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Verdi’s opera sung in German in a staging by Otto Schenk. Wolfgang Windgassen is Otello and Norman Mittelmann is Iago. The South German Radio Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna Opera are conducted by Argeo...
Opera. Conductor William Christie and librettist Jeremy Sams assembled the score from the music of Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau and others. A pastiche retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and A Midsummer...
Radio broadcast. Verdi’s opera broadcast live from the Colieseum and presented by Andrew Lyle. Malcolm Donnelly sings the title role. The English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra are conducted by Mark...
Radio series in which public figures are interviewed about their favourite bit of Shakespeare. In this episode conductor Jane Glover chooses a passage from As You Like It (Act 5 Sc 2) as the piece of...
Conductor Charles Hazlewood explores two of Tchaikovsky’s composer’s key works, The Fantasy Overture from Romeo and Juliet and the Sixth Symphony, The Pathetique. In the first programme he examines the...
Television documentary that follows conductor Leonard Bernstein as he records, over four days, the first complete recording of West Side Story. Filmed in a New York recording studio with a pick-up orchestra,...
Radio broadcast. In part 3 and 4 of the music series ‘Keyboard Talks’, Leslie H. Heward and Victor Hely-Hutchinson talk about the current production of Verdi’s Falstaff at the Old Vic, London.
Radio adaptation of the play specially adapted for broadcasting in a Prologue and seven scenes by Val Gielgud and E.A. Harding. With Robert Speaight as Prospero, Angela Baddeley as Miranda and Ralph...
Live radio transmission from the Royal Albert Hall, London, of a semi-staged production of Purcell’s theatre score The Fairy Queen, directed by Francesca Gilpin. Based on the original production for...
Radio version of the film about RAF pilot (and poet, lunatic and lover) Peter Carter who unwittingly cheats death when he survives bailing out of his plane without a parachute. Originally written and...
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