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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...
Commercial for Beck’s Beer as part of the ‘What Germans Do Best’ campaign. The balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet performed in German in Expressionist style; the set is black and white with a...
BBC radio broadcast of Gounod’s opera live from Covent Garden. The new production by Nicolas Joel is sung in French. Charles Mackerras conducts the Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Covent Garden.
Video recording of Jonathan Miller’s 1988 production of The Tempest for the Old Vic with Max von Sydow as Prospero. ‘Miller ... used a mixed cast made up of white actors as the humans and black actors...
Feature film. A lavish and reverential adaptation of Shakespeare’s play with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer in the title roles.
Television documentary celebrating the work of Paul Scofield. Includes footage of Scofield on tour in Romania with the RSC production of King Lear directed by Peter Brook in 1964. Shots of the cast getting...
Video recording of The Merchant of Venice directed for the 2001 Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival by Richard Monette. Paul Soles is Shylock.
A Brazilian version of Hamlet directed by Marcelo Marchioro. The play explores contemporary political and ideological issues and, coincidentally, premièred on 20th August 1992, one month before the...
Episode 15 of a 26-part serialisation of the Elizabethan history play (encompassing the reign of Edward II to Henry VI), adapted for radio by Martin Jenkins. This episode, based on Shakespeare’s Henry VI,...
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