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Recording of an illustrated lecture by Professor Marina Frolova-Walker FBA (Clare College, Cambridge) on the the censure of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and...
Conductor Charles Hazlewood explores two of Tchaikovsky’s composer’s key works, The Fantasy Overture from Romeo and Juliet and the Sixth Symphony, The Pathetique. In the first programme he examines the...
Video recording of a live event hosted by Mairi Nicolson made as a preview of concerts by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra on 22 and 24 April 2021 devoted to music inspired by Shakespeare. They discuss the...
Series in which a composer and a director collaborate to devise and make an original music work for television. 1 (director: Simon Reynell; composer: James Dillon) A distorted reflection of a single moment...
Video made to celebrate the post-lockdown reopening of the RSC’s theatres at Stratford-upon-Avon. Director Philip Breen, associate designer Ruth Hall, set and costume designer Max Jones, composer Paddy...
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to composer Brett Dean and librettist Matthew Jocelyn about their opera based on Hamlet.
Podcast. Barbara Bogaev talks to composer John Adams about his new two-act opera based on Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.
Podcast from Shakespeare’s Globe hosted by Imogen Greenberg. This edition looks at the Women and Power festival and the Globe’s staging of Henry IV (parts 1 and 2) and Henry V, in which Hotspur, Falstaff...
Playwright Zinnie Harris, author Isabelle Schuyler, New Generation Thinker Emma Whipday and composer Michelle Assay have looked at the murdering husband and wife of Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Chris...
As a two-year global celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s work commences, Neva Grant interviews two experts on the great composer to explore his legacy and the creation of the adaptation of Romeo and Juliet,...