Prom 44: Shakespeare: Stage and Screen

18 Aug 2016, Royal Albert Hall

19:30 Thu 18 Aug 2016 Next Event

19:30 Thu 18 Aug 2016 Royal Albert Hall

The BBC Concert Orchestra performs some of the best music written for Shakespeare adaptations on the stage and screen – from Joby Talbot’s ballet The Winter’s Tale to Bernstein’s West Side Story and Cole Porter’s 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 '16BBC Radio 3

TV & Radio

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Programme

- - William Walton
  - Richard III Suite (arr. Muir Mathieson)(8 mins)
- - Gerald Finzi
  - Love’s Labour’s Lost – suite(16 mins)
- - Arthur Sullivan
  - The Tempest – Overture to Act 4(5 mins)
- - William Walton
  - As You Like It – 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 ‘West Side Story’(24 mins)
- - Cole Porter
  - Kiss Me Kate(19 mins)
- - Richard Rodgers
  - The Boys from Syracuse(17 mins)

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About This Event

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