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Jekyll and Hyde
Recorded Performance FROM BROADWAY NYC
Feb 23rd 2012
Based on the world famous novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical is an evocative tale of love, lust, madness and murder.
Featuring music by Frank Wildhorn and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, this musical broke house records at Broadway's Plymouth Theatre, where it ran for over four years and 1,500 performances; it continues touring around the world, thrilling audiences.
The show’s soaring anthem, “This Is The Moment”, has developed universal appeal and recognition, having been performed at the Olympics, the Super Bowl, political conventions and Miss America pageants.
Artists as diverse as Liza Minnelli, The Moody Blues and Johnny Mathis have performed and recorded songs from the show, which also include “A New Life”, “Someone Like You” and “Take Me As I Am”.
Making his Broadway debut in the dual title roles of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is “Knight Rider” and “Baywatch” star David Hasselhoff, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as “the most watched television star in the world.”
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS By William Shakespeare
LIVE FROM NATIONAL THEATRE LONDON
Mar 1st 2012
I in earth, in heaven, or in hell?
Sleeping or waking? mad or well advised?
Known unto these, and to myself disguised!
Two sets of twins separated at birth collide in the same city without meeting for one crazy day, as multiple mistaken identities lead to confusion on a grand scale.
And for no one more so than Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant Dromio who, in search of their brothers, arrive in a land entirely foreign to their distant home.
A buzzing metropolis, to the outsiders it appears a place of wonderment and terror, where baffling gifts and unexplained hostilities abound.
BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER CHRISTIAN THIELEMANN|ALBRECHTMAYER Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.4 “Romantic”
LIVE Berlin Philharmoniker
Mar 4th 2012 @ 6:30pm
Live at your cinema, the world’s leading orchestra, the Berliner Philharmoniker, in fabulous surround sound and high definition, conducted by the greatly sought after Christian Thielemann. His interpretations of late romantic music in particular have brought him international recognition.
Here he conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker’s solo oboist, Albrecht Mayer, as he performs Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto and Anton Bruckner’s richly atmospheric Symphony No. 4 “Romantic”. The live broadcast from Berlin includes interviews and background footage, giving cinema audiences a ‘better than the best seat’ experience.
LA BOHEME
LIVE from Teatre Del Liceu Barcelona
Mar 13th 2012
Commedia lirica in four acts. Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henry Murger (1845-1848).
Music by Giacomo Puccini. First performed on 1 February 1896 at the Teatro Regio in Turin. First performed at the Gran Teatre del Liceu on 10 April 1898.
From the mid-19th century onwards — against the background of industrialization, the supremacy of bourgeois values, and an intellectual climate dominated by secular materialistic and scientific positivism — art became realistic, seeking to show things as they really were — almost photographically —, rather than making them more amiable or more beautiful.
An opera such as La Bohème, which talks of the fragile nature of happiness in a world of poverty, cold and disease, is an obvious example of this trend.
Stephen Sondheim's "Company"
LIVE FROM NATIONAL THEATRE LONDON
Mar 15th 2012 @ 7pm
Sondheim’s Company is the bittersweet story of Robert – a single man unable to commit fully to a steady relationship, let alone marriage – the five married couples who are his best friends, and his three girlfriends.
Staged as a series of vignettes linked by a celebration for Robert’s 35th birthday, the musical throws a comic spotlight on the eternal issues faced by people in relationships.
ANNA BOLENA
LIVE OPERA FROM Teatro del Maggio Florence
Mar 21st 2012 @ 7.30pm
Franco Alfano's 1936 opera Cyrano de Bergerac, the story of a swordsman-poet with an enormous heart and even larger nose, has been revived in recent years as a vehicle for veteran tenor Plácido Domingo.
In this 2010 San Francisco Opera production, brought over from the Théâtre du Châtelet, the tenor is paired with Spanish soprano Ainhoa Arteta as Roxane, the beautiful object of Cyrano’s affection. French conductor Patrick Fournillier leads the production.
Putting it Together
Recorded performance FROM BROADWAY NYC
Mar 21st 2012
PUTTING IT TOGETHER is award-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s humorous, poignant and sophisticated musical "review" of material taken from a number of his original musicals.
