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  1. Merchant of Venice, The (1949 Television)

    Director
    Desmond Davis
    Producer
    Desmond Davis

    Post WW II production by Donald Wolfit and his company showing Rosalind Iden (Portia) and Donald Wolfit (Shylock) performing the trial scene from The Merchant of Venice.

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  2. Falstaff (1949 Radio)

    Series
    Opera Half-Hour, The

    Radio transmission of part of Act III of Verdi’s opera taken from a gramophone recording of the complete performance at La Scala, Milan. Lorenzo Molajoli conducts the Milan Teatro Orchestra and Chorus....

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  3. Falstaff (1949 Radio)

    Series
    Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network

    Radio broadcast. Live recording of Verdi’s Falstaff from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City. Leonard Warren is Falstaff. Staged by Herbert Graf. Fritz Reiner conducts the Metropolitan Orchestra...

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  4. Roméo et Juliette (1947 Radio)

    aka: Romeo and Juliet

    Series
    Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network

    Live recording of Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette from the Metropolitan Opera House with Jussi Bjorling and Bidu Sayao in the title roles. Emil Cooper conducts the Metropolitan Opera and Chorus. Milton Cross is...

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  5. Falstaff (1947 Radio)

    aka: Lyrical Comedy in Three Acts by Arrigo Boito

    Producer
    H. Procter-Gregg

    Broadcast of Verdi’s last opera, Falstaff, produced for BBC radio by H. Procter-Gregg. Arrigo Boito, who wrote the libretto, adapted and synthesized his underlying story scenario from both The Merry Wives...

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  6. As You Like It (1944 Radio)

    Producer
    Mary Hope Allen

    Radio version of Shakespeare’s comedy arranged for broadcasting by Herbert Farjeon and produced by Mary Hope Allen. With Michael Redgrave as Orlando and Edith Evans as Rosalind. The incidental music was...

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  7. Henry V (1944 Film, Video)

    Director
    Laurence Olivier
    Producer
    Laurence Olivier

    Feature film and Olivier’s directorial debut. The film opens with a typical performance at the Globe Theatre in 1600, moves gradually into reality for the battle and then returns to the Globe. Intended as...

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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. Romeo and Juliet (1936 Film)

    Feature film. A lavish and reverential adaptation of Shakespeare’s play with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer in the title roles.

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