Opera Parallele Announces 2021-22 Season
Opera Parallèle's (OP) General and Artistic Director Nicole Paiement, today announced the 2021-22 season repertoire, casting and creative teams for the company's 12th anniversary.
DIRT & STONE LIVE Announced At The Drama Factory
Acclaimed musicians, Tombstone Pete (guitar) and Jean Marais (percussion), look to put hair on the chests of audiences everywhere – starting with Somerset West – through their fresh and exciting take on the acoustic duo. Drawing on Rock, Jazz, Folk, Blues and Classical, Dirt & Stone bring you two sets of original material and covers from the charts back when the charts made sense.
French Institute Alliance Francaise Presents SUMMER OF MICHEL LEGRAND
The French Institute Alliance Fran aise (FIAF) honors the great French composer Michel Legrand, who died in January this year, with a special Cin Salon series devoted to his life and work. Curated by one of his longtime collaborators and greatest interpreters, singer and actress Melissa Errico, Summer of Michel Legrand brings together seven of his films from his best known triumphs such as The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and The Young Girls of Rochefort to lesser known gems such as the enchanting fairy-tale musical Donkey Skin. Screenings take place on Tuesdays in July at 4pm and 7:30pm in FIAF's Florence Gould Hall.
BWW Review: LA BELLE ET LA BETE at The Theatre at Ace Hotel
LA BELLE ET LA B TE is a post World War II romantic fantasy film written and directed by Jean Cocteau. For the Los Angeles Opera version, Philip Glass replaced Georges Auric's original sound track with a complete opera score. On October 28, 2017, L. A. Opera presented the work, sung live and coordinated with a screening of the film, at the beautifully restored 1920s movie theater in the city's Ace Hotel.
LA Opera Off Grand to Present LA BELLE ET LA BETE with Live Performance of Philip Glass Score
From October 28 through 31, LA Opera presents a special Halloween treat for cinephiles and opera lovers alike: a screening of Jean Cocteau's ravishingly beautiful 1946 cinematic masterpiece La Belle et la B te ('Beauty and the Beast'), with an enchanting Philip Glass score performed live by the Philip Glass Ensemble and four vocal soloists at the spectacular Theatre at Ace Hotel.
LA Opera Off Grand to Present LA BELLE ET LA BETE with Live Performance of Philip Glass Score
From October 28 through 31, LA Opera presents a special Halloween treat for cinephiles and opera lovers alike: a screening of Jean Cocteau's ravishingly beautiful 1946 cinematic masterpiece La Belle et la B te ('Beauty and the Beast'), with an enchanting Philip Glass score performed live by the Philip Glass Ensemble and four vocal soloists at the spectacular Theatre at Ace Hotel.
Lebanon Kassem Istanbouli Reopens Rívoli Cinema of Tyre
After the closing of Al Hamra and AK2000, Tyre, South of Lebanon had no official cinema, but this is going to change soon. Kassem Istanbouli has taken the abandoned Rivoli Cinema of Tyre, for its restoration and opening as a Culture space for the city.
BWW Review: BUNGA PENUTUP ABAD at Jakarta Art Building
Titimangsa Foundation and Bakti Budaya Djarum Foundation presents a colossal theater production called Bunga Penutup Abad, an adaptation of Nobel Laureate nominee Pramoedya Ananta Toer's literature works. 'This production marks the 10th anniversary of his death, to appreciate the works of a great Indonesian writer to the stage, and as one of the hopes to introduce and expose the young people in Indonesia to their home country's literature,' as quoted by Happy Salma, one of the main cast as well as the producer of the production.
BWW Preview: BUNGA PENUTUP ABAD Theatre Performance
Marking Pramoedya Ananta Toer's 10th anniversary of the notable literati death, Yayasan Titian Penerus Bangsa collaborated with Titimangsa Foundation and supported by Djarum Foundation to held 'BUNGA PENUTUP ABAD', a theatre performance, August 25-27 2016 in Jakarta Art Building.
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination On View At The Frist
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, an exhibition of photographs, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations by contemporary artists who invent humanlike, animal or hybrid creatures to symbolize life's mysteries, desires and fears, opens Feb. 24 and remains on view in the Frist Center for the Visual Arts' Upper-Level Galleries through May 28, 2012.
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination On View At The Frist
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, an exhibition of photographs, paintings, videos, sculptures and installations by contemporary artists who invent humanlike, animal or hybrid creatures to symbolize life's mysteries, desires and fears, opens Feb. 24 and remains on view in the Frist Center for the Visual Arts' Upper-Level Galleries through May 28, 2012.