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Music and Shakespeare [02/10/1998] (1998 Radio)
- Series
- Music Machine
- Producer
- Christina Pritchard
Radio broadcast. Verity Sharp visits the Royal Shakespeare Company to find out how a composer goes about writing incidental music for a stage production of a Shakespeare play.
Music and Shakespeare [01/10/1998] (1998 Radio)
- Series
- Music Machine
- Producer
- Christina Pritchard
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.
Music and Shakespeare [28/09/1998] (1998 Radio)
- Series
- Music Machine
- Producer
- Christina Pritchard
Radio broadcast. Baz Luhrmann’s WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO + JULIET is set on Verona Beach. In addition to original music by Craig Armstrong and Marius De Vries, the soundtrack features contemporary pop...
Music and Shakespeare [29/09/1998] (1998 Radio)
- Series
- Music Machine
- Producer
- Christina Pritchard
Radio broadcast. Verity Sharp investigates the role of songs in Shakespeare’s plays.
Beatrice and Benedict (1998 Radio)
- Series
- Proms Composer of the Week: Berlioz
Radio broadcast. Roger Nichols examines Berlioz’s approach to his operatic adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.
Italiana in Algeri, L’ (1997 Video)
- Series
- Works & Process at the Guggenheim Collection
- Producer
- Mary Sharp Cronson
Two new productions by New York City Opera. Each segment includes two arias performed by singers from the productions, interspersed with discussions with the singers, directors and set designers. The singers...
Romeo et Juliette (1997 Television, Video)
aka: Romeo and Juliet
- Director
- Yves-André Hubert
Gounod’s opera directed by Yves-André Hubert with Neil Shicoff and Barbara Hendricks in the title roles.
Macbeth (1997 Television)
- Director
- Carlo Battistoni
- Producer
- Patrizia Carmine; Sonia Magagnini
Verdi’s opera produced for Radiotelevisione Italiana with Renato Bruson and Maria Guleghina in the title roles. The Opera and Chorus of La Scala, Milan are conducted by Riccardo Muti.
Macbeth (1997 Radio)
aka: Royal Opera Verdi Festival: Macbeth
Live recording of Verdi’s opera with Anthony Michaels-Moore and Georgina Lukacs as the Macbeths. Edward Downes conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
Three Macbeths, The (1997 Radio)
Verdi wrote two versions of his opera Macbeth, one in 1847 and the 1865 Paris version. Tom Rosenthal looks at the differences between the 1847 and 1865 compositions and compares the two librettos...