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Radio broadcast. Ambroise Thomas’ opera in a text by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier. Thomas Hampson is Hamlet. The Ambrosian Opera Chorus and the London Philharmonic are conducted by Antonio de Almeida.
Video recording of Kalle Holmberg’s 1973 production of King Lear with Christer Banck in the title role. No further details known (2008).
Radio broadcast. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins performs Elgar’s Falstaff- Symphonic Study in C minor. Op. 68.
Video recording of Richard Ouzounian’s 1986 production of Pericles for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival with Geraint Wyn Davies in the title role.
As part of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s sonnets, 14 sonnets are read by Sir Ian McKellen as drop-ins through the day’s programmes, starting off with the 7am BREAKFAST...
A compilation of screen tests given by Mrs Patrick Campbell. Includes the sleepwalking scene from Macbeth, Palleas and Melisande (sound only), Yiddish dialect from The Matriach (sound only), and a scene from...
A section from John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet performed by the Stuttgart Ballet with Marcia Haydee and Richard Cragun in the title roles. Stewart Kershaw conducts. The section begins at the Balcony Scene...
Extract from a CBC radio broadcast. Duke Ellington had just completed his Shakespearean jazz suite Such Sweet Thunder which was commissioned by the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. The suite...
Video recording of Robin Phillips’ 1986 production of Cymbeline for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Eric Donkin is Cymbeline and Martha Burns is Imogen.
John Dougall plays Hamlet in this 15-minute radio version of Tom Stoppard’s play of the same name. Directed and produced by Eoin O’Callaghan.
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