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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tragic opera from 1884 by Jules Massenet. The classic story of Manon and her Chevalier Des Grieux. Young Manon is on her way to the convent school when the men come in and turn everything upside down. Everyone wants a piece of Manon. She first gets a poor life of sin, followed by a sinful life of wealth. Finally: Will love conquer all, or is the lovers' fate sealed?
- 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.
- Mozart's opera, here in a different version from the Glyndebourne Festival 2019. All music and Schikaneder's libretto are of course included. But the plot has been moved to a British hotel at the beginning of the last century. A show with a lot of humor, warmth and charm. The young Norwegian star soprano Caroline Wettergreen is "The best Queen of the Night in 40 years", wrote the Financial Times.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pushkin folk tale as comedic opera whose sultry elements expand an Oriental influence. Korsakov portrays the story of Tsar Nicholas II, punished for his cowardice and despotism, using satire to condemn Russia's autocratic ruler.
- 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.
- A portrait of pianist-conductor Christian Zacharias: chatty and sparkling with intelligence, the charismatic maestro reveals himself as never before in this exceptional documentary.