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The year 2014 is rich in anniversaries.
We celebrate Richard Strauss with three
Bel Air Media productions: Die Frau ohne
Schatten from the Bayerische Staatsoper,
Elektra staged by Patrice Chéreau at
the Festival d’Aix en Provence and
Der Rosenkavalier from Zurich Opera.
Summary
Special anniversaries
Dance
> Richard Strauss
> Mariinsky Theatre
Ivan Alexandre's acclaimed production of
Hippolyte et Aricie at the Paris Opera marks
the 250th anniversary of the death of JeanPhilippe Rameau in grandiose style. Also from
the Paris Opera, Pina Bausch's ballet Orfeo ed
Euridice pays tribute to Christophe Willibald
Gluck on the 300th anniversary of his birth.
Die Frau ohne Schatten................ 02
Elektra........................................... 02
Der Rosenkavalier. ....................... 03
The Little Humpbacked Horse.. .... 24
Cinderella...................................... 24
Romeo and Juliet. ......................... 25
>C
hristoph Willibald Gluck
> Opéra national de Paris
The Sleeping Beauty.................... 26
Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony...... 26
Tricentenary Anniversary
of the French Dance School.......... 28
Opera
Telmondis Distribution continues to
develop its opera and ballet catalogue with
productions from the world's greatest stages
such as the Paris Opera, Saint Petersburg's
Mariinsky Theatre, the Bolshoi, the Théâtre
musical de Paris-Châtelet, the Opéra de
Lyon, the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie,
La Fenice, the Opéra Royal de Wallonie
and the Festival d’Aix en Provence.
> Theâtre musical de Paris-châtelet
> Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
LAC (adapted from Swan Lake).. ........... 30
> Théâtre National de Chaillot
Paul Taylor Dance Company in Paris... 30
> Malandain Ballet Biarritz
Flagship productions new to the catalogue
include Einstein on the Beach, Philip Glass
and Robert Wilson's legendary opera filmed
for the first time at the Théâtre Musical de
Paris – Châtelet, the Tricentenary of the
French Dance School celebrations from
the Paris Opera, La Bayadère from the
Bolshoi, Hamlet from the Théâtre de la
Monnaie and lastly the Concert de Paris,
the new operatic event held every year on
Bastille Day beneath the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
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Antoine Perset – President
Orfeo ed Euridice.......................... 04
> J ean-Philippe Rameau
Le Grand Théâtre de l’Amour. ...... 05
Hippolyte et Aricie........................ 05
> Bolshoi Theatre
Einstein on the Beach.. ................. 06
Sunday in the Park with George.. 06
> Bayerische Staatsoper
Boris Godunov. ............................. 08
La Bayadère.................................. 28
Prince Igor..................................... 08
>O
péra national de Paris
> Work in progress
La Fanciulla del West.................... 10
I Puritani. ...................................... 10
Aida................................................ 11
La Gioconda.................................. 12
Hänsel und Gretel......................... 12
Falstaff. .......................................... 13
Anna Karenina. ............................. 34
The Legend of Love....................... 34
The Golden Horde......................... 34
J. Robbins / A. Ratmansky................ 34
G. Balanchine / B. Millepied ....... 34
> Bolshoi Theatre
Romeo and Juliet. ......................... 32
Cinderella...................................... 33
Documentary
Teodor Currentzis’ portrait
> Royal Opera of Wallonia
La Fanciulla del West.................... 14
Cavalleria Rusticana /
Pagliacci........................................ 14
> Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie
Hamlet........................................... 16
Jenufa............................................ 16
Manon Lescaut.. ............................. 17
> F estival International d'Art
Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence
Elena. ............................................ 18
>O
pera de Lyon
Claude. .......................................... 18
at Perm Opera.................................... 36
LAC by Jean-Christophe Maillot.. . 36
Cinderella on the way to Versailles..... 37
Wagner, a genius in exile.. ................. 37
Concert
Shostakovich, the complete
symphonies & concertos...................... 38
Dissonances.................................. 38
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concertos............................ 39
> Arena di Verona
> Work in progress
Vespro della beata Vergine.......... 39
Aida............................................... 19
>S
pecial events
Shalyapin Gala – Kazan Opera.... 20
Le Concert de Paris....................... 20
Mariinsky II Opening Gala........... 21
> Work in progress
War and Peace.............................. 22
Les Troyens. .................................. 22
A Midsummer Night’s Dream....... 22
La Traviata..................................... 22
Le Comte Ory.. ............................... 22
Circus
Nikulin Circus................................ 40
38th International Circus
Festival of Monte-Carlo................ 40
35th Tomorrow’s Circus
World Festival............................... 41
Magic
Golden Mandrakes....................... 41
02/03
> Special Anniversaries
RICHARD STRAUSS
150TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY (1864-1949)
Die Frau ohne Schatten Bel Air Media 2013
Bayerische Staatsoper
Conductor Kirill Petrenko
Staging: Krzysztof Warlikowski |
Scenography & costumes: Malgorzata Szczesniak |
Starring
Johan Botha: The Emperor | Adrianne
Pieczonka: The Empress | Deborah
Polaski: The Nurse | Sebastian
Holecek: The Messenger of
Keikobad | Hanna-Elisabeth Müller:
The Guardian of the Threshold /
Voice of the 1st unborn child | Dean
Power: The Apparition of a Youth |
The Bavarian State Orchestra | The
Chorus and the Childrens Chorus
of the Bavarian State Opera
Production
A coproduction by Bel Air Media,
Bayerische Staatsoper, Mezzo,
in association with Bayerischer
Rundfunk, the participation
of France Télévisions and
the support of the CNC |
Directed by Andy Sommer |
Produced by François Duplat |
Running time: 1x190’
Elektra
Bel Air Media 2013
Festival International d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence
Opera in three acts by Richard Strauss.
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
Loosely adapted from the novel Les Amours du
Chevalier de Faublas by, Louvet de Couvrai and
Moliere’s comedy, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac,
it was first, performed at the Konigliches
Opernhaus, in Dresden on 26 January 1911
under, the direction of Max Reinhardt.
Musical Direction
Franz Welser-Möst
Stage director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf |
Sets: Rolf Glittenberg |
Costumes: Marianne Glittenberg |
Light: Jürgen Hoffmann |
©Photo: P. Victor/ArtcomArt
Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen
Staging: Patrice Chéreau |
Artistic collaboration: Thierry Thieû Niang |
Dramatist and staging assistant: Vincent Huguet
Production
A coproduction by Bel Air Media,
Arte France, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence |
Directed by Stéphane Metge |
Produced by François Duplat |
Running time: 1x110’
Bel Air Media 2004
Opernhaus Zürich
Tragedy in one act by Richard Strauss.
Libretto by the poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal.
“Agamemnon!” The name of the late king of Mycenae,
proffered by Elektra, resounds like a dizzying growl, a
throbbing moan. Elektra is awaiting the return of her
brother Orestes, who is the only person who can truly
avenge his father. Richard Strauss transforms Elektra’s
cry into a shock opera, with an explosive score, a
single act of expectation crowned by irrepressible
violence, a superb orchestral score, as refined as it
is unrestrained, and women singing the distress of a
dysfunctional family. Individual solitude and intimate
violence are the very stuff of Patrice Chéreau’s work.
Starring
Evelyn Herlitzius: Elektra | Waltraud Meier:
Klytämnestra | Adrianne Pieczonka: Chrysothemis |
Mikhail Petrenko: Orest | Orchestre de Paris |
Coro Gulbenkian
Der Rosenkavalier
©Photo: Suzanne Schwiertz
Inspired by Oriental fairy-tales
and with an admiring glance at
Mozart's Zauberflöte, the successful
partnership of Strauss and
Hofmannsthal created a puzzling,
massive work heavy with symbolism
and powerful sounds which constantly
demands interpretation: is it
wallowing in magical worlds whilst
the old era is destroyed in the First
World War? The pathway of trials
taken by two couples on which the
women overcome their own natures
through subjecting themselves to the
merciless law of renewal and decay?
A study of the female psyche shortly
after Freud's postulation of sexual
neuroses? Or perhaps the spiritual
voyage of a woman through her fears
and guilt feelings at the end of which
everyone comes together again on
the threshold of the eternal father.
Video: Denis Guéguin |
Choreography: Claude Bardouil |
Dramaturgy: Miron Hakenbeck
©Photo: W. Hösl
Opera in three acts by Richard Strauss
Libretto by the poet Hugo von
Hofmannsthal.
Starring
Nina Stemme: Feldmarschallin Fürstin
Werdenberg | Malin Hartelius: Sophie
| Vesselina Kasarova: Octavian | Liuba
Chuchrova: Leitmetzerin (Marianne, la Duègne)
| Brigitte Pinter: Annina | Rachel Watkins:
Eine Modistin | Opernhaus Zürich Orchestra
Production
A coproduction by Bel Air Media, NHK,
France 3, SWR, MEZZO, TV 10 Angers |
Directed by Chloé Perlemuter |
Produced by François Duplat |
Running time: 1x200’
04/05
> Special Anniversaries
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK
JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU
300TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY (1714-1787)
Orfeo ed Euridice 250TH DEATH ANNIVERSARY (1683-1764)
Bel Air Media 2008
Opéra national de Paris
Le Grand Théâtre de l’Amour Heliox 2013
Concertgebouw, Bruges
who is nominated for the French ‘Victoires
de la musique’ award this year, sings all the
roles, giving voice to voluptuous mistresses,
languishing queens and offended goddesses.
