INDUSTRY NEWS
November 2016
The monthly update on business news for professionals in the performing arts and audiovisual industries:
posting new productions, industry previews, calls, deadlines or job ads while connecting coproduction partners, vendors and buyers. Brought to you by the IMZ International Music + Media Centre, the international business network supporting performing arts through audiovisual media.
PRODUCTIONS IN THE MAKING
A night at Le Concert Spirituel
Bel Air Media
Joseph Haydn, Jean-Chrétien Bach, Marie-Alexandre Guénin, Italian arias by Giuseppe Sarti and Giovanni Paisiello.
A perfect combination: Rouvali & Hamelin
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Brahms’ colossal First Piano Concerto and Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra.
Bach Christmas Oratorio
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Possible live broadcast through satellite link on 9 December.
Beethoven – The Myth! His life in six sonatas
ZDF / 3sat
Already during his life time Beethoven was regarded as a myth. The six part series sheds light on the composer’s mysterious personality.
CD: Bach solo bass cantatas / Michael Volle, AkAMus
Accentus Music
Accentus Music to record a new CD of Bach’s Solo Bass Cantatas with Michael Volle and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, to be released in spring 2017.
Festive Advent Concert at Frauenkirche Dresden
Unitel
Sonya Yoncheva and Regula Mühlemann team up with Staatskapelle Dresden under the baton of Andrés Orozco-Estrada.
Golden Age
Bel Air Media
To celebrate the 90th anniversary of the great 20th century choreographer, Yuri Grigorovich, The Bolshoi Theatre brings back to life The Golden Age.
Grieg’s greatest music: Peer Gynt
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
The Gothenburg Symphony - the National Orchestra of Sweden - perform Grieg's Peer Gynt.
Korngold’s ‘Die tote Stadt’ at the Wiener Staatsoper
Unitel
Willy Decker's highly acclaimed production with Klaus Florian Vogt, Camilla Nylund and Adrian Eröd under the baton of Mikko Franck.
New Year’s Eve Concert from the Semperoper Dresden
Unitel
The Staatskapelle and Christian Thielemann will present a bouquet of cheerful melodies and Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 with Nikolaj Znaider.
Peter Greenaway directs Giovanna d’Arco
Unitel
With more than 50 years of experience as film director Peter Greenaway combines the worlds of film and opera with an all new approach to Verdi’s work.
Verdi's Requiem at the Opernhaus Zürich
Accentus Music
A scenic ballet and opera production, filmed by Accentus Music in co-production with Arte G.E.I.E., NHK, and SRF; to be broadcast on arte in December 2016
‘La Favorite’ with Garanca at Bayerische Staatsoper
Unitel
Donizetti's La Favorite opens season in new production with outstanding belcanto singers incl. Elina Garanca, Matthew Polenzani and Mariusz Kwiecien.
AWARDS
ECHO KLASSIK for Anna Netrebko
Clasart Classic
Anna Netrebko is awarded with the ECHO KLASSIK for her performance of Lady Macbeth in the Met live in HD production of Verdi's Shakespearean drama.
Small Islands and Survival Artists
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We are very happy to announce that two outstanding films from Claus Wischmann and Holger Preusse won at the Golden Prague 2016.
COMPLETED PRODUCTIONS
BBC Proms – Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle
C Major Entertainment
From the Royal Albert Hall: Simon Rattle conducts Mahler's Seventh Symphony.
Elizabeth
C Major Entertainment
Will Tuckett’s opulent full-length work fuses dance, music and theatre in its exploration of the life and loves of Queen Elizabeth I.
Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème from Teatro Torino
C Major Entertainment
This 120th anniversary production is directed by Àlex Ollé, the celebrated director of La Fura dels Baus.
Yuja Wang named Musical America Artist of 2017
EuroArts Music International
EuroArts presents the Musical America Artist of the Year 2017: Yuja Wang!
IMZ NEWS
NEW IMZ MEMBER: AUDIOVISUAL DIVISION / NAXOS DEUTSCHLAND
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
Widening its business network, the IMZ is joined by the Audiovisual Division / Naxos Deutschland, a 360° service company for the audiovisual-performing arts industry. Find out more about Naxos in this interview with Klaus Heyman, Founder and Head of the Naxos record label and Chairman of the Naxos Music Group.
New IMZ Members!
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
ABC Commercial, Anna&Paul Film&TV AB, Audiovisual Division / Naxos Deutschland, Auditorium Films, China Intercontinental Communication Center, Foxtel Networks, Michael Witte Research Management, Music Traveler GmbH, Nordisk Drama & Dokumentär AB
New position for former IMZ Secretary General Franz Patay
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
We are proud to announce that IMZ Secretary General Franz Patay has been appointed Managing Director of the Vereinigte Bühnen Wien (VBW).
AVANT PREMIÈRE 2017
hosted by the IMZ
Special anniversary deals on your registration!
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
IMZ Members always enjoy special rates. Celebrating 55 years of the IMZ there are now even better deals until the end of the anniversary year!
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