Melly Still
Michael Berkeley's guests is theatre and opera director Melly Still. Her selections include music by Dvorak, Janacek and Wagner associated with her theatre and opera productions.
Melly Still is a theatre and opera director whose work has been described as inventive, ambitious and magical. She stages the unstageable - mermaids, angels animals, underwater realms - putting whole worlds of myth and magic into the theatre or opera house.
She came to fame 10 years ago with Coram Boy at the National - the play about Handel, his Messiah and the Foundling Hospital. Since then she's directed at the Proms and Glyndebourne, and her new production of Cymbeline for the RSC opens later this month.
And music is central to her private life too, with two pianists and a DJ in her family.
She chooses music by Dvorak, Janacek and Wagner associated with her theatre and opera productions, jazz performed by her partner, and tantalizing music performed on instruments made of ice.
Producer: Jane Greenwood
A Loftus Media production for 成人快手 Radio 3.
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Claudio Monteverdi
L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Act 3: Pur ti miro)
Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket. Singer: Danielle de Niese. Singer: Andreas Scholl. -
Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Rusalka (Act 2: Rusalko, znas mne, znas?)
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek. Singer: Ana Mar铆a Mart铆nez. Singer: Mischa Schelomianski. -
Leos Jan谩膷ek
The Cunning Little Vixen (Final Scene)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras. Singer: Dalibor Jedli膷ka. -
Paul von Klenau
Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Kornetts Christoph Rilke (excerpts)
Orchestra: Odense Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Paul Mann. Singer: Bo Skovhus. -
Terje Isungset
A Glimpse of Light
Performer: Terje Isungset. -
Richard Wagner
Tannhauser: Overture
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. -
Mark D'Inverno
So sweet of you
Ensemble: Mark D'Inverno Quintet.
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