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23) Romeo and Juliet
Language
English
Description
Angelin Preljocaj's startling new choreography of Shakespeare's tragic star-crossed lovers, set to Sergei Prokofiev's moving score, is brilliantly performed by the Lyon Opera Ballet, widely acclaimed for its stylish and innovative productions. Preljocaj sees the story as a class struggle between Romeo and Juliet with love as the power that can overthrow the established order's oppression.
Series
Language
English
Description
Filmed at many museums on both sides of the Atlantic, this program critically examines the following masterpieces of Pop art: Franz Kline's C & O ; Helen Frankenthaler's Mountains and sea ; Willem de Kooning's Morning : the springs ; Jasper Johns' Flag ; Andy Warhol's The Texan : portrait of Robert Rauschenberg ; and Roy Lichtenstein's Girl with hair ribbon.
Series
Language
English
Description
This program critically examines the following masterpieces of realism in American painting: Grant Wood's American Gothic ; Georgia O'Keeffe's The white calico flower ; Reginald Marsh's Twenty cent movie ; Edward Hopper's Nighthawks ; Andrew Wyeth's Christina's world ; and Richard Estes' Ansonia.
32) The magic flute
Language
Deutsch
Description
Intertwining music of purity and beauty with the conventions of musical comedy, this opera is an exploration of man's search for truth and his confusion between the forces of light and dark. Mozart's final operatic legacy is a great work of the Enlightenment era.
Series
Language
English
Description
Filmed at many museums on both sides of the Atlantic, this program critically examines the following masterpieces of Dada and surrealism: Kurt Schwitters' Merzbild 25 A ; Hanna Höch's Cut with the kitchen knife ; George Grosz' Untitled ; Joán Mirós Dutch interior I ; Salvador Dali's The burning giraffe ; Man Ray's La fortune.
34) Rusalka
Language
English
Description
Based on two fairy tales, it tells the story of a water-nymph, Rusalka, yearning to become human because she has fallen in love with a mortal.
Language
Italiano
Description
In this updated version of the Greek myth, Orfeo, dressed in a leather jacket, trainers and jeans, sees his Eurdice die in a street accident. Succumbing to depression, he languishes in Hades, a psychiatric hospital, before taking his electric guitar to charm the beasts in an innercity concrete jungle.
37) Julius Caesar
Author
Language
English
Description
A studio performance of one of Handel's best known operas by the English National Opera. The Opera, a tale of love and power based on Shakespeare's play, was first performed in 1724 at the Haymarket Theatre in London using castrati singers in the heroes roles. This production follows modern practice in using women in these parts, and in particular, Dame Janet Baker creates the virtuoso role of Julius Caesar.
Language
English
Description
Baron von Eisenstein is supposed to go to jail for eight days for a minor offense, but decides to attend a ball first. When the governor of the jail comes to take him away he finds the Baroness entertaining a former suitor. To avoid difficulty, she persuades the suitor to pose as her husband and go to jail for a night but when she goes to the ball alone she faces other complications.
40) Carmen
Language
Français
Description
"Maria Ewing is the fiery, seductive gypsy who dares to love as she chooses, regardless of the cost. Luis Lima is the tragic Don José, whose obsessive desire for Carmen destroys them both"--Container.