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This delightfully entertaining anthology presents some of the funniest extracts in English literature.

The plays of William Shakespeare, and his famous lines, are part of the national consciousness...

This classic Shakespearean comedy is presented here in a colorful full-cast dramatization, drawn from the complete text...

Aida is one of the most popular operas ever written, a sumptuous work which has moments of great drama, but which reminds us in the end that it's all about people--the greatest love affairs and the greatest affairs of state cliff themselves in simple humanity.

Although now beloved and revered by millions as the greatest composer who ever lived, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was best known in his lifetime as an organist, and was eclipsed in fame as a composer by two of his 20 children.

The magic of ballet is evoked in these enchanting stories presented with many musical excerpts from the works themselves...

For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived. In this portrait-in-sound, actors' readings combine with his music to reveal a titanic personality, vulnerable and belligerent, comic and tragic, and above all heroic…

When novelist Charles Condomine invites a medium into his house...

Brahms is one of the best loved, yet most controversial of all the Romantics. Almost uniquely, his works have never suffered the slightest period of eclipse.

Carmen is a French opera by Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Meilhac and Halévy, based on the novel by Prosper Mérimée.

Comedy is totally subjective...

In Composers' Letters, the voices of the great figures of classical music come alive through their correspondence. Set against the music we know and love...

This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tragic, tender, and telling story of life's seven ages - from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech...

Die Falderals is one of the New operative works to which the phrase never a dull moment' can be truthfully applied from the explosive opening of the famous overtime…

Bach, Vivaldi and Handel are the three great composers of the Baroque era, though there are many other well-known figures, including Albinoni, Pachelbel and Scarlatti.

Amid a background of wars and revolution, the 19th century produced many of the world's best-loved composers, including Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, and Tchaikovsky.

Following on the success of The Story of Classical Music, Darren Henley and Marin Alsop combine forces again to tell, in more detail, the lives of six key composers: Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, and Shostakovich.

Fidelio is a work like no other. Beethoven's only opera is about the joy of married love-by a man who never knew that pleasure.

In writing this extraordinary play Shakespeare effectively re-invented tragedy after an interval of roughly two thousand years - you would have to go back to the Greek dramatists of 5th century Athens to find anything of comparable depth and maturity.

Henry V, which dates from 1599, is the last in Shakespeare's series of plays based on English history. It is also...

Instruments of the orchestra, yes, but not just instruments in the orchestra. This is a set of portraits in depth, featuring individual instruments in many contexts and in pieces from the Middle Ages to the present.

No great composer's story is more predominantly happy than Haydn's, though even his has its share of clouds.

Written in 1593, King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays...

La Boherne virtually defines the term romantic. The poignant story of Mini and Rudolf is told in music of such tender beauty, afraid, as always, to Pooch's intuition of what works in the theatre, resulting in an opera that realty to our emotions and senses.

La traviata, an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, takes as its basis the novel La dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas…