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- The Film "Kinshasa Symphony" shows how people living in one of the most chaotic cities in the world have managed to forge one of the most complex systems of human cooperation ever invented: a symphony orchestra. It is a film about the Congo, about the people of Kinshasa and about music.
- Avicii Tribute Concert celebrates the life and music of Tim Bergling - AVICII - live at Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden together with +50,000 fans from all over the world. The concert brings together 19 of the original singers on Avicii's biggest tracks for the very first time, among them Aloe Blacc, Adam Lambert, Dan Tyminski and Rita Ora.
- In the summer of 1830 the impresarios of Teatro Carcano contacted Donizetti and asked him to compose a new opera for the season's opening. At the moment of signing the contract Donizetti still ignored the subject of the new opera, but he knew that the librettist would be Felice Romani and the female protagonist Giuditta Pasta. Success was resounding and unanimous, also with the critics. Donizetti had indeed reached artistic maturity. Anna Bolena tells a human drama of solitude and oppression; it is a work of centered psychological introspection. Donizetti's first great scene of madness is one of the most moving and powerful of the whole history of opera. The new theatrical element introduced by Anna Bolena is that the protagonist's death is not a consequence of moral duty or divine justice, but a plain act of cruelty. A tragedy through and through, then: intense, deep and profoundly romantic. Anna Bolena is a significant work in the history of opera, as well as in Donizetti's own personal history. In this Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo production, Dimitra Theodossiou stands out as a fine interpreter both as a singer and as an actress.
- Indeed, it was to La Scala in 1966 that Nureyev entrusted the debut of his "Sleeping Beauty", and now, his masterpiece returns to the stage.
- Draw a Line accompanies Richard Siegal and Ballet of Difference during the rehearsals for On Body up to the celebrated world premiere. It shows how the diverse troupe blossoms into one of the best dance companies of today.
- The musical takes the audience behind the scenes of a Viennese luxury hotel, where Emma Carter. an internationally successful Austrian film star returns to Vienna to attend the famous annual Opera Ball and to promote her new movie.
- The documentary explores Leonard Bernstein's various facets, as a conductor, a composer, a pianist and most of all a teacher and how he influenced so many people. It includes interviews of his children, former conductor students, orchestra members, collaborators and other acquaintances.
- This series tells the story of British pop music through the prism of related art forms, revealing how imagery defined the medium, the phenomenal influence of art schools, the scene's love affair with fashion and the pivotal role of the star-makers and svengalis who invented the rules of the modern music industry as they went along. London Calling cracks the creative code underpinning the global ascent of British pop, to reveal the players that created brand Britannia.
- "A man went looking for America.... And couldn't find it anywhere!" proclaimed the original Easy Rider poster. Four decades later filmmakers Simon Witter and Hannes Rossacher set out to see if they could find America, retracing the film's original route across the country with Easy Rider super fans Jim Leonard and Mike Kittrell, on a quest to find out how the many issues that resonated through the film had developed, for better or worse, in the interim. Along the way they met musicians, journalists, academics, seasteading idealists, drug policy experts and healers, and heard from the film's makers and extras about the dramatic genesis of the cult film that blew like a wind of change through the stilted kitsch of mainstream cinema in 1969, re-writing the rulebook on genre, drugs, music, cinematography and even the use of non-actors, holding a mirror up to the values of a changing America, dividing audiences and making so much money that it ushered in a new era of independent filmmaking that would define Hollywood throughout the 1970s.
- Tine Thing Helseth was one of the world's greatest trumpet player. When she got cancer, everything else had to be put on wait. This is her personal story about courage, willpower and the way back.
- It was the most successful classical concert: 30 years ago, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and José Carreras performed together with Zubin Mehta for the first time as "3 Tenors" in the thermal baths of Caracalla on the occasion of the Football World Cup in Italy. 1.6 billion spectators watched the concert worldwide - and it catapulted classical music into a completely new dimension. Just in time for the 30th anniversary, the film "Three Tenors - From Caracalla to the World" shows the emotional highlights of the first concert and the sequel in Los Angeles. Previously unpublished backstage material shows the tenors unadorned and offers a fascinating insight into what takes place beyond the spotlight. The film takes a completely new look at the concert legend. For the first time, Placido Domingo, José Carreras, conductor Zubin Mehta and Luciano Pavarotti's widow Nicoletta Mantovani talk about José Carreras' struggles with leukemia, their rivalries and friendships, their spectacular contract poker and life as an opera star.
