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Radio programme. A selection of music performed by the Birmingham Studio Pianoforte Sextet is interspersed with performances of scenes from Hamlet (III iv), Macbeth (II i-ii), and The Merchant of Venice (IV...
Radio broadcast. The first act of Verdi’s opera is relayed from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Antonino Votto conducts. With Lauritz Melchio as Otello.
Schools television programme. A discussion of Henry V with scenes enacted. Scenes selected and introduction written by Ivor Brown and presented by John Gielgud.
Independent feature film. A prequel to Hamlet, taking place in medieval Denmark twenty-three years before the play and featuring many of the characters from Hamlet with Yorick as the film’s hero.
Radio broadcast. Catherine Bott examines the character of Falstaff. Includes music from Elgar’ s symphonic study of Falstaff; Salieri - who wrote a Falstaff opera; Nicolai’s opera of The Merry Wives of...
Radio version of the play produced by Val Gielgud. With Sebastian Shaw as Brutus, George Hayes as Cassius and Richard Williams as Caesar. The music is specially written by Christopher Whelen.
Radio broadcast. Gounod’s opera is performed by The Wireless Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, conductor Percy Pitt, with Parry Jones and Miriam Licette in the leading parts.
A chronicle for radio based on Shakespeare’s play and Plutarch’s Life of Marcus Antonius. Arranged and produced by Peter Creswell with Fay Compton as Cleopatra and Cecil Trouncer as Anthony. Other parts...
Independent feature film. A contemporary re-working of Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare’s language is preserved.
Radio broadcast. The story of Falstaff is told in scenes from Shakespeare’s Henry IV and an epilogue from Henry V. With Frederick Lloyd as Falstaff. Produced by Barbara Burnham.
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