Putting it Together is Broadway’s longest running musical revue
Romeo and Juliet
LIVE BALLET ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
Mar 22nd 2012
Romeo and Juliet was Kenneth MacMillan’s first full-evening ballet, and, from its premiere in 1965, has been one of The Royal Ballet’s signature works, popular all over the world. At the beginning of the ballet MacMillan’s crowd scenes teem with life and colour. It’s a pleasure to be able to follow the characters created by members of the corps de ballet as they portray the townspeople, market traders and servants of the rival Montagues and Capulets. However, once Romeo and Juliet meet, everything else on stage can only be scenery for their story.
Three great pas de deux: the meeting in the ballroom, the balcony scene and the morning after the wedding, eloquently convey the narrative: adolescent shyness and fascination; the headlong rush of love declared, and the grief of parting. The final scene in the tomb, a pas de deux with a lifeless partner, is devastating.
The Royal Ballet has performed Romeo and Juliet well over 400 times, yet each performance is subtly different. Every pairing in the title roles brings fresh nuances to the young lovers’ characters, while the wealth of supporting roles, from the exuberant trio of harlots in the town square to the murderous rage of Tybalt, offers scope for dancers throughout the Company. Nicholas Georgiadis’s earthy enaissance designs, with some of the original details recently restored, are the perfect backdrop.
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
LIVE FROM NATIONAL THEATRE LONDON
Mar 29th 2012
To come to my house, to call for what he likes, toturn me out of my own chair, to insult the family, to order his servants to get drunk, and then to tell me, "This house is mine, sir". By all that's impudent it makes me laugh.
Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward to acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid.
The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he's a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle's indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle's appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues.
L'altra metà del cielo
LIVE OPERA FROM TEATRO ALLA SCALA
Apr 5th 2012 @ 7pm
The new La Scala production for Season 2011/2012 caters to a younger audience, receptive to a less conventional fusion of styles.
Drawing on his passion for dance and his sensitive outlook on the female world, Italian singer-songwriter Vasco Rossi’s tale pictures woman, from adolescence to adulthood, in the guise of three characters encompassing every nuance of the female universe featured in his songs over the course of his long career.
La Rigoletto
LIVE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE
Apr 17th 2012
In Rigoletto, Verdi charts the fate of his larger-than-life characters – the tormented jester trying to avenge himself on his heartless playboy employer the Duke of Mantua, who has carelessly seduced Rigoletto’s innocent daughter Gilda – in music of immense theatrical punch and instant memorability. Based on Victor Hugo’s controversial play, Le Roi s’amuse, Verdi’s 1851 tragedy caused one of his many rows with the censors before its Venetian premiere.
Following a few minor compromises, the work triumphed locally, then internationally. The score’s most celebrated highlights – the Duke’s ‘Questa o quella’ and ‘La donna e mobile’, Gilda’s ‘Caro nome’, and the famous quartet (which Hugo believed actually improved on his play at that point in the action) – are among the best known set-pieces in all opera.
First seen in 2001, David McVicar’s production teems with life and colour and, with Tanya McCallin’s period costumes and Michael Vale’s starkly effective sets, it provides an ideal frame for Verdi’s exploration of love, emotional betrayal and the darkest revenge.
CYRANO DE BERGERAC
Live from Teatro Real Madrid
May 10th 2012 @ 8pm
Franco Alfano
Sung in French
La Fille Mal Gardee
LIVE Ballet Royal Opera House
May 16th 2012
‘Fille is a treasure’, says Monica Mason, Director of The Royal Ballet. Anyone who has seen this sunniest of ballets will certainly agree. With its origins in a work first seen in Bordeaux in 1789, La Fille mal gardée had been staged by several choreographers in the 19th century. Frederick Ashton brought the work into the 20th century and created an instant classic which has never left The Royal Ballet’s repertory.
The simple story of Lise, her suitor Colas and Lise’s larger-than-life mother, the Widow Simone, who tries to marry her off to the simpleton son of a rich neighbour, is full of delicious comedy but also wonderful, characterful choreography. One of the greatest pleasures of Fille is the way in which the steps, though at times devilishly difficult, never get in the way of the natural, easy storytelling.
The virtuoso roles of Lise and Colas combine dazzling technique with tiny, intimate details that makes their romance touching and real, while the humour of Widow Simone and the innocent Alain, more interested in his red umbrella than Lise’s charms, is delightful. Funny and touching, La Fille mal gardée is the perfect ballet for first-timers of all ages, but it is also one to which ballet-lovers will return again and again with renewed pleasure at every performance.
