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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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Romeo and Juliet (1949 Radio)

Series

Opera Serenade

Radio programme showcasing a selection of music from Gounod’s opera. Arranged by Stanford Robinson who also conducts the BBC Opera Orchestra.

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 Told through private letters, unpublished memoirs, performances and TV interviews, this is the first film to tell the life story of the legendary Greek-American...

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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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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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Hamlet (2022 Video)

Series

Live in Hd

Director

Neil Armfield

Live cinema broadcast from the New York Metropolitan Opera of Brett Dean’s version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

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Au Revoir Monsieur Le President: Memorable Visit Ends

Date released

13 Mar 1950

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1986

NoS ID

042246

Story no

3 / 3

President Auriol lays wreath at tomb of Unknown Soldier. He and Madame Auriol receive address of welcome from both House of Parliament. President visits a Bermondsey pre-fab and compliments people on...

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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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