Short film accompanying the 'Adult Baby' album by Kazu Makino. A giantess leaves the sea in order to live as a human and fall in love, but must return to the sea before she returns to her true form.
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Short film accompanying the 'Adult Baby' album by Kazu Makino. A giantess leaves the sea in order to live as a human and fall in love, but must return to the sea before she returns to her true form.
Sportin’ Life is the sixth incarnation of the international art project Self, curated by Saint Laurent’s creative director, Anthony Vaccarello. This project is an artistic commentary on society while emphasizing the complexity of various individuals through the eyes of artists who evoke the Saint Laurent attitude of confidence, individuality and self-expression. The documentary is an exploration into the sources and personal history of creativity, the essential life of an artist. Raw and sharp, it has the feeling of a moment in time that is still happening. Abel Ferrara’s intimate and lush look at his own life, his world refracted through his art – music, filmmaking, his collaborators and inspirations such as Ferrara’s early works and his creative partnerships with Willem Dafoe, Joe Delia, Paul Hipp and the musicians who inspired this work.
One of the most famous Italian singers opens up about his music and his journey through love and addiction.
Milan, western suburbs. In one of the nine districts ("zone") of the city, the students of the "Rosa Luxemburg" trade school meditate over the meaning of living in the suburbs. And they do so using their smartphones, filming their days and looking for a common thread among their lives. Crossing and mixing video-diaries, documentary shooting and fictional scenes, the project struggles to take a definite shape: every character and perspective channels the tale in a different direction, escaping from linear narrative lines and bringing us to some kind of archipelago.
It's an event that draws many thousands of music lovers to one of the most beautiful cities in the world every summer: the opera season at the ancient Arena di Verona. The 2,000-year-old roman amphiteatre with its gigantic stage dimensions is one of the largest and best preserved Roman construction of its kind, and with over 22,000 seats it is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular open-air venues of the world! The revered master of opera Franco Zeffirelli, who died shortly before the premiere of Il Trovatore, created a legendary scenery with groups of giant sized armoured knights, a fortress turning into a luminous cathedral, an enormous choir, horses, breathtaking fights: “his perhaps best arena production” (Opernglas). It brings Anna Netrebko to the Arena of Verona where she is giving her much-anticipated debut in one of Giuseppe Verdi’s most popular operas.
Musicfilm with unpublished images from the life of the most famous Italian trapper: Sfera Ebbasta. Between concerts, studio sessions and lifestyle, the movie retraces his entire artistic career from the beginning together with producer Charlie Charles, to international success. With testimonials from Marracash, Shablo, Steve Aoki and Rvssian.
A tour guide accompanies a beautiful multicultural group to discover Milan. But among them there is someone who is not a tourist.
Together impossible goals can be reached. Like playing a song as a tribute to your favorite rock band, putting together 1000 musicians playing perfectly in synch. It’s what Rockin’1000 achieved, a group of Italian friends who became a global community bringing musicians from all around the world. We Are The Thousand is the story of how the largest band on the planet came to be: over nineteen thousand musicians, amateurs and pros from every age group and social background, united by one passion: rock’n’roll. This is the story of how the idea of virtuous community can positively influence every single member, encouraging them to pursue their dreams while giving the best they have to offer.
"Lucia de Lammermoor" should actually have opened this year's season. But Corona prevents the title heroine from stabbing her bridegroom to death in her madness. Instead of an opera premiere, La Scala is presenting a musical journey through the history of opera. This year, the world-famous opera house is replacing the originally planned performance due to the renewed outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in northern Italy - with a grand gala evening to benefit the artists hit hard by the coronavirus crisis. In the glamorous setting of the legendary Teatro alla Scala, some of the most beautiful voices on the international opera scene - such as Roberto Alagna, Jonas Kaufmann and mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanča - will sing famous arias from the repertoire, accompanied by La Scala's orchestra. The program is complemented by well-known ballet scenes and performances by actors.
From the Opera House of Rome Il barbiere di Siviglia by Gioachino Rossini. Orchestra and Choir Of The Opera of Rome, conductor Daniele Gatti. Directed by Mario Martone.
