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  • Retelling Hamlet As an Opera (2017 Audio)

    Series
    Glyndebourne Podcast
    Producer
    Katherine Godfrey

    Podcast. Composer Brett Dean and librettist Matthew Jocelyn created an operatic retelling, which has its world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival 2017. In this episode of the Glyndebourne podcast, they...

  • Hamlet (2017)

    An operatic staging of Hamlet with music by two contemporaries of Verdi, Franco Faccio and Arrigo Boito.

  • Anthony and Cleopatra (2017 Video)

    Series
    RSC Live from Stratford Upon Avon
    Director
    Iqbal Khan; Robin Lough
    Producer
    John Wyver

    Following Caesar’s assassination, Mark Antony has reached the heights of power. Now he has neglected his empire for a life of decadent seduction with his mistress, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt. Torn between...

  • Twelfth Night (2016 Video)

    Series
    Shakespeare Lives 2016
    Director
    Kane Chattey
    Producer
    Joy Campbell

    In the candlelit Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, the British recording artists Maverick Sabre, Mic Righteous and Eyez perform lyrics inspired by Shakespeare’s romantic comedy. The video is part of a series of...

  • At the Boar’s Head (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Afternoon on 3

    Thursday Opera Matinee. Radio production of Gustav Holst’s one-act comic opera. The words of the libretto are taken from Shakespeare’s King Henry IV. Philip Langridge is Prince Hal. The Men’s Voices of...

  • "Press Among the Popular Throngs" (2016 Audio)

    aka: Pop Sonnets

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    Richard Paul

    Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. Erik Didriksen takes hit songs from artists such as Taylor Swift and Coldplay and rewrites them as Elizabethan-style sonnets. Tumblr, where Didriksen has posted...

  • Verdi and Shakespeare (2016 Video)

    aka: Verdi: The Shakespeare Operas

    A 4-DVD boxed set. Contents: MACBETH staged by Phyllida Lloyd with Simon Keenlyside and Liudmyl Monastryska as the Macbeths, Antonio Pappano conducts from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. OTELLO staged...

  • Friday Night is Music Night [22/04/2016] (2016 Radio)

    Series
    Friday Night is Music Night

    Michael Maloney introduces a special Shakespeare-themed festival of music. Performers include the National Youth Chamber Orchestra conducted by Ben Parry, the National Youth Jazz Orchestra conducted by Mark...

  • Sounds of Shakespeare, The (2016 Radio)

    Series
    In Tune

    Sean Rafferty and guests launch BBC Radio 3’s Sounds of Shakespeare weekend with a live showcase of the weekend’s musicians, singers and performers, including the world premiere of Love Sought - a new...

  • Sounds of Shakespeare, The (2016 Radio)

    BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom Service charts the magical chemistry between Shakespeare’s language and the music it has given life to over the last 400 years - from Romeo and Juliet to The Tempest.