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- A tragic and secretive romance ensues over many years after two men meet while herding sheep on Brokeback Mountain in this opera based on Annie Proulx's short story and its subsequent Oscar-winning film adaptation.
- Who was Moliere? He is known everywhere as one of the world's greatest playwrights. But who was he? Born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin in 1622, the son of a prosperous tapestry maker. His mother died when he was a boy. Growing up in the teeming streets of 17th century Paris, Jean Baptiste received a good Jesuit education and was fascinated by the street fairs and traveling carnivals that flourished in spite of the religious repression and hypocrisy of those cruel times. As a young man he joined the theatrical Bejart family to establish the Illustre-Theatre, which soon went bankrupt. The troupe reformed, found patronage, and went on the road for thirteen years, performing all over France. Poquelin developed his stagecraft adapting Commedia dell Arte plots to please brutalized peasants and cynical townspeople. He also married Madeline Bejart, the widowed daughter of the troupe's founder. Later he entered into a love affair with Mme Bejart's daughter, to the dismay of all. The troupe eventually returned to Paris and, on October 24, 1658, greatly impressed the 20-year old King Louis XIV, later to be called the Sun King. Moliere's life became bound up with the magnificent court at Versailles, and with its intrigues. He wrote, staged and acted in the plays now famous all over the world. He fought with his enemies and his friends, enjoyed success followed by failure, organized court festivities and defended himself against increasingly fanatic religious authorities. Above all, his theater was taken from life as his life was theatrical.
- A choreographer must face an unresolved romantic encounter from her past as she creates a new dance work.
- A small part of a large cemetery. End of fall. It has just rained. Black trees, a few leaves are still attached, other leaves litter the ground. A gravel driveway. A bench whose painting flakes. A man advances in the aisle, leaves the aisle, goes to a grave, reads what is written on the tombstone, stays there and looks at the stone, goes to another tomb, also reads this Who is written on the tombstone, remains for a moment to look at it, then joins the aisle and will sit on the bench.
- This film follows Polish countertenor Jakub Josef Orlinski and three facets of his singing, evoked through three countries. In New York, it will be opera for his debut at the MET, in Warsaw it will be Lied accompanied by piano and finally in Barcelona, it will be Baroque arias with the ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro. Each of these three cities will also be the occasion to evoke an aspect of his personality. The whole, will be embellished by breakdance that he has been practicing for a long time as well as by extracts filmed by Orlinski himself with his phone and integrated into the material of the film itself, as a dialogue between the media and formats supposed to draw at the end an intimate and digital portrait with multiple points of view.
- 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.
- Two youths have secretly married ladies but not the ones their fathers who are away on trips had selected.A mischievous valet plays tricks to see that the lovers can stay together.
- For a year, the film follows the pianist Lucas Debargue through his encounters, his discoveries and his quest for music. In his early career, revealed by the XVth International Tchaikovsky Competition, praised by the public and critics, Lucas is confronted with the concerts that come one after another. He discovers the relationship with the conductor and music partners, studio recordings, post-concerts, success and autographs. He has now found his new life, a whole life devoted to music.
- This "dynamite new production" (Opera Today) of Handel's Giulio Cesare in Egitto inaugurated Cecilia Bartoli's first season as Artistic Director of the Salzburg Whitsun Festival in 2012. "Bartoli's Dream Start with Dream Voices" wrote the Vienna Kurier of this uproarious Moshe Leiser/Patrice Caurier in which Bartoli heads a hand-picked cast including Andreas Scholl, Philippe Jaroussky and Anne Sofie Von Otter with Il Giardino Armonico conducted by Giovanni Antonini. "[Andreas Scholl's] coloratura is note perfect, he phrases recitatives with as much musicianship as arias, and the steadiness and purity of his voice are remarkable." The Financial Times "Bartoli remains at her peak. Not only is her coloratura flawless, and her voice as colorful and ravishingly beautiful as ever, but her ability to use her incomparable technique at the service of expression has also deepened with age. As a seductress, Bartoli was irresistible. Teasing out her incomparably agile coloratura runs, she softened high notes to tickle the senses with a mixture of sweetness and delight. When, in the second act, she mounted a missile and diagonally ascended into the heavens, it felt as though she were riding the ultimate pink Cadillac off to her honeymoon rendezvous. And in her final aria, "Da tempeste il legno infranto" when she danced around the stage and adorned herself with strings of lights while flashing the trademark Bartoli smile, it was all one could do to resist running onstage and give her a huge hug."