World-renowned Genoese conductor Fabio Luisi conducts the ORT for the first time. The concert opens with Vivaldi's Sinfonia Al Santo Sepolcro, a liturgical composition on the Passion of Christ. This is followed by Mahler's Fourth Symphony in a chamber version with soprano Carmela Remigio.
I Mortali is a live-movie created by Ground's Oranges, a video agency specialized in music videos since 2011
In an imaginary space, a woman lets go of herself and overcomes fearing her own greatness. She discovers her body, she embraces her emotions and learns to own all the parts that make her HER.
An experimental music ensemble is recording an album. They want a very specific sound: the sound of thick air. The sound engineer struggles to understand and to find that sound. A tale of sleepless nights and loud music, a noise-injected collage composed of diaristic footage, a found narrative (memories of a popular 60s band), original music and field recordings.
This documentary explores the partnership between the prolific singer-songwriter and pioneering rock band — and their historic 1979 Genoa concert.
The Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, conducted by Maestro Antonio Pappano, takes us on an evocative journey through time with music by Gabrieli, Vivaldi, Stravinsky, and Mozart's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 23 K488, featuring Stefano Bollani.
A divertissement that brings to life the Bach family and their many musical talents, as a “struggling impresario” asks them to compose an opera. Music by Michele dall'Ongaro, libretto by Vincenzo De Vivo. Conducted by Federico Amendola. Directed by Cesare Scarton.
The frescoes of the sixteenth-century Palazzo Ragazzoni in Sacile provide the backdrop for the Cantatas of Francesco Barsanti, recently rediscovered by musicologist Michael Talbot. Francesca Biliotti and the Cenacolo Musicale offer us the world premiere of this Italian composer who emigrated to Scotland in the mid-eighteenth century.
The recording of Antonio Vivaldi's first opera from Teatro La Fenice, conducted by Diego Fasolis
Maestro Mario Brunello tackles Bach's violin repertoire with a new reading on the piccolo cello of the sumptuous Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin. The Chaconne in D minor, a masterpiece of the repertoire for solo instrument, resonates in the lunar landscape of the volcano Etna in a performance of great sonic impact.
This occasionally off-the-wall but finely sung and colourfully staged La Cenerentola was Rome Opera’s first foray into the media market, shown on television and in cinemas across Italy in 2016. It clearly had the funding. Emma Dante’s production will not have come cheap – Vanessa Sannino’s costumes are a particular feature – nor would the singers, given that this is as good a Cenerentola cast as any international house might currently muster.
The Vicenza in Lirica 2020 Festival opened its edition with Vivaldi's oratorio “Juditha Triumphans” at the Teatro Olimpico. The performance was conducted by Francesco Erle and featured the Festival's Baroque Ensemble and the Schola San Rocco choir.
Alessandra Ammara and Roberto Prosseda perform three representative works from the repertoire for two pianos: Mozart’s Sonata K448, Mendelssohn’s extremely rare Sonata, and Gershwin’s famous ‘Rhapsody in Blue’, in the composer’s own transcription for two pianos.
The convent of St. Francis in Pordenone hosts music by Vivaldi, Piatti, and Tartini. The ensemble is composed of members from various international orchestras who regularly perform at the most important European festivals.
Seven promising young artists led by Maestro Francesco Erle and the Baroque Ensemble of the Vicenza in Lirica Festival stage Vivaldi's “The Olympiad.”
A beautiful, coldhearted Chinese princess has issued a decree for her suitors: whoever cannot solve her riddles to win her hand will be beheaded. When a mysterious man passes her test, will she finally open her heart to love? Puccini’s last opera Turandot, unfinished at his death, is musically his most adventurous work. Infused with Asian touches, it cannot deny its Italian heritage, culminating in the world-famous aria ‘Nessun dorma’. In 2017, the director duo Ricci/Forte were awarded the prestigious Italian Music Critics Award Franco Abbiati for best direction for their creative project.
The ‘Pietrasanta in Concerto’ festival, conceived and directed by Michael Guttman, welcomes the world’s greatest musicians every summer. The concert features Andrea Griminelli alongside Roberto Prosseda, Vanessa Benelli Mosell, Michael Guttman and Jing Zhao, Pierre Génisson and soloists from the Brussels Chamber Orchestra