Competition Programmes
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Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City)
Performing Arts
Die tote Stadt tells the story of Paul, who is pathologically devoted to the memory of Marie, his dead wife. He becomes attached to a dancer named Marietta who closely resembles Marie. Passion and guilt mingle in Paul’s mind, and part of the...
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Pelléas and Mélisande
Performing Arts
Nine years after he discovered the strange harshness of Maeterlinck’s playwriting, where each character essentially embodies her/his own tragedy, Debussy composed his musical rendering of the “Pelléas and Mélisande” drama.
Filmed for the first...
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Lulu
Performing Arts
Alban Berg’s “Lulu” ranks among the most important and highly-regarded operas of the 20th century. The main character inhabits a dream-like, stifling world. All the men she encounters are subjugated by her beauty and charm and meet with tragic...
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Billy Budd
Performing Arts
Based on Herman Melville’s allegorical tale about the battle between pure good and blind evil, “Billy Budd” takes place amidships on a British man-o’-war. One of Benjamin Britten's greatest achievements was its first ever staging at...
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Adriana Lecouvreur
Performing Arts
“Adriana Lecouvreur” offers a fictionalised account of a real 18th-century French actress of the same name, the leading lady of the ”Comédie-Française” in Paris, who was believed to have been poisoned by a love rival. It is the most famous work of...
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This Land was not my Land
Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance
Documentary about the singer, Hilja Grönfors, and her interpretations of old traditional Romany songs. At the same time the programme tells us the story of the history of the Roma immigrant population in Finland.
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Jordi Savall & The Borgias
Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance
"Jordi Savall & The Borgias" is a documentary that follows the creative processes of Jordi Savall, one of the most universal musicians in the world, while developing his great historical work, "The Borgia Dynasty" and its...
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In the Beginning Was the Song
Documentary programmes dedicated to music and dance
The inhabitants of Guria- one of the regions of Georgia- are represented in this film, drawing the audience's attention to the people who have managed, throughout the years, to preserve the amazingly melodious and polyphonic Gurian folk songs...
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Europa Konzert 2010 (European Concert 2010)
Performing Arts
For 20 years, the Berliner Philharmoniker have celebrated their formation on May 1st with the annual Europa Konzert - this year’s concert takes place in Oxford at the glorious Sheldonian Theatre.
The orchestra under the baton of worldwide...
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Placido Domingo 70th Birthday Gala
Performing Arts
Last 21 January, to mark Placido Domingo’s 70th Birthday the Teatro Real, BBC and TVE co-produced a gift Gala concert to the tenor, gathering many of the top notch international opera singers who have shared the stage with him over the years, and...
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