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Transmitted live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, Olivia Fuchs’s production of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is presented by Stephanie Hughes. Richard Hickox conducts...
Feature film. The Royal Ballet production of the Prokofiev ballet, choreographed by Kenneth MacMillan, opened at the Royal Opera House, London, in 1965. The film was made in a studio with the entire stage...
Verdi wrote two versions of his opera Macbeth, one in 1847 and the 1865 Paris version. Tom Rosenthal looks at the differences between the 1847 and 1865 compositions and compares the two librettos...
The Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet perform in the presence of members of the Royal Family in celebration of the Her Majesty’s Silver Jubilee. Includes Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn dancing Hamlet...
BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette live from Covent Garden. Charles Mackerras conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal House, Covent Garden. Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu sing...
Radio classical music magazine programme in which presenter Tom Service talks to English composer Alexander Goehr about his new opera ‘Promised End’, which is structured around 24 short scenes from...
Television broadcast. A performance of the Gounod opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The production by Nicolas Joel is sung in French with English subtitles. Sir Charles Mackerras conducts the...
Radio programme. Julian Evans talks to American scholar and writer Harold Bloom about the character of Falstaff, a subject Bloom discussed in his book Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human.
Verdi’s opera in a staging by Luca Ronconi. The Opera and Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino are conducted by Zubin Mehta. Ruggero Raimondi is Falstaff. Directed for television and video by Paolo...
A 4-DVD boxed set. Contents: MACBETH staged by Phyllida Lloyd with Simon Keenlyside and Liudmyl Monastryska as the Macbeths, Antonio Pappano conducts from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. OTELLO staged...
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