Conductor Alexis Kossenko
Starring
Sabine Devieilhe | Les Ambassadeurs Ensemble
Production
A coproduction by Heliox, Bel Ombre films
and France Télévisions |
Directed by Colin Laurent |
Produced by Pierre-François Decouflé |
Running time: 1x100’
©Photo: Sanja Harris
Thirty pieces by Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Love reigns, everywhere and always. And
the world of Baroque opera is certainly no
exception, because whether they be gods
or men, nobody can escape Cupid’s arrows.
In 2012 Les Ambassadeurs performed the
remarkable opening concert of the MAfestival.
This time they use the most beautiful
movements from Rameau’s operas to let us
feel both the pleasure and the pain of love:
innocent or lustful, happy or despairing.
From hope, through disappointment and
jealousy, to anger, with here and there a hint
of madness… Rameau depicts all of these
emotions via sophisticated orchestrations
in the most vivid colours. Sabine Devieilhe,
Hippolyte et Aricie
Telmondis 2012
Opéra national de Paris
Ballet by Pina Bausch.
Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck.
A rare and inspiring hybrid of opera and
modern dance. Celebrated choreographer
Pina Bausch adds a whole new level of
interpretation to Gluck’s Orpheus & Eurydice.
The Paris Opera’s “Etoiles du Ballet”
dance troupe teams up with Germany’s
Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble under the
direction of Thomas Hengelbrock.
A cast of celebrated opera singers
round off the multi-faceted cast.
Musical Direction
Thomas Hengelbrock
Choreoraphy and staging: Pina Bausch |
Sets, costumes and light: Rolf Borzik
Starring
Singers: Maria Riccarda Wesseling: Orpheus |
Julia Kleiter: Eurydice | Sunhae Im: Love
Dancers: Yann Bridard: Orpheus | MarieAgnès Gillot: Eurydice | Meteki Kudo: Love |
Choir: Balthasar – Neumann Choir |
Orchestra: Balthasar – Neumann Ensemble
Production
A coproduction by Bel Air Media, Arte France |
Directed by Vincent Bataillon |
Produced by François Duplat |
Running time: 1x110’
Diana and Cupid are arguing who will rule over
the forest dwellers. The quarrel is settled by
Jupiter who decrees that Love will reign over
their hearts for one day every year. Diana
vows to look after Hippolyte and Aricie.
Musical direction Emmanuelle Haïm
Staging: Ivan Alexandre | Sets: Antoine
Fontaine | Costumes: Jean-Daniel
Vuillermoz | Lighting: Hervé Gary |
Choreography: Natalie Van Parys
Starring
Sara Connolly: Phèdre | Anne-Catherine Gillet:
Aricie | Andrea Hill: Diane | Jaël Azzaretti:
Cupid / A Priestess / A female sailor | Salomé
Haller: Oenone, Phèdre’s confidante | Marc
Mauillon:Tisiphone | Topi Lehtipuu: Hippolyte |
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis Opéra
national de Paris, Mezzo in association
with France Télévisions | Directed
by Olivier Simonnet | Produced by
Antoine Perset and Denis Morlière |
Running time: 1x80
©Photo:
©Photo: Anne Poupeney
©Photo: Michel Lidvac
Dramma in five acts and a prologue
by Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Libretto by Abbé Simon-Joseph Pellegrin.
06/07
> Opera
Theâtre musical de Paris-châtelet
Einstein on the Beach
Telmondis 2014
Theâtre musical de Paris-Châtelet
At the time of its production in 1971,
Deafman Glance, a wordless
performance lasting seven hours,
amazed French audiences and sparked
the enthusiasm of Louis Aragon.
A few years later, Robert Wilson joined
forces this time with the composer,
Philip Glass, to devise an opera that
was performed at the Avignon Festival
in 1976. It was to become the legend
that is Einstein on the Beach.
Certain themes linked to the physicist’s
research, such as the theory of relativity
and nuclear arms, were played out in
a series of tableaux providing a highly
revolutionary aesthetic: fairytale images
of astonishing visual beauty were
combined with very gradual changes in
music and choreographed movements
to form a total work of art that was to
overturn the classic perception of time
and space in the theatre. Restaged
by its creators, with the collaboration
of their long-standing choreographer,
Lucinda Childs, this legendary piece is
about to be rediscovered anew today.
Choreography
Lucinda Childs
Spoken text: Lucinda Childs, Christopher
Knowles, Samuel M. Johnson |
Direction, set and light
design: Robert Wilson |
Music and lyrics: Philip Glass |
Conducted by: Michael Riesman |
Co-director: Ann-Christin Rommen |
Directing associate: Charles Otte |
Lighting: John Torris |
Sound: Kurt Munkasci |
Costumes: Carlos Soto |
Hair and make-up: Luc Verschueren
Starring
Helga Davis | Kate Moran | Antoine
Silverman | The Lucinda Childs Dance
Company | The Philip Glass Ensemble |
Produced by Pomegranate Arts, Inc.
(Linda Brumbach, Executive Producer)
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis,
Théâtre Musical de Paris-Châtelet,
France Télévisions, Mezzo |
Directed by Don Kent |
Produced by Antoine Perset
and Denis Morlière |
Running time: 1x270’
©Photo: Lesley Leslie-Spinks
An opera in four acts by
Philip Glass and Robert Wilson.
Sunday in the Park with George
Telmondis 2013
Theâtre musical de Paris-Châtelet
Musical by Stephen Sondheim.
After A Little Night Music in 2010 and Sweeney Todd in 2011,
the Théâtre du Châtelet presents another masterpiece from
Stephen Sondheim. The pointillist painting by Georges
Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
Jatte, painted between 1884 and 1886, is the starting point
of this passionate reflection on the artist's work.
©Photo: Marie-Noel Robert
Music and Lyrics Book: James Lepine |
Conductor: David Charles Abell |
Stage direction: Lee Blakeley |
Set design: William Dudley |
Costumes: Adrian Linford |
Lighting: Rick Fisher |
Choreography: Lorena Randi |
Stephen Sondheim
Starring
Julian Ovenden: Georges / George | Sophie-Louise Dann: Dot /
Marie | Nicholas le Prevost: Jules / Greenberg | Rebecca de Pont
Davies: Old Lady / Elaine | Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France
Chorus of Theatre du Châtelet
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis, Théâtre Musical de Paris-Châtelet,
France Télévisions |
Directed by Denis Caïozzi |
Produced by Antoine Perset, Emma Enjalbert and Denis Morlière |
Running time: 1x135’
08/09
> Opera
Bayerische Staatsoper / Bolshoi Theatre
Boris Godunov
Bel Air Media 2013
Bayerische Staatsoper
Opera
in four acts by
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Modest Mussorgsky.
Libretto by the composer
after Alexander Pushkin.
©Photo: Wilfried Hösl
Child murder, scheming monks and a
tsar lapsing into madness – Modest
Mussorgsky spread the thematic arc
wide in his choral opera, which he
began to work on from 1868, and with
which he attempted to awaken an
awareness of his own time through
the indirect route of a historic story.
As an artist of the 19th century, he
was driven by the psychology of the
masses. Thus, in Boris Godunov,
alongside the hero of the title, the
main role is actually taken primarily
by the Russian people, rejoicing,
starving, demanding and questioning.
Prince Igor
“Uncovering the fine features of
human nature and the mass of
humanity, stubbornly drilling in these
unexplored regions and conquering
them – this is the mission of the true
artist. Onward to new shores!”
Conductor Staging: Calixto Bieito
Kent Nagano
Starring
Alexander Tsymbalyuk: Boris
Godunov | Yulia Sokolik: Fyodor |
Eri Nakamura: Kseniya |
Heike Grötzinger: Kseniya’s nurse |
Gerhard Siegel: Prince Shuysky |
Markus Eiche: Andrey Shchelkalov |
Anatoli Kotscherga: Pimen |
The Bavarian State Orchestra | The
Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera
Production
A coproduction by Bel Air Media,
Mezzo, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich,
Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arte Live Web |
Directed by Andy Sommer |
Produced by François Duplat |
Running time: 1x120’
Bel Air Media 2013
Bolshoi Theatre
Opera
in two acts
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by Alexander Borodin.
©Photo: Damir Yusupov
©Photo:
Based on the ancient Russian
literature The Tale of Igor's Campaign
Prince Igor is rightly considered
to be one of the main Russian
operas and is one of the Bolshoi
Theatre’s ‘designer label’ titles.
Today Prince Igor comes back
staged by Yuri Lyubimov, the maître
of Russian theatre director.The
legendary founder of the Taganka
Theatre, worked for the world's
greatests theatres (La Scala, The
Royal Opera House, the Bavarian
Staatsoper…). Prince Igor is a
large-scale, multi-level fresco which
combines ‘high-style’ epic narrative
and folk comedy, it juxtaposes the
chant of the Russian heroic poem
and the boisterously ‘frenetic’
musical world of the East.
