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Act III of Verdi’s opera relayed from The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.
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.
Comments on the initial encounters with Orsino and Olivia, the meetings between Viola and Orsino, the garden scene, and the final reunion of thw twins. Also discusses the function of the clown and the...
Silent fiction film. Abbreviated version of the The Merry Wives of Windsor concentrating on the basket scene.
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...
Deals with the literary and political context of the play. Focuses on key scenes which develop the ideas of kingship and honour. Considers the quarrel between Mowbray and Bolingbroke, Gaunt’s dying speech,...