Jeremy Irons part of Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

A Jeremy Irons – The Authoritative Website exclusive! Marc Sinden, producer of The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, gives his firsthand account of working with Jeremy Irons on making the recording:

“We recorded his story in an audio suite at the BBC Borehamwood Studios. I directed the reading, as I had done for all of the stories included in the 4-CD box set of The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde and Jeremy arrived on his enormous motorbike, in leathers, which worried me as I thought that he might ‘squeak’! He didn’t, however, and he was utterly professional and well-prepared, as usual, and we recorded the whole story in three takes. I was delighted that he had invented so many voices for all of the characters in the story and several of them made me laugh out loud! We then had lunch in the commissary and had a wander around the Eastenders permanent set before he roared off on his huge bike, while I waited for Joanna Lumley to arrive to record her story. He really is the most un-‘star like’ actor I know – a real actor – and a wonderfully loyal and sweet friend.”

The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: In Aid of the Royal Theatrical Fund

The recording is now available from audible.com, on CD and from iTunes. Click on the link above to listen to a preview and to order.

The hard copies of the 4x CDs of The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde read by various stars (Dame Judi Dench, Jeremy Irons, Joanna Lumley, Sir Derek Jacobi, Sinead Cusack, Robert Harris, Samantha Bond, Geoffrey Palmer, Sir Donald Sinden) and sold in aid of the Royal Theatrical Fund, are now available!

You can get them as 4x CDs from http://www.sindenproductions.com/2010/02/02/the-fairy-tales-of-oscar-wilde/ and either pay by good-old-fashioned cheque for £19.99 + £4.45 p&p per 4x CD set or via PayPal, or as a digital download at http://www.audible.co.uk/aduk/site/product.jsp?p=BK_WHTR_000005UK&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes or now even on iTunes.

http://www.sindenproductions.com/2010/02/02/the-fairy-tales-of-oscar-wilde/

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September 20, 2011
Categories: Latest News and Posts, Voice . Tags: Dame Judi Dench, Derek Jacobi, Fairy Tales, Geoffrey Palmer, Jeremy Irons, Joanna Lumley, Marc Sinden Productions, Oscar Wilde, Robert Harris, Samantha Bond, Sinead Cusack, Sir Donald Sinden . Author: jeremyironsno1fan . Comments: Leave a comment

Jeremy Irons and Helen Mirren at the Castleton Festival

Jeremy Irons and Helen Mirren performed as part of the Castleton Festival at Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland, Thursday night, June 30th.

Music Inspired by Shakespeare – Washington Post

A captivating night with Shakespeare, Mirren, Irons, Maazel – Baltimore Sun

July 5, 2011
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Jeremy Irons on ‘Desert Island Discs’

Jeremy’s second appearance on BBC Radio 4’s “Desert Island Discs” from Sunday 5 February 2006 is now available on iTunes for FREE!

Click on the image below to download on iTunes:

[The iTunes version just plays clips of the songs Jeremy has chosen, due to licensing issues. That is the reason that the iTunes broadcast is slightly shorter than the version on the BBC website. The interview portion with Jeremy is unedited.]

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Introduction from the BBC website:

Sue Lawley’s castaway this week is the actor Jeremy Irons.

He made his name playing Charles Ryder in Brideshead Revisited in 1981 and became known for his quintessentially English roles. It was an image he later sought to discard and he certainly did so in the film Lolita, where his portrayal of Humbert Humbert reopened the controversy about the desires of a middle-aged man for a 14-year old girl. In the film The Mission he played a gentle Jesuit missionary and went on to act as his own stuntman, climbing a perilous waterfall. It was his performance in Reversal of Fortune that won him an Oscar for Best Actor as the real-life character Claus Von Bulow, accused and acquitted of the attempted murder of his wife. Later this month, he returns to the West End stage after almost 20 years to star in the play Embers, a story of friendship and betrayal.

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The full, unedited version of Jeremy’s “Desert Island Discs” episode is also available to listen to or to download to keep from the BBC 4 Website. There you can also read the details of his first appearance on “Desert Island Discs” on Sunday 2 November 1986, but it is not available to listen to.

Jeremy’s song choices:

Favourite track: “One step at a Time” by Clifton Chenier
Book: Ashley Books of Knots by Clifford Ashley

Luxury: Rizla liquorice papers

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Sinead Cusack’s appearance from Sunday 15 December 2002 on “Desert Island Discs” is also available through iTunes and the BBC website. Her first appearance, from Saturday 28 May 1983 is also detailed on the BBC website, but is not available to listen to.

June 8, 2011
Categories: Latest News and Posts, Voice . Tags: Ashley Book of Knots, Barb Jungr, BBC, Bob Dylan, Brideshead Revisited, Clifton Chenier, Desert Island Discs, Dolores Keane, Embers, Eric Clapton, Jeremy Irons, John Martyn, Leonard Cohen, Madeleine Peyroux, Radio 4, Rizla, Sinead Cusack, Sue Lawley . Author: jeremyironsno1fan . Comments: Leave a comment

Audio from John Milton: Simply Sublime

Audio recorded from a 31 May 2011 performance of John Milton – Simply Sublime at Donmar Warehouse in London, as part of Poetry Week.

