Name: Sounds of Jazz
Uploaded: 2025-11-04T14:41:24.241Z
Duration: 46 min 35 s
Description: From New Orleans to bebop, this episode traces jazz's evolution, from Armstrong and Ellington to Miles Davis's final notes.

Laurent Pelly's expression of Berlioz's adaptation of Much Ado about Nothing as an opera comique becomes ''an elegant treatise on love and music".

Beatrice and Benedict

Glyndebourne

opera

An earnest young American woman, a louche English lord, and an innocent young chap join a house party of fin de siècle fools andgrotesques.

A Woman of No Importance

theater

The RSC’s 2019 production of As You Like It, Shakespeare’s tale of love, lust and mistaken identity.

As You Like It

Royal Shakespeare Company

theater

The Rolls-Royce of English comedies, this entertaining and still topical play brings an act of political sin into the heart of the English home.

An Ideal Husband

theater

A group of soldiers returns from the trenches. The worldweary Benedick and his friend Claudio find themselves reacquainted with Beatrice and Hero.

Love's Labours Won

Royal Shakespeare Company

theater

A modern opera adaptation by Charles Wuorinen based on Annie Proulx’s short story.

Brokeback Mountain

Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Real – Madrid

opera

Globe Theatre presents William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost. Visual humour and sexual innuendo leap off the stage in this wonderful production.

Love's Labours Lost

Shakespeare’s Globe

theater

The Globe Theatre presents William Shakespeare's As You Like It. Naomi Frederick shines as feisty Rosalind in this irresistible romantic comedy.

As You Like It

Shakespeare’s Globe

theater

Mark Antony has it all following Caesar's assassination - power, glory, and a whole empire.

Antony and Cleopatra

Royal Shakespeare Company

theater

Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young's Olivier winning BETROFFENHEIT is a bold hybrid of theater and dance that explores trauma, grief and addiction.

Betroffenheit

dance

The ‘sheer visual sophistication’ of Annabel Arden’s Barbiere serves ‘a triumphant celebration of Rossini’s musical genius

The Barber of Seville

Glyndebourne

opera

A sparkling tale of magic and mischief, Coppélia has everything a ballet should: a touch of enchantment, a dash of romance and sumptuous costumes.

Coppélia

The Australian Ballet

ballet

The legendary Zubin Mehta conducts Aida, Verdi’s most spectacular and over-the-top opera.

Aida

opera

Hofesh Shechter’s "Clowns" explores a macabre comedy of murder and desire, questioning the lengths to which we’ll go for entertainment.

Hofesh Shechter's Clowns

dance

BalletBoyz perform Liam Scarlett’s Serpent and Russell Maliphant’s Fallen.

Ballet Boyz Live at the Roundhouse

BalletBoyz

ballet

Fall down the rabbit hole with the Royal Ballet's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Royal Ballet

ballet

Glyndebourne’s wartime history as a home for evacuee children is the ingenious context for a new production of this unclassifiable tale.

Ariadne auf Naxos

Glyndebourne

opera

Caius Martius Coriolanus is a fearless soldier but a reluctant leader. He struggles to change his nature and do what is required to achieve greatness.

Coriolanus

Royal Shakespeare Company

theater

From Rhapsody in Blue to Porgy and Bess, everyone has heard of George Gershwin. This film is a musical exploration of the maestro.

Gershwin’s World

music

From Georges Bizet’s Carmen to Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff, Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Orchestra, Chorus, Academy’s artists and guest performers.

Gustavo Dudamel Conquers the Opera De Paris

music

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