A 1993 film on this original and inspired producer.
Wilson before begining to make controversial opera productions in 1985, was already at the head of about 20 works of avant-garde theater since 1965 and continued until today.
Aix-en-Provence 1998. Michael Bennett (Madwoman), Jussi Järvenpää (Ferryman), Andrew Rupp (Traveller), Ulas Inan Inac (Abbot), Nicolas Bauchau, Fernando Cobo, Ulas Inan Inac, Jussi Järvenpää, Andrew Rupp, Kim Ta (Pilgrims).
Académie Européenne de Musique, David Stern (Conductor)
Yoshi Oida (staging)
Most of the time, people associates (for whom who know her in Europe at the present time), the voice of Marian Anderson with the Contralto parts. Here is a radio broadcast where she performs the Casta Diva from Norma. Even lowered a tone, it gives clearly a new idea of her great range, and eclectic possibilities.
Work and art. When Maria Callas shows more expression on a baritone aria than any other singer.
(From her famous masterclasses at Julliard from 1971 to 1972)
Another lesson at the Juilliard School, on Fiesco'aria in Simon Boccanegra. Callas inspires young Willard White (before he began his a great carreer) with some more authority, exact diction, urgency in the vibrato and phrasing, and talks about the relative pianissimo on an operatic stage.
About "The CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down" . A gigantic multinational project for the 1984 Olympics games, that never was performed completely.
One of the major ballerinas of the XXth century, Noëlla Pontois talks about her life. She was a frequent partner of Rudolf Noureev, and the main star dancer of the Paris Opera for nearly 20 years.
The wonderful long lines of Gluck, served by the wonderful breath, diction, and vocal tones of Norman in "Ah malgré moi" (act 2) and "Ah divinités implacables" (act 3)
(Chicago, 1990)
A Beautiful film with rare pictures of Julia VARADY as a child and talking about her youth and musical training. She sings the "young maid and the Death", accompanied by her husband Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.