Prom 44: Shakespeare: Stage and Screen

18 Aug 2016, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Thu 18 Aug 2016 Next Event

Proms 2016 Prom 44

19:30 Thu 18 Aug 2016 Royal Albert Hall

The 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra performs some of the best music written for Shakespeare adaptations on the stage and screen 鈥� from Joby Talbot鈥檚 ballet The Winter鈥檚 Tale to Bernstein鈥檚 West Side Story and Cole Porter鈥檚 Kiss Me, Kate.

Performances & Interviews

20:55

Proms interval talk: Shakespeare - Actors and Acting

Dr Sarah Dillon explores the way Shakespeare depicted the acting profession in his plays.

Aug '16大象传媒 Radio 3

TV & Radio

Programme

- - William Walton
  - Richard III Suite (arr. Muir Mathieson)(8 mins)
- - Gerald Finzi
  - Love鈥檚 Labour鈥檚 Lost 鈥� suite(16 mins)
- - Arthur Sullivan
  - The Tempest 鈥� Overture to Act 4(5 mins)
- - William Walton
  - As You Like It 鈥� a poem for orchestra after Shakespeare(6 mins)
- - Joby Talbot
  - Springtime Dance from The Winter's Tale(6 mins)
- - interval
- - Leonard Bernstein
  - Symphonic Dances from 鈥榃est Side Story鈥�(24 mins)
- - Cole Porter
  - Kiss Me Kate(19 mins)
- - Richard Rodgers
  - The Boys from Syracuse(17 mins)

Performers

Composers

About This Event

This transatlantic Prom presents a range of Shakespeare鈥檚 characters as reflected on stage and screen 鈥� with an all-British first half and a second half devoted to American musicals, conducted by the US-born Keith Lockhart.

Part of

Proms 2016 Classical for Starters 2018-19