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CATALOGUE 2020 CATALOGUE UNITEL AVANT PREMIÈRE CATALOGUE 2020 “Nothing but a sensation!” (SWR2) Photo: Anja Köhler The open-air lake stage in Bregenz is one of the most spectacular opera venues in the world, requiring a long and careful planning. Stage designer and director Philipp Stölzl, set designer Heike Vollmer and a large group of experts involving more than 46 engineering companies from Austria, Germany and Switzerland spent three years planning, adapting and building the scenery. Therefore Rigoletto was the natural choice as Unitel’s first opera produced in staggering Ultra High Definition with Dolby Vision & Atmos. The result is a “breathtaking, tight and thrilling arrangement, extremely beautiful. Philipp Stölzl delivers a superlative Rigoletto to Bregenz lake stage” (Frankfurter Rundschau). See page 25 (opera performance) and page 54 (documentary) for details. MUSIC TO WATCH since 1966 “What do we see when we listen, when we really listen to music?” Most of us would find this question difficult to answer. But back in the 1960s, one man knew what he wanted to see: the world’s best performers captured on film of the highest quality and with a sound to rival the concert hall’s. CATALOGUE 2020 And he decided to do something about it. Leo Kirch was this man, and the company he founded in 1966 has been dedicated to realizing his dream ever since. Unitel, now part of Jan Mojto’s corporate group, has soon become the world’s leading producer of classical music programs for film, television, DVD & Blu-ray and Digital Media. This Avant Premiere 2020 catalogue presents all additions from the year 2019 to Unitel’s catalogue, which in total features more than 2.000 performances of operas, orchestral music, chamber music, ballets and operettas, as well Unitel GmbH & Co. KG as musical essays, backstage footage, portraits and documentaries. Gruenwalder Weg 28D 82041 Oberhaching/Munich, Germany Unitel has always placed the greatest emphasis on quality, which extends to all aspects of the production: from the artists to the technology. This CEO: Jan Mojto means that Unitel has always been at the forefront of new technological Editorial: Xenia Hofmann, Arthur Intelmann, Franziska Limmer developments , always searching for the most authentic, faithful ways of Layout: mmessner.de duplicating and heightening the musical experience. With this catalogue All information is not contractual and subject to change without prior notice. we proudly present not only our first production in Dolby Vision · