Enjoy opera, dance and music at the movies with La Cinema! The Israeli Opera, Tel Aviv Cinematheque and Haifa Cinematheque present a 12-part series of filmed performances that will be screened at the cinematheques throughout the year. The series opens on February 28, 2012 with Puccini’s Turandot, in the Valencia Opera production (May 2008) conducted by Zubin Mehta and directed by Tiziano Mancini, with set design by noted Chinese film director Chen Kaige and soloists Maria Guleghina (Turandot) and Marco Berti (Prince Calaf). The film is 124 minutes long (35 min first act, 43 min second act followed by a 10 min intermission, 46 min third act) and will be sung in Italian with Hebrew and English subtitles.
It’s an opportunity to experience La Scala, the Bolshoi Ballet, the Vienna Philharmonic and other international cultural delights a little closer to home, and larger than life on the big screen. Films will be screened once a month, HD quality with surround sound, and all the operas will feature both Hebrew and English subtitles.
The Program:
February 28, 2012: Turandot by Giacomo Puccini, The Valencia Opera
March 3, 2012: Roméo et Julietteby Charles Gounod, Salzburg Festival
May 1, 2012: The Sleeping Beauty by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, The Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow
May 29, 2012: Rigoletto by Guiseppe Verdi, Mantua
June 26, 2012: Cosi Fan Tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Salzburg Festival
July 17, 2012: Don Quixote by Ludwig Minkus, choreography by Marius Petipa, The Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow
August 21, 2012: La Rondine by Giacomo Puccini, Teatro La Fenis, Venice
September 11, 2012: Aida by Guiseppe Verdi, La Scala, Milan
October 16, 2012: Flameno – Blood Wedding and Flamenco Suite by Federico Garcia Lorca, choreography by Antonio Gades, Teatro Real, Madrid (with a lecture by Ornili Azoulay)
October 20, 2012: Carmen by Georges Bizet, La Scala, Milan
December 4, 2012: La Traviata by Guiseppe Verdi, La Scala, Milan
December 18, 2012: The 9th Symphony by Ludwig von Beethoven, Vienna Philharmonic
Tel Aviv Cinematheque, 2 Sprinzak Street, Tel Aviv, 03-6060800.