Borodin himself explains his aesthetic
position as follows: “It seems to me
that in opera, as in sets, there is no
place for small forms, trivial detail:
everything should be written in bold
strokes, clearly, vividly and, in so far
as possible, convenient to perform
by both voice and orchestra”.
Borodin spent many years writing
Prince Igor, but he never managed
to finish it. Following his sudden
death, the opera was completed by
Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov.
Conductor Vasily Sinaysky
Staging: Yuri Lyubimov
Starring
Elchin Azizov: Igor Svyatoslavich |
Elena Popovskaya: Yaroslavna |
Roman Shulakov: Vladimir Igorevich |
Vladimir Matorin: Vladimir Yaroslavich |
Valery Guilmanov: Konchak |
Svetlana Shilova: Konchakovna |
Orchestra and Chorus
of the Bolshoi Theatre
Production
A coproduction by Bel Air Media,
Bolshoi Theatre, Mezzo |
Directed by Corentin Leconte |
Produced by François Duplat |
Running time: 1x104’
10/11
> Opera
Opéra national de Paris
La Fanciulla del West Opéra national de Paris, CLC 2014
Opéra national de Paris
In the wake of the first literary
westerns and as cinema began
to exploit the genre, Puccini gave
opera its first ever western: a tale
of souls stranded at the edge of the
world, a tale of laughter and of tears,
both exotic and overwhelming.
First performed at the Metropolitan
Opera of New York in 1910, this
genuine masterpiece finally enters
the repertoire of the Paris Opera.
In a saloon bar known as The Polka,
gold diggers brood over mothers
left behind in Italy, whilst Minnie
behind the bar reads to them from
the Bible. Love, will come to Minnie
in the guise of a criminal but seeing
beyond mere appearances, she will
recognise the true heart beneath
the rough exterior and realise
the possibility of happiness.
Conductor
Carlo Rizzi
Staging: Nikolaus Lehnhoff |
Sets: Raimund Bauer |
Costumes: Andrea Schmidt -Futterer |
Lighting: Duane Schuler |
Video: Jonas Gerberding |
Choreography: Denni Sayers |
Chorus master: Patrick Marie Aubert
Starring
Nina Stemme: Minnie | Claudio
Sgura: Jack Rance | Marco Berti:
Dick Johnson | Roman Sadnik:
Nick | Andrea Mastroni: Ashby |
Andre Heyboer: Sonora | Emanuele
Giannino: Trin | Roberto Accurso:
Sid | Igor Gnidii: Bello | Eric Huchet:
Harry | Rodolphe Briand: Joe |
Enrico Marabelli: Happy | Wenwei
Zhang: Larkens | Ugo Rabec: Billy
Jackrabbit | Anna Pennisi: Wowkle |
Alexandre Duhamel: Jake Wallace |
Matteo Peirone: José Castro | Paris
Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Production
A coproduction by Opéra national
de Paris, CLC, with the participation
of France Télévisions |
Directed by Andy Sommer |
Produced by Sabrina Azoulay |
Running time: 1x130’
©Photo: Clärchen & Matthias Baus
Opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini.
Libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo
Zangarini based on David Belasco’s
play The Girl of the Golden West.
I Puritani Opéra de Paris Production, FRA Productions 2013
Aida
Opéra national de Paris
Opéra national de Paris
©Photo: Elisa Haberer-OnP
Melodramma serio in three parts by Vincenzo Bellini.
Libretto by Carlo Pepoli.
At the beginning of 1835, Bellini's I Puritani, performed by
four of the most celebrated singers of the time, La Grisi,
Rubini, Tamburini and Lablache, enjoyed unprecedented
success with its story of hopeless love and revenge set in
17th century England and conveyed by some of the most
beautiful vocal writing ever. In Act II, Elvira appears, seized
by madness and singing a melody of such heartrending
purity that it might well have inspired Chopin in the writing
of a nocturne. The vogue for I Puritani swept all before it,
including Bellini himself, who died a few months later in a
villa in Puteaux, in the throes of melancholia.
Conductor
Michele Mariotti
Staging and costumes: Laurent Pelly | Sets: Chantal Thomas |
Lighting: Joel Adam | Chorus master: Patrick Marie Aubert
©Photo: C.LeiberOnP
Starring
Wojtek Smilek: Lord Gualtiero Valton | Michele Pertusi:
Sir Giorgio | Dmitry Korchak: Lord Arturo Talbot | Mariusz
Kwiecien: Sir Riccardo Forth | Luca Lombardo: Sir Bruno
Roberton | Andreea Soare: Enrichetta di Francia | Maria
Agresta: Elvira | Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Production
A coproduction by Opéra de Paris Production,
FRA Productions with the participation of France Télévisions
Directed and produced by François Roussillon
Running time: 1x145’
Opéra de Paris Production, Telmondis 2013
Opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi.
Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni after a
scenario by Auguste-Édouard Mariette.
Aida is one of the most celebrated
examples of the “Egyptomania” in the 19th
century in Europe. This opera, intended
as a celebration of universal concord and
harmony between nations, is in fact entirely
about conflict: the war between Egypt and
Ethiopia is nothing compared to that which
opposes the characters to each other. One
of Verdi's most beautiful masterpieces.
Conductor Philippe Jordan
Staging: Olivier Py | Sets and costumes:
Pierre-André Weitz | Light: Bertrand Killy |
Chorus master: Patrick Marie Aubert
Starring
Carlo Cigni: Il Re | Luciana D’Intino: Amneris |
Oksana Dyka: Aida | Marcelo Alvarez:
Radamès | Roberto Scandiuzzi: Ramfis |
Sergey Murzaev: Amonasro | Elodie Hache:
Sacerdotessa | Oleksiy Palchykov: Un
Messaggero | Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Production
A coproduction by Opéra de Paris Production,
Telmondis in association with Mezzo
Directed by Vincent Massip
Produced by Antoine Perset and Denis Morlière
Running time: 1x140’
12/13
> Opera
Opéra national de Paris
La Gioconda
Opera de Paris Prod., Wahoo Prod. 2013
Falstaff Opéra de Paris Prod., Cinétévé 2013
Opéra national de Paris
Opéra national de Paris
Drama in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli.
Libretto by Arrigo Boito after Angelo,
Tyran de Padoue by Victor Hugo.
Lying somewhere between great French
opera and Verdi-style drama, La Gioconda
portrayed broken hearts and shattered
destinies in 17th century Venice. Power and
love, sacrifice and betrayal, poison and
revenge: the opera brings together all the
elements of melodrama and infuses them with
a new lease of life, grandiose and operatic.
Production
A coproduction by Opéra de Paris Production,
Wahoo production, with the participation of
France Télévisions and the support of the CNC |
Directed by Dominique Thiel |
Produced by Odile Carlotti |
Running time: 1x170’
©Photo: Antoni Bofill
Conductor Daniel Oren
Staging, sets and costumes: Pier Luigi Pizzi |
Light: Sergio Rossi | Choreography: Gheorghe
Iancu | Chorus master: Patrick Marie Aubert
Starring
Violeta Urmana: La Gioconda | Luciana
D’Intino: Laura Adorno | Orlin Anastassov:
Alvise Badoero | María José Montiel: La
Cieca | Marcelo Alvarez: Enzo Grimaldo |
Sergey Murzaev: Barnaba | Paris Opera
Orchestra and Chorus, Maîtrise des Hautsde-Seine, Paris Opera Children’s Chorus
Hänsel und Gretel
Humperdinck became Richard
Wagner’s assistant in Bayreuth.
Wagner had two more years to live.
These two years of intense artistic
collaboration on Parsifal indelibly
marked the young composer’s life and
style. In 1883, the Master died, leaving
his disciple “incomplete”. He became
a wanderer, traveling throughout
Europe, eventually becoming a
renowned teacher. Ten years later,
in Weimar, Humperdinck completed
his masterpiece, Hansel and Gretel.
His sister wrote the libretto, inspired
by the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale.
The opera premiered at Christmas
under the enthusiastic baton of
Richard Strauss. Humperdinck
had retained a Wagnerian taste for
continuous melody and leitmotiv.
However, his fairy-tale opera
(Marchenoper) also drew on children’s
songs and the sort of popular
melodies whose origins tend to
become lost in the mists of time.
Starring
Jochen Schmeckenbecher: Pete |
Irmgard Vilsmaier: Gertrud |
Daniela Sindram: Hänsel |
Anne-Catherine Gillet: Gretel |
Anja Silja: Die Knusperhexe | Paris
Opera Orchestra and Chorus,
Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine,
Paris Opera Children’s Chorus
Production
A coproduction by Opéra de Paris
Production, Bel Air Media with the
participation of France Télévisions
and the support of the CNC
Directed by Andy Sommer
Produced by François Duplat
Running time: 1x80’
©Photo: Opéra national de Paris - Monika RITTERSHAUS
Conductor Claus Peter Flor
Staging: Mariame Clement |
Sets and costumes: Julia Hansen |
Light: Philippe Berthome
Conductor Daniel Oren
Staging: Dominique Pitoiset | Sets: Alexandre
Beliaev | Costumes: Elena Rivkina | Light: Philippe
Albaric | Chorus Master: Patrick Marie Aubert
Starring
Ambrogio Maestri: Sir John Falstaf | Arthur
Rucinski: Ford | Paolo Fanale: Fenton |
Raúl Giménez: Dottore Cajus | Bruno
Lazzaretti: Bardolfo | Mario Luperi: Pistola |
Svetla Vassileva: Mrs Alice Ford | Elena
Tsallagova: Nannetta | Marie-Nicole Lemieux:
Mrs Quickly | Gaëlle Arquez: Mrs Meg Page |
Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Production
A coproduction by Opéra de Paris Production,
Cinétévé with the participation of France
Télévisions and the support of the CNC | Directed
by Philippe Béziat | Produced by Fabienne
Servan-Schreiber | Running time: 1x120’
Opéra de Paris Production, Bel Air Media 2013
Opéra national de Paris
Fairy tale opera in three scenes
by Engelbert Humperdinck.
