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Verdi’s opera in a production by Graham Vick and directed for television by Humphrey Burton. The Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra are conducted by Bernard Haitink. Introduced for television by James...
A new production of Macbeth live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in the 1865 revised version directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Anthony Michaels-Moore and Maria Guleghina sing the leading roles. The Royal...
Film of principal events of E. P. Ray’s Mayoralty (1936-1937), comprising: Coronation celebrations, 1937, Shakespeare Sunday scenes in garden of Shakespeare’s Birthplace, AGM of Shakespeare Birthplace...
Radio broadcast. Marina Warner considers the uses Shakespeare makes of fairies and fairy tales including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet.
Radio broadcast. Graham Fawcett reflects on Romeo and Juliet as interpreted by composers Bernstein, Bellini and Gounod.
Classic British radio comedy series. Episode 11 in series 5 (50th show) includes a fifteen-minute parody of Othello. A breakneck smattering of silly voices and dreadful puns is held together by funny songs...
Fay Weldon’s specially commissioned story takes Hermione from A Winter’s Tale and gives her a modern day dilemma no less dramatic than the original. Read by Eleanor Bron.
Compositions by Alfred Reed for wind ensemble. The Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra is conducted by the composer. Recorded at the Fumon Hall, Tokyo, Japan. Contents: Texana (3:52); Prelude and capriccio (7:00);...
Verdi wrote two versions of his opera Macbeth, one in 1847 and the 1865 Paris version. Tom Rosenthal looks at the differences between the 1847 and 1865 compositions and compares the two librettos...
A 4-DVD boxed set. Contents: MACBETH staged by Phyllida Lloyd with Simon Keenlyside and Liudmyl Monastryska as the Macbeths, Antonio Pappano conducts from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. OTELLO staged...