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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...
Film of re-enactment of the auction of Shakespeare’s Birthplace on 16th September 1847. The re-enactment took place outside Shakespeare’s Birthplace to mark the 150th anniversary of the sale....
Shakespeare’s comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream is performed in an empty auditorium, the actors appearing on stage alongside the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and the Collegium Vocale Gent, conducted by...
Open University programme made to support the A101 Arts Foundation course. The programme shows how Weber’s ‘Der Freischutz’ and ‘Oberon’ influenced Mendelssohn when he came to write the Overture...
Lecture by Professor Robert Greenberg of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In programme four of the series Professor Greenberg lectures on Felix Mendelssohn’s Incidental Music, op. 61 and Overture...
Radio broadcast of this 2021 revival (directed by Daniel Dooner) of Phyllida Lloyd’s 2002 production of Verdi’s Macbeth. Simon Keenlyside stars in the title role, with Anna Pirozzi as Lady Macbeth. The...
Live recording of Verdi’s opera with Anthony Michaels-Moore and Georgina Lukacs as the Macbeths. Edward Downes conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Radio broadcast of a concerto version of Verdi’s Macbeth with Lado Ataneli in the title role, alongside Susan Neves as Lady Macbeth. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus...
Possibly earliest sound recording of the opening lines of Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be’ soliloquy, spoken by a man’s voice on a wax cylinder disc. The recording is an example of experiments...
Glyndebourne Opera’s performance of Verdi’s Macbeth broadcast live from the Royal Albert Hall in London. Polish lyric baritone Andrzej Dobber (Macbeth) leads an international cast that is directed by...
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