Movies: Nvc Arts
- 1983
Manon Lescaut (1983)
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"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and therefore she cannot fail to win the heart of the public." This turned out to be a truly prophetic statement since none of Puccinis other world successes ...
- 1990
The Prince of the Pagodas (1990)
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The Prince of the Pagodas is a ballet created for The Royal Ballet by choreographer John Cranko with music commissioned from Benjamin Britten. Its premiere took place on 1 January 1957 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, conducted by Bri...
- 1998
Swan Lake (1998)
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Contemporary dance company Adventures In Motion Pictures' triumphant modern re-interpretation of Swan Lake, with its cast of male swans, has turned tradition upside down and has taken the ballet fraternity by storm. Never has such a contemporary re-w...
- 1985
Carmen - Glyndebourne Festival Opera (1985)
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Don José is a guard who begins an affair with the tempestuous Carmen. He is imprisoned and loses his job, then flees with her to the mountains. When the relationship starts to break down José refuses to acknowledge it and will not leave, even when he...
- 1989
Giovanna d'Arco (1989)
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Director Werner Herzog, one of the most highly acclaimed German film makers, joins forces with the great Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly to effect a masterful rendition of this rarely-performed opera involving spectacular scenes of alternating lig...
- 2006
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams (2006)
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Shot over the course of a year, this intimate portrait of provocative composer John Adams presents scenes of the artist at work and at play against the backdrop of dramatic American landscapes that reflect the themes of his music. Though he has a num...
- 1997
A Night with Handel (1997)
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Handel is a thoroughly 'modern' composer whose genius for expressing human emotions is undimmed by time. This performance-based film, A Night with Handel, stylishly dramatises some of the composer's most beautiful arias, linked together over the cour...
- 1997
Nobody Does It Better: The Music of James Bond (1997)
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TV documentary exploring the musical world of James Bond through interviews with key figures and discussion of work of David Arnold....
- 1984
Monteverdi - L'Incoronazione Di Poppea (1984)
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This is a finely tuned opera with music by the Italian composer, Claudio Monteverdi, libretto by G. E. Busenello, and the fine voices of contralto Maria Ewing, baritone Dennis Bailey, and several other sub-leads is not to be missed and will be fully ...
- 1986
I Vespri Siciliani (1986)
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I Vespri Siciliani must me Verdi's most underrated masterpiece. Most people are put off by the fact that it has 5 acts, therefore they conclude that it must be incredibly long. It is long but not as long as some people may fear as most of the acts ar...
- 1987
Boris Godunov (1987)
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Mussorgsky's quintessential Russian opera is captured live on stage in this performance by the Bolshoi Opera featuring Rimsky-Korsakov's revised vision and starring Evgeny Nesternko and Vladislav Piavko....
- 1982
Swan Lake (1982)
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The Royal Ballet's 1980 production of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet....
- 1996
Lulu (1996)
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Alban Berg's black, satirical opera is one of the masterpieces of the 20th Century. It charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale "created to make trouble", from life as a society hostess to prostitution and eventual bloody death at the hands of Jack...
- 1989
The Nutcracker (1989)
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The Paris Opera Ballet's 1988 revised version of Rudolf Nureyev's 1963 production of The Nutcracker....
- 1999
Definitely Dusty (1999)
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Documentary looking at the life and work of soul and pop diva Dusty Springfield....
- 1992
Verdi La Traviata (1992)
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This set has Edita Gruberova singing in top form, all her scooping cast aside, which one finds in abundance in her Lucia under Richard Bonynge. Here, however, she makes ravishing use of those bits of tone that only she can produce: those instances of...
- 1998
Richter: The Enigma (1998)
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This biography of Sviatoslav Richter, the great Russian pianist who dedicated his life to music and had little regard for fame in the West, shines a light on his formative years and places him against the setting of a chaotic USSR culture....
- 1983
The Sleeping Beauty (1983)
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Romance and fairy tale come alive in this astounding interpretation of a childhood classic, Sleeping Beauty. In the hands of the celebrated Kirov Ballet, featuring choreography by Marius Petipa, Sleeping Beauty is no less than magical, recounting the...
- 2009
Antonín Dvorák: The Devil and Kate (2009)
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Albert Rosen conducts the Wexford Festival Opera's production of the classic Antonín Dvorák tale about a young woman who defies her parents by insisting on dancing even if it means she must dance with the devil. Anne-Marie Owens plays Kate, who's dis...
- 1992
Rimsky-Korsakov: Mlada (Bolshoi Opera/Ballet) (1992)
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Nina Ananiashvili dances the dual roles of Mlada and Cleopatra in this acclaimed production of composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Mlada," directed by Boris Pokrovsky and choreographed by Andrei Petrov. Voislava, the daughter of a scheming prince, is...