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Portrait written by Edith Sitwell of would-be-actor and English eccentric Robert ‘Romeo’ Coates, also known as Cock-a-doodle-doo Coates. Son of a West Indian millionaire, Coates arrived in England with...
Radio broadcast featuring leading English tenor John Coates (1865-1941) singing a variety of Shakespeare’s songs. Includes music by Thomas Morley, Arne, Linley, Boyce.
Recording of a Zoom lecture by actor Callum Coates in which he discusses how Shakespeare’s plays would have been produced at the time and Sam Wanamaker’s long efforts to rebuild the Globe (Coates was...
Radio programme. John Coates (tenor) sings Shakespeare songs set by William Boyce (ca. 1759), A. K. Duff, W. Linley (1767-1835), W. A. Aikin (1741), Thomas Morley (1600), T. A. Arne, A. Redgrave Cipps, J. C....
Shakespeare-themed radio programme. Orchestral music, mainly by Mendelssohn, Germain and Sullivan, with old and modern settings of Shakespearean lyrics followed by passages from The Taming of the Shrew....
Radio transmission of a special concert of Shostakovitch’s opera in four acts, organised and relayed by the BBC from Queen’s Hall, London. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by Albert...
Abbreviated version of Shakespeare’s late play produced and arranged in seven scenes and a prologue by Val Gielgud and E. A. Harding. The cast includes John Gielgud as Prospero and Angela Baddeley as...
Radio version of Shakespeare’s play adapted by Val Gielgud and E.A. Harding. With John Gielgud as Prospero, Leslie French as Ariel and Angela Baddeley as Miranda. The BBC Theatre Orchestra is conducted by...
Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1996 modern dress, touring production of The Comedy of Errors. Directed by Tim Supple with Roger Bowman as Antipholus of...
Radio broadcast. The programme for children commences with Shakespeare songs sung by Leslie French, with harp accompaniment by Kate Coates, and continues with ‘On Guard - the story of a Cumberland...