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ITV’s seminal arts programme, TEMPO ran for eight years through a decade which saw a creative explosion within all aspects of the performing arts. Its fluid style of presentation allowed an almost...
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...
Classical music and dance acts from the London Coliseum. Michael Flanders introduces Lynn Seymour and Rudolph Nureyev in the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. The scene is c10 mins, recorded at Sadlers...
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...
Royal Ballet dress rehearsal of the revised 1964 version with piano. Prologue. 1. Twelfth Night (II iv) : Beriosova, Macleary, Parkinson, Bergsma, Mason. 2. Two Gentlemen of Verona (II iv): Nerina, Doyle,...
In 1952 the Irish stage star Micheal MacLiammoir made his cinematic debut as Iago in Orson Welles’s Othello. His diary of the process - a chronicle of chaos, financial crises and endless travel that starts...
Television documentary. Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan created Romeo and Juliet for The Royal Ballet in 1965. The ballet was conceived for Christopher Gable and Lynn Seymour but Nureyev and Fonteyn took the...
The fourth release in the BFI’s British Artists’ Films DVD series features selected films from Jayne Parker’s 25 years of filmmaking. Included are one of her earliest animations I CAT; an early...
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...
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