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[News] Verdi’s ‘Otello’ at Royal Opera House, London

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“Otello” the opera created by Giuseppe Verdi based on Shakespeare’s play Othello will run through July 15, 2017, at Royal Opera House, London.

Based on the play by William Shakespeare, ‘Otello’ narrates the story of love, jealousy, betrayal, and death. The tragedy of Otello is the plot as he seeps into jealousy and murders his faithful wife Desdemona manipulated by the trickery of a cunning Iago. Through the confessions of Iago’s accomplices and his unknowing wife Emilia his plot is revealed and Otello grief-stricken takes his own life.

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Architects appointed to design Shakespeare North theatre

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Shakespeare North Theatre

Plans for a £19m theatre in Merseyside are one step closer to realisation, with architects appointed to oversee the project.

Shakespeare North, a 350-seat replica Shakespearean theatre and education hub in Knowsley, was awarded planning permission in April after councillors voted unanimously in favour.

London-based Helm Architecture will design the theatre and Austin-Smith: Lord LLB have been appointed as the supporting architects. Scale models, artists’ impressions and CGI images of the new theatre have been released.

Organisers hope the project in Prescot, a town in Knowsley, will join Stratford-upon-Avon and the Globe in London as one of three key destinations for Shakespeare lovers.

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Remains of Early Shakespeare Theatre Site Granted Heritage Status

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The remains of the theatre where Shakespeare’s Hamlet may have been first performed has been granted legal protection by the government.

Archeological remains of the Theatre, which dates back to 1576, have been added to the National Heritage List for England, alongside the ruins of another Elizabethan playhouse near London’s Bankside.

Shakespeare and his acting troupe, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, were strongly associated with the Theatre – the remains of which were discovered in Hackney in 2008.

Some scholars believe Hamlet was performed for the first time at the venue in 1596, and it is also thought to be where Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus was first staged.

 

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Shakespeare: Actor. Playwright. Social Climber.

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Bottom right corner, a recently discovered, if tattered, depiction of the Shakespeare coat of arms.
Bottom right corner, a recently discovered, if tattered, depiction of the Shakespeare coat of arms.

Shakespeare biography has long circled a set of tantalizing mysteries: Was he Protestant or secretly Catholic? Gay or straight? Loving toward

The documents, discovered by Heather Wolfe, the curator of manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, relate to a coat of arms that was granted to Shakespeare’s father in 1596, attesting to his and his son’s status as gentlemen.

Considered with previously known records, Ms. Wolfe argues, the documents suggest both how deeply invested Shakespeare was in gaining that recognition — a rarity for a man from the theater — and how directly he may have been drawn into colorful bureaucratic infighting that threatened to strip it away.

Ms. Wolfe’s discoveries began in the archives of the College of Arms in London, home to 10 heralds who are still charged with researching and granting coats of arms — arcane territory where many literary scholars might fear to tread.

King Lear, Past And Present – In Images

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           Frank Langella as Lear in the Chichester Festival Theatre production, 2013 Photograph: Johan Persson

 

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    Ian McKellen gave one of the most high-profile performances as Lear in recent years. The RSC   production transferred to London, toured the world and was filmed. The screen version preserved McKellen’s modesty; his stripping off in the storm scene on stage almost had as much attention as Daniel Radcliffe’s appearance in Equus Photograph: Tristram Kenton

 

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Nigel Hawthorne was 70 when he played Lear at the Barbican in 1999. The RSC production was mounted by Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa Photograph: Tristram Kenton

 

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