CONSUMER NEWS
April 2023
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: A classic tale of the irrational and inexplicable!
Opus Arte
The Winter's Tale is a classic comedic, romantic, yet tragic story of irrational and inexplicable happenings in a world of monsters, gods and disasters.
DVD + Blu-Ray: Barrie Kosky's Tosca conducted by Lorenzo Viotti
NAXOS Audiovisual Division
Puccini's Tosca staged at the Dutch National Opera by Barrie Kosky featuring Malin Byström, Joshua Guerrero and Gevorg Hakobyan in the title roles.
DVD + Blu-Ray: Bruckner 11 – Thielemann & Wiener Philharmoniker
C Major Entertainment
To celebrate Bruckner’s bicentenary, Christian Thielemann and the Wiener Philharmoniker recorded the orchestra’s first ever complete Bruckner cycle.
CD + Blu-Ray: Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker
Berlin Phil Media GmbH
Three works written amidst Stalinist censorship and the hope for freedom: Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings presents Shostakovich’s Symphonies 8–10.
DVD: Music under the Swastika
C Major Entertainment
A documentary featuring Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, cellist of the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz, Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann and many others.
CD + DVD + Blu-Ray: New box set releases by Accentus Music
Accentus Music
In May, Accentus Music will release four new box sets, featuring Riccardo Chailly, Andris Nelsons and great interpretations of Bach's cantatas.
DVD + Blu-Ray: Tosca
C Major Entertainment
La Scala engages Anna Netrebko and the highest-calibre partners imaginable for a phenomenal production of Tosca.
BROADCAST DATES
MET OPERA LIVE IN HD – CHAMPION
Clasart Classic
29 April 2023, 19:00 (CET): The Met premiere of Terence Blanchard’s first opera, CHAMPION, about the life of boxer Emile Griffith will be transmitted live to cinemas on 29 April.
MET OPERA LIVE IN HD – DER ROSENKAVALIER
Clasart Classic
15 April 2023, 18:00 (CET): Acclaimed soprano Lise Davidsen stars in the Met Opera's revival of Strauss’s most popular opera – transmitted live to cinemas on 15 April.
On Tour with Mozart | Felix Klieser and the BSO
sounding images
16 April 2023, 17:35 (CET): The film accompanies Klieser on a tour of southern England, with a programme that includes the 4th Horn Concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
OTHER INTERESTING NEWS
IMZ ACADEMY WORKSHOP 2023: SAVE THE DATE!
IMZ International Music + Media Centre
Join the IMZ + the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon this November + learn the art of "Live Multi-Camera Directing in Classical Music"!
Spot On MozART meets audience in its final phase
Universität Mozarteum Salzburg
With digital visualizations of Mozart compositions, Spot On MozART devotes its final year to the question: What happens when projects and audiences meet?
tanz:digital at Avant Première / Trailer
Dachverband Tanz Deutschland e.V.
Dance goes digital. Choreographers are experimenting with VR and AR, creating dance films, streaming their performances with new camera perspectives.
The 47th Innsbruck Festival of Early Music builds musical paths
Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik GmbH
The Innsbruck Festival of Early Music will be constructing musical "paths" from 11 July to 29 August. After 14 years as artistic director, Alessandro De Marchi is entering his final festival season. True to this year's theme of "paths," he invites everyone to join him and outstanding artists of the Early Music scene in taking paths together.
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