In Shakespeare, music is an integral part of the action. But the First Folio, which turns 400 this year, failed to transmit how it should sound. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Musicians from the early ...
When British Composer Benjamin Britten decided last October to write an opera on Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream, he faced a prickly problem: how to remain faithful to the original and yet cut ...
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra the other evening gave a program of all Shakespeare, that is to say of orchestral pieces written to illustrate some Shakesperian theme. This interesting selection of ...