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Otello (1965 Television)

Director

Otto Schenk

Verdi’s opera sung in German in a staging by Otto Schenk. Wolfgang Windgassen is Otello and Norman Mittelmann is Iago. The South German Radio Orchestra and Chorus of the Vienna Opera are conducted by Argeo...

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Behind the Scenes with the Royal Ballet (1966 Television)

Director

Ion Voyantzis

Producer

Ion Voyantzis

Documentary on the Royal Ballet, focusing on rehearsals for Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet and Frederick Ashton’s Monotones. No.2. In voiceover commentary Ashton talks about the Company, the...

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Romeo et Juliette (1994 Radio)

aka: Romeo and Juliet

Director

Nicolas Joel

BBC radio broadcast of Gounod’s opera live from Covent Garden. The new production by Nicolas Joel is sung in French. Charles Mackerras conducts the Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Covent Garden.

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Vive De Gaulle

Date released

11 Apr 1960

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1610

NoS ID

023552

Story no

1 / 3

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Vive De Gaulle. DESCRIPTION: On the second day of his State visit, President de Gaulle (with his wife) was the guest of the City of London. At Guildhall, the Lord Mayor, Sir Edmund...

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Exit, Pursued by Vat Man (2005 Radio)

Series

Twenty Minutes

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.

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Troilus and Cressida (1995 Radio)

Series

Live from Covent Garden

Walton’s opera relayed live from the Royal Opera House, London, in a production by Opera North, performed by English Northern Philharmonia, conductor Richard Hickox. The broadcast is presented by James...

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The Shah in London’s Guildhall

Date released

11 May 1959

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1562

NoS ID

023007

Story no

3 / 5

Flags were flying at Guildhall in honour of the Shah of Iran, and walking in procession with the Lord Mayor (Sir Harold Gillett), His Imperial Majesty proceeding to take his place in the Library. The address...

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Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love (2003)

Subject

Drama; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 71 minutes), £19.99

Maria Callas appeared on the operatic stage for the very last time at Covent Garden in July 1965. She sang the role of Tosca. Though a huge success, it also marked the beginning of the end for this...

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Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1999 Video)

Director

Michael Boyd

Video recording, using a single, fixed camera, of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 1999 production directed by Michael Boyd. Josette Simon and Nicholas Jones double the roles of Hippolyta/Titania and...

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Macbeth (1998 Audio)

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...

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