Production Year: 1992 - Music / Performing Arts - Original Language: Russian - Classification: Exempt - Starring: St. Petersburg Maryinsky Troup, Galina Gorchakova, Sergei Leiferkus, Kirov Opera Orchestra And Choir more
Valery Gergiev conducts the Kirov Opera in this controversial performance of Prokofiev's incendiary opera, filmed at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. A medieval nun's... more
lifetime - considered too decadent by Stalin and his successors - but David Freeman's imaginative production asserts it as one of composer's greatest masterpieces. Ostensibly, it is a tale of religious hysteria and demonic possession, but the novel, by the Russian decadent Valery Bryusov, from which the opera is derived, also explores symbolically the love triangle endured by the writer himself, inspired by the self-destructive figure of his lover, the poet Nina Petrovskaya.David Freeman has completely entered into this opera's strangely unnerving world. Evil is all around us and in his sensational production the image is taken quite literally. A troupe of male acrobatic dancers, representing the demons of Renata's mind, remain on stage throughout the opera. A sinister presence, they surge into silent animation at the faintest hint of obsessive passion or frenzy from the characters, and in the scene of the convent exorcism, they scuttle through the lines of nuns, taunting and provoking them and dragging off their habits in a choreographed riot.
Production Year: 2004 - Music / Performing Arts - Original Language: French - Classification: Exempt - Starring: Stephanie D'Oustrac, Laurent Naouri, Sandrine Piau, Topi Lehtipuu, Rene Schirrer, Francois Piolino, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
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Production Year: 1982 - Music / Performing Arts - Director: Rodney Greenberg - Original Language: English - Classification: Exempt - Starring: Keith Michell, Alexander Oliver, Gillian Knight, Janis Kelly, Paul Hudson, Peter Allen
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Music / Performing Arts - Director: Lotfi Mansouri - Original Language: English - Classification: Exempt - Starring: Yvonne Kenny, Boje Skovhus, Angelika Kirchschlager, Gregory Turay
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Plot: A performance of Prokofiev's opera which was recorded in the Maryinsky Theatre in St Petersburg and which centres on a girl possessed by a spirit. Conducted by Valery Gergiev.
DVD Description
Valery Gergiev conducts the Kirov Opera in this controversial performance of Prokofiev's incendiary opera, filmed at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. A medieval nun's delusions corrupt her sisters into an orgy of decadence. The performance contains nudity.
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DVD Region: DVD
Studio(s): ARTHAUS MUSIK; SELECT MUSIC & VIDEO DISTRIBUTION
Advantages: Spitting Image, lots of laughs, great intro to classical music Disadvantages: Deflates a little in the middle, wanted more
...Introduction:
Sometimes the strangest and most unexpected of combinations can work brilliantly together, so I was really intrigued to see that renowned Italian maestro Claudio Abbado had insisted that his DVD of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" should use Spitting Image puppets!
Somehow it seemed a rather improbable line-up: On one side as a supreme representative of "high culture", we have Claudio with his intense music-making and lofty interpretative ideas, conducting acclaimed recordings and concerts of Mahler, Mozart and Verdi to pick just a few highlighted composers from his long and illustrious career. At the other end of the cultural spectrum we have the Spitting Image team who are best known for their 80's TV series featuring bitingly satirical latex puppet portrayals of anyone famous (and infamous) from the Queen Mum...
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...Wolf down some Prokofiev with a Sting in the tale
May 29th, 2008
Advantages:
Spitting Image, lots of laughs, great intro to classical music
Disadvantages:
Deflates a little in the middle, wanted more
Recommendable: Yes ..... Wolf down some Prokofiev with a Sting in the tale
May 29th, 2008
Advantages:
Spitting Image, lots of laughs, great intro to classical music
Disadvantages:
Deflates a little in the middle, wanted more
Recommendable: Yes Wolf down some Prokofiev with a Sting in the tale
May 29th, 2008
Advantages:
Spitting Image, lots of laughs, great intro to classical music
Disadvantages:
Deflates a little in the middle, wanted more
Recommendable: Yes ... Wolf down some Prokofiev with a Sting in the tale
May 29th, 2008
Advantages:
Spitting Image, lots of laughs...
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Advantages: Scenery of Rome, adventure Disadvantages: None
...Angels and Demons is a 2009 movie based on the book of the same name by Dan Brown. It is the sequel to The Da Vinci Code. It again featured Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon.
The story really focuses on the age old discussion of science versus the church and which is right and the scandals surrounding that quest for truth. A vial on antimatter is stolen from a Nuclear Research facility. At the same time, the world is mourning the loss of the Pope in the Vatican but all is not as it seems. It turns out that a secret organistaion, Illuminati might be behind his death as well as the abduction of the four most likely members to succeed him. Robert and the local police have to deal with all the secrets inside. It seems that the Illumanti are killing the successors atht eh four pillars of Illumination and Robert must work out what these are and try...
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