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  1. Second Mrs Kong, The (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. col. 120 min.

    Video recording using two cameras of a performance of ‘The Second Mrs Kong’, an opera by Harrison Birtwistle with libretto by Russell Hoban, performed at by the Glyndebourne Festival Opera at...

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  2. Magic Flute, The (2007)

    Director
    Kenneth Branagh
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 125 minutes), £19.99

    Adeaptation by Stephen Fry of Mozart’s classic opera directed by Kenneth Branagh with the action transposed to the first world war. The score is played by the The Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

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  3. Einstein on the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts (2016)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 264 minutes), £29.99

    Avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson. The plot revolves, loosely, around Einstein’s relationship to the creation of the atomic bomb. Originally premiered in 1976, this...

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  4. Marriage of Figaro, The (Ou) (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

    Consists of three scenes from Beaumarchais’ play ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ and the same scenes from Mozart’s opera: Act V, part of Figaro’s monologue and part of Figaro’s aria; Act III, the duet...

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  5. Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, The (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Music; Psychiatry
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 70 min., 1995 sale: £40.00 (+VAT)

    A video recording of Michael Nyman’s only opera, first performed at the ICA in the late 1980s. It tells the story of musicologist Dr P and the neurological condition that caused him to gradually lose a...

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  6. King Arthur (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. VHS. col. 212 min.

    Video recording using a single camera of a performance co-produced by the Théâtre du Ch‚telet and the Thé‚tre de Caen of ‘King Arthur’, a semi-opera with music by Henry Purcell and libretto by John...

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  7. Masque in Dioclesian, The (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Drama; Music
    Distribution
    REFERENCE ONLY, Videocassette. col. 90 min.

    Video recording using a single camera of a performance by Kent Opera of ‘The Masque in Dioclesian’ by Henry Purcell in its first staged production in modern times, at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, on...

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  8. Anna Nicole (2011)

    Subject
    Media studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 120 minutes), £29.99

    In a tragic-comic take on the extremes of celebrity culture, composer Mark Anthony Turnage, librettist Richard Thomas and director Richard Jones add Anna Nicole Smith to opera’s gallery of bad, sad girls....

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  9. Maria by Callas (2018)

    Director
    Tom Volf
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    DVD (Region 2 PAL, 119 minutes), £19.40

    A portrait of opera singer Maria Callas. Told through private letters, unpublished memoirs, performances and TV interviews, this is the first film to tell the life story of the legendary Greek-American...

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  10. Aa302 Videocassette B (1998 Video)

    Producer
    Robert Philip
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale?, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 98 min.

    Music performance: Alison Bury, violin; the Eroica String Quartet; Crispian Steele-Perkins, trumpet; the Gamelan Galura (Sundanese gamelan); ‘Lucia de Lammermoor’ (Italian opera)

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