CATALOGUE 2018 This Avant Première Catalogue 2018 Lists UNITEL’S New Productions of 2017 CATALOGUE 2018 Plus New Additions to the Catalogue
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CATALOGUE 2018 This Avant Première catalogue 2018 lists UNITEL’s new productions of 2017 CATALOGUE 2018 plus new additions to the catalogue. For a complete list of more than 2.000 UNITEL productions and the Avant Première catalogues of 2015–2017 please visit www.unitel.de FOR CO-PRODUCTION & PRESALES INQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT: Unitel GmbH & Co. KG Gruenwalder Weg 28D · 82041 Oberhaching/Munich, Germany Tel: +49.89.673469-613 · Fax: +49.89.673469-610 · [email protected] Ernst Buchrucker Dr. Thomas Hieber Dr. Magdalena Herbst Managing Director Head of Business and Legal Affairs Head of Production [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Tel: +49.89.673469-19 Tel: +49.89.673469-611 Tel: +49.89.673469-862 Unitel GmbH & Co. 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[email protected] Date of Print: February 2018 © UNITEL 2018 All rights reserved Nadja Joost Ira Rost Sales Manager, Director Live Events Sales Manager, Assistant to & Popular Music Managing Director Front cover: Alicia Amatriain & Friedemann Vogel in John Cranko’s “Onegin” / Photo: Stuttgart Ballet [email protected] [email protected] ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 100TH BIRTHDAY UNITEL CELEBRATES AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME FOR GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION LEONARD BERNSTEIN 1918 – 1990 Leonard Bernstein, a long-time exclusive artist of Unitel, was America’s ambassador to the world of music. He was one of the most influential musicians of the last century and inspired an entire generation. An influential teacher, a brilliant conductor, a fine composer and an accomplished pianist – a man who lived five lives and who exuded passion YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERTS – 2ND SEASON from every pore. 27 NEW EPISODES AVAILABLE In addition to his role as conductor, composer, educator and performing Awarded four Emmys and hailed by Variety as “a rare In 27 “new” episodes of this legendary series, Bernstein artist, Bernstein was one of the early pioneers in bringing the arts to moment in the symbiosis of the arts and broadcasting”, presents famous masterpieces like Mussorgsky’s Pictures television. As such, he became one of the most internationally recognized Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts left their at an Exhibition, music from Paris, unusual instruments musical personalities in the world. Leonard Bernstein, who died in 1990, mark on television history. Aired on CBS from 1958 and young talented performers such as 16-year-old cellist would have celebrated his 100th birthday on August 25th 2018. to 1972, these 53 one-hour programmes were written Lynn Harrell (later one of the most famous cellists in the and hosted by Leonard Bernstein. With the New York world …). Thanks to the exclusive partnership, Unitel presents today around 200 Philharmonic and guest artists providing the live music, programmes with and about Leonard Bernstein, among them 27 new these programmes brought musical concepts and music Length: 27 x approx. 55' episodes of his world famous TV series Young People’s Concerts and the history to life for generations of viewers. Cat. no. A 035 05124 0000 two operas Tristan und Isolde, by Richard Wagner, and A Quiet Place, by Bernstein himself. The range goes from the legendary recordings of Bernstein’s Mahler and Beethoven Cycles to West Side Story – The Making of a Recording and the historic performance of the Ode to RICHARD WAGNER: TRISTAN UND ISOLDE Freedom following the fall of the Berlin Wall, from Bernstein’s rehearsals in Salzau to the intimate portraits Larger than Life, Reaching for the Note Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde is one of Bernstein’s finest opera from the Herkulessaal in Munich, Bernstein conducts the and The Gift of Music. recordings and still considered exemplary. It presents the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. top Wagner singers of the time: Peter Hofmann and Hildegard Behrens in the title roles as well as Yvonne Minton (Brangäne), Bernd Weikl (Kurwenal) and Hans Length: approx. 