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Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Rated: 0 | 143 Views Released Year: 2001

Genre: Shakespeare
About: This award-winning BBC presentation captures a 1999 performance of George Balanchine's beloved ballet by the Pacific Northwest Ballet, directed by Kent Stowell and Francia Russell, and the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Stewart Kershaw. Inspired by Shakespeare's whimsical comedy, Mendelssohn composed the overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" when he was just 17 years old. Featured dancers include Libby Crabtree and Judith Harris.
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Shakespeare Comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream

Rated: 0 | 165 Views Released Year: 1981

Genre: Shakespeare
About: In Shakespeare's romantic comedy, Hermia and Lysander are forbidden to marry, so the two lovers flee into the woods, followed by scorned suitors Demetrius and Helena. Things get confusing when the fairy Puck misfires a magic charm, causing Lysander to reject Hermia and fall in love with Helena. A hysterical side story has the Fairy Queen lusting for a donkey-headed man. Helen Mirren, Peter McEnery, Pippa Guard, Brian Glover and Phil Daniels star.
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Gounod: Romeo & Juliette

Rated: 0 | 148 Views Released Year: 2003

Genre: Shakespeare
About: Husband-and-wife opera singers Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna, reprising their roles from a New York Metropolitan Opera production, play the famed star-crossed lovers in this filmed version of Charles Gounod's opera. Director Barbara Willis Sweete stages the action in a grand Czech castle, while conductor Anton Guadagno leads the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra in this rousing performance.
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Shakespeare Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew

Rated: 0 | 169 Views Released Year: 1980

Genre: Shakespeare
About: John Cleese stars in Shakespeare's comedy about a spoiled brat who meets her match and her mate -- all rolled into one heck of a pugnacious package. Sweet-natured Bianca can't marry until her quick-tempered sister, Katherine, does. Intent on marrying Bianca, Lucentio assumes his servant's identity and poses as her tutor. Meanwhile, cantankerous Petruchio is convinced he can tame the shrewish older sister, marry her and inherit the family riches.
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Shakespeare Comedies: As You Like It

Rated: 0 | 135 Views Released Year: 1978

Genre: Shakespeare
About: Helen Mirren, Brian Stirner and Richard Pasco star in Shakespeare's romantic comedy about the trials and tribulations of young love. The story follows Orlando and Rosalind, two lovers exiled from their town and both unaware that the other now lives in the countryside. Disguised as a boy for her safety, Rosalind eventually encounters Orlando. She maintains her new identity despite much frustration and manages to catch the eye of a fetching lass.
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Shakespeare Comedies: The Tempest

Rated: 0 | 172 Views Released Year: 1980

Genre: Shakespeare
About: Christopher Guard and Michael Hordern star in Shakespeare's otherworldly romance about deposed magic Duke Prospero, who inhabits an island with his daughter Miranda, their helper-sprite Ariel and the enslaved monster Caliban. A shipwreck brings newcomers to the island, and with them come complications and even danger. Miranda falls in love, Ariel foils two murder plots, Caliban gets drunk, and Prospero confronts the brother who betrayed him.
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Shakespeare Comedies: The Merchant of Venice

Rated: 0 | 168 Views Released Year: 1980

Genre: Shakespeare
About: Warren Mitchell and Gemma Jones star in Shakespeare's comedy-drama about Portia, a wealthy young woman whose father controls who she'll marry, and Bassanio, who wishes to marry Portia, but can't afford to. Bassanio borrows money from Shylock, but if he can't repay the debt, a "pound of flesh" will be taken from Bassanio's friend, Antonio. Meanwhile, Portia's father puts potential husbands to the test, but Bassanio is the only man she wants.
URL: Shakespeare Comedies: The Merchant of Venice