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In the first week of November, each weekday edition of the BBC radio programme MORNING ON 3 featured two pieces of music inspired by Shakespeare. The following pieces of music were broadcast on this date:...
Leslie Hurry produced the stage designs for some 60 plays, operas and ballets between 1942 and his death in 1978. His first commission was Robert Helpmann’s ballet Hamlet and as a designer for the Royal...
Radio programme. A two-part series in which Humphrey Carpenter investigates the attraction of Shakespeare for musicians and composers. Part 1 claims that Shakespeare’s works have inspired over 20,000...
Television version of the production staged by Theatre des Amandiers, Nanterre at the Avignon Festival in 1988. Directed for stage by Patrice Chereau and for television by Pierre Cavassilas. Gerard Desarthe...
Compilation of two performances recorded at Leningrad State Conservatory Rimsky-Korsakov in 1990 and performed by Nikita Dolgushin and students of the Conservatory. Cassette 1 (c62min): King Lear. A...
Excerpts from operas to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera House directed for video by Brian Large. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus, and Ballet are conducted by James Levine....
Mikhail Shapiro’s official 1966 film of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. The Chorus and Orchestra of the Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Theatre, Kiev are conducted by Konstantin Simeonov....
Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Shakespeare adaptations are a proud tradition. Prokofiev turned Romeo and Juliet into a ballet. Verdi turned Macbeth and Othello into operas, and The Taming of...
A hip-hop dance version of the play. First performed in 2008 with seven hip-hop dancers, one circus performer and an actor choreographed by Sébastien Lefrançois with music by Laurent Couson. Jann Gallois...
Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet choreographed, and re-conceived for television, by Michael Smuin. Diana Weber and Jim Sohm dance the title roles. Denis de Coteau conducts the Performing Arts Orchestra of San...
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