosely based on Romeo and Juliet. Rosario and Gino are the children of rival Italian restauranteurs in the Bronx. When the couple fall in love whilst taking part in a...
Feature film. A contemporary re-working of The Taming of the Shrew. A handsome vet finds it necessary to tame a wild woman.
Verdi’s Otello with Johan Botha as Otello and Marco Vratogna as Iago. The San Francisco Opera and Chorus are conducted by Nicola Luisotti.
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