Libretto by Adelheid Wette after
the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale.
Commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi.
Libretto by Arrigo Boito after The Merry
Wives of Windsor and scenes from
Henri IV by William Shakespeare.
Verdi views the escapades of the old
penniless and pot-bellied knight, who wants to
deceive the wives and ends up routed, in a dirty
washing basket and tossed into the river Thames,
with the clear-sighted, distant and mischievous
gaze we recognise from his later photographs.
©Photo: M. Magliocca
14/15
> Opera
Royal Opera of Wallonia
La Fanciulla del West Oxymore 2013
Royal Opera of Wallonia
Opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini.
Libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini
after the play by David Belasco.
Minnie is the landlady of “the Polka”, a bar in the West
frequented by miners. The Sheriff has eyes only for this
woman who is devoted to these strapping fellows. But when
Dick Johnson turns up, she immediately falls in love with
him. But who is this man whom she does not recognise
straight away? Will the bandit be exposed sooner or later?
©Photo: ©Photo: Orw, Oxymore, Jacques Croisier
Musical direction
Gianluigi Gelmetti
Direction: Lorenzo Mariani | Set: Maurizio Balò |
Costumes: Gabriel Berry | Light: Christian Pinaud |
Chorus Master: Marcel Seminara
Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci
Cavalleria Rusticana is the first verismo
opera (from the Italian verismo, vero: real).
This operatic movement which arose at the
end of the 19th century was based on the
principle that the writer must be inspired by
truth, with a realistic setting, and a short,
often violent depiction of everyday day.
Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci are operas
in one and two acts, with simple musical
resources. The music forgoes embellished
vocals favouring tense voice lines instead.
The action is set in Argentina, as a tribute
to the Italian immigration of the 1900’s.
Paolo Arrivabeni leads a cast in great
form, dominated by a José Cura who again
demonstrates his dual talent as a singer
and director and the magnificent mezzo
soprano Marie Kalinine, with her masterful
strength and dramatic intelligence.
Musical Direction
Paolo Arrivabeni
Stage and set: José Cura |
Light: Olivier Wery |
Costumes: Fernand Ruiz
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Starring
Cavalleria Rusticana
José Cura: Turriddu |
Marie Kalinine: Santuzza |
Alexise Yerna: Lola |
Elia Fabbian: Alfio |
Mady Urbain: Mamma Lucia
Pagliacci
Sofia Soloviy: Nedda/Colombina |
José Cura: Canio/Pagliaccio |
Philippe Rouillon: Leoncavallo |
Marco Danieli: Tonio/Taddeo |
Enrico Casari: Beppe /Arlecchino
Production
A coproduction by Oxymore, The Royal
Opera House of Wallonia, Jim & Jules,
Arte GEIE, Web Style Production |
Directed by Frederic Caillierez |
produced by Jean-Romain Sales |
Running times: 1x74’, 1x77’
©Photo: ORW 2013, Jacques Croisier
Pagliacci
Opera in two acts by Ruggero Leoncavallo.
Libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo.
Production
A coproduction by Oxymore, Opéra Royal de Wallonie
Directed by: Frédéric Caillierez | Produced by
Jean-Romain Sales | Running time: 1x180’
Oxymore 2013
Royal Opera of Wallonia
Cavalleria Rusticana
Opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni.
Libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti
and Guido Menasci, adapted from a
play written by Giovanni Verga.
Starring
Minnie: Deborah Voigt | Dick Johnson (Ramerrez):
Carl Tanner | Jack Rance: Carlos Almaguer |
Wowkle: Alexise Yerna | Ashby: Luciano Montanaro |
José Castro: Jacques Calatayud | Billy Jackrabbit:
Chris De Moor | Sonora: Roger Joakim | Sid: Pietro Palazy |
Bello: Patrick Delcour | Orchestra and chorus of
the Opéra Royal de Wallonie
16/17
> Opera
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie
Hamlet
Oxymore 2013
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie
Opera in five acts by Ambroise Thomas.
Libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier
based on William Shakespeare's play Hamlet.
©Photo: Werner Kmetitsch_Theater an der Wien
The famous story of Hamlet and Ophelia is
played out between the opposite poles of
real and feigned madness, love and avenge.
After the murder of his father, Hamlet
opposes the marriage of his mother and
his uncle, at the expense of his beloved
and himself. When Ambroise Thomas chose
Shakespeare’s Hamlet as the subject of
his new opera, France had been under the
spell of the English bard for many years,
and Ophelia had inspired romantic artists.
The librettists Carré and Barbier distilled a
straightforward story from Shakespeare’s
abundant characters and situations,
which, although it was clearly far removed
from the original, inspired Thomas to
write a coherent score that demonstrated
his mastery of musical atmosphere.
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Wahoo Production 2014
©Photo: Forster - La Monnaie
Musical direction
Ludovic Morlot
Director & set design: Alvis Hermanis |
Costumes: Anna Watkins |
Light: Gleb Filshtinsky |
Dramaturgy: Christian Longchamp |
Choreography: Alla Sigalova |
Video: Ineta Sipunova |
Chorus direction: Martino Faggiani
Starring
Claudius: Vincent Le Texier |
La Reine Gertrude: Jennifer Larmore |
Hamlet: Stéphane Degout |
Polonius: Till Fechner |
Ophélie: Lenneke Ruiten |
Laërte: Rémy Mathieu |
Horatio/Premier Fossoyeur: Henk Neven |
Marcellus/Deuxième Fossoyeur:
Gijs Van der Linden |
Le Spectre du feu Roi: Jérôme Varnier |
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Production
A coproduction by Oxymore,
La Monnaie/ De Munt, Mezzo |
Directed by Stéphane Vérité |
Produced by Jean-Romain Sales |
Running time: 1x166'
Wahoo Production 2013
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie
Opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček.
The story of Jenufa and her stepmother, the
verger’s wife, is set within the confines of
a closed community. Rivalry, jealousy and
social control degenerate into the murder
of an illegitimate but innocent child.
Manon Lescaut Starring
Jenufa: Sally Matthews |
Laca Klemeň: Charles Workman |
Števa Buryja: Nicky Spence |
Kostelnička Buryjovka: JeanneMichèle Charbonnet |
Stařenka Buryjovka: Carole
Wilson | Stárek: Ivan Ludlow |
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Production
A coproduction by Wahoo production,
La Monnaie/ De Munt, Mezzo | Directed
by Myriam Hoyer | Produced by Odile
Carlotti | Running time: 1x120’
Lyric drama in fourtxt
acts by Giacomo Puccini.
Libretto by D. Oliva and L. Illica.
Puccini paints a black and realistic picture
of a doomed passion. Although initially
the young Manon allows herself to be
captivated by the wealth of a powerful
man, she cannot fight against her love
for the penniless knight Des Grieux.
Music direction
Carlo Rizzi
Director: Mariusz Trelinski | Set design: Boris
Kudlicka | Costumes: Magdalena Musial |
Light: Felice Ross | Choreography: Tomasz
Wygoda | Chorus direction: Martino Faggiani
Starring
Manon Lescaut: Eva Maria Westbroek |
©Photo: Wahoo production
Jenufa After their unanimously acclaimed
Les Huguenots in 2011, Marc Minkowski
and Olivier Py are continuing their highly
personal exploration of the 19th century
French Grand Opéra repertoire.
Musical direction
Marc Minkowski
Director: Olivier Py |
Rehearsals of the staging: Andreas Zimmermann |
Set design & costumes: Pierre-André Weitz |
Light: Bertrand Killy |
Chorus direction: Martino Faggiani
Lescaut: Aris Argiris | Il Cavaliere Renato
des Grieux: Brandon Jovanovich |
Madrigal Soloists Singers of the Queen
Elisabeth Music Chapel Symphony
Orchestra and Chorus of La Monnaie
Production
A coproduction by Wahoo production,
La Monnaie/ De Munt, Mezzo, Teatr Wielki
Opera Narodowa (Warszawa), Welsh National
Opera with the support of Allianz, Polish
Institute - Cultural Service of the Embassy
of the Republic of Poland in Brussels |
Directed by Roberto Maria Grassi |
Produced by Odile Carlotti |
Running time: 1x120’
18/19
> Opera
Aix-en-Provence / Arena di Verona / Opera de Lyon
Elena
Bel Air Media 2013
Dramma per musica in a prologue and
three acts by Francesco Cavalli.
