The Art of Singing: Golden Voices of the Century (1998)
Género : Documental, Música
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 50M
Director : Donald Sturrock
Sinopsis
Imagine a window into the past. Imagine finally connecting singers' bodies to the voices you have always treasured on record, watching footage of performances from another era. All of singers featured here have something in common (with one exception, Sutherland): they sang and performed on stage before the advent of filmed opera. . And it shows, for the first time, a few tantalizing minutes of recently recovered footage from Callas' legendary Lisbon Traviata, featuring Addio dal Passato and Parigi oh cara with Alfredo Kraus. This DVD will leave you asking for more.
A man who accused a catholic bishop of abusing him when he was a child dies in the Austrian city Salzburg. Everyone except his widow and the eccentrical detective Simon Brenner keeps silent and believes that the man killed himself.
Sydney, una joven violinista ciega desde la infancia, recupera la vista gracias a una operación de córnea. A medida que comienza a adaptarse a esta nueva situación, extrañas imágenes que ella no sabe discernir si son realidad o causadas por la operación, se le irán apareciendo. Poco a poco entenderá que las imágenes que ve no son disfunciones visuales causadas por la operación, sino que son en realidad imágenes de fantasmas. Sydney deberá averiguar de quién son las córneas que le han trasplantado para entender las terroríficas imágenes que se le aparecen.
Una anciana pianista, que da clases de música en una cárcel alemana, descubre el talento de Jenny, una joven y conflictiva presa de 21 años, y decide presentarla a un certamen musical para jóvenes intérpretes. Para lograr el primer premio, las dos mujeres, absolutamente opuestas en apariencia, se verán obligadas a trabajar en equipo, a aprender a conocerse y a respetarse...
Una colección de interpretaciones animadas de grandes obras de música clásica. En 'El Aprendiz de Brujo' (P. Dukas), Mickey Mouse, discípulo de un mago, se mete en un gran embrollo, pues sus conocimientos de magia son muy limitados. 'La Consagración de la Primavera' (Stravinsky) cuenta la historia de la evolución, desde los seres unicelulares hasta la extinción de los dinosaurios. 'La Danza de las Horas' (Ponchielli) es un fragmento de un ballet cómico interpretado por elefantes, hipopótamos, cocodrilos y avestruces. 'Una Noche en el Monte Pelado' de Mussorgsky y el 'Ave Maria' de Schubert describen el enfrentamiento entre la oscuridad y la luz.
Relato de la vida de Carlo Broschi, célebre castrado que triunfó en la ópera en el XVIII. Con 32 años y en la cumbre del éxito, Farinelli, artista que en el siglo XVIII ennobleció el arte del canto, se retira misteriosamente para dedicar en exclusividad al rey Felipe V de España su prodigiosa voz. Doce años antes, Farinelli y un virtuoso trompetista miden su destreza musical en una plaza repleta de curiosos. El joven cantante impone con facilidad su voz pura y perfecta. El público, entusiasmado, le aclama. Haendel, el compositor oficial de la corte de Inglaterra, que ha asistido a la representación oculto en su carroza, propone a Farinelli que vaya a Londres. Este encuentro supone el inicio de una relación marcada por el odio y la admiración mutua.
When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel's offer of "a kiss without consequences". Emilie admonishes him that the kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story, unfolding in flashbacks, about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone else's life.
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
Robert Lepage’s remarkable Met Opera production of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 2013 Grammy Award Winner for Best Opera Recording, is now available as individual DVDs. Siegfried features Bryn Terfel, Jay Hunter Morris, and Deborah Voigt, with Fabio Luisi conducting.
Ring Cycle, pt 4. Siegfried is drugged and tricked into kidnapping his wife, since she has the Ring now. More double-crossings, Siegfried ends up dead. Brunnhilde has had enough of this, tosses the Ring into the river and torches the place.
This 3D animated opera deals in a socially critical manner with the topic of illegal immigrants fleeing from Africa to Europe and it is also a story of impossible love between orange boy Maroc, a singing boat refugee, and lemon girl Lisa, who collects singing seashells and dreams about love. Maroc is the brave hero-type, bound by prejudice and poverty. Lisa is the daughter of a rich businessman and tomato ketchup plantation owner. Here we have the fruitier version of Romeo and Juliet - a 3D animated operatic extravaganza!
Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this second opera in Wagner’s Ring cycle. Hildegard Behrens brings deep empathy to Brünnhilde, the favorite daughter of the god Wotan (James Morris) who nevertheless defies him. Morris’s portrayal of Wotan is deservedly legendary, as is Christa Ludwig, as Fricka. Jessye Norman and Gary Lakes are Sieglinde and Siegmund, and Kurt Moll is the threatening Hunding. James Levine and the Met orchestra provide astonishing color and drama. (Performed April 8, 1989)
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner.
Verdi’s grand opera “Aida” is given an intimate treatment in Busetto, Italy, in 2001, in a staging with young singers, all coached by the legendary tenor Carlo Bergonzi and staged by Franco Zeffirelli. The result is an astonishing musical and dramatic piece of theater, proving that with the right mix of ingredients, an opera can be staged in a small theater and still achieve a thrilling and moving effect.
A womanizing opera star is smitten by a young music student.
The Italian Character: a film within music and about music. The Italian character is the story of one of the most renowned orchestras in the world, enriched by archive material of the last thirty years about the great conductors who have been performing on the most famous rostrum in Rome.
A silent black-and-white comedy inspired by the fizzing rollercoaster of Largo al factotum - the familiar aria from Rossini's The Barber of Seville - featuring the young apprentice hero and a recalcitrant, increasingly monstrous hairball.
A documentary following two operatic productions at the Madrid Royal Opera House.
When the most voluptuous, sought-after courtesan in the world meets an ascetic monk whose life is devoted to God, you know erotic sparks are going to fly. And when the clash takes place in a glorious, but rarely performed, opera by Massenet, it’s a delight to the ear just as much as to the eye. Renée Fleming is every inch the glamorous Thaïs, swathed in elegant gowns designed by Christian Lacroix. Thomas Hampson is Athanaël, the tortured man of God. This production by John Cox, which premiered in December 2008, brilliantly sets the stage for a confrontation as old as civilization itself.
