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Famous Composers (12 Parts) (1996 Video)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 12 x 35 min., 1999 sale: £19.95 (+VAT inc. p&p) each

Lives and work of noted composers, set within the context of their respective ages, presented through the use of film, archive material, music and commentary. Music is performed by members of the Elysium...

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Shakespeare-Verdi: Macbeth (1976 Radio)

Series

Listening Room, The

Radio programme broadcast locally in Hartford, Connecticut. Hosted by Ronald Steele, it discusses the Macbeth of Verdi and Shakespeare. No further details known (9/2008).

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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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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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Opera Snaps (2004 Radio)

Radio broadcast. Critic and writer Hilary Finch looks at the influence of Shakespeare on Verdi’s Rigoletto.

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Verdi and Shakespeare (2016 Radio)

Series

Composer of the Week

Radio broadcast. Donald Macleod explores the life and work of Giuseppe Verdi and introduces highlights from Otello. He also considers the composer’s final contribution to the stage, based on...

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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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Vocal Scene, The (1991 Radio)

Series

Vocal Scene, The

Producer

George Jellinek

Radio programme. Discusses the play Othello as conceived by Shakespeare and Verdi. No further details known [12/2011].

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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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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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