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Arts magazine series. In one item Clemency Burton-Hill visits the Royal Shakespeare Company’s theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, as it celebrates its 50th birthday. Stratford-upon-Avon. Interior of...
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York of Verdi’s Macbeth. Frederick Burchinal sings the title role. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by Kazimierz Kord. Peter...
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York of Verdi’s Otello. James McCracken sings the title role. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by Zubin Mehta. Milton Cross is...
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York of Verdi’s Falstaff with Ezio Flagello in the title role. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by Bruno Amaducci. Milton...
Full-length radio adaptation of the play arranged by Raymond Raikes with Robert Eddison as King John. The music is composed by Thomas Eastwood and the BBC Welsh Orchestra is conducted by Lionel Salter.
Live sound recording of All’s Well That Ends Well directed by John Barton with Catherine Lacey as the Countess.
Television programme devoted to the work of Frederick Ashton. It is comprised of an outline of his career, an interview and two performances by The Royal Ballet. The first ballet recorded is Ashton’s...
Musical series featuring classical and Broadway music. This episode presents four versions of the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet performed in the theatre, opera (Gounod), ballet (Prokofiev) and the...
Feature film post-war western, based on a story by W.R. Burnett and with parallels to The Tempest. Tells the story of an outlaw leader, Stretch (Peck), who takes refuge in a frontier ghost town. The only...
Musical. A loose re-working of Romeo and Juliet set in the streets of Barcelona where a quarrel erupts between two warring gypsy families. Probably building on the success of WEST SIDE STORY the film...