Everything Shakespeare
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1 seasonShakespeare: Rise of a Genius
1 season
Type: Docudrama
Cast: Callum Scott Howells
Director: Ashley Gething
Location: London, Stratford-upon-Avon
Year: 2023
A lively, easy-watching series that tells the story of Shakespeare as he goes to London and energizes the world of theatre. With beautiful 16th Century reenactments, see him find h... -
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Leads: Florence Kasumba, Robert Lindsay, Harry Jarvis, Tamzin Merchant
Director: Sacha Bennett
Production Company: Parkhouse Pictures
Writer: William Shakespeare, Hal Fowler
Year: 2022Synopsis: This modern reimagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream brings Shakespe...
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Romeo and Juliet, The Czech National Ballet
Movie
Type: Ballet
Company: The Czech National Ballet
Soloists: Nikola Marova, Ondrej Vinklat
Choreographer: Vaclav Zahradnik
Orchestra: The Prague State Opera Orchestra
Conductor: Sergej Poluektov
Venue: State Opera House, Prague
Year: 2015Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet is a vivid and emotionally char...
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MovieHamlet Within
Movie
Type: Documentary
Director: Ken McCullen
Cast: Ian McKellen, Connie Nielson, Lambert Wilson
Year: 2022Ian McKellen's performance in the documentary Hamlet Within is anything but boring. The film offers a modern-day interpretation of Shakespeare's Hamlet, exploring the young prince's psyche as h...
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1 seasonA Taste of Shakespeare
1 season
Type: Shakespeare
Play: All Shakespeare's plays are evaluated and partially performed
Director: Gavin Struthers
Performed at: Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London
Presented by: Norman Birkett, 1st Baron Birkett
Year: 1995 -
Mendelsohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie
Type: Orchestra
Conductor: Laurence Equilbey
Location: Royal Albert Hall
Pianist: Alexei Volodin
Year: 2018This performance of Songe(s) d’une nuit d’été (Songs of a Midsummer Night’s Dream) offers a captivating fusion of Mendelssohn’s iconic music with a visual and thematic reimagining of Sh...
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A Taste of Shakespeare: Henry V
Verily, here doth unfold in workshop fashion, with lively players drawn from London’s finest school of drama. Led by the noble Lord Birkett, the piece doth examine the most stirring scenes and weighty matters of the play, with wit and clarity to charm even the wary scholar. Lord Birkett was himse...
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Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet with Brahms' Symphony No. 1
Movie
Type: Orchestra
Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Location: Waldbuhne Amphitheatre, Germany
Year: 2014Charismatic Latin American conductor Gustavo Dudamel returns to Berlin for this summer concert. The Philharmonic Orchestra performs end-of-season pieces, including Tchaikovsky’s “The Tempest” Sympho...
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Purcell: The Fairy Queen performed by Vox Luminis
Movie
Type: Opera
Company: Vox Luminis
Composer: Henry Purcell
Venue: Concertgebouw Brugge, Brussels
Conductor: Lionel Meunier
Year: 2022Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen is semi chamber music, semi performance art. It shimmers with baroque splendor in this sharp performance by Vox Luminis. Loosely ins...
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Italian Night under the Stars
Movie
Type: Italian Opera Favorites
Location: Waldbuhne Amphitheater, Germany
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Soloists: Angela Gheorghiu, Sergei Larin, and Bryn Terfel
Composer: Verdi, Bellini, and Rossini
Year: 1996An iconic summer concert at Berlin’s monumental Waldbuhn...
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The Two Tenors: Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier
Movie
Type: Opera
Orchestra: German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Jochen Rieder
Artists: Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier
Location: Festpielhaus Baden-Baden, Germany
Year: 2023Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier delivered an electrifying evening of operatic drama, performing some of Verdi and P...
