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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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Brett Dean's multi-award-winning opera received its world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival 2017.
- 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.
- 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.