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A rock opera version of Macbeth. A stage recording of a performance at Howard University with an Afro-American cast.
Television programme in which American conductor Lorin Maazel contrasts the different compositions inspired by Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and relates them to excerpts from the show. The Philharmonic...
Variety radio series featuring Frances Langford. The format in the summer of 1947 was a medley of popular songs and a semi-comic playlet called ‘The American Scene’ that attempted to present typical...
Produced to pay homage to the centenary of Frederick Ashton’s birth. The Dream was Ashton’s contribution towards Britain’s celebration of Shakespeare’s quatercentenary. He condenses the plot of A...
Verdi’s opera performed by the Viennese Opera and Chorus conducted by Karl Bohm. Mathieu Ahlersmeyer is Macbeth and Elisabeth Hongen is Lady Macbeth.
Duke Ellington composed incidental music for a Timon of Athens production at the Stratford (Ontario) Festival in 1963. Ellington’s sketches and partial score remained in the Stratford archives since then...
A production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream arising from a partnership between University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and the National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts in...
6-part television discussion series in which academic Hugo Dyson talks about Shakespeare to four American graduates studying classical drama at the London Academy of Music and the Dramatic Arts (LAMDA)....
An except from the Capulets’ tomb scene from the final act of Gounod’s opera Rom o et Juliette with American tenor Charles Hackett and Romanian-born soprano Rosa Low.
Staging for film of the 1997 one-man play by William Luce starring Christopher Plummer as American acting legend John Barrymore. With his career in tatters, ageing actor John Barrymore rents an old theatre...
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