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Goya (2011)

aka: Gian Carlo Menotti-Goya

Director

Kasper Bech Holten

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 101 minutes), £22.97

Italian composer Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007) was far from being a musical revolutionary - and yet he had a crucial influence on the history of 20th century opera. He wrote his first opera at the age of...

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Magic Flute, The (1993 Video)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

An extract from a staged production of Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’, recorded live at the 18th-century Drottningholm Opera House in Sweden. It consists of the whole of the finale of Act 1, plus a brief...

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Glyndebourne: The House That George Built (1994 Video)

Director

Christopher Swann

Producer

Frances Peters

Subject

Architecture; Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1995 Sale: £10.99 (inc VAT)

The story of the new Glyndebourne Opera House, rebuilt in the early 1990s and officially opened in 1994. Reveals the underlying philosophy of Glyndebourne and the determination of many people, including Sir...

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Benjamin Britten (2018)

Subject

Music

Podcast series. Baritone and composer Roderick Williams discusses Benjamin Britten, a complex and often contradictory character, and one of the 20th century’s greatest opera composers. This is the second...

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The Age of Tyrants: Sappho Via Gounod’s Opera (2017)

Subject

Film studies; Literature

The heroine of Charles Gounod’s French opera Sapho (1851) sings her last aria O My Immortal Lyre on a Greek cliff before plunging to her death. Sappho, the most famous poet of the ‘Lyric Age’ of...

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Don Giovanni (1979) (1979)

Director

Joseph Losey

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 162 minutes), £24.99

Infamous womanizer Don Giovanni makes conquest after conquest, leaving seduced and abandoned women in his wake. When the ghost of the Commendatore he has killed appears, he is given a final chance to change...

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Secret Sin of Septimus Brope, The (1978 Video)

Director

Michael Steele

Producer

Reginald Barrett-Ayres

Subject

Music

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min.

A short opera by Reginald Barrett-Ayres, in which Septimus Brope, an ecclesiologist, is overheard at an Edwardian party professing love for a maid named Florrie. Eventually it turns out that he is composing...

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Words and Music (1994 Video)

Producer

Mags Noble

Subject

Music

Distribution

Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Examines some of the issues raised when a composer sets words to music, looking at the way a composer balances the words, which need to be heard and understood, with the music, which needs to make sense on...

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Rameau Project, The (2010)

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 90 minutes), £130.00

The results of a four-year development process by The Opera Project, THE RAMEAU PROJECT is a sprawling, multi-layered music theatre work for nine performers, featuring Kellaway’s "re-imaginings" of the...

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Cathedrals of Culture (2014)

Director

Wim Wenders; Michael Glawogger; Karim Ainouz; Michael Madsen; Robert Redford

Subject

Architecture; Arts and Humanities

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 165 minutes), £11.34

Six acclaimed filmmakers, including Robert Redford, Michael Glawogger and Michael Madsen, each explore the architecture and history of six iconic buildings; the Berlin Philharmonic, the National Library of...

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