CULTURE ON THE BIG SCREEN
Below is a selection of the wide range of recorded cultural programming we distribute to cinemas throughout the UK and Ireland. Filmed in high definition and surround sound, opera, ballet, theatre and classical concerts are brought alive on the digital cinema screen with a 'best seat in the house' experience wherever you happen to sit.
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 Recorded at the Royal Opera House in 2007 |
Carmen The Spanish heat and gypsy passion of Carmen take to the stage as The Royal Opera presents this great core masterpiece in a production new in 2007. Francesca Zambello’s vibrant direction with Tanya McCallin’s richly coloured designs create the sun-drenched and sultry world of 19th-century Spain. Anna Caterina Antonacci plays the fickle temptress of the title with heart-throb German tenor Jonas Kaufmann as Don José, the soldier she forces to murderous jealousy over her affair with the bullfighter Escamillo. This outstanding cast, under the baton of Royal Opera Music Director, Antonio Pappano, play out this famous story with its sexy solos, rousing choruses, impassioned arias and Spanish dances of one of the most famously tuneful of all operas.
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 Recorded at the Royal Opera House in 2008 |
Swan Lake is the classic story of love and betrayal. Prince Siegfried falls in love with the Swan Queen, Odette, condemned through the evil magic of magician Von Rothbart to transform into a swan by day. After trickery at a palace ball prevents the Prince marrying his new love and restoring her to her true form, tragedy is the only means left to him finally to break the spell. The ethereal forms of the swans, illuminated by moonlight, the charged solos for the Prince and Odette and her alter-ego Odile, the machinations of Von Rothbart and the colour of a palace ball – all combine with Tchaikovsky’s glorious music to make for a production of inspiration and romance. Starring Marianela Nuñez as Odette/Odile and Thiago Soares as Prince Siegfried.
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 Recorded at the Royal Opera House in 2009 |
La bohème by Puccini is one of the most famously melodious and eternally popular of all operas. The carefree attitude of youth and the harsh realities of life are poignantly contrasted through the tender affair of Mimì and Rodolfo, from the heights of their first meeting through to its tragic end. One of The Royal Opera’s most loved productions with its unforgettable period designs by Julia Trevelyan Oman, La bohème brings to life Paris of 1830 as we travel with the characters between bare attic, crowded café and a wintery street right on the city’s edge. Starring Teodor Ilincai as Rodolfo and Hibla Gerzmava as Mimì.
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 Recorded at the Globe Theatre in 2009 |
As You Like It A firm favourite among Shakespeare’s comedies, and including some of his best-loved characters, As You Like It runs the glorious gamut of pastoral romance: cross-dressing and love-notes; poetry and brilliant conversation; gentle satire, slapstick and passion. Rosalind, the daughter of a banished duke, falls in love with Orlando at a wrestling match. Her usurping uncle, jealous of her popularity banishes her from court. Disguised as a boy she leaves with her cousin Celia and the jester Touchstone, to seek out her father in the Forest of Arden. Here she meets Orlando again and, under the guise of a young man, counsels him in the art of love and wooing. Starring Michael Benz, Philip Bird and Naomi Frederick.
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 Recorded at King's College Chapel in 2009 Composed by Handel Running time 70 minutes/150 minutes |
Handel's Messiah The world-famous Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, sings the best-loved choral masterpiece from the magnificent setting of King’s College Chapel, one of the jewels of Britain’s cultural and architectural heritage. The award-winning Choir’s performance was recorded in 2009, marking both the 250th anniversary of the death of George Frederic Handel and the 800th anniversary of the prestigious University of Cambridge. Outstanding and expressive performances by the Choir and a superb cast of soloists, accompanied by the Academy of Ancient Music and conducted by Stephen Cleobury, make for an evocative and inspiring experience.
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 Recorded at Teatro Real Madrid in 2005 Opera composed by Rossini Sung in Italian with English subtitles Running time 2 hours and 47 minutes |
Il Barbiere di Siviglia This sparkling production of Rossini’s comedy is led by two of today’s greatest opera stars – María Bayo as the young ward Rosina and Juan Diego Flórez as her handsome suitor, Count Almaviva. The wily Figaro (the Barber) is Pietro Spagnoli, Bruno Practicò is the hapless guardian Don Bartolo, and the cunning singing teacher Basilio is the renowned Ruggero Raimondi. Filmed in wide-screen high definition, this beautiful recording captures brilliantly this Teatro Real Madrid production as it progresses from an elegant silver and white palette of costumes and staging to a kaleidoscope of colour for the boisterous finale.
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 Recorded at the Glyndebourne Fesival 2009 Opera composed by Donizetti Sung in Italian with English subtitles Running time 122 minutes |
L'elisir d'amore Set in an idyllic vision of a southern Italian village square, Donizetti’s delightful opera tells of the romantic rivalry between the penniless Nemorino and the bumptious Sergeant Belcore for the love of the beautiful, bookish Adina, whose reading of the tale of Tristan and Isolde makes poor lovesick Nemorino think that the wonder-working Dr Dulcamara might have just the potion his heart requires. Witty, charming and ultimately deeply touching, this is Italian opera at its intoxicating best from the world-famous Glyndebourne Festival. Starring Ekaterina Kiurina and Peter Auty.
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