Libretto by Giovanni Faustini
and Niccolo Minato.
World Premiere – 1st reconstruction
since the 17th century.
Before being from Troy, Helen was from Sparta
where she was already reputed to be the most
beautiful woman on earth. It is only a matter
of who will manage to abduct her first, be it at
the price of a mad chase over land and sea.
Elena has not been performed since its creation
so that the Festival’s performance is the very
first production since the 17th century.
Opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi.
Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni after a
scenario by Auguste-Édouard Mariette.
New production designed
by “Fura dels Baus”.
Ethiopian princess Aida is kept as a slave
at the the Egyptian court. She has fallen
in love with Radames, a young Egyptian
warrior who returns her feelings. Amneris,
the daughter of Egypt pharaoh also loves
Radames who is uneasy when she realize
the feelings between Radames and Aida…
Aida is the most popular opera of Verona
Festival, the only one performed every year.
Conductor Leonardo García Alarcón
Staging: Jean-Yves Ruf
©Photo: © Pascal Victor_ArtcomArt
Starring
Emőke Baráth: Elena |
Valer Barna-Sabadus: Menelao |
Fernando Guimarães: Teseo |
Cappella Mediterranea
Production
A coproduction by Bel Air Media,
Festival d’Aix-en-Provence |
Directed by Corentin Leconte |
Produced by François Duplat |
Running time: 1x180’
Musical direction Jérémie Rhorer
Staging: Olivier Py | Sets
and costumes: Pierre-André
Weitz | Lighting: Bertrand Killy |
Choreography: Daniel Izzo | Chorus
Master: Alan Woodbridge
Starring
Jean-Sébastien Bou: Claude |
Jean-Philippe Lafont: Director |
Rodrigo Ferreira: Albin |
Laurent Alvaro: Entrepreneur
/ General supervisor |
Rémy Mathieu: First character
/ First supervisor |
tPhilip Sheffield: Second
character / Second supervisor |
Loleh Pottier: Little girl |
Anaël Chevallier: Voice in echo |
Yannick Berne: First prisoner |
Paolo Stupenengo: Second prisoner |
Jean Vendassi: Third prisoner |
David Sanchez Serra: Lawyer |
Didier Roussel: Advocate General |
Brian Bruce: President |
Laura Ruiz Tamayo: Dancer |
Orchestra, Chorus et Maîtrise
of the Opéra de Lyon
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis,
Arte France, Arte Live web, in
association with France Télévisions
Directed by Vincent Massip |
Produced by Antoine Perset
and Denis Morlière |
Running time: 1x90’
©Photo: Stofleth
Claude, a worker at la Croix-Rousse,
leads a hard-working and contented
life with his wife and daughter. He
rejects the misery inflicted by his
boss when he is laid off with his
fellow workers to be replaced by
machines. The issue at the time was
not relocation but depersonalisation.
Claude, with other canuts (silk
workers) took to his gun and set up
barricades. Sentenced to 7 years’
hard labour, he was imprisoned at the
prison-workshop of Clairvaux. A study
of injustice and violence: Claude kills
the prison governor and is guillotined.
Conductor Omer Meir Wellber
Staging: La Fura dels Baus
Starring
Giovanna Casolla: Amneris | Hui He: Aida
Fabio Sartori: Radamès | Adrian
Sampetrean: Ramfis | Ambrogio Maestri:
Amonasro | Orchestra of Arena di Verona
Production
A coproduction by Bel Air Media,
ZDF, Arena Di Verona |
Directed by Andy Sommer |
Produced by François Duplat |
Running time: 1x160’
Telmondis 2013
Opera de Lyon
Opera by Thierry Escaich .
Libretto by Robert Badinter
based on the novel by Victor
Hugo “Claude Gueux”.
World premiere by the Opera
de Lyon in association with the
Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg.
Bel Air Media 2013
Arena di Verona
Festival International d'Art Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence
Claude
Aida
©Photo: Ennevi Fondazione
20/21
> Opera > Special events
Le Concert de Paris
Electron Libre Productions 2013
Eiffel Tower, Paris
Le Concert de Paris is an exceptional event held each year on
Bastille Day at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, as a prelude to the
traditional July 14th fireworks display. Two of Radio France’s
most prestigious musical institut ions, the Orchestre National
de France and the Radio France Chorus, under the baguette of
Italian maestro Daniele Gatti, proposed a top-quality programme
around the theme of love in Paris, from Berlioz to Bizet, not
forgetting Puccini, Ravel and Verdi.
For this first edition a major logistical and technical platform
along with giant screens allows approximately 400,000 people
to follow the concert from the Champ-de-Mars.
Conductor Daniele Gatti
Light: Swann Mytnik | Chorus: Master Siro Visco
Shalyapin Gala – Kazan Opera Telmondis 2014
Telmondis 2013
Mariinsky Theatre
Tatar State Academic Opera and Ballet – Theatre named after Musa Jalil
Conductors Valery Gergiev & Renat Salavatov
Principle Chorus Master: Liubov Draznina
Starring
Ildar Abdrazakov | Akhmed Agadi |
Aida Garifullina | Gevorg Hakobyan |
Mikhail Kazakov | Alexei Markov | Albina
Shagimuratova | The Mariinsky Orchestra |
The Chorus of the Tatar State Academic Opera
and Ballet Theatre named after Musa Jalil
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis |
Directed by Vincent Massip |
Produced by Antoine Perset and Denis Morlière |
Running time: 1x120’
©Photo: Tartar State Academic Opera
This Gala concert in the Kazan Opera (Republic
of Tatarstan) was held on the occasion of
the Olympic Universiade in Kazan, Capital
of Tatarstan, as part of a Tribute of the great
bass singer Feodor Shalyapin who birthed in
Kazan. The most famous tatar in the world is
the outstanding dancer Rudolf Nureyev and
the International Festival of Classic Ballet
named in his honour is held in Kazan in May.
This Shalyapin Gala filmed in July 2013
gathered the most famous singers
(speacially bass singers) of the Tatarstan
together with the Orchestra of the Mariinsky
Theatre from Saint Petersburg conducted
by Valery Gergiev and Renat Salavatov in
a Russian, French and Italian repertoire.
Mariinsky II Opening Gala
Musical Direction Valery Gergiev
Staging: Vasily Barkhatov |
Production design: Zinovy Margolin
Starring
Opera: Anna Netrebko (Soprano) |
Olga Borodina (Mezzo-soprano) |
Sergei Semishkur (Tenor) |
Placido Domingo (Baritone) |
Alexei Markov (Baritone) |
Yevgeny Nikitin (Bass-baritone) |
Ildar Abdrazakov (Bass) | René Pape (Bass) |
Mikhail Petrenko (Bass) |
Academy of Young Singers
Children chorus and chorus of
the Mariinsky Theatre
©Photo: Valentin Baranovsky / N. Razina
Production
A coproduction by Electron Libre Productions in association
with Radio France, Lagardère Entertainment, France Télévisions,
Mairie de Paris, PGO, EDF, Osram and the support of the CNC |
Directed by François Goetghebeur |
Producer Yannis Chebbi and Michaël Kazan |
Running time: 1x90’
©Photo: Electron Libre Productions
Starring
Karine Deshayes | Vittorio Grigolo | Sonya Yoncheva | Renaud
Capuçon | Joseph Calleja | Ludovic Tézier | Vittorio Grigolo |
Lang Lang | Philippe Jaroussky | Roberto Alagna | Radio France
Chorus | French National Orchestra
Ballet: Diana Vishneva (Principal dancer) |
Yekaterina Kondaurova (Principal dancer) |
Ulyana Lopatkina (Principal dancer) |
Vladimir Shklyarov (Principal dancer) |
Soloists and corps de ballet of the Mariinsky
Theatre | Vaganova Ballet Academy
Soloists: Denis Matsuev (Piano) |
Leonidas Kavakos (Violin) |
Yuri Bashmet (Viola) |
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis, Channel One
Russia, Arte France, France Televisions, Mezzo |
Directed by Don Kent |
Producers: Antoine Perset and Denis Morlière |
Running time: 1x120', 1x60'
22/23
> Opera > Work in progress
artistic information
Opera in two acts by Sergei Prokofiev
Libretto by Sergei Prokofiev and
Mira Mendelson-Prokofieva after
the novel of Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Telmondis 2014
Starring
Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra
of the Mariinsky Theatre
artistic information
Grand opera in five acts by Hector Berlioz
Libretto by the composer after
motifs from Virgil’s Aeneid
A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
Mariinsky Theatre
Telmondis 2014
La Traviata
Opéra national de Paris
Opéra national de Paris,
Ideale audience 2014
Le Comte Ory
Opera de Lyon
Telmondis 2014
©Photo: V.Baranovsky
©Photo: V.Baranovsky
Telmondis 2014
©Photo: Patrick Tourneboeuf - OnP
Mariinsky Theatre
Musical direction Valery Gergiev
©Photo: Opera de Lyon
Les Troyens
Running time 1x205’ approximately
Musical direction Valery Gergiev
©Photo: N. Razina
Mariinsky Theatre
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis,
Mariinsky Theatre
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis,
Mariinsky Theatre
Running time 1x280’ approximately
Starring
Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra
of the Mariinsky Theatre
artistic information
Opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten
Libretto by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis,
Mariinsky Theatre
Musical direction Valery Gergiev
Running time 1x135’ approximately
Starring
Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra
of the Mariinsky Theatre
artistic information
Opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
based on Alexandre Dumas Fils’s
play La Dame aux Camélias
Francesco Demuro: Alfredo Germont | Ludovic
Tezier: Giorgio Germont | Kevin Amiel: Gastone |
Fabio Previati: Il Barone Douphol | Igor Gnidii:
Il Marchese d’Obigny | Nicolas Teste: Dottore
Grenvil | Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Conductor Daniel Oren
Staging Benoit Jacquot
Production
A coproduction by Opéra national
de Paris, Ideale audience with the
participation of France Télévisions
Starring
Diana Damrau: Violetta Valéry | Anna Pennisi:
Flora Bervoix | Cornelia Oncioiu: Annina |
Running time 1x130’
artistic information
Opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini
Libretto by Eugène Scribe and
Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson
Doris Lamprecht: Ragonde |
Jean-Sébastien Bou: Raimbaud |
Patrick Bolleire: Governor |
Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera de Lyon
Musical direction Stefano Montanari
Staging, sets and costumes Laurent Pelly
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis, Opera
de Lyon, Teatro alla Scala
Starring
Dmitry Korchak: Le comte Ory |
Désirée Rancatore: La Comtesse Adèle |
Antoinette Dennefeld: Isolier |
Running time 1x180’
24/25
> Dance
Mariinsky Theatre
The Little Humpbacked Horse Konyok-Gorbunok
Telmondis 2013
Mariinsky Theatre
Ballet in two acts by Alexei Ratmansky. Music by Rodion Shchedrin.
