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Benjamin Zephaniah and Rowan Williams share their favourite Shakespearean moments. Zephaniah recalls playing Puck for Sam Wanamaker while Williams discusses Macbeth.
A stalwart of the American Shakespeare Center, Benjamin Curns describes the perspective he’s developed by performing the Bard’s during his 16 years at the Center. This perspective is brought to bear in...
Radio play about the flamboyant life of the young Benjamin Disraeli. References to Shakespeare and his plays are made during the family’s discussions about Benjamin’s fitness as a Member of Parliament....
Television documentary marking twenty years of the Aldeburgh Festival and the opening by the Queen of the Maltings concert hall. The film begins with scenes in Paris where Britten’s opera A Midsummer...
Variety show from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen. In one sketch comedian Bernie Clifton recites Hamlet’s ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy astride his...
José Limón’s ballet set to music by Benjamin Britten with Rudolf Nureyev as Othello and Lynn Seymour as Desdemona. The NYPL cataloguing record notes that the tape contains three almost complete...
The Yiddish Theatre in Moscow flourished during the cultural renaissance that followed the Russian Revolution. Two of the moving forces behind the theatre were Solomon Mikhoels and Benjamin Zuskin,...
Benjamin Britten’s opera performed by the New York Metropolitan Opera and Chorus, produced by Tim Albery and conducted by David Atherton. Sylvia McNair is Tytania and Jochim Kowalski is Oberon. Announcer:...
Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode poet Benjamin Zephaniah chooses the final speech from A Midsummer Night’s Dream as the piece...
Recording of a live streamed performance of Tobias Theorell’s new production of Benjamin Britten’s opera based on Shakespeare’s magical comedy. Orchestra conducted by Simon Crawford Phillips.
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