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  1. Otello (1940 Radio)

    Series
    Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts

    Verdi’s opera with Giovanni Martinelli in the title role. Ettore Panizza conducts the New York Metropolitan Opera and Chorus

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  2. Taming of the Shrew, The (1940 Radio)

    Series
    Columbia Workshop
    Director
    Phil Cohen (2)

    Radio broadcast. A musical version of The Taming of the Shrew written especially for Columbia Workshop. Few of Shakespeare’s lines survive in the modern dialogue. Carleton Young and Nan Sunderland play...

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  3. Falstaff in Wien (1940 Film)

    aka: Falstaff in Vienna

    Director
    Leopold Hainisch

    A musical set in old Vienna about the composer Otto Nicolai, who wrote Die Lustige Weiber von Windsor, based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. The film incorporates some of Nicolai’s music...

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  4. Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream - Nocturne, Scherzo, Wedding March (1940 Film)

    Series
    Musical Masterpieces
    Director
    George Freedland
    Producer
    George Richfield

    Franco Ferrara conducts the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Italy in Mendelssohn’s Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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  5. Much Ado About Nothing (1939 Radio)

    Series
    Music from Moscow

    Radio broadcast of Tikhon Khrennikov’s Suite from Much Ado About Nothing.

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  6. Shake, Mr. Shakespeare (1936 Film)

    Director
    Roy Mack

    Musical short. Created as a tie-in for Dieterle and Reinhardt’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (1935) the film imagines a hybrid between Shakespeare and swing music. An assistant director is told to read all...

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  7. Recital of Shakespeare Songs, A (1936 Radio)

    Radio broadcast. The BBC Singers conducted by Trevor Harvey perform a selection of Shakespeare songs by Joseph Bridge, Macfarren, Charles Wood, Vaughan Williams, Ernest Walker.

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  8. Lustigen Weiber, Die (1936 Film)

    aka: Merry Wives of Windsor, The

    Director
    Carl Hoffmann

    Feature film. An operatic version of The Merry Wives of Windsor. The lyrics are by Willy Dehmel.

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  9. Enchanted Island, The (1932 Radio)

    Producer
    Gordon McConnel

    Radio broadcast of Richard Henry Walthew’s (1872-1951) operetta in one act adapted for broadcasting and produced by performed by the BBC Theatre Orchestra, conductor John Ansell. Libretto by R. H. U....

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  10. Charles Hackett with Rosa Low in an Excerpt from Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet (1931 Film)

    An except from the Capulets’ tomb scene from the final act of Gounod’s opera Rom o et Juliette with American tenor Charles Hackett and Romanian-born soprano Rosa Low.

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