- Nabucco was Verdi's third work for the stage and proved his first great success when performed in 1842. It deals with the Hebrew's attempts to break free from the yoke of their Babylonian oppressors and is nowadays numbered among Verdi's most popular works, not least on account of its famous Chorus of Hebrew Slaves, which has one of the best-loved melodies in the whole history of opera.
- A documentary on the German band Kraftwerk, pioneers in electronic pop.
- The highlight of the 2008 Salzburg Festival. The greatest opera of Charles Gounod with the voices of Villazón and Machaidze.
- Animated music documentary about "the World's First Superstar", the Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind. Opera star Thomas Hampson guides us through her life, telling about her success, the hysterical audience and her contacts with the greats of the time, such as Chopin, Mendelssohn and H. C. Andersen. Soprano Malin Byström sings Jenny Lind's most popular arias and the young talent Annie Ternström plays Jenny Lind herself. Conductor Evan Rogister leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra with classical repertoire and Swedish folk songs.
- A staged performance of Max Richter's recomposition of Vivaldi's masterpiece "The Four Seasons" with Max Richter, Daniel Hope (violin) and the orchestra L'Arte Del Mondo. Richter's score is performed by virtuoso violinist Daniel Hope and the orchestra "L'Arte Del Mondo", and shot at the legendary Funkhaus Berlin Nalepastraße (the former broadcast centre of East Germany).
- (La Stampa) With direction from Riccardo Frizza and one of Italy's finest stage and set designers on hand in veteran Pier Luigi Pizzi, the course is set for a staggering night at the opera.
- Joni Mitchell's The Fiddle and The Drum explores Mitchell's life-long concerns about environmental neglect and the warring nature of mankind within a ballet performed to a select soundtrack of her eternal songs. The unique combinations of three art forms - music, dance and art - comprise an engaging spectacle that Joni calls "...the best project of her career."CRNLLegendary Canadian artist Joni Mitchell and internationally acclaimed choreographer Jean Grand-Maître of the Alberta Ballet Company are the co-creators of Joni Mitchell's The Fiddle and The Drum.
- Paul Anka is known as the last great crooner. On this live release, Anka promotes his successful Rock Swings project by performing many of the tracks live alongside his own classics including 'Diana', 'My Way', 'New York New York', 'Put Your Head on My Shoulder' and more.
- Young conductor Omer Meir Wellber, Musical Director of Valencia's Palau de les Arts, scores a triumph with Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" in Mariusz Trelinski's timeless production. Polish filmmaker and stage directo Trelinski has created a series of dream-like, surrealist tableaux of great suggestive beauty. The clear lines of the production (premiered at Warsaw's Teatr Wielki) are finely echoed by the slender musical design of Omer Meir Wellber - "A miracle of poetry" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). The superb young cast is headed by Artur Ruzinski as Onegin and Kristine Opolais as Tatyana.
- Ailing courtesan Violetta allows herself to fall for Alfredo, but when word of their domestic bliss reaches his father, he convinces her to save the family honor, and leave Alfredo. Complications ensue.
- The opera takes place in a operetta-like milieu in Vienna in the 1860s. Protagonists are an impoverished noble family and their daughters of marriageable age, Arabella and Zdenka, as well as the rich Slavic nobles Mandryka and the young officer Matteo. After all sorts of amorous entanglements the drama comes to a happy end.
- Based on Schiller's play of the same name, Don Carlos was written for the Paris Opéra in 1865-66 in the tradition of a French grand opera. Repeatedly revised and performed in Italian as Don Carlo, the opera is seen here in the version that Verdi prepared for Modena in 1886. In many respects, this is Verdi's most ambitious and most forward-looking work.
- This classic choreography of Romeo and Juliet by Kenneth MacMillan, set to the immortal notes of Prokofiev, is legendary in La Scala's repertoire.
- Stiffelio was based on the play Le pasteur, ou L'évangile et le foyer by Émile Souvestre and Eugène Bourgeois and was originally censored due to it involving as it does a Protestant minister of the church with an adulterous wife.