TV Picks: Met Music Director James Levine Conducts Richard Eyre’s New Production of Mozart’s Comic Masterpiece Le Nozze di Figaro airing on Great Performances at the Met coming Friday, January 16 at 9 p.m. on PBS. Soprano Renée Fleming hosts the broadcast.One of the most popular operas of all time, Mozart’s Figaro features music that has been used in countless movies and advertisements, including Trading Places, The King’s Speech, and The Shawshank Redemption.Mozart’s elegant masterpiece of marital discord, Le Nozze di Figaro, conducted by Met Music Director James Levine and staged by Richard Eyre, is the season premiere of Great […]...
- 12/24/2014
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
The 55th Grammy Awards have arrived, and music's biggest night promises a ton of trophies, and hopefully some great live performances by today's hottest acts. Who has the best record of 2012? How about the year's best new artist? Stick with Zap2it throughout the night, as we continue updating the list of this year's winners!
All of the award categories are below, with the winners in bold.
Record of the Year"Lonely Boy" by The Black Keys"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" by Kelly Clarkson"We Are Young" by Fun., featuring Janelle Monáe"Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye, featuring Kimbra"Thinkin Bout You" by Frank Ocean"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" by Taylor Swift
Album of the Year"El Camino" by The Black Keys"Some Nights" by Fun."Babel" by Mumford & Sons"Channel Orange" by Frank Ocean"Blunderbuss" by Jack White
Song of the Year...
All of the award categories are below, with the winners in bold.
Record of the Year"Lonely Boy" by The Black Keys"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" by Kelly Clarkson"We Are Young" by Fun., featuring Janelle Monáe"Somebody That I Used To Know" by Gotye, featuring Kimbra"Thinkin Bout You" by Frank Ocean"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" by Taylor Swift
Album of the Year"El Camino" by The Black Keys"Some Nights" by Fun."Babel" by Mumford & Sons"Channel Orange" by Frank Ocean"Blunderbuss" by Jack White
Song of the Year...
- 2/11/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Haywire (15)
(Steven Soderbergh, 2011, Us) Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas, Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender. 93 mins
Soderbergh flexes his action muscles for a change, and why not? Since he can do just about anything and get just about anyone. Pro-fighter Carano certainly convinces in the many punch-ups – she could have Salt and Hanna any day – and she's wisely given little space for acting in between them. It's a slick enough succession of foot chases, double-crosses and close-quarters violence, but it still lives in the shadow of the Bourne movies.
Coriolanus (15)
(Ralph Fiennes, 2011, UK) Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa Redgrave, Gerard Butler. 123 mins
Fiennes trims Shakespeare's martial play and grafts it on to a modern, Balkan-like setting, where his war hero is too proud or noble to play the political game. Veteran thesps help it along.
W.E. (15)
(Madonna, 2011, UK) Andrea Riseborough, Abbie Cornish, James D'Arcy. 119 mins
What could have drawn Madonna to this tale...
(Steven Soderbergh, 2011, Us) Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas, Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender. 93 mins
Soderbergh flexes his action muscles for a change, and why not? Since he can do just about anything and get just about anyone. Pro-fighter Carano certainly convinces in the many punch-ups – she could have Salt and Hanna any day – and she's wisely given little space for acting in between them. It's a slick enough succession of foot chases, double-crosses and close-quarters violence, but it still lives in the shadow of the Bourne movies.
Coriolanus (15)
(Ralph Fiennes, 2011, UK) Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa Redgrave, Gerard Butler. 123 mins
Fiennes trims Shakespeare's martial play and grafts it on to a modern, Balkan-like setting, where his war hero is too proud or noble to play the political game. Veteran thesps help it along.
W.E. (15)
(Madonna, 2011, UK) Andrea Riseborough, Abbie Cornish, James D'Arcy. 119 mins
What could have drawn Madonna to this tale...
- 1/21/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Following his excellent films on Mozart and Beethoven, the British documentarist Phil Grabsky completes an admirable trilogy with this riveting study of Haydn. As with the earlier films there are no phoney reconstructions and dramatisations, just a lucid chronological account of a life using contemporary prints and new film of the places where he worked; some beautiful music by a variety of performers; informative, unpretentious contributions from musicians, critics and historians; and a commentary nicely spoken by Juliet Stevenson. It's a quieter, less dramatic career than Mozart's and Beethoven's, but longer, no less significant, and one of great dedication and probity. I learned much about this likable man (including the fact that there's only one picture of him without a wig and that he never appeared with his head uncovered), and I intend to hear more of his music.
Joseph HaydnDocumentaryClassical musicPhilip French
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Joseph HaydnDocumentaryClassical musicPhilip French
guardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and...
- 1/15/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Here's what I have to say to all the people who bemoan the state of classical music: My classical list is the last one I'm posting (as has often been the case) because there were so many great releases to listen to that I didn't finish until now.