264' Sotin (King Marke). In this semi-staged performance Cat. no. A 050 05284 LEONARD BERNSTEIN: A QUIET PLACE In 1986 Bernstein conducted a refined version of his own The next morning, after breakfast and games in the garden opera A Quiet Place in Vienna. It contains singable late – the “quiet place” –, they find that their hostility has romantic melodies as well as Broadway musical sounds, given way to reconciliation. syncopated jazz rhythms and well-tempered modernity and, of course, a masterful instrumentation. Estranged family members recall the history of their Length: 169' relationships with each other and with their dead mother. Cat. no. A 050 05322 Photos: Unitel PLUS SOME EXCITING RECORDINGS & DOCUMENTARIES TO COME IN 2018 CATALOGUE 2018 JOHN CRANKO'S STUTTGART BALLET SPECIAL Of Miracles and Superheroes – Documentary on the Stuttgart Ballet 11 Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (Stuttgart Ballet / Cranko) 12 Marcia Haydée – The Seduction of Dance 13 Tchaikovsky: Onegin (Stuttgart Ballet / Cranko) 14 Stuttgart Ballet Talks 15 OPERA Berg: Wozzeck (Salzburg Festival / Wiener Philharmoniker / Jurowski / Kentridge) 16 Bizet: Carmen (Bregenz Festival / Wiener Symphoniker / Carignani / Holten) 18 Donizetti: Don Pasquale (Wiener Staatsoper / Pidò / Brook) 20 Giordano: Andrea Chénier (Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich / Armiliato / Stölzl) 22 Gounod: Roméo et Juliette (Wiener Staatsoper / Domingo / Flimm) 24 Handel: Arminio (Händel-Festspiele, Karlsruhe / Armonia Atenea / Petrou / Cencic) 26 Handel: Semele (Händel-Festspiele, Karlsruhe / Deutsche Händel-Solisten / Moulds / Visser) 28 Handel: Serse (Oper Frankfurt / Carydis / Köhler) 30 Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen (Wiener Staatsoper / Netopil / Schenk) 32 Monteverdi 450 (Teatro La Fenice / Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists / Gardiner) 34 Mozart: La clemenza di Tito (Salzburg Festival / musicAeterna / Currentzis / Sellars) 36 Nono: Prometeo (Teatro Farnese / Ensemble Prometeo & Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini / Angius) 38 Puccini: La Bohème (Royal Opera House, London / Pappano / Jones) 40 Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Royal Opera House, London / Pappano / Leiser & Caurier) 42 Respighi: La bella dormente nel bosco (Teatro Lirico di Cagliari / Renzetti / Muscato) 44 Rossini: Le Comte Ory (Opéra Comique, Paris / Orch. des Champs-Élysées / Langrée / Podalydès) 46 Rossini: Mosè in Egitto (Bregenz Festival / Wiener Symphoniker / Mazzola / de Beer) 48 Rossini: Otello (Teatro di San Carlo, Naples / Ferro / Gitai) 50 Schumann: Szenen aus Goethes Faust (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin / Barenboim / Flimm) 52 Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (Oper Stuttgart / Cambreling / Wieler & Morabito) 54 Verdi: Aida (Salzburg Festival / Wiener Philharmoniker / Muti / Neshat) 56 Verdi: Il Trovatore (Royal Opera House, London / Farnes / Bösch) 58 Verdi: Otello (Royal Opera House, London / Pappano / Warner) 60 Verdi: Rigoletto (Chorégies d’Orange / Orch. Philharmonique de Radio France / Franck / Roubaud) 62 Wagner: Die Walküre (Salzburg Easter Festival / Staatskapelle Dresden / Thielemann / Nemirova) 64 BALLET Richter: Woolf Works (The Royal Ballet, London / McGregor) 66 Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (The Royal Ballet, London / Petipa) 68 Satie/Stravinsky: Parade & Pulcinella (Corps de Ballet of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma / Massine) 70 Le Ballet Royal de la Nuit (Théâtre de Caen / Ensemble Correspondances / Daucé / Lattuada) 72 Photo: Ralph Larmann 7 CATALOGUE 2018 CATALOGUE 2018 CONCERT Gala Concerts Staatskapelle Dresden Elbphilharmonie Hamburg – The Inaugural Concert 75 Beethoven, Bach & Bruckner (Schiff / Blomstedt) 98 Hollywood in Vienna – A Tribute to Danny Elfman 77 Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 (Thielemann) 98 Anna Netrebko & Yusif Eyvazov – The Waldbühne Concert 77 Festive Gala at the Semperoper Dresden – 100 Years UFA Film Classics (Thielemann) 100 Bartabas & The Académie Equestre de Versailles 77 Festive Advent Concert at the Frauenkirche Dresden (Thielemann) 100 BBC Proms Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks First Night of the Proms (BBC Symphony Orchestra / Levit / Gardner) 78 The Odeonsplatz Concert – Martin Grubinger & Manfred Honeck 102 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Leila Josefowicz, Allan Clayton & Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla 79 Sommer, Mahler & Rachmaninoff (Romberger / Jansons) 102 Schoenberg: Gurrelieder (London Symphony Orchestra / Rattle) 80 Beethoven & Prokofiev (Barenboim / Jansons) 102 Staatskapelle Berlin & Daniel Barenboim 81 Salzburg Festival West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Camerata Salzburg, Sergey Khachatryan & Lorenzo Viotti 82 Strauss & Tchaikovsky (Soltani / Manasherov / Barenboim) 104 Mozart: Requiem (musicAeterna & Chorus / Currentzis) 83 RECITAL & CHAMBER MUSIC Berliner Philharmoniker Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 (Schiff) 105 Adams & Dvořák (McAllister / Dudamel) 85 Woodlands and Beyond… – Hélène Grimaud at the Elbphilharmonie 106 Adams: The Gospel According to the Other Mary (Rattle) 85 Bartók: The Complete String Quartets