L'Incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi is the last Opera of the Monteverdi trilogy filmed by the Italian label and producer Dynamic at the Teatro Real, Madrid, May 2010.
Cio-Cio-San, the young Japanese bride of American naval officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, finds her romantic idyll shattered when he deserts her shortly after their marriage.
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical China - is one of the most popular in the Met repertory.
This first film of Cyprus' first director, Giorgios Filis, depicts music and dance customs in the form and style of a folk opera, with traditional Cypriot dances and songs.
Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the greatest number, focus is rarely put on the strategy he devised and implemented in order to carry out his actions, nor what his actions reveal of the man and artist, and of the resulting metamorphosis from opera singer to pop artist.
This is Laurent Pelly’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées staging of Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, with a cast featuring Florian Sempey as Figaro, Catherine Trottmann as Rosina, and Michele Angelini as Il Conte Almaviva.
Soprano Anna Netrebko appears in her highly anticipated Met role debut as Leonora, the tortured heroine who sacrifices her own life for the love of the Gypsy troubadour.
Set 1:
Feel Like a Stranger(Grateful Dead cover)
Brown-Eyed Women(Grateful Dead cover)
Samson and Delilah([traditional] cover)
Friend of the Devil(Grateful Dead cover)
It Hurts Me Too(Tampa Red cover)
Ramble On Rose(Grateful Dead cover)
High Time(Grateful Dead cover)
Let It Grow(Grateful Dead cover)
Set 2:
They Love Each Other(Jerry Garcia cover) (1973 version) (>)
China Cat Sunflower(Grateful Dead cover) (>)
I Know You Rider([traditional] cover)
Fire on the Mountain(Grateful Dead cover) (Mickey Hart raps verse 3) (>)
The Other One(Grateful Dead cover) (verse 1)
Drums(Grateful Dead cover) (>)
Space(Grateful Dead cover) (>)
The Eleven(Grateful Dead cover) (>)
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Set 1:
Good Times(Sam Cooke cover)
Truckin'(Grateful Dead cover) (>)
Smokestack Lightning(Howlin’ Wolf cover) (>)
Deal(Jerry Garcia cover)
Me and My Uncle(John Phillips cover)
Dear Mr.
Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in La Damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz’s classic take on dancing with the devil.
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Before Nike, and Adidas, there was the Hi-Jo! Here is a Brooklyn tale set back in the day about a young Italian-American shoemaker (Frank) on the verge of greatness.
The story is set some time in the past, or maybe some time in the future. Given a time-frame, we would say somewhere between the American moonwalk, and Coca- Cola's serious ambition to turn the moon into an advertising logo.
This provocative and insightful film is the second in a series of documentaries that will reveal the secret knowledge embedded in the work of the greatest filmmaker of all time: Stanley Kubrick.
One morning in an ordinary town, five people are shot dead in a seemingly random attack. All evidence points to a single suspect: an ex-military sniper who is quickly brought into custody.
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
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Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.
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