Tony Palmer

Death in Venice, 16mm film version of the Benjamin Britten opera, made at Elstree Studios, 1981.

Testimony, wide-screen feature about the life of Dmitri Shostakovich, starring Ben Kingsley, made mostly on location in the north of England, 1987.

Wagner, 35mm nine-hour mini-series starring Richard Burton, shot on location across Europe with a huge international cast, 1982.

I also worked on two of his documentaries about musicians: Mozart in Japan, 1987, about pianist Mitsuko Uchida; and A Family Life, 1990, about violinist Yehudi Menuhin.