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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...
Maria Callas: Hamburg Concert 1959 (1985 Video)
Maria Callas in concert performance in Hamburg of excerpts from works that she sang at La Scala, Milan. The programme is: ‘Tu che invoco’ from Spontini’s La Vestale; ‘Nel di della vittoria’ from...
Julius Caesar (1984 Video)
- Director
- John Michael Phillips
Studio recording of the opera by George Frederick Handel opera performed by the English National Opera and conducted by Charles MacKerras.
Otello (1984 Audio, Radio)
- Series
- Texaco-Metropolitan Opera Radio Network
Verdi’s Otello with Mario del Monaco as Otello and Victoria de los Angeles as Desdemona. Fausto Cleva conducts the New York Metropoiltan Opera and Chorus. The performance was first heard on radio 8 March...
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (1983 Video)
- Director
- Dave Heather
A recording of Benjamin Britten’s operatic version of the play. The Glyndebourne Festival Opera and the London Philharmonic Orchestra are conducted by Bernard Haitink. James Bowman is Oberon and Ileana...
Sogno di una Notte d’Estate (1983 Film)
aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
- Director
- Gabriel Salvatores
A rock musical version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Lyubovyu za Lyubov (1983 Film)
aka: Love for Love
- Director
- Tatyana Berezantseva
Russian version of Much Ado About Nothing incorporating ballet and dance. Courtney Lehmann (op cit) writes: ‘This film is a curious hybrid that includes classical ballet interludes, a narrator figure who...
Neuer Sommernachtstraum, Ein (1983 Television)
aka: Romantisches Ballet New Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
- Director
- Heide Draexler-Just
- Producer
- Horst Kiaulehn
Ballet recording. Bernd Köllinger’s modern reworking of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Komische Oper Berlin is adapted for television by Heide Draexler-Just. The programme is...
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...
Falstaff (1982 Video)
- Director
- Brian Large
- Producer
- Ronald Eyre
Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Falstaff performed by the Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini. Renato Bruson as Falstaff.