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Filmed version of Verdi’s opera directed by Franco Zeffirelli. The Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan are conducted by Lorin Maazel who also directed and produced the music. Placido...
Live broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York of Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra with Justino Diaz and Leontyne Price in the title roles. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus are...
Live recording of Verdi’s opera staged at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York hosted by Francis Robinson. Jon Vickers sings the title role. The New York Metropolitan Opera and Chorus is conducted by...
Live audio recording of a performance of Much Ado About Nothing directed for the National Theatre in 1965 by Franco Zeffirelli. Robert Stephens is Benedick and Maggie Smith, Beatrice. Ian McKellen plays...
CD-ROM with the complete audio version of the play alongside the the complete Alexander text, together with photographs taken from past performances. Includes scenes from the BBC Shakespeare production with...
Recording of an online lecture by Dr Anthony Quinn, introduced by Rossella M. Riccobono. The lecture includes analyses of the films made from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet by Francis X Bushman and John W...
Recording of a live lecture by Dr Anthony Quinn on Romeo and Juliet, which focuses in part on three film versions: the George Cukor version released in 1936, the Renato Castellani adaptation from 1954 and...
Documentary. Explores the history of films based on Shakespeare’s plays. There are interview extracts with Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Branagh, Roman Polanski, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, Franco...
A feature film adaptation, much cut, and aimed at a mainstream, young audience. Beautifully photographed and costumed, the film was a huge box office success and a forerunner of the ‘teen movie’.
Feature film version of the play. A naturalistic and literal reading with few interpretative touches. Gibson’s Hamlet is a man of action and with the text heavily cut (over 80%) he dominates the majority...
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