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Video recording of the production of Ambroise Thomas’ opera directed for stage by Dieter Kaegi. Richard Haan is Hamlet. The Prague State Opera and Chorus are conducted by Bohumil Gregor.
Feature film. In this giallo a young opera singer, Betty (Marsillach) gets her big chance to sing Lady Macbeth when the previous star of an avant garde production of Verdi’s Macbeth breaks her leg....
A filmed version of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s highly acclaimed 1989 stage production in The Other Place, and superbly re-imagained as a television ensemble piece. Set in a 19th-century army...
Fiction film. A highly abbreviated version of Macbeth with Georgette Leblanc-Maeterlinck as Lady Macbeth and Severin-Mars as Macbeth. No further details known.
Selections from Acts II and III of Verdi’s Otello sung by Francesco Valentino (Iago). The singer taking the role of Otello has not been found. Conducted by Giuseppe Bamboschek. The programme is hosted by...
A new work by composer Gavin Bryars commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and Opera North. Inspired by Shakespeare’s sonnets, Nothing Like The Sun: The Sonnet Project is a two-part performance....
Russian version of Much Ado About Nothing incorporating ballet and dance. Courtney Lehmann (op cit) writes: ‘This film is a curious hybrid that includes classical ballet interludes, a narrator figure who...
Feature film. David Garnet, a tin magnate, dies leaving his fortune to his wastral son on the condition that he settles down within two years. The son, King Garnet, becomes a tramp and so the business passes...
Video recording of Dmitry Krymov’s interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream which incorporates acrobats, an opera singer, 10ft high puppets and a Jack Russell terrier.
Live television broadcast of the stage production directed by Nicholas Hytner for the Lincoln Centre 1998 Festival. Helen Hunt is Viola and Philip Bosco is Malvolio.
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