I want to once again admit the biases operating in my best-of-the-year classical lists: I am most interested in the piano, choral, and symphonic literatures. I’m happy to listen to other things when they come my way, but those are what I seek out, vastly tipping the balance in their favor (tipping the balance against opera is the increasing disinclination of record companies to send promos for new opera recordings unless one specifically asks -- and even that is no guarantee). Also note: no reissues or compilations here. That disqualified even the first box-set appearance of David Zinman's fine Mahler cycle,...
I want to once again admit the biases operating in my best-of-the-year classical lists: I am most interested in the piano, choral, and symphonic literatures. I’m happy to listen to other things when they come my way, but those are what I seek out, vastly tipping the balance in their favor (tipping the balance against opera is the increasing disinclination of record companies to send promos for new opera recordings unless one specifically asks -- and even that is no guarantee). Also note: no reissues or compilations here. That disqualified even the first box-set appearance of David Zinman's fine Mahler cycle,...
- 1/5/2012
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Microcinema will release a special DVD boxed set of the music-filled documentary films In Search Of Mozart and In Search Of Beethoven on May 31.
The Mozart/Beethoven DVD package carries a list price of $64.95; the previously released In Search Of Mozart DVD and In Search Of Beethoven DVD are also still available individually for a list price of $39.99 each.
The orchestra plays on in In Search of Mozart.
The two film movies were directed by filmmaker Phil Grabsky and each take a comprehensive look at their respected composer’s life through his musical output. Grabsky documents each piece of music chronologically, placing it in context alongside the composer’s life and letters. Grabsky traveled around the world to interview eminent historians and musicians and then filmed performances by world-class artists.
Produced in association with the world’s leading orchestras, opera houses and musicians, In Search Of Mozart (2009) and In Search Of Beethoven...
The Mozart/Beethoven DVD package carries a list price of $64.95; the previously released In Search Of Mozart DVD and In Search Of Beethoven DVD are also still available individually for a list price of $39.99 each.
The orchestra plays on in In Search of Mozart.
The two film movies were directed by filmmaker Phil Grabsky and each take a comprehensive look at their respected composer’s life through his musical output. Grabsky documents each piece of music chronologically, placing it in context alongside the composer’s life and letters. Grabsky traveled around the world to interview eminent historians and musicians and then filmed performances by world-class artists.
Produced in association with the world’s leading orchestras, opera houses and musicians, In Search Of Mozart (2009) and In Search Of Beethoven...
- 4/15/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival announced its 2011 prize winners earlier today.
The highly-coveted Audience Award went to Morgan Neville’s “Troubadours,” an engaging doc about the rise of singer-songwriters — most notably Carole King and James Taylor, who feature prominently in the film alongside other headliners of the period — in Los Angeles, generally, and at the Troubadour Club, specifically, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. (The film premiered at last month’s Sundance Film Festival and will air nationally on PBS on March 2 at 8pm Est.)
The other top honors were determined by a jury that included actor Billy Baldwin (“Gossip Girl”), writer/director Paul Brickman (“Risky Business”), director Andy Davis (“The Fugitive”), producer Frank Donner (“Deliver Us from Evil”), actor Christopher Lloyd (“Back to the Future”), and actor Anthony Zerbe (“The Matrix”), among others, and went to the following films…
The Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema (given...
The highly-coveted Audience Award went to Morgan Neville’s “Troubadours,” an engaging doc about the rise of singer-songwriters — most notably Carole King and James Taylor, who feature prominently in the film alongside other headliners of the period — in Los Angeles, generally, and at the Troubadour Club, specifically, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. (The film premiered at last month’s Sundance Film Festival and will air nationally on PBS on March 2 at 8pm Est.)
The other top honors were determined by a jury that included actor Billy Baldwin (“Gossip Girl”), writer/director Paul Brickman (“Risky Business”), director Andy Davis (“The Fugitive”), producer Frank Donner (“Deliver Us from Evil”), actor Christopher Lloyd (“Back to the Future”), and actor Anthony Zerbe (“The Matrix”), among others, and went to the following films…
The Panavision Spirit Award for Independent Cinema (given...
- 2/7/2011
- by Scott Feinberg
- Scott Feinberg
Opera Boston announces the company's first commissioned work- the world premiere of Madame White Snake, a new opera based on a beloved ancient Chinese legend, by composer Zhou Long and librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs. Co-commissioned with the Beijing Music Festival (Bmf), it is the first world premiere by the Bmf and an American company. Madame White Snake will have three performances (Feb. 26, 28, and March 2, 2010) at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston and two performances in Beijing in October 2010. Planning has begun to bring Madame White Snake to several Chinese cities following the Chinese premiere in Beijing; the proposed tour is the first by an American Opera Company in China since San Francisco's Western Opera Company in 1987. The education and outreach program of Madame White Snake is presented by State Street Corporation.
Madame White Snake is one of just four world premieres by U.S. opera companies in the 2009-10 season.
Madame White Snake is one of just four world premieres by U.S. opera companies in the 2009-10 season.
- 11/12/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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