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- On November 17, 2012, Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard joined the Barcelona Symphony and Catalonia National Orchestra for a performance of Arthur Honegger's oratorio Joan of Arc at the Stake, broadcast live on Medici.tv.
- During the winter of 2017, the Opéra de Paris rediscovered Puccini's timeless opera La Bohème, set the story in a dystopian future, took audiences to the moon. In this fascinating production featuring Nicole Car as Mimi.
- The Barcelona Symphony and National Orchestra of Catalonia performs 20th century French music with a special tribute to Maurice Ravel.
- The exiled Austro-German musician and composer Artur Schnabel was a giant of his time, but in Germany today he is nearly forgotten. Pianist and Schnabel devotee Markus Pawlik (in collaboration with baritone Dietrich Henschel and the Szymanowski String Quartet) brings Artur Schnabel's greatest compositions back to Berlin with a filmed commemorative concert. Along the way, Pawlik visits the places, landscapes, and history that shaped Schnabel's life and music. "Artur Schnabel: No Place of Exile" rediscovers an essential artist displaced by the catastrophe of the two World Wars and the Holocaust and inspired by the possibilities of modernism.
- A poet with an obsession with an opera singer, has visions of three other women from his past - a performing doll, a siren, and the daughter of a famous composer - all of whom break his heart in different ways.
- Mozart's famous opera from 1787. A seducer's loadable path from superficial love to doom. A gripping and bold set, an energy explosion in the open air from the festival in Aix-en-Provence. In the title role, we see and hear Philippe Sly.
- Andreas Homoki realized this production in the middle of the pandemic, and its extraordinary premiere was celebrated with only 50 audience members in attendance and a huge television audience watching on Arte from their homes. Homoki created fleshed-out characters, as well as a clear and suspense-filled narrative arc. In order to facilitate the opera's multiple time periods, his production allowed for imaginary spaces of memory. Production title: Simon Boccanegra - Opernhaus Zürich (2021). Creation date: 06/12/2020. Work - Composer: Simon Boccanegra - Giuseppe Verdi. Opera house: Opernhaus Zürich.
- The son of two étoile dancers-from the Paris Opera Ballet and Roland Petit's Ballet national de Marseille-Mathieu Ganio was destined for ballet greatness. His elegance and excellence as a partner have brought him renown in his own right, working with brilliant ballerinas like Olesia Novikova, Ouliana Lopatkina, Svetlana Lounkina, and Evguenia Obraztsova. This documentary by Marlène Ionesco focuses on the dancer's relationship with his mother, Dominique Khalfouni, a touching story that brings the viewer into the intimacy of their family life while simultaneously exploring some of the greatest roles of the ballet repertoire.
- Based on an historical case, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride takes place in the suburbs of Moscow during the reign of Tsar Ivan IV, "the Terrible", during the latter half of the 16th c. Widowed, he is looking for a new wife, his third. He chooses the young Marfa. She loves another man but bends to the Tsar's will and renounces her love for the other. From this plot, Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov retains only the frame. A live competition is organized for a virtual monarch, much like the reality shows of today. Here, the characters become the various players of the audiovisual industry bringing an acerbic critic to contemporary television. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin. With Olga Peretyatko, Anita Rachvelishvili and Johannes and Martin Kränzle. Recorded at Staatsoper, Im Schiller Theater Berlin, in October 2013.
- Fable like opera. A woman has a bizarre chance to reverse her son's death: find a truly happy person and the child will be restored. But the people the woman meets, a composer, a collector, an artisan, don't seem happy at all.
- First dance slippers at age 4, admission to the Paris Opera Dance School just five years later, Dominique Khalfouni became an étoile dancer in 1976 on the evening she performed the role of Anastasia at the premiere of Ivan the Terrible. She worked with the likes of Roland Petit, Mikhaïl Barychnikov, and the American Ballet Theater, crisscrossing the American continent in the process. Since the 1990s, Dominique Khalfouni has invested her talents in teaching the next generation of dancers, first in Marseille, and then in Paris. In this documentary by Marlène Ionesco, viewers meet both her and her son Matthieu Ganio, another étoile dancer to whom she transmitted her intense passion for the great roles of the ballet repertoire.