Jeremy Irons (Satan), Emilia Fox (Eve), Felicity Kendal (Narrator) and Dan Stevens (Adam) perform excerpts from Paradise Lost. The event was sponsored by Josephine Hart.

[No copyright infringement intended.]

As the audio quality is low, this is best listened to through headphones with the volume turned up high……Click on the play arrow below to listen. Click on the volume/speaker icon at the left of the audio player to increase the volume in the audio player module. The recording is approximately 1 hour in length.

A first-hand account from an attendee:

“The Donmar Warehouse is quite a small theater.The five actors were sitting on chairs in a row. They read excerpts from Milton’s Paradise Lost, Books 1 and 9. Jeremy read the part of Satan. The other parts were of Adam and Eve and a Narrator. The fifth woman talked about Milton at the beginning (a bit more than 17 minutes).

Jeremy wore his usual kind of clothes: white shirt, grey vest, reddish scarf, grey trousers and boots (not his riding boots, shorter ones), no glasses.

At the evening performance, the theater was nearly full. The evening performance was video-recorded for Josephine Hart, who was not there. The lady who recorded it said that Hart might share it on her homepage, but there is no guarantee.”

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A photo of Jeremy in Covent Garden on Tuesday 31 May 2011 – the day of his Poetry Week performance. [Photo petra eujane ]

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Sadly, on Thursday 2 June 2011, Josephine Hart lost her battle with cancer and passed away at the age of 67. Read more in the London Evening Standard.

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As part of the CD compilation “Words That Burn” by Josephine Hart, there is a recording of Jeremy Irons, Felicity Kendal, Emilia Fox and Greg Wise reading extracts of John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’, similar to what was performed at Donmar Warehouse.

Jeremy also read the part of Satan in ‘Paradise Lost’ for a BBC Radio 4 production of the Josephine Hart Poetry Programme on 20 April 2008. In that performance, extracts from John Milton’s great Christian epic ‘Paradise Lost’ are read by Jeremy Irons (Satan), Felicity Kendal (narrator), Greg Wise (Adam) and Emilia Fox (Eve).

June 1, 2011
Categories: Latest News and Posts, Voice . Tags: Adam and Eve, Dan Stevens, Donmar Warehouse, Emilia Fox, Felicity Kendal, Jeremy Irons, Josephine Hart, Paradise Lost, Poetry Week, Satan . Author: jeremyironsno1fan . Comments: Leave a comment

Jeremy Irons and Blenheim Films

Jeremy Irons is currently working with Blenheim Films on a documentary about the world’s trash and pollution. He has worked with Blenheim Films previously.

Blenheim films is an independent production company based in Oxfordshire, England, created in 1998 by Candida Brady and Titus Ogilvy.

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Jeremy Irons was in Iceland in April 2011 with a crew from Blenheim Films.

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Jeremy Irons is to be in San Francisco Thursday and Friday, April 14 & 15, 2011, with a British film crew making a worldwide documentary about recycling, for the BBC. San Francisco was chosen, said Robert Reed of Recology, because it has become known internationally for recycling, and, in particular, a compost program that collects food scraps at restaurants and compostables from all properties, then creates compost for 200 vineyards.

Since this program began, it has created enough benefit to offset all emissions from traffic crossing the Bay Bridge for more than two years. “We make the really premier compost in America,” Reed said. “The vineyards can’t get enough of it.”

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April 5, 2011
Categories: Latest News and Posts, Voice . Tags: AIDS, Bay Bridge, BBC, Blenheim, Candida Brady, environment, Films, green, HIV, Iceland, Jeremy Irons, Medicine Man, Oxfordshire, pollution, Recology, Robert Reed, rubbish, San Francisco, Titus Ogilvy, trash, vinyards . Author: jeremyironsno1fan . Comments: Leave a comment

Jeremy Irons to Narrate ‘The Final Coronation’

Oscar winner joins choir in Warwick

07 March 2011 – from the Stratford Observer

OSCAR-WINNING actor Jeremy Irons joins Armonico Consort in Warwick on March 26.
The star of stage and screen will be at St Mary’s Church to launch the choir’s tenth anniversary year, which aims to raise a further £100,000 for their Big Mouth Appeal – creating children’s choirs and training teachers as choir leaders.
In a programme called ‘The Final Coronation’ narrated by the actor, the award-winning choir will recreate elements of the ceremony from 1963 when the pope was last ‘crowned’, singing music performed at every coronation for 400 years by Palestrina and Orlando di Lasso.
Irons is a familiar with the area having trod the boards at the RSC in Stratford on numerous occasions. He is also a well-known face on the big and small screen. He won an Oscar for his portrayal of Claus von Bülow lies in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune. He is best known to television viewers for playing Charles Ryder in the classic adaptation of Brideshead Revisited.
Tickets are available from the Ticket Factory on 0844 581 0750 or via www.armonico.org.uk

