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A film depicting a scene from Verdi’s Otello, using the experimental synchronisation process known as the Biophon developed in 1903 by Oskar Messter. Ball (op cit, p. 33) describes how a camera turned...
Film director and gay rights activist von Praunheim was given 40 000 Deutsche Mark by the West German public broadcasting station WDR to produce a television opera. Von Praunheim’s operatic take on Macbeth...
Brazilian soap opera. Romantic comedy loosely re-working the themes of The Taming of the Shrew. Set in Rio de Janiero, the soap tells the story of a 20-year-old independent woman and Petruchio who believes...
Fiction film. The content of the film has not been discovered but it is believed to contain a play-within-a-play element as several of the actors had dual roles. The running time is unknown.
A reworking of Verdi’s opera and Shakespeare’s play directed by Werner Schroeter. Musical arrangement by Horst Franke and Hans Schepior.
Independent feature film. A version of Timon of Athens set in modern-day San Francisco.