CONSUMER NEWS
April 2025
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.
NEWS FROM THE IMZ

Classical:Next Film Showcases
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
The IMZ has partnered with Classical:NEXT to create the Film Showcases, which give filmmakers the opportunity to present their work and foster new connections between the classical music and film industries.

IMZ Academy Workshop at Dance House Helsinki
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
Last chance to register for the IMZ Academy Workshop at Dance House Helsinki from 10-14 June, and learn the art of capturing dance performances from award-winning directors.
NEW RELEASES

DVD + Blu-Ray: Adina
C Major Entertainment
Rossini Opera Festival presents Adina staged on a giant wedding cake, with the main role interpreted magnificently by Lisette Oropesa.

DVD + Blu-Ray: Bruckner 9: Herbert Blomstedt, Bamberg Symphony
Accentus Music
There is often an occasion for great concerts, but there are rarely several good reasons for a concert recording of an outstanding musical event.

DVD + Blu-Ray: Dutch National Ballet's new production of Giselle
NAXOS Audiovisual Division
The Dutch National Ballet production by Rachel Beaujean and Ricardo Bustamante breathes new life into Giselle while remaining true to the original.

DVD: Royal Shakespeare Company Collection
Opus Arte
The world-renowned Royal Shakespeare Company presents the most complete collection of Shakespeare’s plays to be captured in widescreen - 37 DVD Box Set.

CD: Serena Sáenz: Birds
EuroArts Music International
With its intelligently selected repertoire, the album offers a broad spectrum at the highest musical level.

DVD + Blu-Ray: Un ballo in maschera
C Major Entertainment
With Beczala and Alvarez in the main roles, this production of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera is “a deeply moving play of masquerade and humanity” (El País).
BROADCASTS

Javier Perianes from the Real Alcázar of Seville
EuroArts Music International
Javier Perianes plays music by Scarlatti & Albéniz, recorded at the beautiful Real Alcázar of Seville.

Met Opera Live in HD – Le nozze di Figaro
Clasart Classic
Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading an extraordinary cast in Mozart’s comic masterpiece – transmitted live to cinemas on 26 April.

MMM | The Wrath of Nina Simone
sounding images
At the peak of the civil rights movement a European TV performance of Nina Simone showcases an intense, defining moment about the liberating power of music

Two Piano Fireworks and Symphonic Splendour
sounding images
Lucas & Arthur Jussen join the Gewandhausorchester and Gewandhauskapellmeister Andris Nelson at the Konzerthaus Dortmund
LIVESTREAMS

Jakub Hrůša and the Berliner Philharmoniker
ARTE G.E.I.E.
Easter Festival Baden-Baden 2025 : Jakub Hrůša and the Berliner Philharmoniker present works by Leoš Janáček, Béla Bartók and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts Britten & Čiurlionis
Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla conducts a concert that offers a double celebration: of the sea, and of the Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Čiurlionis.
EVENTS

2025 SF Dance Film Festival: Final Call for Films
San Francisco Dance Film Festival
The San Francisco Dance Film Festival is accepting dance film submissions of all styles, lengths, and budgets. Apply by 8 May.

Film Showcases debut at Classical:NEXT 2025
Classical:NEXT
Calling all music and media innovators! Join us in Berlin 12–15 May for the largest international gathering of classical and art music professionals!
VIDEO ON DEMAND

Yuja x Hockney at Lightroom, London
Deutsche Grammophon GmbH
One remarkable pianist, one remarkable artist: Yuja Wang performs music in response to a series of carefully selected artworks by David Hockney.
SOON ON THE MARKET

Clara Olivares: Les Sentinelles
ARTE G.E.I.E.
Les Sentinelles premieres in the magnificent hall of the Opéra National de Bordeaux – online from 14 April.
- CONSUMER NEWS