Camille Saint-Saëns

A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.

가자(Gaza) 지구의 어떤 마을 광장에 히브리 사람들이 모여 여호와에게 블레셋(Philistines)의 억압에서 자유스럽게 해달라고 기도한다. 사사(재판관이자 지도자)인 삼손(Samson)이 나와 믿음이 부족하다고 사람들을 책망한다. 블레셋 장군 아비멜렉(Abimelech)이 히브리 백성들의 유일신 여호와를 부인하자 삼손이 아베멜렉을 죽이는데...

The Yellow Lounge is nowhere more true to its reputation of bringing classical music to unusual spaces than here in the stunning setting inside MORI Building Digital Art Museum in Tokyo. Pianist Alice Sara Ott as well as cellist Mischa Maisky perform repertoire from Debussy, Satie, Saint-Saëns and Massenet.

Lightning streaks through the skies as Dalila declares her love to Samson in one of the finest arias of romantic opera. “My heart awakens to your voice like a flower to the kiss of dawn.” An enchanting yet treacherous beauty… When the thunder at last rumbles, Dalila betrays Samson and offers him up to his enemies: “Come up, for this time he has shown me all his heart”, she whispers to them in the night (The Old Testament, Book of Judges). Based on a violent and erotic biblical story, Saint-Saëns’s opera – composed in 1877, much to Liszt’s insistence – would not be performed at the Palais Garnier until fifteen years later. This first Parisian performance in 1892 included the hitherto unperformed “Dance Of The Priestesses”. Nevertheless, it became one of the most performed French operas in the world, together with Faust and Carmen. Conducted by Philippe Jordan, this new production brings back a repertoire masterpiece that has not been performed at the Paris Opera for twenty-five years.

영화의 창시자인 뤼미에르 형제의 세계로 초대한다. 그들이 만든 1,400여 편의 영화에서 발췌된 장면은 원시영화의 매혹에 대한 잊을 수 없는 이미지와 독특한 시선을 제공한다. 초기영화에 대한 교과서 같은 작품.

The opera is based on the Biblical tale of Samson and Delilah found in Chapter 16 of the Book of Judges in the Old Testament. It is the only opera by Saint-Saëns that is regularly performed. The second act love scene in Delilah's tent is one of the set pieces that define French opera. Two of Delilah's arias are particularly well known: "Printemps qui commence" and "Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix", the latter of which is one of the most popular recital pieces in the mezzo-soprano/contralto repertoire. Staged by greek director Yannis Kokkos and conducted by Valery Gergiev on May 25th, 2016 at the Mariinsky Theatre.

Two parrots (an idiot and a clever ) are confronted with the death of their mistress on the one hand, and on the other with the fire of their apartment...

Ballet en deux actes et treize tableaux du chorég. This is a live recording of a performance at Paris Garnier in 2007. Petit's earlier production for the Ballet de Marseille used more realistic stage sets, but the current Paris version has minimal stage sets. Also, the costumes were redesigned. Roland Petit created a ballet based on "In Search of Lost Time" for the Ballet de Marseille in the 1970s. Petit's intention was not to make a faithful adaptation of the novel, but to capture its flavour and convey, through a number of selected scenes, the narrator's incessant fluctuations between happiness and torment. The highlights are the series of poetical pas de deux.

A truly remarkable New Year’s Eve in St Petersburg’s fabled Mariinsky Theatre, with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky (ex-Kirov) Ballet. It was at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg that the ballet The Sleeping Beauty premiered in 1890, with a score by Tchaikovsky and choreography by Marius Petipa. This New Year’s Eve programme revolves around Act III, in which Princess Aurora is brought out of her long sleep by the prince of her dreams and marries him. In addition, prima ballerina Uliana Lopatkina dances Camille Saint-Saëns’ famous Dying Swan, first performed by Anna Pavlova. In conclusion the soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre’s Young Singers’ Academy perform the finale of Rossini’s Journey to Rheims in a joyous celebration of the coming of the New Year.

Carnival of the Animals

1940년 작 환타지아의 후속편으로, 월트 디즈니가 생전에 계획했던 작품으로 알려져 있다. 월트 디즈니는 클래식 음악과 애니메이션을 결합한 환타지아를 제작하면서 매년 다른 시퀀스를 추가해 새로 개봉한다는 계획을 세웠지만, 개봉 당시 흥행의 실패로 계획을 수정한 것으로 알려져 있다. 그 후 조카 로이 에드워드 디즈니에 의하여 60년 만에 이 작품이 완성되었다. 8개의 단편으로 이루어져 있는 이 작품은 1940년 작에 포함되었던 마법사의 제자를 디지털로 복원해 삽입했으며 7개의 단편은 새롭게 창작했다. 모든 시퀀스는 대사 없이 클래식 음악으로만 진행된다.

Animation with colored salt by Aleksandra Korejwo. Music by composer Camille Saint-Saëns performed by the Polish Radio Orchestra.

A beautifully fluid sand animation inspired by Camille Saint-Saëns' piece, 'Danse Macabre.'

Nicole Védrèss' chronicle of Paris from 1900 to 1914 is brought to life through the use of original material, all authentic, secured from more then 700 films belonging to public and private collections. A few of the celebrities of the time shown are Enrico Caruso, Sarah Bernhardt, and Maurice Chevalier.

It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks appear, then two ghosts. They move to the music's rhythm. Against the black night, they are blue and yellow. Bats appear as does a xylophone of bones. Mist rises, spooks swirl. A bell tolls. The sky turns light blue, the ghosts' dance slows. Then black night returns bringing intimations of frenzy. Bones play snare drums; spooks peek out of square graves. Scary faces appear. Frenetic movement takes over. A rooster crows and all return to earth as the sun's light appears.

The Black Death is ravaging Spain. As Camille Saint-Saëns's "Danse Macabre" plays on the soundtrack, a mix of animation and acted scenes tells the story of Youth and Love meeting one night. They dance, embrace, and kiss. As the night wears on, exuberant Death, a skeletal figure with a violin, pursues the couple. They try to elude him. Eventually, Love swoons. Youth is powerless to protect her. Is she doomed?

With family connections to some famous French artists, writers, and musicians of the time, Sacha Guitry decided to film the individuals in action, to celebrate the greatness of his culture ,threatened by Germany in the ongoing Great War.

The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.

This project is a result of a cinematographic exercise. The team hadn't a scripts, but an intetion of argument. The idea was go to the set and improvise with the available items.