March 9, 2011
Categories: Latest News and Posts, Voice . Tags: Armonico Consort, Big Mouth Appeal, Brideshead Revisited, Claus von Bulow, Jeremy Irons, Oscar, Reversal of Fortune, RSC, St. Mary's, Stratford, The Final Coronation, Warwick . Author: jeremyironsno1fan . Comments: Leave a comment

Jeremy Irons Promotes ‘The Last Lions’

Jeremy Irons in the Lion’s Den from ABC News:
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Jeremy is interviewed on New Mexico Style on KASA in Albuquerque, NM.

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1st collector for Jeremy Irons on KOIN Studio 6
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Jeremy is interviewed on Indy Style from WISH:

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Jeremy is interviewed on DaybreakUSA:

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Jeremy is interviewed on Good Day LA on Friday 4 March 2011:
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March 7, 2011
Categories: Latest News and Posts, Voice . Tags: Africa, Albuquerque, Beverly Joubert, Botswana, conservation, Dereck Joubert, endangered species, Good Day LA, Jeremy Irons, KASA, Lion's Den, Lions, National Geographic, New Mexico, The Last Lions . Author: jeremyironsno1fan . Comments: Leave a comment

Jeremy Irons to Appear at BlackCreek Summer Music Festival in Toronto

From PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance

Jeremy will perform on Wednesday, June 29, 2011
8pm

Tickets On Sale Soon

LORIN MAAZEL conducts CASTLETON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA “MUSIC INSPIRED BY SHAKESEPEARE” with Shakespeare’s verses performed by Academy Award® winners, DAME HELEN MIRREN and JEREMY IRONS

Maestro Maazel conducts the Castleton Festival Orchestra and the women’s voices of the Castleton Festival Chorus in a wondrous romantic program of music inspired by Shakespeare: Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, and Mendelssohn’s Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, highlighted by spoken performances of Shakespeare verses from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by two incomparable stars of both stage and motion pictures: the extraordinary pair of Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons.

The Castleton Festival in Virginia was founded in 2009 through the leadership of Lorin Maazel, and has quickly become a magnet for superb young vocal and instrumental artists. These musicians annually come to Castleton Farms to live and work together under the inspired guidance of one of the world’s preeminent conductors.

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Press Release Source: BlackCreek Summer Music Festival On Wednesday February 23, 2011, 10:03 am EST

TORONTO, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ – Beginning on June 4, 2011, with Plácido Domingo in concert, and with such renowned artists as James Taylor, Diana Krall, Tony Bennett, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones and the London Symphony Orchestra to follow, the new BlackCreek Summer Music Festival will launch its inaugural season at the Rexall Centre on the grounds of York University in Toronto. The 2011 season spans 14 weeks, from June to September, and includes a wide array of programs by some of the most revered names in pop and jazz, along with rousing symphonic evenings, Broadway showstoppers, world music and iconic country artists, all performing “under the stars.”

February 23, 2011
Categories: Latest News and Posts, Voice . Tags: A Midsummer Night's Dream, BlackCreek, Festival, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, Lorin Maazel, Music, Rexall Centre, Shakespeare, Summer, Toronto, York University . Author: jeremyironsno1fan . Comments: Leave a comment

The Last Lions Premiere

Jeremy Irons attend the premiere of ‘The Last Lions’ at Clearview Chelsea Cinemas on February 17, 2011 in New York City. (Photos by Alli Harvey/Getty Images; Taylor Hill/WireImage)

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February 18, 2011
Categories: Film, Latest News and Posts, Voice . Tags: Beverly Joubert, Botswana, Chelsea, Cinemas, Clearview, Dereck Joubert, Documentary, Jeremy Irons, Lions, Melissa Errico, The Last Lions . Author: jeremyironsno1fan . Comments: Leave a comment

Jeremy Irons Narrates ‘Ash Runners’

Jeremy Irons is a narrator of the environmental film Ash Runners.

Ash Runners is a WILDSCREEN 2010 AWARD WINNER!

Miles around Tavurvur volcano, on the remote island of New Britain, animals and plants have learned to live with the sporadic anger of the earth. In this apocalyptic realm, where the ash created by volcanic eruptions invades their habitat, the choice is simple: leave or stay and face the unknown. From tiny vine seeds to the giant flying fox, this film follows the incredible destiny of emblematic plants and animals. Using a wide range of innovative and sophisticated filming techniques over three years, this tale offers a unique and intimate account of an unprecedented natural hazard.

December 10, 2010
Categories: Latest News and Posts, Voice . Tags: Ash Runners, environment, Jeremy Irons, New Britain, Tavurvur, volcano, Wildscreen . Author: jeremyironsno1fan . Comments: Leave a comment