Libretto by Maxim Isaev after the tale of Pyotr Yershov.
The traditional Russian fairytale The Little Humpbacked
Horse tells the story of an ordinary boy Ivan, who receives
a humpbacked horse as a reward for solving a mystery. The
ugly creature appears to have special powers and helps
Ivan to endure impossible trials set by the greedy Czar.
Musical direction
Valery Gergiev
Sets and costumes: Maxim Isaev | Light: Damir Ismagilov
Cinderella Telmondis 2013
Mariinsky Theatre
Mariinsky Theatre
Music by Sergei Prokofiev.
Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky
Libretto by Nikolai Volkov after motifs
from the fairytale by Charles Perrault.
Music by Sergei Prokofiev.
Choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky.
Guided by the dramatic force and
lyric power of Prokofiev's score,
Lavrovsky's choreography draws a
grandly moving portrait of the starcrossed lovers and the Renaissance
society which frames their tragedy.
Musical Direction Valery Gergiev
Sets and costumes: Pyotr Williams
A wisful young woman, her cruel stepmother
and stepsisters, a fairy godmother and
her handsome prince: the classic story of
Cinderella is a treat for all ages, now brought
to life in the grand tradition of Russian ballet.
Musical Direction Valery Gergiev
Sets: Ilya Utkin and Yeveny Monakhov |
Costumes: Elena Markovskaya |
Light: Gleb Filshtinsky
Starring
Diana Vishneva: Juliet |
Vladimir Shklyarov: Romeo |
Alexander Sergeyev: Mercutio |
Islom Baimuradow: Benvolio |
Ilya Kuznetsov: Tybalt |
The Orchestra and Ballet
from the Mariinsky Theatre
©Photo: Mark Olich
Starring
Diana Vishneva: Cinderella | Vladimir
Shklyarov: The Prince | Yekaterina
Kondaurova: Stepmother | Margarita
Frolova: Khudishka | Yekaterina
Ivannikova: Kubishka | The Orchestra
and Ballet from the Mariinsky Theatre
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis, Mariinsky
Theatre, Mezzo, in association with France
Télévisions | Directed by Vincent Massip and
Antoine Perset | Produced by Antoine Perset
and Denis Morlière | Running time: 1x110’
Romeo and Juliet Production
A coproduction by Telmondis,
Mariinsky Theatre, Mezzo,
in association with France Télévisions |
Directed by Olivier Simonnet |
Produced by Antoine Perset
and Denis Morlière |
Running time: 1x150’
©Photo: Gene Schiavone
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis, Mariinsky Theatre,
in association with Mezzo and France Télévisions |
Directed by Vincent Massip |
Produced by Antoine Perset and Denis Morlière |
Running time: 1x100’
©Photo: N. Razina
Starring
Alina Somova: The Tsar Maiden |
Vladimir Shklyarov: Ivan the Fool |
Vladislav Shumakov: The Little Humpbacked Horse |
Anastasia Petushkova: The Young Mare Princess of the Sea |
Andrey Ivanov: Tsar |
Islom Baimuradov: The Gentleman in the bed chamber |
Konstantin Zverev: Danilo |
Ivan Sitnikov: Gavrilo |
Yuri Smekalov: Horses |
Kamil Yangurazov: Sea Horses |
The Orchestra and Ballet from the Mariinsky Theatre
Telmondis 2013
26/27
> Dance
Opéra national de Paris
The Sleeping Beauty
Opéra de Paris Production, FRA Productions 2013
Opéra national de Paris
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Choreography and staging by
Rudolf Nureyev after Marius Petipa
(Opéra national de Paris, 1989).
The “Ballet of ballets” as Rudolf
Nureyev described it, Sleeping
Beauty remains one of the jewels in
the heritage of dance. First performed
in 1890 at the Mariinsky Theatre in
Saint-Petersburg, the work combined
the talents of choreographer Marius
Petipa and composer Tchaikovsky.
©Photo: E. Bauer
Inspired by Charles Perrault's tale,
they imagined a “fairy-tale ballet”
in which dream and reality overlap
and where fairies and godmothers,
and the forces of Good and Evil
fight over the fate of two young
people. It was not until 1989 that
Rudolf Nureyev restaged the work
based on the original choreography
for the Paris Opera Ballet.
Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony Readopting the original order and
structure of the piece, passed
on by generations of dancers, he
devised a choreography of dazzling
academic virtuosity, alternating
between lavish ensembles and pas
de deux. The sumptuous sets and
costumes by Ezio Frigerio and Franca
Squarciapino recreate the splendor
of one of the most outstandingly
accomplished masterpieces
in the classical repertoire.
Conductor
Fayçal Karoui
Sets: Ezio Frigerio |
Costumes: Franca Squarciapino |
Light: Vinicio Cheli
Starring
The Étoiles, Premiers Danseurs and
Corps de Ballet Paris Opera orchestra
Production
A coproduction by Opéra de Paris
Production, FRA Productions with the
participation of France Télévisions |
Directed by François Roussillon |
Produced by François Roussillon |
Running time: 1x150’
Opéra de Paris Production, CLC 2013
Opéra national de Paris
©Photo: Christian Leiber
Music
by Gustav Mahler.
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Choreography, sets and
lighting by John Neumeier.
The entire edifice of John Neumeier’s
work is built around a profound
musical sensibility. However, the
choreographer, in his constant
questioning of the human condition,
probably finds the closest reflection
of his own humanist concerns in the
works of Gustav Mahler, several of
whose symphonies he has set to
dance. On the wings of the emotions
inspired by the monumental Third
Symphony, written as “a great hymn
to the glory of all creation”, he
enters the composer’s tormented
and contrasting universe to sculpt
images of a powerful and profound
lyricism. The piece is an osmosis
between music and dance, shot
through with a palette of emotions,
from existential angst to mystical
faith. Chorus and soloists accompany
the dancers’ elegant movements,
curved lines and vertiginous lifts,
reminding us yet again of the
richness of inspiration that powers
Neumeier’s choreography.
