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Recorded at the 2013 Bregenz festival, this production of the Merchant of Venice is the premier of the only opera by the pianist and composer, André Tchaikowsky.
Radio programme. In this episode of his weekly series on work from various composers of the past three centuries, Charles Hazlewood examines the ‘Fantasy Overture’ from Tchaikovsky’s Romeo And Juliet....
First in a series of five radio programmes presented by Donal Macleod exploring the life and work of French composer Paul Dukas (1865-1935). This episode features an early Overture after Shakespeare, ‘Le...
Radio broadcast. Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Giuseppe Verdi and introduces highlights from Otello. He also considers the composer’s final contribution to the stage, based on...
In the third episode of the radio series exploring the life and works of Vaughan Williams, presenter Donald Macleod explores the composer’s Shakespeare opera - Sir John in Love, and his Elizabethan and...
Radio broadcast. Roger Nichols examines Berlioz’s approach to his operatic adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.
Radio broadcast. Verity Sharp visits the Royal Shakespeare Company to find out how a composer goes about writing incidental music for a stage production of a Shakespeare play.
Documentary following Roy Alexander Weise as he puts together an ‘Afro-Futurist’ production of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Other contributors include...
Radio broadcast. Four-part series in which Huw Edwards discovers how some operatic masterpieces reflect the political and social circumstances of their age. In the final edition Edwards talks about Verdi’s...
Radio documentary. Part 1 of an eight-part series in which Howard Goodall explores links between musical genres. In the first episode Goodall chooses music inspired by the works of Shakespeare with excerpts...
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