- When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Window wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. When they put their heads together and compare missives, they plan a practical joke or two to teach the knight a lesson. But Mistress Ford's husband is a very jealous man and is pumping Falstaff for information of the affair. Meanwhile the Pages' daughter Anne is besieged by suitors.
- A magical version of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece by the Zurich Ballet and choreographer Heinz Spoerli.
- Author-designer Mikhail Shemiakin's sinister re-imagining of Tchaikovsky's beloved Christmas ballet.
- 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 Chinese government provides the villages in the mountains of Sichuan (China) with films. The main character of this film is a projectionist who, 37 years ago, used to carry his old projector on foot and bicycle. He would display a small screen across the road or between trees in front of a farm... It's the same today except that he rides a motorcycle, carries a large screen and that the films travel two thousand kilometers from Beijing to Chengdu by satellite, before he picks them up on his motorcycle. Up in the mountains, people bring a stool out on the road and watch. That story takes place in Beijing and the beautiful mountains covered with bamboos above Chengdu
- While Europe and the United States competed to dominate the art scene after the Second World War, Mark Rothko and Hans Hartung were forging a discreet, friendly and fertile bond. This documentary invites us to discover this little known and fascinating complicity between two legends of contemporary painting. On one side, Rothko, "the most violent of American painters", according to his own words, on the other, Hartung, a brilliant experimenter and "boxer" in front of the canvas. From the moment they met in 1950 in Hans Hartung's modest studio, there was a healthy emulation between them, from which immense, metaphysical, and cataclysmic paintings were born. While Rothko offered advice and counsel to his European comrade, which would prove crucial in the development of the latter's work, Hartung did not spare his admiration for the New York painter of Latvian origin. It was in Antibes, in October 1970, that Hans Hartung learned of Mark Rothko's suicide. He built a villa-studio where he kept the secrets of their artistic exchanges and a spiritual communion that this film reveals today. This Rothko-Hartung encounter is an unprecedented and yet essential subject for understanding an important part of 20th century art.
- Starring Dimitris Tiliakos, Violeta Urmana, Ferruccio Furlanetto, and Stefano Secco.
- In the prologue Fortune, Virtue and Cupid argue about their respective powers. Love sets out to demonstrate his supremacy, in what follows. In the street outside Poppaea's house, Otho complains at her infidelity. He was her lover, but now she is sleeping within with Nero, the Emperor, while his two soldiers guard the house. The couple emerge, as dawn breaks, and sing of their love. With her nurse Arnalta Poppaea reveals her ambition to become Empress, while elsewhere Octavia, Empress, wife of Nero, and of the imperial family of Augustus, laments her husband's desertion. Seneca tries to comfort her, mocked by her page, and is warned by Pallas Athene of his coming death. Nevertheless he dares to advise his old pupil, Nero, that he should not cast aside Octavia. Nero insists that he will go his own way. Otho overhears Nero and Poppaea, he promising to make her Empress and she urging the discarding of Seneca, whose death Nero now orders. Otho is definitively rejected by Poppaea
- Philippe Boesmans sign his fourth opera with Julie. Harking back to the model of the chamber opera, the composer focused on the chemistry of human relationships that lead heroine of the drama of Strindberg to end his life. Three voices, a chamber orchestra, a unique place, a night time make us witness the fate of this young woman touching. Composer in residence at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie for nearly 20 years, the Belgian Philippe Boesmans, born in 1936, is undoubtedly a major figure in the musical landscape of our time. Julie is an intimate work, a chamber opera in one act, based on the drama of the Swedish August Strindberg's Miss Julie, written in 1888. Boesmans music is very personal: his writing is dense and precise, rich and colorful, delicate and colorful and his writing for the voice proves that with opera, the composer was in his natural element.
- Mixing history, romanticism and passion for the arts, this film tells the saga of the Morozov brothers, Russian textile industrialists. Mikhail and Ivan Morozov assembled one of the most remarkable collections of French art in the world.
- Even if you kill a poet, a thousand songs will survive him. College students from a suburb of Aix-en-Provence attend the creation of an opera in Arabic, written by a Syrian poet in exile. Words that will resonate well beyond their schoolyard.
- In Geneva, Martha Argerich invites her lifelong music partner, the cellist Mischa Maisky, to play in private chamber music. Between each piece, Martha opens up to her daughter Annie Dutoit, in an intimate interview.