CONSUMER NEWS
April 2024
Your monthly update on performing arts releases, live streams, previews and specials - directly from the producers. Brought to you by the IMZ International Music + Media Centre, the international business network supporting performing arts through audiovisual media.
NEW RELEASES
DVD + Blu-Ray: Critics' Choice - La fille mal gardée
Opus Arte
Ever since it’s triumphant premiere in January 1960, Frederick Ashton's La fille mal gardée has been esteemed as one of his happiest creations.
DVD + Blu-Ray: Critics' Choice - Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
Opus Arte
Kenneth MacMillan's first full-evening ballet has become one of The Royal Ballet's signature works, featuring Lauren Cuthbertson & Federico Bonelli.
DVD + Blu-Ray: Critics' Choice - Verdi: Il Trovatore
Opus Arte
Verdi’s opera of passion, blood, fire and vengeance comes to the stage in an atmospheric production by David Bösch.
DVD + Blu-Ray: Das Rheingold
C Major Entertainment
The first chapter of the epic Staatsoper Berlin’s Ring tetralogy by Wagner, conducted by Thielemann and staged by Tcherniakov.
DVD + Blu-Ray: Das Rheingold staged by Stefan Herheim
NAXOS Audiovisual Division
Sir Donald Runnicles conducts an acclaimed cast in the innovative production of Das Rheingold by Stefan Herheim at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
DVD + Blu-Ray: Die Walküre staged by Stefan Herheim
NAXOS Audiovisual Division
Sir Donald Runnicles conducts an acclaimed cast with Nina Stemme as Brünnhilde in the innovative production of Die Walküre staged by Stefan Herheim.
CD: Glazunov: Raymonda
Opus Arte
A lavish orchestral adaptation of a rarely performed 19th-century ballet score by the English National Ballet Philharmonic.
DVD: Henry V starring Kit Harington
Opus Arte
An incredible new production of Shakespeare’s epic tale of what it means to be a king from the Donmar Warehouse, starring Game of Thrones' Kit Harington.
CD: Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets
Accentus Music
On 5 April Accentus Music released a CD box set with the complete string quartets by Dmitri Shostakovich with the renowned Quatuor Danel.
DVD + Blu-Ray: Tchaikovsky's The Enchantress with Asmik Grigorian
NAXOS Audiovisual Division
A new Opera Frankfurt production of Tchaikovsky’s The Enchantress with Asmik Grigorian hailed as a ‘miracle’ and baritone Iain MacNeil as ‘world class.’
VIDEO ON DEMAND
Bach's St John Passion with Andrea Marcon
Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Bach's St John Passion with Andrea Marcon and La Cetra Barockorchester live from Aix-en-Provence.
Gai, Rozhestvo! concert TV version
Suspilne Ukraine - Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine
The programme reproduces the repertoire of the premiere concert of the Ukrainian National Choir conducted by O.Koshyts (New York, 5 October, 1922).
Surma Military Music Festival, concert TV version
Suspilne Ukraine - Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine
Famous Ukrainian singers and bands participated in this concert. Among them Khoreya Kozatska, Ot vinta, Telnyuk sisters, Oleg Pavlyshyn and others.
LIVE STREAMS + BROADCASTS
MET OPERA LIVE IN HD – LA RONDINE
Clasart Classic
20 2024: Celebrated tenor Jonathan Tetelman makes his highly anticipated Met debut in Puccini’s La Rondine – transmitted live to cinemas on 20 April.
Long Yu conducts Aron Zigman's Émigré
Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
4 2024: Long Yu conducts the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus and a hand-picked cast in composer Aaron Zigman's new oratorio, Émigré.
Beethoven’s Nine – Ode to Humanity
3B-Produktion GmbH
5 2024: Celebrating its 200-year anniversary, director Larry Weinstein set out to make a documentary about Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and its relevance today.
MORE NEWS
68th Viennese Opera Ball
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
Join us for an enchanting evening of elegance and philanthropy at the 68th Viennese Opera Ball, held on 10 May 2024 at The Plaza, New York, NY.
Call for Submissions: SanFrancisco Dance Film Fest
San Francisco Dance Film Festival
Open Call for Submissions for San Francisco Dance Film Festival's 15th Anniversary Film Festival.
PODCAST RECOMMENDATIONS
Aria Code - The Metropolitan Opera
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
Tune in to Aria Code, a podcast that explores the greatest arias in music history. Hosted by Rhiannon Giddens and featuring a variety of special guests, the show takes you on a journey spanning from Mozart to Anthony Davis!
Music Makers - medici.tv
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
In this podcast the Gramophone editor-in-chief James Jolly is joined by most celebrated classical artists of today’s stages to talk about memorable moments on and offstage, their experience of and love for classical music, and what inspires them as artists and human beings.
- CONSUMER NEWS