The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Shakespeare The Two Gentlemen of Verona play. Directed 2014 by Simon Godwin at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Stars Mark Arends (Proteus), Elliot Barnes-Worrell (Outlaw), Martin Bassindale (Speed), Pearl Chanda (Julia), Nicholas Gerard-Martin (Turio), Robert Gilbert (Outlaw), Jonny Glynn (Duke of Milan), Molly Gromadzki (Host/Outlaw), Youssef Kerkour (Sir Eglamour), Sarah MacRae (Silvia), Michael Marcus (Valentine), Roger Morlidge (Launce), Keith Osborn (Antonio), Leigh Quinn (Lucetta/Outlaw), Simon Yadoo (Panthino/Outlaw), and Mossup (Crab) [Mossup, a dog, plays the role of Crab, Launce's pet]. Design by Paul Wills; lighting design by Bruno Poet; music by Michael Bruce; sound by Christopher Shutt; movement by Jonathan Goddard. Directed for TV by Robin Lough; produced by John Wyver. Released 2015, this disc has 5.1 dts Master Audio. Grade: NA

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Feb 25. We have just completed one of our most ambitious reviews: Einstein on the Beach opera, the surreal 4 and 1/2 hour cult legend. Kudos, encomiums, and accolades to Opus Arte for giving us this authoritative and weirdly fascinating recording, which we grade A+. Absorbing and learning Einstein is uniquely challenging. We try to help out by providing aids not included in the keepcase materials: an accurate libretto and a list of segments in the opera with correct Opus Arte time stamps. Good luck!

We have some other good grades with an A for the recent Met The Pearl Fishers (Les pêcheurs de perles) and a B- for an earlier The Pearl Fishers from Naples. Also, we recently gave an A- for the new Don Quixote from the Vienna State Ballet.