Rome -- Bruno Bartoletti, an orchestra conductor who was associated with the Lyric Opera of Chicago for a half-century, and who championed modern opera as well as classic works, died on Sunday in his native Tuscany, a day before his 87th birthday.
The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, where the maestro had served as artistic director from 1985 until 1991, said Bartoletti died in a Florence hospital after a long illness.
In a career that saw Bartoletti conduct well into his 80s – he directed Giacomo Puccini's `'Manon Lescaut"at Florence's Teatro Comunale in February 2011 – he served as the first music director of Chicago's Lyric Opera, starting as guest conductor there in 1956, when he was relatively unknown.
Bartoletti was 30 when the then 2-year-old Lyric Opera needed a replacement conductor for Giuseppe Verdi's `'Il Trovatore" in 1956. Baritone Tito Gobbi endorsed him, and Bartoletti made his American debut with the company. He conducted...
The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, where the maestro had served as artistic director from 1985 until 1991, said Bartoletti died in a Florence hospital after a long illness.
In a career that saw Bartoletti conduct well into his 80s – he directed Giacomo Puccini's `'Manon Lescaut"at Florence's Teatro Comunale in February 2011 – he served as the first music director of Chicago's Lyric Opera, starting as guest conductor there in 1956, when he was relatively unknown.
Bartoletti was 30 when the then 2-year-old Lyric Opera needed a replacement conductor for Giuseppe Verdi's `'Il Trovatore" in 1956. Baritone Tito Gobbi endorsed him, and Bartoletti made his American debut with the company. He conducted...
- 6/9/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
The Emmy® and Peabody award-winning “The Met: Live in HD” series is concluding it’s seventh season. Featuring 12 live operas from the Metropolitan Opera’s over the 2012-13 season, the final one is the broadcast of Handel’s Giulio Cesare. It will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 11:00 Am Et in the St. Louis area.
Wamg invites you to enter to win tickets to see Handel’s Giulio Cesare. We have one pair of tickets – Good For Two – to this event. Tickets are good at the AMC Chesterfield 14 and will be mailed.
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Handel’s Giulio Cesare - New Production
Saturday, April 27, 2013 (12:00Pm Et / 9:00Am Pt)
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To Qualify:
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Handel’s Giulio Cesare - New Production
Saturday, April 27, 2013 (12:00Pm Et / 9:00Am Pt)
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- 4/1/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
As we head into March, the Emmy® and Peabody award-winning “The Met: Live in HD” series is in full swing in U.S. cinemas for a seventh season featuring 12 live operas from the Metropolitan Opera’s 2012-13 season.
The next one is the broadcast of Wagner’s Parsifal. It will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 11:00 Am Et in the St. Louis area.
Wamg invites you to enter to win tickets to see Parsifal This Saturday! We have one pair of tickets – Good For Two – to this event. Tickets are good at the AMC Chesterfield 14 and will be mailed.
To Qualify:
1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area On Saturday.
2. Send Your Full Name To michelle@wearemoviegeeks.com .
3. Winners Will Be Chosen Through A Random Drawing Of Qualifying Contestants. No Purchase Necessary.
“The Met has assembled about the best Parsifal cast available today…...
The next one is the broadcast of Wagner’s Parsifal. It will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 11:00 Am Et in the St. Louis area.
Wamg invites you to enter to win tickets to see Parsifal This Saturday! We have one pair of tickets – Good For Two – to this event. Tickets are good at the AMC Chesterfield 14 and will be mailed.
To Qualify:
1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area On Saturday.
2. Send Your Full Name To michelle@wearemoviegeeks.com .
3. Winners Will Be Chosen Through A Random Drawing Of Qualifying Contestants. No Purchase Necessary.
“The Met has assembled about the best Parsifal cast available today…...
- 2/27/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Ang Lee’s Life of Pi moved to the number one spot on the Australian box office at the weekend above Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
An increase of the number of screens from 466 last weekend to 556 this weekend by distributor Fox helped Life Of Pi take $3.953m for a $7,109 per screen average, according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia. The film has now taken $14.751m since opening.
The Hobbit in its third weekend took $3.3m across 508 screens for a $6,503 average. The adaptation of the Jrr Tolkien story now stands at $34.910m.
Meanwhile noir film Gangster Squad tool $2.271m in its opening weekend. The Roadshow-distributed film made a respectable $11,080 per screen average. The film is directed by Zombieland’s Ruben Fleischer.
Also released over the weekend was biopic Hitchcock and animated feature Paranorman. Hitchcock, about the famous film director, made $1.245m for Fox across 220 screens...
An increase of the number of screens from 466 last weekend to 556 this weekend by distributor Fox helped Life Of Pi take $3.953m for a $7,109 per screen average, according to the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia. The film has now taken $14.751m since opening.
The Hobbit in its third weekend took $3.3m across 508 screens for a $6,503 average. The adaptation of the Jrr Tolkien story now stands at $34.910m.
Meanwhile noir film Gangster Squad tool $2.271m in its opening weekend. The Roadshow-distributed film made a respectable $11,080 per screen average. The film is directed by Zombieland’s Ruben Fleischer.
Also released over the weekend was biopic Hitchcock and animated feature Paranorman. Hitchcock, about the famous film director, made $1.245m for Fox across 220 screens...
- 1/14/2013
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Met Opera Live | Jonas Mekas | Sigur Rós: Valtari Mystery Film Experiment | Bristol Palestine Film Festival
Met Opera Live, Nationwide
Opera is supposed to be elitist and inaccessible, but ironically cinema is coming to its rescue. New York's Metropolitan Opera has become a global leader in the field, and three of its productions stream live in HD in cinemas across the country this month: Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito, Verdi's Un Ballo In Maschera (updated to a film-noirish context) and his Egyptian epic, Aïda. It might not be the same as the live experience, but it's a damn sight cheaper, and truly different.
Picturehouse & Curzon cinemas & various venues, Sat to 27 Dec
Jonas Mekas, London
Mekas is just about the last surviving link to the golden postwar age of American avant garde film-making, which has been a well of inspiration for modern cinema, indie and mainstream. He helped preserve the work of Andy Warhol,...
Met Opera Live, Nationwide
Opera is supposed to be elitist and inaccessible, but ironically cinema is coming to its rescue. New York's Metropolitan Opera has become a global leader in the field, and three of its productions stream live in HD in cinemas across the country this month: Mozart's La Clemenza Di Tito, Verdi's Un Ballo In Maschera (updated to a film-noirish context) and his Egyptian epic, Aïda. It might not be the same as the live experience, but it's a damn sight cheaper, and truly different.
Picturehouse & Curzon cinemas & various venues, Sat to 27 Dec
Jonas Mekas, London
Mekas is just about the last surviving link to the golden postwar age of American avant garde film-making, which has been a well of inspiration for modern cinema, indie and mainstream. He helped preserve the work of Andy Warhol,...
- 12/1/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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