CONSUMER NEWS
August 2020
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: 100 Anniversary Edition Salzburg Festival
C Major Entertainment
100 Anniversary Edition Salzburg Festival – 10 outstanding productions recorded 2008-2019.
DVD + Blu-Ray: Bernard Haitink – Farewell Concert at Salzburg
C Major Entertainment
“No more Bruckner under Haitink, that’s a cut in the history of interpretation.” – Wiener Zeitung.
DVD: Don Pasquale starring Edita Gruberova
NAXOS Audiovisual Division
Donizetti’s Don Pasquale by the Vienna State Opera on tour through Austria (1977) featuring Edita Gruberova and Luigi Alva at the height of their powers.
DVD + Blu-Ray: Handel/Mozart: Der Messias staged by Robert Wilson
C Major Entertainment
“Stunningly beautiful” (BR Klassik), “A stellar moment for the music” (orf.at), “Timelessly beautiful” (Süddeutsche Zeitung).
DVD: Itzhak Perlman Anniversary Box
EuroArts Music International
In celebration of Perlman’s 75th birthday this 6 DVD box set highlights important landmarks in his career with both the Berliner Philharmoniker and the IPO.
DVD: Leaving Home, Coming Home: Robert Frank
MONARDA Music GmbH
A portrait that captures the life and art of one of the most significant and uncompromising artists of the 20th century.
DVD + Blu-Ray: Plácido Domingo Gala – 50 Years at Arena di Verona
C Major Entertainment
To mark the anniversary, Domingo presents a programme entirely dedicated to Verdi, performing three of his most complex and majestic baritone roles.
DVD: What to do with all this love
Accentus Music
“A deeply human film – full of warmth and tenderness.” (Deutscher Kamerapreis) – Now available on DVD and as Video on Demand.
VIDEO ON DEMAND NEWS
10% early bird discount
Berlin Phil Media GmbH
10% early bird discount for the 2020/21 season. Now in the Digital Concert Hall!
Elfi and August storming the Opera Stage
August Schram
MeTube III: August sings “Una furtiva lagrima” premieres on 20 August at the Film Festival at Vienna Rathausplatz 2020. The web release will be on 21 August.
LIVE STREAMS
100 Years of the Salzburg Festival on ARTE
ARTE G.E.I.E.
2020: ARTE is celebrating 100 years of the Salzburg Festival: In addition to the anniversary highlights on TV, ARTE Concert is offering one online stream per day.
Moscow Philharmonic resumes live streams!
The Moscow Philharmonic Society (on hold)
2020: Dear music lovers, on 7 August, the Moscow Philharmonic opens the doors of the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall and resumes live streams.
Salzburg Festival 2020 on fidelio!
myfidelio
2020: Stream this year’s Salzburg Festival LIVE on fidelio – DAILY!
Live on takt1: Haydn’s Seasons, Schloss Esterházy
takt1
8 2020: Haydn’s oratorio “The Seasons” live from a historic venue: The Haydn-Saal from Schloss Esterházy, where the maestro himself lived and worked.
Lucerne Festival live on ARTE Concert
ARTE G.E.I.E.
14 2020: On 14 and 15 August, ARTE Concert will broadcast two concerts live from the Lucerne Festival, including Beethoven’s 2nd and 3rd Symphony.
BROADCAST DATES
VBW-productions at the Film Festival at Vienna Rathausplatz 2020
VBW International GmbH
2020: FIDELIO and I AM FROM AUSTRIA: two Vereinigte Bühnen Wien-productions are on the schedule for August/September 2020.
Festival cities in crisis
Accentus Music
1 2020: A documentary about the festival cities Bayreuth and Salzburg and their different ways of dealing with the Corona pandemic on 3sat, 1 August 2020 at 19:20.
Herbert Blomstedt and Martha Argerich in Lucerne
Accentus Music
16 2020: The debut of Herbert Blomstedt with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra to be streamed live on Arte Concert on 14/15 August and broadcast on Arte TV on 16 August.
PRODUCTIONS SOON ON THE MARKET
DVD + Blu-Ray: Chailly, Matsuev and the LFO play Rachmaninoff
Accentus Music
Just in time for the adapted 2020 edition, the Opening Concert of the 2019 Lucerne Festival with works by Rachmaninoff is now available on DVD and Blu-ray.
W.A. Mozart | Le Nozze di Figaro
MONARDA Music GmbH
A fantastic new production of Mozart’s hectic and bubbly story of Figaro’s wedding party featuring Christiane Karg giving her debut at DNO in 2016.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS
Anton Bruckner – The Making of a Giant
MONARDA Music GmbH
The first in-depth documentary about the Anton Bruckner will reach cinemas in July 2020.
IMZ project won the “Creatives for Vienna” call. Now you can vote for it too!
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
The IMZ’s digitalisation project – “IMZ Online Services” [working title] – is among the best selected ideas in the “Creatives for Vienna” call. Now there is a public voting everyone can participate in by one simple click.
- CONSUMER NEWS