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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...
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....
Live radio transmission of a concert from the Ulster Hall, Belfast, centering on Shakespeare. Takuo Yuasa conducts the Ulster Orchestra in Delius’s ‘The Walk to Paradise Garden’, an orchestral...
Radio programme. Julian Evans talks to American scholar and writer Harold Bloom about the character of Falstaff, a subject Bloom discussed in his book Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human.