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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...
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...
Live recording of Zeffirelli’s production of Verdi’s Otello. Placido Domingo is Othello and Sherrill Milnes is Iago. The stage production was directed by Fabrizio Melano; Kirk Browning directs for...
Feature film comedy drama, based on Zeffirelli’s autobiography, concerning a group of elderly expatriate English women living in Florence in 1934. One of the group (Mary), who are known as the...
Teaching pack focusing different adaptations of Shakespeare plays. Examines Shakespeare’s language, imagery in the written text and images through filmic language, the way the plays and films combine...
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