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  1. Opera (1987 Film)

    aka: Terror at the Opera

    Director
    Dario Argento
    Producer
    Dario Argento

    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....

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  2. From Lady Macbeth to Katerina and Back Again (1987 Television)

    Michael Berkeley talks to David Pountney, Mark Elder and Edward Downes about Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.

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  3. Zeffirelli’s ‘Otello’, From Stage to Screen (1986 Television)

    Producer
    David Sweetman

    Television documentary on the making of Zeffirelli’s OTELLO and the problems of adapting Verdi’s opera for the cinema. There is comment from Zeffirelli and others involved in the film.

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  4. Kingdom of Desire, The (1986 Video)

    Director
    Wu Hsing-Kuo

    A video recording of the stage production of The Kingdom of Desire written and directed by Wu Hsing-Kuo. The production fuses Shakespeare’s play with the mise-en-scène of Beijing opera.

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  5. Kingdom of Desire (1986 Video)

    Director
    Hsing-kuo Wu

    Video recording of Wu Hsing-kuo’s production of Kingdom of Desire for the Contemporary Legend Theatre Company. During the Eastern Chou Dynasty of the Warring State when feudalism was at its peak, the...

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  6. Passing of Falstaff, The (1985 Television)

    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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  7. Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1984 Film)

    aka: Suena de una Noche de Verano

    Director
    Celestino Coronado
    Producer
    David Haughton; Lindsay Kemp

    Opera, ballet and pantomime are incorporated into this adaptation which is derived from a Lindsay Kemp stage production at Sadler’s Wells. Titania (The Incredible Orlando) is a drag queen; the Indian boy...

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  8. Transformations [22/11/1983] (1983 Radio)

    Series
    Transformations
    Producer
    Madeline Jay

    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...

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  9. Shakespeare-Verdi: Macbeth (1976 Radio)

    Series
    Listening Room, The

    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).

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  10. Shakespeare and Opera (1969 Radio)

    Producer
    Tony Gould

    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...

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