BUFVC Search
Current Search
Previous Searches
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...
Television production of Sir Michael Tippett’s opera, with the London Sinfonietta conducted by Howard Williams. An austere work, in fragmented scenes, exploring the strained inter-relationships between the...
Dance. Recording of three ballets by Frederick Ashton, conducted by Emmanuel Plasson from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. The first is The Dream featuring Akanet Takada as Titania, Steven McRae and...
A recording of Verdi’s Macbeth recorded live at La Scala, Milan in 1952. Maria Callas sings the role of Lady Macbeth and Enzo Mascherini is Macbeth. The Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus are conducted...
Verdi’s Otello opera from the Royal Opera House, London staged by Elijah Moshinsky and directed for television by Brian Large. Placido Domingo is Otello and Kiri Te Kanawa, Desdemona. The Orchestra and...
Feature film. Ben (Grint), the 17 year-old son of a vicar (Farrell), feels stifled by his devoutly religious mother (Linney). His meeting with Evie (Walters), a retired, unsuccessful actress given to...
Radio play written by St. John G. Ervine and adapted for broadcasting by Cyril Wood. Devised as a sequel to Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, it takes place 10 years after the date of Antonio’s trial...
Recording of a Keith Warner’s staging of Verdi’s opera Otello, directed for the screen by Jonathan Haswell. Sung in Italian.
Detective drama written by Olwen Wymark and Barbara Clegg. Landscape gardener-cum-detective Jim Thackeray needs to combine his skills when a murder takes place in the Shakespeare-themed garden he has...
Radio programme. In the second of her 5-part series of essays considering our responses to the creatures which make up the British landscape, the writer and poet Ruth Padel turns her attention to the robin....