Conductor Simon Hewett
Chorus master:Alessandro Di Stefano
Starring
Etoiles Karl Paquette | Isabelle
Ciaravola | Eleonora Abbagnato |
Mathias Heymann | Stéphane Bullion |
Premiers Danseurs and Corps de
Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris |
Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus |
Aline Martin (Mezzo-soprano) |
Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine,
Paris Opera Children’s Chorus
Production
A coproduction by Opéra de
Paris Production, CLC, with the
participation of France Télévisions
and the support of the CNC |
Directed by Thomas Grimm |
Produced by Sabrina Azoulay |
Running time: 1x115’
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> Dance
Opéra national de Paris / Bolshoi theatre
Tricentenary Anniversary of the French Dance School Opera de Paris Prod., FRA Prod. 2013
Opéra national de Paris
Conductor
Marius Stieghorst
Paris Conservatoire
Graduates’ Orchestra
D’ores et déjà (creation)
Music by Jean-Philippe Rameau | Choreography by Béatrice Massin
and Nicolas Paul | Costumes by
Olivier Bériot | Light by Madjid Hakimi
| with Gil Isoart and the Pupils of
the Paris Opera Ballet School
©Photo: FrancetteLevieux - OnP
Walpurgis Night
Extract from act V of Faust opera | Music by Charles Gounod | Choreography by Claude Bessy
after Léo Staats | Light by Madjid
Hakimi | with the Pupils of the
Paris Opera Ballet School
La Bayadère
Nikiya, a temple dancer, has
secretly sworn her eternal love
to Solor, a noble warrior. When
she rejects the attentions of the
High Brahmin, he is furious and
determines to have Solor killed…
Conductor Pavel Sorokin
New scenic version: Yuri Grigorovich
Starring
Svetlana Zakharova: Nikia | Alexey Loparevich: Dugmanta, Rajah | Maria Alexandrova:
Gamzatti, his daughter | Vladislav Lantratov: Solor,
the noble warrior | Andrey Sitnikov: The High Brahmin | Denis Medvedev: The Bronze Idol | Corps de ballet of the State
Academic Bolshoi Theatre | Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra
Production
A coproduction by Bel Air Media,
Kultura, Medici TV, France
Télévisions, Bolshoi Theatre | Directed by Vincent Bataillon | Produced by François Duplat | Running time: 1x120’
©Photo: Damir Yusupov
Marius Petipa’s decisive work La
Bayadère was first performed at the
Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in
St-Petersburg in 1877 in a grandiose
production portraying a mysterious
India and the impossible love
between the sacred dancer Nikiya
and the warrior Solor. A scene from
the ballet, known as The Kingdom
of the Shades, is one of the most
celebrated excerpts in all of classical
ballet, and is considered to be one
of the first examples of abstract
ballet. Living ballet legend, Yuri
Grigorovich, created this version
for the Bolshoi Theatre in 1991.
Aunis
Music by Maurice Pacher | Choreography by Jacques Garnier
(1979) directed by Wilfried
Romoli | Dancers of Corps de
Ballet de l’Opéra national de
Paris | Simon Valastro, Axel Ibot,
Mickaël Lafon | Diatonic accordion
Christian Pacher | Chromatic
accordion Gérard Baraton
Production
A coproduction by Opéra de Paris
Production, François Roussillon
& Associés, Arte France, with
the support of the CNC | Directed and produced
by François Roussillon | Running time: 1x100’
Bel Air Media 2013
Bolshoi Theatre
Ballet in three acts
by Ludwig Minkus.
Choreography by Marius Petipa.
Libretto by Marius Petipa
and Sergei Khudekov.
Célébration (creation)
Music by Daniel François Esprit
Auber | Musical arrangements by
Michel Quéval | Choreography
by Pierre Lacotte | Costumes by
Agnès Letestu | Lighting by Madjid
Hakimi | Etoiles: Ludmila Pagliero,
Mathieu Ganio and Corps de Ballet
de l’Opéra national de Paris
Péchés de Jeunesse
Music by Gioacchino Rossini | Choreography by Jean-Guillaume Bart
| Costumes by Philippe Binot | Light by
François-Eric Valentin | with the Pupils
of the Paris Opera Ballet School
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> Dance
Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo / Théâtre National de Chaillot
LAC (adapted from Swan Lake) Telmondis 2013
Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
©Photo: Angela Sterking
Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Choreography by
Jean-Christophe Maillot.
World creation by Les Ballets de
Monte-Carlo – Jean-Christophe Maillot
Paul Taylor Dance Company in Paris
Théâtre National de Chaillot
Choreography by Paul Taylor.
Brandeburgs
Ballet in one act
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach
“Beauty is the only word for Brandenburgs… [which]
celebrates the good things in life. Such a radiant,
seamless flow of invention that the choreography seems
an entirely natural way of moving to this music.”
Mary Clarke, Manchester [UK] Guardian
Production
A coproduction by Bel Air Media, Thirteen in association
with WNET, Paul Taylor Dance Foundation | Directed by Andy Sommer | Produced by François Duplat | Running time: 1x54’
©Photo: Laurent Philippe
Beloved Renegade
Ballet in one act
Music by Francis Poulenc
Set to Francis Poulenc’s choral Gloria, the dance was inspired
by the life and work of 19th Century American writer Walt
Whitman, who revered the body and soul as one and who
famously loved all with equal ardor. It depicts the experiences
of an artist described in a line from Whitman’s Leaves of Grass:
“I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the soul.”
Jean-Christophe Maillot presents
us with his personal vision of
Swan Lake. For this project which
has been dear to his heart for ten
years, the choreographer wanted to
work with the writer Jean Rouaud,
1990 Prix Goncourt winner, to bring
a new drama to this pillar of the
classic repertoire. Together they
have adapted the timeless story of
Siegfried and Odette so that this
narrative resonates with our own
questioning. The visual artist Ernest
Pignon-Ernest, a long-time associate
of Jean-Christophe Maillot will design
the scenery for this Lac and Philippe
Guillotel will be responsible for
creating the costumes. Tchaikovsky’s
score will be performed by the
Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Nicolas Brochot.
Once more, Jean-Christophe Maillot
presents a group of high-level
artists. The combination of these
talented artists and performers
together with Jean-Christophe
Maillot’s skill and sensitivity
promises an exciting reinterpretation
of this major work and a great
ballet at the end of the year.
Scenography Ernest Pignon-Ernest
Costumes: Philippe Guillotel | Dramaturgy: Jean Rouaud | Additional Music: Bertrand Maillot | Light: Jean-Christophe Maillot
and Samuel Thery | Musical direction: Leonard Slatkin
– Swan Lake Ballet Op. 20
Starring
Bernice Coppieters | Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo | Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis, Les
Ballets de Monte-Carlo in association
with France Télévisions, Mezzo | Directed by Jean Christophe
Maillot and Denis Caiozzi | Produced by Antoine Perset
and Denis Morlière | Running time: 1x92’
Bel Air Media 2012
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> Dance
Malandain Ballet Biarritz
Romeo and Juliet
Les Films Figures Libres 2013
Music by Hector Berlioz.
Choreography by Thierry Malandain.
In the film Romeo and Juliet everything is
tensioned and necessary in this choir room,
where images succeed, fluid and strong, as
arisen from the musical flow. And, here the
choreography of Thierry Malandain is created
with arabesques, pirouettes, jumps, constantly
broken and redistributed in an urgent motion.
Les Films Figures Libres 2013
Malandain Ballet Biarritz
©Photo: Olivier Houeix
Malandain Ballet Biarritz
Cinderella Starring
Malandain Ballet Biarritz
Production
A coproduction by Les Films Figures Libres | Directed by Sonia Paramo | Produced by Sonia Paramo | Filmed at the Victoria Eugenia Theater, Spain |
Running time: 1x80’
©Photo: Olivier Houeix
Music by Sergei Prokofiev.
Choreography by Thierry Malandain.
Visionary choreographer Thierry Malandain
takes this monument of Ballet, on the
partition by Sergei Prokofiev, to give us
his very personal vision. Malandain stays
true to the drama Cinderella and explores
some of the themes he particularly likes:
the search for an ideal, the truth revealed,
the duality that sleeps in each of us…
Starring
Malandain Ballet Biarritz
Production
A coproduction by Les Films Figures Libres | Directed by Sonia Paramo | Produced by Sonia Paramo | Filmed at the Royal Opera of Versailles |
Running time: 1x100’
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> Dance > Work in progress
artistic information
Ballet in two acts by Alexei Ratmansky
Music by Rodion Shchedrin
After the novel of Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Telmondis 2014
©Photo: N.Razina
Mariinsky Theatre
Musical direction Valery Gergiev
The Golden Horde
Tatar Opera and
Ballet Theatre, Kazan
Telmondis 2014
Robbins
Alexei Ratmansky
©Photo: N.Razina
Telmondis 2014
Musical direction Valery Gergiev
©Photo: Tatar Opera and Ballet
Mariinsky Theatre
Opéra national de Paris,
La Belle Télé 2014
Balanchine
Benjamin Millepied
©Photo: C. Pel - ONP
Opéra national de Paris
Opéra national de Paris
Opéra national de Paris,
Telmondis 2014
©Photo: C. Leiber - ONP
George
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis,
Mariinsky Theatre
Running time 1x125’ approximately
Starring
Principal dancers, soloists and corps
de ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre
artistic information
Ballet in two acts by Georgy Kovtun
Music by Rezeda Akhiyarova
Libretto by the poet Renat Kharis
World premiere at the Tatar State Opera and
Ballet Theatre on 22 and 23 September 2013
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis,
the Tatar Opera and Ballet Theatre
Running time 1x125’ approximately
Starring
Principal dancers, soloists and corps
de ballet of the Tatar Theatre
artistic information
Dances at a Gathering
Choreography by Jerome Robbins
Music by Frédéric Chopin
Jerome
Running time 1x80’
Starring
Principal dancers, soloists and corps
de ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre
artistic information
Ballet in three acts by Yuri Grigorovich
Music by Arif Melikov
Libretto by Nazim Khikmet
The Legend
of Love
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis,
Mariinsky Theatre
Psyché
Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky
(Opéra national de Paris, 2011)
Music by César Franck (Symphonic
poem for orchestra and chorus)
Starring: Étoiles, Premiers Danseurs and
Corps de Ballet, Paris Opera Orchestra
Production
A coproduction by Opéra national
de Paris, La Belle télé with the
participation of France Télévisions
Running time 1x120’
Conducted by Felix Krieger
Starring: Étoiles, Premiers Danseurs and Corps
artistic information
Le Palais de Cristal
de Ballet, Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Choreography by George Balanchine
Music by Georges Bizet (Symphony in C major) Production
A coproduction by Opéra national
Daphnis et Chloé (Creation)
de Paris, Telmondis with the
Choreography by Benjamin Millepied
participation of France Télévisions
Music by Maurice Ravel (complete version)
Running time 1x100’
Conducted by Philippe Jordan
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> Documentary
Calle Carmen 2013
Documentary / Malandain Ballet Biarritz
Production
A coproduction by Calle Carmen,
Little Tribeca, Mezzo, with the
participation of Cinaps TV |
Directed by Geoffroy Duval | Produced by Nicolas Bartholomée,
Simon Marre | Running time: 1x52’
Ere Production 2013
Documentary / Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
Here, Jean-Christophe Maillot presents us
with his personal vision of Swan Lake. For
this project which has been dear to his heart
for ten years, the choreographer wanted to
work with the writer Jean Rouaud, 1990 Prix
Goncourt winner, to bring a new drama
to this pillar of the classic repertoire.
