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- A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
- A stage performance of the Shostakovich opera, filmed in Barcelona.
- ENO's revival of Calixto Bieito's hugely successful production of Carmen. Steeped in the political and historical influences of his native Spain, Bietito's Carmen reveals a modern, uncompromising approach to this masterpiece.
- "Tannhauser" is an opera by Richard Wagner divided in three acts and based on the fight between pure and carnal love. This modern version changes the original medieval story to the present days.
- The striking aspect of this production of Wagner's Das Rheingold is the unique and offbeat staging by Robert Carsen, who plunges us into a world of darkness. For that, Patrick Kinmonth designed a basic set of blocks of concrete and cranes.
- Macbeth undoubtedly marked a turning point in Verdi's operatic writing, i.e., the foregrounding of the characters' introspective, psychological aspects.This DVD/Blu-ray captures the production staged at Novara's Teatro Coccia during the 2013-14 season, with thriller/horror filmmaker Dario Argento tackling opera direction for the first time.One could only expect a direction in line with his films, and from that point of view this Macbeth meets expectations, with the visualization of the opera's bloody, indeed gory scenes matching the dark, brutal character of Shakespeare work.
- Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
- A documentary about the international renown theater company Comediants. Paying tribute to the traditional techniques that Comediants popularized in Spain, the documentary digs into the inevitable clash between dreams and reality.
- Inspired by "Pandora's Box" by Frank Wedekind, Lulu describes the social ascent and the demise of a deadly woman, driven by men to behave in murder, to her own. dead.
- by Giacomo Puccini at Gran Teatre del Liceu
- Venice was ruled by a Council of Ten (CX) made up of members of the highest aristocracy, co-opted among themselves and under the theoretical authority of the Doge who in fact had no power other than representative and was a plaything. in their hands. The C.X exercised absolute authority over the country, neglecting nothing to establish it, as shown by the institution of the famous "lion's mouth" still visible in the Doge's Palace, and the all-powerful spies he maintained urbi et orbi. Venice designated itself under the title of Serenissima Republic, we measure the irony of the title at the time when the facts of the opera unfolds: a republic, it was one in its beginnings, also serene, to establish, in defiance of all rules and ethics, its trade in the Mediterranean basin. But the hour of forfeiture was about to strike in the 15th century: the improvements in long-distance navigation methods, the discoveries that were to result (America, passage of the Cape of Good Hope, etc.), would revolutionize world trade, ruin that of Venice and lead the country towards a rapid decline with the excesses, political, social, financial and artistic that one encounters in these ends of regimes and which Bonaparte was going to try to remedy.