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  1. Romeo et Juliette (2007 Television)

    aka: Romeo and Juliet

    Series
    Metropolitan Opera: Live in Hd
    Director
    Guy Joosten; Gary Halvorson

    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...

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  2. 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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  3. Many Faces of Romeo and Juliet, The (1967 Television)

    Series
    Bell Telephone Hour, The
    Director
    Clark Jones
    Producer
    Dan Launsbery

    Musical series featuring classical and Broadway music. This episode presents four versions of the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet performed in the theatre, opera (Gounod), ballet (Prokofiev) and the...

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  4. Macbeth (1952 Television)

    Director
    George R. Foa; Alan Lawson
    Producer
    Carl Ebert

    Verdi’s opera sung in the original Italian, directed and adapted for television by George R. Foa. With Alexander Moyes as narrator. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Vittori Gui.

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  5. In the Opera-House (1950 Radio)

    Series
    Music for Shakespeare

    Fourth in a series of radio programmes on ‘Music in Shakespeare’. Illustrated talk by Philip Hope-Wallace.

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  6. Macbeth (1949 Radio)

    Scenes from Verdi’s opera (Act I ii; Act II, Scenes i-iii) performed in Italian. Mario Rossi conducts the Chorus and the Symphony Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Turin. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.

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  7. Venus and Adonis (1947 Radio)

    aka: Masque for the Entertainment of the King, A

    Radio broadcast of John Blow’s miniature opera which is based on the classical fable of Venus and Adonis. Anthony Lewis conducts the New London Orchestra and the BBC Singers.

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  8. Music in the Tempest, Or, The Enchanted Island, The (1947 Radio)

    Series
    Purcell Anthology

    Henry Purcell’s ‘semi-opera’ is broadcast as part of a music anthology series about the composer. Anthony Lewis conducts The Boyd Neel Orchestra and the BBC Singers.

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  9. Merry Wives of Windsor, The (1937 Radio)

    Director
    Ernst Schoen

    Radio broadcast of scenes from Otto Nicolai’s opera. The BBC Orchestra and Chorus are conducted by George Knepler, with Ernst Schoen as director. The opera is performed in English, translation by D....

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  10. Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ (1936 Radio)

    Series
    Keyboard Talks

    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.

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