- Act I The Norwegian coast, 19th century. A storm has driven Daland's ship several miles from his home. Sending his crew off to rest, he leaves the watch in charge of a young steersman, who falls asleep as he sings about his girl. A ghostly schooner drops anchor next to Daland's ship. Its captain steps ashore and, with increasing despair, reflects on his fate: once every seven years he may leave his ship to find a wife. If she is faithful, she will redeem him from his deathless wandering. If not, he is condemned to sail the ocean until Judgment Day. Daland discovers the phantom ship, and the stranger, who introduces himself as "a Dutchman," tells him of his plight. The Dutchman offers gold and jewels for a night's lodging, and when he learns that Daland has a daughter, asks for her hand in marriage. Happy to have found a rich son-in-law, Daland agrees and sets sail for home. Act II Daland's daughter, Senta, is captivated by the portrait of a pale man in black-the Flying Dutchman. Her friends, working under the watchful eye of Mary, Senta's nurse, tease Senta about her suitor, Erik, who is a hunter, not a sailor. When the superstitious Mary refuses to sing a ballad about the Dutchman, Senta sings it herself. The song reveals that the Dutchman's curse was put on him for a blasphemous oath. To everyone's horror, Senta suddenly declares that she will be the woman to save him. Erik enters with news of the sailors' return. Alone with Senta, he reminds her of her father's wish to find her a husband and asks her to plead his cause, but she remains distant. Realizing how much the Dutchman's picture means to her, he tells her of a frightening dream in which he saw her embrace the Dutchman and sail away on his ship. Senta declares that this is what she must do, and Erik rushes off in despair. A moment later, the Dutchman enters. Senta stands transfixed. Daland follows and asks his daughter to welcome the stranger, whom he has brought to be her husband. Daland leaves, and the Dutchman, who is equally moved by the meeting, asks Senta if she will accept him. Unaware that she realizes who he is, he warns her of making a rash decision, but she vows to be faithful to him unto death. Daland is overjoyed to learn that his daughter has accepted the suitor. Act III At the harbor, the villagers celebrate the sailors' return. Baffled by the strange silence aboard the Dutchman's ship, they call out to the crew, inviting them to join the festivities. Suddenly the ghostly sailors appear, mocking their captain's quest in hollow chanting. The villagers flee in terror. Quiet returns and Senta appears, followed by the distressed Erik. He pleads with her not to marry the Dutchman since she has already pledged her love to him. The Dutchman, who has overheard them, lets go of all hope and boards his ship. When Senta tries to stop him, he explains she will escape damnation-the fate of those who betray him-only because she has not yet proclaimed her vows before God. He reveals his identity and Senta ecstatically replies that she knows who he is. As his ship pulls away, she throws herself into the sea, faithful unto death.
- Brett Dean's multi-award-winning opera received its world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival 2017.
- A portrait of pianist-conductor Christian Zacharias: chatty and sparkling with intelligence, the charismatic maestro reveals himself as never before in this exceptional documentary.
- For the third edition of its Paris festival, the Palazzetto Bru Zane invites the violinist Tedi Papavrami, Albanian soloist and chamber musician, and the pianist François-Frédéric Guy, one of the best representatives of the French piano school and a passionate chamber music player. They celebrate French musical life under the Empire through the music of pianists Hélène de Montgeroult and Daniel Steibelt and violinist Rodolphe Kreutzer, teachers at the Conservatoire: under the Revolution for Montgeroult and under the Empire for Kreutzer. This period corresponds to the years of apprenticeship of the young Louis-Ferdinand Hérold, who followed the teaching of Kreutzer, whose fame earned him the honor of being the dedicatee of Beethoven's Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 9 in A major, known as the "Kreutzer Sonata". The Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, built in 1876, now regularly hosts new creations and performances as part of its annual spring renewal.