The combination of the talented artists and
performers together with Jean-Christophe
Maillot’s skill and sensitivity promises an
exciting reinterpretation of this major work
and a great ballet at the end of the year.
©Photo: Ere Production
Production
A coproduction by Ere Production,
France Télévisions, Mezzo
Directed by Alain Guillon
Produced by Christian Monzinger
Running time: 1x52’
Thierry Malandain, choreographer, is working
hard on his latest challenge: the creation
of the ballet Cinderella with an orchestra
of 90 musicians who accompany him on
this project. For this, the Ballet requires
the cooperation of the Euskadi Symphony
Orchestra. So, two neighboring countries,
two cultures and artistic disciplines come
together in a common project of dance
and music. The documentary follows
the preparation of this new challenge,
since the beginning and until the final
scene. The film ends with the Premiere
at the Royal Opera of Versailles.
Production
A coproduction by Les Films Figures Libres,
SINCRO, EITV, Malandain Ballet Biarritz,
with the participation of France Télévisions
and the Euskadi Symphony Orchestra | Directed by Sonia Paramo | Produced by Sonia Paramo | Running time: 1x52’
©Photo: Olivier Houeix
©Photo: Calle Carmen 2013
This documentary is an immersion
in Perm Opera’s life, a Siberian city
in full Cultural Revolution, where an
ensemble has moved since a few years,
MusicAeterna and its conductor,
Teodor Currentzis, united by devouring
passion for classical musical and the
desire to revolutionize musical genre.
We filmed the everyday life of these
musicians during the recording by Sony
Classical of the masterpiece of Mozart
and his librettist da Ponte, Cosi fan
Tutte, a moment of work and intense
sharing far from conventions, fed by
exchange, humanity and passion
LAC by Jean-Christophe Maillot Cinderella on the way to Versailles Les Films Figures Libres 2012/13
Wagner, a genius in exile Bel Air Media 2013
Documentary
Wagner’s operas will be treated like
characters in their own right. Indeed,Richard
Wagner had always sought a deep
source of musical inspiration through
his confrontations with nature, never
hesitating to face the most violent of
storms nor take the maddest of risks. To
enter into this more “romantic” dimension,
Antoine Wagner will call on the Swiss
orchestra conductor, Philippe Jordan, to
reveal which musical passages are directly
inspired by these places and ambiances.
Production
A coproduction by Bel Air Media, SRF | Directed by Andy Sommer | Produced by François Duplat | Running time: 1x52’
©Photo: Bel Air Media
Teodor Currentzis’ portrait at Perm Opera
Documentary / Perm Opera, Russia
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> Concert
Shostakovich
The Complete Symphonies & Concertos
Pleyel Hall, Paris
Telmondis 2013/14
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concertos
Salle Métropole, Lausanne
Valery Gergiev is combining performances
of Dmitri Shostakovich's first and
last symphonies in one concert.
The composer was only 19 when his
Symphony n°1 was performed in Leningrad.
Far from being academic, this work
already has a true personality, especially
in its treatment of rhythm. The Fifteenth
Symphony which was first performed
almost fifty years later, in Moscow,
innovates through its borrowing from
other works in the repertoire, especially
the Opening of William Tell by Rossini.
Musical direction Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, op. 15
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
Piano Concerto No. 5 “Emperor”
in E-flat major, Op. 73
Conducted by Christian Zacharias
Starring
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne
Production
A coproduction by Bel Air Media,
RTS, Arte, Mezzo, TV5 Monde | Directed by Andy Sommer | Produced by François Duplat | Running time: 1x170’
Valery Gergiev
Production
A coproduction by The Mariinsky Theatre,
Telmondis, Mezzo, in association with France
Télévisions and the support of the CNC |
Directed by Don Kent | Produced by Antoine Perset
and Denis Morlière | Heliox 2013
Opéra de Dijon
Violinist David Grimal's “Les Dissonances”
ensemble is a libertarian orchestra
playing without a conductor.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 In B-flat major, Op.60
©Photo: Thierry Parel
©Photo: Joachim Ladefoged
Starring
Denis Matsuev: piano | Vadim Repin: violin | Mario Brunello: cello | Danii Trifonov: piano | Gautier Capuçon: cello | Orchestra
and Choir of the Mariinsky Theater
Dissonances
> Work in progress
Vespro della Beata Vergine Wahoo prod. 2014
Château de Versailles
artistic information
Musical composition by Claudio Monteverdi
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 In F major, Op.93
Conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Johannes Brahms
Symphony No.4 In E Minor, Op.98
– Do you (still) love Brahms?
Starring
Silvia Frigato, soprano
Emanuela Galli, soprano
Nicholas Mulroy, tenor
Krystian Adam, tenor
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Children's Choir of the Maîtrise du Centre de
Musique Baroque de Versailles
Gérard Grisey
Vortex Temporum
Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8 In B minor
(“Unfinished”), D.759
Production
A coproduction by Heliox,
Bel Ombre films, Opéra de Dijon, in
association with en association avec
Les Dissonances et David Grimal | Directed by Frédéric Delesques | Pierre-François Découflé | Running time: 1x34’, 1x26’, 1x40’, 1x47’, 1x24’
Production
A production by Wahoo production
Running time 1x105’
©Photo: JM Manaï
©Photo: Adrien Hippolyte
Bel Air Media 2013
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> Circus > Magic
Nikulin Circus Telmondis 2013
35th Tomorrow’s Circus World Festival
Cirque Phénix Paris
Nikulin Circus, Moscow
The Tomorrow's Circus World Festival
is a unique event in the world. Over
the last 30 years it has enabled young
artistes from the world over to show
off their talent to enthusiastic and
spellbound audiences. Since 1977 more
than 1000 acts have contributed to
writing the new pages of circus history.
One of the oldest and most famous
circuses in Russia. Within its historical
walls (the building was constructed in
1880) there have always performed the
most famous artists — the names of
many of them have become a legend
— and the whole circus dynasties.
Starring
Nikulin Circus Troupe
These exceptional encounters are an
opportunity for numerous performers
from all cultures and backgrounds
to compare, enrich and widen their
talents. Be they from Japan, Canada,
China, Denmark or the United States,
performers from the entire planet are
guests under the big top of the Cirque
Phénix in Paris, the biggest circus in the
world. Over the years, the Tomorrow’s
Circus World Festival has become the
essential reference for all circus lovers.
©Photo: Bertrand Guay
©Photo: Anton Belyakov
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis, Nikulin
Circus, France Télévisions | Directed by Dominique Thiel | Produced by Antoine Perset, Emma
Enjalbert and Denis Morlière | Running time: 1x115’
Monte-CarloTelmondis 2014
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis,
Arte, Arte Live Web | Directed by Roberto Maria Grassi | Produced by Antoine Perset,
Emma Enjalbert and Denis Morlière | Running time: 1x90’
Golden Mandrakes Mega Magie 2013
Théâtre du Gymnase Marie-Bell, Paris
Principauté de Monaco
The Greatest Magicians in the World
Created in 1974 by H.S.H. Prince
Rainier III of Monaco, the International
Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo
has become the largest and most
prestigious circus event in the world.
It awards the most respected prize
in the world of the circus, namely the
“Golden Clown” (Clown d’Or) award.
Created in 1990, the International
Festival of Illusion and Magic
(Festival International de l'Illusion
et de la Prestidigitation), the Golden
Mandrakes has become the annual
fixture for the world's greatest
magicians, who come to compete in the
festival of magic to win the supreme
accolade: The Golden Mandrake.
Organized and presided by
H.S.H. Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, a
selection of the best international acts
is presented each year at the Festival
which is broadcasted around the globe.
©Photo: EdWright
Production
A coproduction by Telmondis,
France Télévisions, Rai 3, Das Erste,
RSI, SRF, RTBF, KRO, SIC | Directed by Massimo Manganaro | Produced by Antoine Perset,
Emma Enjalbert and Denis Morlière | Running time: 1x110’
Production
A coproduction by Mega Magie,
Paris Première | Directed by Laurent Brun | Produced by Gilles Arthur | Running time: 1x105’
©Mega Magie/Gilles Arthur
38th International Circus Festival of
Telmondis 2014
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