This a banner year for Donizetti at the Metropolitan Opera, propelled by soprano Sondra Radvanovsky’s ambition to perform all three of his Tudor queens (Anne Boleyn; Mary, Queen of Scots; and Elizabeth I) in a single season. That urge to turn opera into an extreme sport seems misplaced, or did until Radvanovsky scorched the curtains with her high-temperature performance in Maria Stuarda. In her incarnation, Mary seemed like a thoroughly modern monarch, a highborn refugee boiling with resentment.Honor, virtue, piety, pride, and purity — these are values that artists rarely invoke today. In Donizetti’s time, though, there were dangerous currents running through those themes, and he sheathed them in brilliant music. He made sure that in the lethal clash between the Catholic Mary and the Protestant Elizabeth, the audience’s sympathies would slide subliminally toward the first, drawn by her magnetic melodies. “Deh! Tu di un umile preghiera,...
- 2/1/2016
- by Justin Davidson
- Vulture
The Emmy® and Peabody award-winning “The Met: Live in HD” series is concluding it’s seventh season. Featuring 12 live operas from the Metropolitan Opera’s over the 2012-13 season, the final one is the broadcast of Handel’s Giulio Cesare. It will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 11:00 Am Et in the St. Louis area.
Wamg invites you to enter to win tickets to see Handel’s Giulio Cesare. We have one pair of tickets – Good For Two – to this event. Tickets are good at the AMC Chesterfield 14 and will be mailed.
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1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area On Saturday.
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Handel’s Giulio Cesare - New Production
Saturday, April 27, 2013 (12:00Pm Et / 9:00Am Pt)
Expected Running Time:...
Wamg invites you to enter to win tickets to see Handel’s Giulio Cesare. We have one pair of tickets – Good For Two – to this event. Tickets are good at the AMC Chesterfield 14 and will be mailed.
To Qualify:
1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area On Saturday.
2. Send Your Full Name To michelle@wearemoviegeeks.com .
3. Winners Will Be Chosen Through A Random Drawing Of Qualifying Contestants. No Purchase Necessary.
Handel’s Giulio Cesare - New Production
Saturday, April 27, 2013 (12:00Pm Et / 9:00Am Pt)
Expected Running Time:...
- 4/1/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
As we head into March, the Emmy® and Peabody award-winning “The Met: Live in HD” series is in full swing in U.S. cinemas for a seventh season featuring 12 live operas from the Metropolitan Opera’s 2012-13 season.
The next one is the broadcast of Wagner’s Parsifal. It will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 11:00 Am Et in the St. Louis area.
Wamg invites you to enter to win tickets to see Parsifal This Saturday! We have one pair of tickets – Good For Two – to this event. Tickets are good at the AMC Chesterfield 14 and will be mailed.
To Qualify:
1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area On Saturday.
2. Send Your Full Name To michelle@wearemoviegeeks.com .
3. Winners Will Be Chosen Through A Random Drawing Of Qualifying Contestants. No Purchase Necessary.
“The Met has assembled about the best Parsifal cast available today…...
The next one is the broadcast of Wagner’s Parsifal. It will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 11:00 Am Et in the St. Louis area.
Wamg invites you to enter to win tickets to see Parsifal This Saturday! We have one pair of tickets – Good For Two – to this event. Tickets are good at the AMC Chesterfield 14 and will be mailed.
To Qualify:
1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area On Saturday.
2. Send Your Full Name To michelle@wearemoviegeeks.com .
3. Winners Will Be Chosen Through A Random Drawing Of Qualifying Contestants. No Purchase Necessary.
“The Met has assembled about the best Parsifal cast available today…...
- 2/27/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
This week's snow and ice meant big drops for every title, despite a decent crop of new releases including Django Unchained
The winner: snow
The first properly sunny weekend of the year usually proves devastating to cinemagoing in the UK, but snow and frost can also have an impact, as has just been witnessed. Despite the arrival of a decent crop of new releases – notably the latest Quentin Tarantino flick and the 3D reissue of a Pixar hit – takings overall fell 36% from the previous weekend. All the films in the top 10 that were already on release fell by at least 40% from the previous frame, with Quartet's 60% drop in particular suggesting that the older audience was especially discouraged by icy pavements and dangerous driving conditions.
Despite a dip of 46%, Les Misérables nevertheless managed a second weekend of £4.41m, and an impressive 10-day cumulative total of £17.36m. Tom Hooper's film overtook...
The winner: snow
The first properly sunny weekend of the year usually proves devastating to cinemagoing in the UK, but snow and frost can also have an impact, as has just been witnessed. Despite the arrival of a decent crop of new releases – notably the latest Quentin Tarantino flick and the 3D reissue of a Pixar hit – takings overall fell 36% from the previous weekend. All the films in the top 10 that were already on release fell by at least 40% from the previous frame, with Quartet's 60% drop in particular suggesting that the older audience was especially discouraged by icy pavements and dangerous driving conditions.
Despite a dip of 46%, Les Misérables nevertheless managed a second weekend of £4.41m, and an impressive 10-day cumulative total of £17.36m. Tom Hooper's film overtook...
- 1/22/2013
- by Charles Gant
- The Guardian - Film News
Opera novice Mike Figgis is taking charge of Lucrezia Borgia at the Eno. Trouser parts and Renaissance porn were part of a steep learning curve
Mike Figgis is about to make his debut as an opera director at English National Opera. But his production of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia is hardly the fulfilment of a dream for the 62-year-old Oscar-nominated director. "I was never an opera-goer growing up. I was a jazz musician. I'd go and see Miles Davis. It would never cross my mind to go to the opera. My only preconceptions about opera were based on clips I had seen, to be honest." He smiles sheepishly beneath his mop of hair. "I only went to my first opera three or four years ago, when my girlfriend took me to the Met in New York."
Figgis is the latest in a long line of Eno's recruits from the worlds...
Mike Figgis is about to make his debut as an opera director at English National Opera. But his production of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia is hardly the fulfilment of a dream for the 62-year-old Oscar-nominated director. "I was never an opera-goer growing up. I was a jazz musician. I'd go and see Miles Davis. It would never cross my mind to go to the opera. My only preconceptions about opera were based on clips I had seen, to be honest." He smiles sheepishly beneath his mop of hair. "I only went to my first opera three or four years ago, when my girlfriend took me to the Met in New York."
Figgis is the latest in a long line of Eno's recruits from the worlds...
- 1/21/2011
- by Tom Service
- The Guardian - Film News
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