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Otello (1948 Radio)
aka: An Opera in Four Acts
Studio performance of Verdi’s opera in Italian. The BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Chorus are conducted by Stanford Robinson, with Renato Gigli as Otello and Marko Rothmuller as Iago.
Otello (1948 Television)
- Director
- Burke Crotty; Herbert Graf
Verdi’s Otello, conducted by Fritz Busch with Ramon Vinay as Othello and Licia Albanese as Desdemona. Directed for stage by Herbert Graf and for television by Burke Crotty, this was the first live...
Julius Caesar: Act 1 (1948 Radio)
The last of 4 programmes of music from Handel’s dramatic works focuses on Act 1 of Handel’s Italian opera Julius Caesar, prepared for broadcasting by Anthony Lewis who also conducts the Royal...
Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet (1948 Film)
- Series
- Musical Masterpieces
- Director
- George Freedland
- Producer
- George Richfield
Fernando Previtali conducts the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Italy in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s overture-fantasy Romeo and Juliet.
Music in Shakespeare (1947 Radio)
aka: Shakespeare and His Musicians
- Producer
- Douglas Cleverdon
Radio programme on Shakespeare’s dramatic use of contemporary music and songs. Alec Guinness, who presents the programme, is supported by the Dolmetsch Consort of Viols and Recorders, and players,...
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...
Elizabethan Music Associated with Shakespeare’s Plays (1947 Radio)
- Series
- Music Anthology
Radio programme on a selection of Elizabethan music that has come to be associated with Shakespeare’s plays. With Ena Mitchell (soprano), Gerald Smith (treble), Diana Poulton (lute), Margaret Hodsdon...
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.
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.
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...