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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.
Excerpts of a production of Wagner’s grand opera ‘Die Meistersinger’, performed by the Bonn Opera Company.
A video recording of Michael Nyman’s only opera, first performed at the ICA in the late 1980s. It tells the story of musicologist Dr P and the neurological condition that caused him to gradually lose a...
Consists of three scenes from Beaumarchais’ play ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ and the same scenes from Mozart’s opera: Act V, part of Figaro’s monologue and part of Figaro’s aria; Act III, the duet...
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....
Part 1: Examples of musical instruments being manufactured and played by master musicians and orchestras. Interwoven in the musical sequences are scenic shots of Chinese landscapes. Part 2: Rare scenes of...
A film made to celebrate Peter Pear’s 75th birthdayin which the tenor talks about his life to Donald Mitchell. His works are illustrated by stills, film clips and excerpts from Britten’s works.
Documentary short which accompanied the U.S. broadcast of FALSTAFF (Unitel, 13/12/1985). It compares the treatment of The Merry Wives of Windsor by Verdi and Orson Welles, the former represented by clips...
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