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Richard Wagner: Power, Sex and Revolution (Part 2) (2013)

Subject

History; Music

Two hundred years after the composer’s birth, journalist Paul Mason takes a fresh look at Wagner. In the second part of his journey through his music, Mason turns to the seemingly conventional world of a...

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Zeffirelli’s ‘Otello’, From Stage to Screen (1986 Television)

Producer

David Sweetman

Television documentary on the making of Zeffirelli’s OTELLO and the problems of adapting Verdi’s opera for the cinema. There is comment from Zeffirelli and others involved in the film.

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Performing Verdi (2001 Radio)

Radio broadcast. Michael Oliver and director David Poutney discuss Verdi’s first Shakespearean opera, Macbeth. With illustrations from Claudio Addabo’s recording with Piero Cappuccilli and Shirley Verrett.

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Macbeth (2018 Video)

Director

Matteo Ricchetti

The 1865 Paris version of Verdi’s Opera sung in Italian, filmed at the Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Italy. Blu-ray subtitles are in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Korean.

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Passing of Falstaff, The (1985 Television)

Documentary short which accompanied the U.S. broadcast of FALSTAFF (Unitel, 13/12/1985). It compares the treatment of The Merry Wives of Windsor by Verdi and Orson Welles, the former represented by clips...

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Otello (2003 Radio)

Series

Real History of Opera, The

Radio broadcast. Four-part series in which Huw Edwards discovers how some operatic masterpieces reflect the political and social circumstances of their age. In the final edition Edwards talks about Verdi’s...

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Three Macbeths, The (1997 Radio)

Verdi wrote two versions of his opera Macbeth, one in 1847 and the 1865 Paris version. Tom Rosenthal looks at the differences between the 1847 and 1865 compositions and compares the two librettos...

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Claverton Pump (1979 Video)

Director

Mark Price

Producer

N D C Harris

Subject

Archaeology; Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. U-matic. col. 15 min.

Describes the history and operation of the Claverton pumping engine, built in 1813 to pump water from the River Avon up to the Kennet and Avon canal near Bath. This was reputedly the largest water driven...

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Sunday at Sant’Agata (2001 Radio)

Series

Sunday Play

Director

Patrick Rayner

Radio drama by Ronald Frame. An imagined account of a summer day at Verdi’s country retreat. The ageing composer intends a quiet day working on the French translation of his opera Falstaff. Three surprise...

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Transformations [22/11/1983] (1983 Radio)

Series

Transformations

Producer

Madeline Jay

How did Shakespeare’s Othello develop into Verdi’s Otello and which of the two works is the greater? Opinions differ as do interpretations. Jonathan Miller, who has recently directed Shakespeare’s play...

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