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- Inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The plot revolves around George, a fictionalized version of Seurat, who immerses himself deeply in painting his masterpiece, and his great-grandson (also named George), a conflicted and cynical contemporary artist.
- A new full-length ballet choreographed by Ted Brandsen for Dutch National Ballet, to a new orchestral score by Tarik O'Regan.
- In a tavern in Nuremberg, the young poet Hoffmann recounts his three unfortunate love stories to his friend Nicklausse. The Tales of Hoffmann, here in the fairy production of Giancarlo del Monaco, illustrates the Romantic quest of an idealized Love that should be transcended in the research of an artistic absolute. Aquilles Machado embodies brilliantly the main character of this fantastic opera.
- As the first collaboration ever between conductor William Christie and director Luc Bondy, this production of Hercules was the major event of the 2004 opera season. Originally Created in Aix-en-Provence in July 2004, the show then moved on to the Palais Garnier in Paris where it was recorded in December of the same year. The Hercules received the student prize at the Golden Prague 2005.
- Billy Budd is an innocent, naïve seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
- French performance of Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) operetta created by the Austro-Hungarian composer Franz Lehár, an international success since its 1905 premiere in Vienna, by the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon.
- While best known today for having composed the ending to Puccini's unfinished Turandot, Franco Alfano wrote some dozen operas, including Cyrano de Bergerac (1936) with a libretto by Henri Cain based on Edmond Rostand's drama of the same name. It is a moving tale of romantic misunderstanding, swashbuckling bravado and heartbreaking loyalty, in which the eloquent Cyrano feels unable to express his love for Roxane because of his famously protuberant nose--except on behalf of his handsome but inarticulate friend, Christian. When Domingo and Radvanovsky sang Cyrano and Roxane at New York's Metropolitan Opera, Andante magazine wrote: "Incredibly, Cyrano is his 121st role. And it suits him splendidly...Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky was luminous as Roxane, her passionate outbursts showing off her powerful upper register to good effect".
- This film follows dancer Ulyana Lopatkina, and the art that is her life passion. She dances in Swan Lake and according to specialized critics, she is to date the most beautiful swan they ever seen in the history of classical ballet.
- A magical version of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece by the Zurich Ballet and choreographer Heinz Spoerli.
- A young governess with two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
- Iolanta is one act lyric opera by Tchaikovsky, sung in Russian. Princess Iolanta is born blind; her father, King René, forbids anyone to talk of beauty, light or the natural world hoping that she will not recognize her affliction. For Tchaikovsky, a fairytale was not an escape from reality but an opportunity to speak of forbidden reality. His imaginary kingdom is a place of secret remorse and private hurt, redeemed by an African Sufi healer and torrential, relentless, unlikely love. The intimate final opera is a spiritually charged Mozartian journey through darkness into light. Perséphone is a three act melodrama by Stravinsky, sung in French. In André Gide's Homeric poem, Perséphone goes into the underworld of her own free will, moved by compassion for those who must live there, poignantly evoking Christian sacrifice, and poetically suggesting a dawning awareness of the Stalin Terror of mass collectivization. A ritual drawn from the earliest agricultural myths of Western civilization, for Stravinsky it became a second "Rite of the Spring", a dance of renewal to music of unexpected tenderness and grace. This regeneration is felt in the delicate choreography of Cambodian dancers from Amrita Performing Arts.
- Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine, Rameau produced perhaps his most brilliant music for his penultimate great work, blending reality and the surreal on several levels. This passionate new production by Jose Montalvo, stunningly choreographed by Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu, sets new standards in entertainment, charm and ingenuity. The sharp and spectacular multimedia staging does full justice to Rameau's dazzling burlesque, confirming Olivier Rouviere's statement that 'Les Paladins is the last laugh of a witty 77-year old composer'. Recorded live in 2004 at the Paris Theatre du Chatelet, both the virtuoso cast and Les Arts Florissants are in top form, clearly enjoying themselves in the masterful hands of William Christie.
- Inspired by "Pandora's Box" by Frank Wedekind, Lulu describes the social ascent and the demise of a deadly woman, driven by men to behave in murder, to her own. dead.
- Video recording of the choreographic solo show by Bill T. Jones, "The Breathing Show".
- Flamenco is an art of transmission par excellence, here from fathers to daughters. This is a film about the family transmission mode, characteristical of flamenco. So, we follow the dancers Manolete and Judea, and singers Jaime and Marina.
- A dramatic, energetic adaptation of Heinz Spoerli's ballet based on Grieg's Peer Gynt by the Zurich ballet. Marijn Rademaker is excellent as the title character, clearly telegraphing the emotional range required. Each of the characters and the dramatic scenes are supported by the orchestral passages and songs provided by Grieg; some spoken word passages extracted from the Ibsen play.
- The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with her suitor Rodrigo when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
- Even though in recent years Idomeneo has been staged more frequently, this Mozart masterpiece can hardly be counted among the operas (the Da Ponte trilogy in primis) that made of the Salzburg composer one of the greatest operatic composers of all times. Yet Idomeneo was, in its day, a revolutionary work, animated by music that appears remarkably innovative and profoundly theatrical. This double DVD set presents the Teatro San Carlo of Naples's staging, signed by Pier Luigi Pizzi, one of today's most creative directors. Marco Guidarini, on the podium, conducts a cast of international renown.
- Based on a true story: In 1805, a Milanese girl, Antonietta Frapollo, was kidnapped and taken to the court of Mustapha-ibn-Ibrahim in Algiers.
- Dreaming of a better life, migrants from the Northeast of Brazil speak about the city of São Paulo, and sing it in prose, songs, stories and multiple sounds.
- Pianist Omar Sosa is Cuban, but he belongs to the great family of musicians who have crossed geographical and artistic borders to embrace the cultures of the world with a sincere and profound approach, far from any fashion. Today, he is based in Oakland, California, but we see him a lot in Europe and in France in particular, when he is not in Brazil or Africa. In his previous album, Omar Sosa celebrated the African roots of jazz and Cuban music. It is a rare opportunity today to be able to rub shoulders with an innovative jazz that is part of a musical continuity with flamboyant and vital colors. Omar Sosa will be present at the Barcelona International Jazz Festival for a unique concert.
- Sir Simon Rattle is joined by virtuoso soprano Barbara Hannigan for a modernist program that showcases the immense capabilities of the London Symphony Orchestra. At the heart of this concert is Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (1913).
- The mythical tale of a young queen, Alphise, determined to abdicate rather than contemplate an enforced marriage to a descendant of Boréas is nothing less than extremely highly charged.