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Documentary, hosted by Donald Voorhhes, about the weeks of preparation and rehearsals leading up to the world premiere opening night performance of Samuel Barber’s opera Antony and Cleopatra at the new...
Live relay of the Saturday matinee performance of Gounod’s opera from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Stage direction is by Guy Joosten and television direction by Gary Halvorson. Roberto Alagna...
Radio broadcast. Act I of Verdi’s opera relayed from The Old Vic, London, with Arthur Cox (Otello) and Sybil Crawley (Desdemona). Warwick Braithwaite conducts.
Radio broadcast. In part 3 and 4 of the music series ‘Keyboard Talks’, Leslie H. Heward and Victor Hely-Hutchinson talk about the current production of Verdi’s Falstaff at the Old Vic, London.
How did Shakespeare’s Othello develop into Verdi’s Otello and which of the two works is the greater? Opinions differ as do interpretations. Jonathan Miller, who has recently directed Shakespeare’s play...
Television arts series. In this episode, hosted by James Macandrew, Professor Maynard Mack, Professor of English and Director of Humanities at Yale University and Geraint Evans (at the time appearing in...
Radio broadcast. Verity Sharp talks to Alan Blyth about how Shakespearean drama has been adapted in music dramas and operas by a wide range of composers, from Bellini and Verdi to Britten and Bernstein.
Radio programme broadcast locally in Hartford, Connecticut. Hosted by Ronald Steele, it discusses the Macbeth of Verdi and Shakespeare. No further details known (9/2008).
Radio programme in which Roger Gard, Lecturer in English at the University of London, argues that Shakespeare had more than a casual influence on nineteenth-century opera. Gard illustrates his arguments with...
Radio programme. Presenter Stephen Johnson is joined by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Lawrence Renes, to discuss some of the factors that make Verdi’s Otello arguably a dramatic...
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