Camille Saint-Saëns

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

Возвышающийся библейский эпос, оперный взгляд Сен-Санса на историю Самсона и Далилы, обладает многими отличительными чертами большой оперы - захватывающими дух вокальными данными, захватывающими припевами и захватывающим сюжетом на обширном псевдоисторическом фоне. Вполне уместно, что «Самсон и Далила» были выбраны для празднования открытия сезона Метрополитена четыре раза в истории компании, в том числе когда премьера смелого нового спектакля Дарко Тресняка состоялась в первый вечер сезона 2018–2019. Несколько недель спустя опера была показана в рамках серии прямых кинотрансляций Метрополитена с участием исключительного состава. Тенор Роберто Аланья был героическим Самсоном, который в конце концов стал жертвой обольстительной силы Далилы - пленительной меццо-сопрано Элины Гаранчи. Бас-баритон Лоран Наури спел зловещую песню верховного жреца Дагона, а дирижер сэр Марк Элдер стоял на подиуме.

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.

В путешествие во вселенную Люмьеров, создателей кинематографа, вас приглашает Тьерри Фремо, директор Каннского фестиваля. С юмором и истинно киноманской страстью он раскроет перед вами мир первых кинолент, запечатлевших уникальные образы мира и Франции начала века. Фильмы Люмьеров — трогательные и в чем-то смешные первые шаги кино — искусства, которое завоюет весь мир.

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

Спустя почти 60 лет аниматоры корпорации «Дисней» вынесли на суд зрителей продолжение гениального фильма, создав рисованные этюды на музыку Бетховена, Респиги, Гершвина, Шостаковича, Сен-Санса, Элгара и Стравинского. Также в «Фантазию 2000» вошел классический эпизод из первой «Фантазии» — «Ученик колдуна».

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.

Герцог Гиз покидает Маргариту де Нуармутье, и попадает в западню. Король расставляет убийц, на пути Гиза, переходя от одного к другому, натравливает, улыбается, ободряет, проверяет их шпаги, пробуя их остроту кончиком пальца. Появляется герцог, смелый, с решимостью во взоре, с гордой осанкой, уверенный в своих силах. Едва он переступает порог королевской комнаты как его тут же хватают и закалывают. Он делает несколько шагов и падает. На земле валяется подушка короля с монограммой в короне; её герцог схватил случайно, пытаясь защититься от ударов. Убийцы с облегчением вздыхают. Генрих велит обыскать труп. Письмо, которое находят, возбуждает в нем злобу. Шестеро убийц с трудом тащат громадное тело герцога вниз по лестнице. Его обвертывают соломой и бросают на пылающие в камине поленья.

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.