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The Royal Ballet in a piano rehearsal of The Tempest at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1982. There is a complete run-through (c48min) followed by footage of the dancers (in rehearsal clothes) and...
Tchaikovsky’s ballet choreographed by Robert Helpmann with scenery and costume by Leslie Hurry. The Royal Ballet is filmed in dress rehearsal on stage at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London in...
Documentary film about contemporary British art and culture. Includes a brief scene from Peter Hall’s production of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company in which David Warner delivers a soliloquy.
A ballet in two acts choreographed by Mats Ek for the Royal Swedish Ballet. Mariko Kido and Anthony Lomuljo dance the title roles. Alexander Polianichko conducts. The music comprises a collection of...
Documentary on the Royal Ballet, focusing on rehearsals for Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet and Frederick Ashton’s Monotones. No.2. In voiceover commentary Ashton talks about the Company, the...
Radio broadcast. Cyril Kegan Smith, costume supervisor for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, talks about the work involved in designing and preparing costumes for the final dress rehearsal of the company’s...
Audio recording of Sir Michael Morpurgo’s retelling of ten of Shakespeare’s plays for children, read by members of the Royal Shakespeare Company. This collection includes readings of Morpurgo’s...
Staged in honour of Rudolf Nureyev on the tenth anniversary of his death. Introduced by Makhar Vaziev, director of the Maryinsky Theatre. Ballet excerpts are performed by dancers from the Kirov Ballet, Paris...
A video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2001 production of Hamlet. Directed by Steven Pimlott with Samuel West as Hamlet.
A collection of Shakespeare’s sonnets read by actors, and songs inspired by the sonnets. The many performers include John Gielgud, Annie Lennox, Richard Attenborough, Peter Barkworth, Bryan Ferry, Kenneth...
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