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Podcast. Composer Brett Dean and librettist Matthew Jocelyn created an operatic retelling, which has its world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival 2017. In this episode of the Glyndebourne podcast, they...
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Rufus Wainwright collaborates with friends and family to create an album in which a selection of the Bard’s sonnets are set to music.
As part of the Shakespeare 400 celebrations, Professor Russ McDonald explores how Shakespeare’s work has influenced composers. He focuses on Dvorak’s Othello overture which was performed by the London...
A lecturer in Shakespeare from Kings College London, Dr Lucy Munro reviews the performances of Macbeth in the 1880s. Actors, Tom Lincoln and Eva Feiler give contrasting performances as Macbeth and Lady...
Under the theme of "The Seven Ages of Man"; actors Samuel West and Hattie Morahan perform the poetry of outstanding writers. The programme explores how love changes during the course of a human life. The...
German rock opera by Dr. Rudolf Volz that transposes Shakespeare’s play to outer space - the gravedigger becomes a gian, rabbit-like creature - featuring 24 songs. The lyrics for the English version only...
Audio podcast. This edition, written and presented by Graham Foster, examines author and critic Anthony Burgess’s relationship with Shakespeare and his works. This includes Burgess’ biography of the Bard...
Audio podcast. In this edition, Andrew Biswell and Rob Spence discuss Anthony Burgess’s novel about Shakespeare, Nothing Like the Sun. They discusse the innovative use of language and Burgess’s lifelong...
With its roots in religious festivals and ancient rituals to lure the sun back as it fell lower and lower in the winter sky, Hogmanay is a uniquely Scottish New Year festival known throughout the world....
Barbara Bogaev talks to Douglas Lanier about Duke Ellington’s ‘Such Sweet Hunder’, a collaboration with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Recorded in 1957, it is made up of twelve compositions,...
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