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Radio broadcast. Verdi’s opera broadcast live from the Colieseum and presented by Andrew Lyle. Malcolm Donnelly sings the title role. The English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra are conducted by Mark...
Live broadcast of the first UK performance of Alfred Schnittke’s (1934-1998) 11-minute long mischievous musical response to a request for a Shakespeare-related work. Presented at the 1988 Aldeburgh...
Radio series. To celebrate the BBC’s November Shakespeare season, presenter Roger McGough introduces requests for verse by Shakespeare. Sonnets and excerpts read by Fiona Shaw and Barrie Rutter. (30 minutes)
Neil Aldrich recites Shakespeare’s sonnets, and other works, speculating about the recitative convention employed in the 17th century. The delivery is rap-like, very different from the performance norm....
Richard II adapted for radio, with Samuel West as Richard II and Joss Ackland as John of Gaunt. Introduced by Richard Eyre.
Radio broadcast. In this two-part programme Professor Michael Dobson explores the history of outdoor Shakespeare productions. The second episode (30/07/2007) focuses on the amateur theatre company.
Radio broadcast. The Tempest adapted and produced by Ian Cotterell with Paul Scofield as Prospero and Patrick Stewart as Caliban. With music composed by David Cain, and played by Mike Westbrook, Clive Heath,...
Video recording of the post-modern production directed for stage by Garland Wright and videotaped for Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) by Richard Stucker.
Video recording of Joseph Ziegler’s 2000 production of Hamlet for the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival. Paul Gross is Hamlet.
Radio broadcast of Berlioz’s opera live from Covent Garden with Sara Fulgoni and Donald Kaasch singing the title roles. The Chorus and Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera are conducted by John Nelson....
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