Arte Live Web has Britten's War Requiem from Coventry Cathedral, with Erin Wall, Mark Padmore, and Hanno Müller-Brachmann. (If the video at the above link doesn't work, try it from the menu on the Klassik page.)
The first of Glyndebourne's summer webcasts, The Cunning Little Vixen, is up until June 22 at Glyndebourne's website and also at The Guardian.
An intriguingly questionable project, this Elizabethan Nick Drake tribute album, but it's an interesting argument (in the Shakespearean sense) and it can't possibly be as horrific as Sting's Dowland album.
The Department of Demographics reports that last night's encore performance of Frankenstein, via NTLive, showed an audience transmuted from predominantly middle-aged theater geeks to twenty-something Benedict Cumberbatch fangirls. To their credit, there was minimal squeeing. Will they show up again for Simon Russell Beale's Timon of Athens? Watch this space.
Must be a global warming thing, but Tempests are cropping up all over. Between The Enchanted Island and the next Robert Lepage multi-media fling, US hdcasting hubs have Christopher Plummer's Prospero from Stratford Festival this Thursday. Olympia Dukakis brings the rough magic to Lenox, Massachusetts in July. There's a Night Waves chatfest on the play from last month archived here. The radio play to go with that has timed out, however. If this is a matter of lamentation for thee, do thou direct thy plaint unto the Ministrie of Noyse.
How was Franken-batch? I was reluctant to go because I don't understand the C'batch mania, to tell you the truth... but the thing might have even been ok.
ReplyDeleteIt's an interesting adaptation and well-staged, I thought. Cumberbatch makes a better Frankenstein than he does the Monster -- I don't think that's due to Sherlockian typecasting, it's just that as the Monster Johnny Lee Miller works less and achieves more. And it is the Monster's show, so if one had to choose...
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