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- Inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The plot revolves around George, a fictionalized version of Seurat, who immerses himself deeply in painting his masterpiece, and his great-grandson (also named George), a conflicted and cynical contemporary artist.
- As the first collaboration ever between conductor William Christie and director Luc Bondy, this production of Hercules was the major event of the 2004 opera season. Originally Created in Aix-en-Provence in July 2004, the show then moved on to the Palais Garnier in Paris where it was recorded in December of the same year. The Hercules received the student prize at the Golden Prague 2005.
- A new full-length ballet choreographed by Ted Brandsen for Dutch National Ballet, to a new orchestral score by Tarik O'Regan.
- Billy Budd is an innocent, naïve seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
- Countess tries to reform her philandering husband with the aid of 3 servants just before 2 of them are to marry.
- A magical version of Tchaikovsky's masterpiece by the Zurich Ballet and choreographer Heinz Spoerli.
- This film follows dancer Ulyana Lopatkina, and the art that is her life passion. She dances in Swan Lake and according to specialized critics, she is to date the most beautiful swan they ever seen in the history of classical ballet.
- While best known today for having composed the ending to Puccini's unfinished Turandot, Franco Alfano wrote some dozen operas, including Cyrano de Bergerac (1936) with a libretto by Henri Cain based on Edmond Rostand's drama of the same name. It is a moving tale of romantic misunderstanding, swashbuckling bravado and heartbreaking loyalty, in which the eloquent Cyrano feels unable to express his love for Roxane because of his famously protuberant nose--except on behalf of his handsome but inarticulate friend, Christian. When Domingo and Radvanovsky sang Cyrano and Roxane at New York's Metropolitan Opera, Andante magazine wrote: "Incredibly, Cyrano is his 121st role. And it suits him splendidly...Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky was luminous as Roxane, her passionate outbursts showing off her powerful upper register to good effect".
- This project is undoubtedly Gaetano Donizetti's best known work, even if its production was prolific. It has also been the most performed and staged since its premiere in 1835 at the San Carlo Theater in Naples. It is one of the beacons of Italian Bel Canto and also one of the most typically romantic Italian operas. In 16th century Scotland, torn by the wars of religion and succession between the Catholics of Mary Stuart and the reformist Protestants of James VI, two families, the Ravenswoods and the Ashtons, quarrel. In the middle is an impossible love between Lucia, Ashton's daughter, and Edgardo, Ravenswood's son and nemesis of Enrico, Lucia's brother. It is performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in an original staging by Damiano Michieletto.
- Rusalka, a water nymph, longs to become human so she can find love. Despite the consequences her aunt gives here a potion that grants her wish and she promptly falls for a handsome prince. Alas, she has a rival for the prince's affections. Spurned by the prince she returns to the lake and becomes a spirit of death until the prince once again wanders by.