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Introductory material for the study of opera, comprising an encyclopaedic browsing environment which would be integrated into lecture- or seminar-driven course.
Video recording using a single camera of a performance co-produced by the Théâtre du Chtelet and the Thétre de Caen of ‘King Arthur’, a semi-opera with music by Henry Purcell and libretto by John...
Video recording using a single camera of a performance by Kent Opera of ‘The Masque in Dioclesian’ by Henry Purcell in its first staged production in modern times, at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, on...
Video recording using two cameras of a performance of ‘The Second Mrs Kong’, an opera by Harrison Birtwistle with libretto by Russell Hoban, performed at by the Glyndebourne Festival Opera at...
The story of the new Glyndebourne Opera House, rebuilt in the early 1990s and officially opened in 1994. Reveals the underlying philosophy of Glyndebourne and the determination of many people, including Sir...
Examines some of the issues raised when a composer sets words to music, looking at the way a composer balances the words, which need to be heard and understood, with the music, which needs to make sense on...
An extract from a staged production of Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’, recorded live at the 18th-century Drottningholm Opera House in Sweden. It consists of the whole of the finale of Act 1, plus a brief...
Scenes show the day-to-day running of the English National Opera, plus shows of the elaborate architecture inside the London Coliseum, the setting of the stage, and the Royal Box with its retiring room....
Rehearsals and performance of ‘Examination’ from Act I Scene 2 ('Michael’s Youth’) of ‘Thursday from Light’ with Annette Meriweather (soprano), Julian Pike (tenor), Nicholas Isherwood (bass),...
A danced drama about Alfred Dreyfus in two acts, created by George R Whyte, with music by Alfred Schnittke. World premiere in the Oper der Bundesstaddt Bonn, 4 September 1994.
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