Opera star Marina Rebeka will be profiled in a new one-off documentary that London-based Starline will sell internationally. “Marina Rebeka: Blessings of Will and Talent” tells the story of the Latvian soprano hailed as “stupendous” by Placido Domingo and who has performed at La Scala in Italy, London’s Royal Opera House, and the Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall in New York.
Domingo features in the show, as do Rebeka’s friends and contemporaries, including conductors Marco Armiliato and Fabrizio Maria Carminati, tenor Juan Diego Flórez and Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani.
“While Marina Rebeka’s leading roles in ‘Norma,’ ‘La Traviata’ and ‘La Boheme,’ to name a few, have won the highest praise from taste setters like The New York Times and Opera Today, this hugely enjoyable doc brings us up close up and personal to an extraordinary talent, whose down-to-earth warmth and humor completely shatter the common ‘diva’ stereotype,...
Domingo features in the show, as do Rebeka’s friends and contemporaries, including conductors Marco Armiliato and Fabrizio Maria Carminati, tenor Juan Diego Flórez and Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani.
“While Marina Rebeka’s leading roles in ‘Norma,’ ‘La Traviata’ and ‘La Boheme,’ to name a few, have won the highest praise from taste setters like The New York Times and Opera Today, this hugely enjoyable doc brings us up close up and personal to an extraordinary talent, whose down-to-earth warmth and humor completely shatter the common ‘diva’ stereotype,...
- 5/22/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Damrau/Flórez/Lucic/Dresden Strate Opera Chorus/Dresden Staatskapelle/Luisi
(Virgin Classics)
Recorded in Dresden in 2008, Nikolaus Lehnhoff's production of Rigoletto is a ferocious, if uneven affair, that awkwardly positions the opera between religious drama and psychopathology. Lehnhoff roots the tragedy in the dysfunctional relationship between Rigoletto (Zeljko Lucic) and Gilda (Diana Damrau), rather than in the jester's developing conflict with the Duke (Juan Diego Flórez). Yet he also takes on board a comment in the text that this world is hell: the Duke's cronies don demonic disguises to carry out Gilda's abduction, while her final act of self-sacrifice, played out against a Michelangelesque backdrop of the day of judgment, acquires ambivalently redemptive, Christ-like overtones. Some of this strains against the score, since Damrau and Lucic have to pitch their characterisations as more neurotic – therefore less sympathetic – than the music suggests. But vocally they've rarely been bettered, while Flórez,...
(Virgin Classics)
Recorded in Dresden in 2008, Nikolaus Lehnhoff's production of Rigoletto is a ferocious, if uneven affair, that awkwardly positions the opera between religious drama and psychopathology. Lehnhoff roots the tragedy in the dysfunctional relationship between Rigoletto (Zeljko Lucic) and Gilda (Diana Damrau), rather than in the jester's developing conflict with the Duke (Juan Diego Flórez). Yet he also takes on board a comment in the text that this world is hell: the Duke's cronies don demonic disguises to carry out Gilda's abduction, while her final act of self-sacrifice, played out against a Michelangelesque backdrop of the day of judgment, acquires ambivalently redemptive, Christ-like overtones. Some of this strains against the score, since Damrau and Lucic have to pitch their characterisations as more neurotic – therefore less sympathetic – than the music suggests. But vocally they've rarely been bettered, while Flórez,...
- 12/9/2010
- by Tim Ashley
- The Guardian - Film News
Special holiday tune in alert for Thirteen's Great Performances Presents .Celebración! Gustavo Dudamel and the La Phil with Juan Diego Flórez. for Wednesday, December 29, 9 p.m. Et on PBS. The opening night gala concert is to be hosted by actress Eva Mendes, and features the Peruvian tenor in a concert of bel canto arias and Latin American canciones under the baton of Los Angeles Philharmonic Music Director Gustavo Dudamel. From PBS: Great Performances, a production of Thirteen in association with Wnet.Org, spotlights the October 7 opening night concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director Gustavo Dudamel featuring renowned Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Actress Eva Mendes hosts the broadcast. Flórez and...
- 10/17/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
"The Met: Live in HD" is once again teaming up with local movie theaters to present an encore presentation of another opera by Rossini. Rossini's "Il Barbiere Di Siviglia will be shown on Wednesday, July 29 at 7:00 pm in select movie theaters across the country.
"The Barber of Seville" is one of the most beloved operatic comedies of all time. It stars tenor Juan Diego Florez as Count Almaviva, along with mezzo-soprano Joyce Didonato as Rosina and Peter Mattei as the Barbara. The presentation is subtitled in English.
For more information and to see a listing of participating theaters, go to www.fathomevents.com.
"The Barber of Seville" is one of the most beloved operatic comedies of all time. It stars tenor Juan Diego Florez as Count Almaviva, along with mezzo-soprano Joyce Didonato as Rosina and Peter Mattei as the Barbara. The presentation is subtitled in English.
For more information and to see a listing of participating theaters, go to www.fathomevents.com.
- 7/6/2009
- icelebz.com
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