Dominic Dromgoole’s production brings refreshing clarity to one of Shakespeare’s most famous and best-loved tragedies, drawing out the contemporary relevance of this passionate teenage love story. Ellie Kendrick, a truly youthful Juliet, and Adetomiwa Edun, a boyish Romeo, head an excellent cast whose period costumes point to the timelessness of parental disapproval, adolescent temperament, rivalry and violence. Filmed before a live audience at Shakespeare’s Globe in the heart of London, its intimate and atmospheric setting adds immediacy and vitality to the humour and passion of Shakespeare’s verse. Filmed in High Definition and true surround sound.

Prince Escalus: Andrew Vincent
Mercutio: Philip Cumbus
Paris: Tom Stuart
Montague: Michael O’Hagan
Lady Montague: Holly Atkins
Romeo: Adetomiwa Edun
Benvolio: Jack Farthing
Abraham/Apothecary: Graham Vick
Baltasar/Meter/Gregory: Fergal McElherron
Capulet: Ian Redford
Lady Capulet: Miranda Foster
Juliet: Ellie Kendrick
Tybalt: Ukweli Roach
Nurse: Penny Layden
Friar John/Sampson: James Lailey
Friar Lawrence: Rawiri Paratene
Musicians: William Lyons, Arngeir Hauksson, Amy Kelly, Sharon Lindo, Nicholas Perry

Directed by Dominic Dromgoole
Designed by Simon Daw
Composed by Nigel Hess
Choreographed by Sian Williams
            
Recorded live at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London, in August 2009.

Dominic Dromgoole’s production brings refreshing clarity to one of Shakespeare’s most famous and best-loved tragedies, drawing out the contemporary relevance of this passionate teenage love story. Ellie Kendrick, a truly youthful Juliet, and Adetomiwa Edun, a boyish Romeo, head an excellent cast whose period costumes point to the timelessness of parental disapproval, adolescent temperament, rivalry and violence. Filmed before a live audience at Shakespeare’s Globe in the heart of London, its intimate and atmospheric setting adds immediacy and vitality to the humour and passion of Shakespeare’s verse. Filmed in High Definition and true surround sound.

Prince Escalus: Andrew Vincent
Mercutio: Philip Cumbus
Paris: Tom Stuart
Montague: Michael O’Hagan
Lady Montague: Holly Atkins
Romeo: Adetomiwa Edun
Benvolio: Jack Farthing
Abraham/Apothecary: Graham Vick
Baltasar/Meter/Gregory: Fergal McElherron
Capulet: Ian Redford
Lady Capulet: Miranda Foster
Juliet: Ellie Kendrick
Tybalt: Ukweli Roach
Nurse: Penny Layden
Friar John/Sampson: James Lailey
Friar Lawrence: Rawiri Paratene
Musicians: William Lyons, Arngeir Hauksson, Amy Kelly, Sharon Lindo, Nicholas Perry

Directed by Dominic Dromgoole
Designed by Simon Daw
Composed by Nigel Hess
Choreographed by Sian Williams
            
Recorded live at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, London, in August 2009.

Ever since the world premiere of Parsifal at Bayreuth on 26th July 1882, the meaning of Richard Wagner’s last opera has been widely discussed. Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s visionary staging of this emotionally charged opera reveals a masterpiece of existential drama about human existence. Christopher Ventris and Waltraud Meier lead an inspired cast in a high definition recording in true surround sound.

Parsifal: Christopher Ventris
Kundry: Waltraud Meier
Gurnemanz: Matti Salminen
Amfortas: Thomas Hampson
Klingsor: Tom Fox
Titurel: Bjarni Thor Kristinsson

Flower Maidens (singers):
Nina Amon, Abbie Furmansky, Emma Gardner, Alexandra Lubchansky, Katharina Rikus, Andrea Stadel

Flower Maidens (dancers):
Ute Baur, Sandra Fritz, Simina German, Sarah Kinn, Fabienne Kühn, Sandra Metzger, Iris Mündörfer, Annalena Plathe, Eveline Schwarztrauber, Juliette Van der Meer, Julia Weber, Afanasia Zwick

Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Festspielchor Baden-Baden
Conductor: Kent Nagano
Stage Director: Nikolaus Lehnhoff

Recorded live at the Festspielhaus, Baden- Baden, Germany, in August 2004.

Miyako Yoshida dances the title role originally created for Margot Fonteyn in the hauntingly beautiful underwater world of Ondine, vividly brought to life by The Royal Ballet. Frederick Ashton’s shimmering choreography, Lila de Nobili’s impressionistic designs and Hans Werner Henze’s specially commissioned, vibrant and inventive score, memorably combine to evoke the many moods and colours of the sea. Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true surround sound.

Ondine: Miyako Yoshida
Palemon: Edward Watson
Berta: Genesia Rosato
Tirrenio: Ricardo Cervera
A Hermit: Gary Avis

Act III Divertissement:
Mara Galeazzi, José Martín, Helen Crawford, Samantha Raine, Brian Maloney, Sergei Polunin and Artists of The Royal Ballet
            
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
Choreographer: Frederick Ashton

Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, June 2009.

Miyako Yoshida dances the title role originally created for Margot Fonteyn in the hauntingly beautiful underwater world of Ondine, vividly brought to life by The Royal Ballet. Frederick Ashton’s shimmering choreography, Lila de Nobili’s impressionistic designs and Hans Werner Henze’s specially commissioned, vibrant and inventive score, memorably combine to evoke the many moods and colours of the sea. Filmed in High Definition and recorded in true surround sound.

Ondine: Miyako Yoshida
Palemon: Edward Watson
Berta: Genesia Rosato
Tirrenio: Ricardo Cervera
A Hermit: Gary Avis

Act III Divertissement:
Mara Galeazzi, José Martín, Helen Crawford, Samantha Raine, Brian Maloney, Sergei Polunin and Artists of The Royal Ballet
            
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor: Barry Wordsworth
Choreographer: Frederick Ashton

Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, June 2009.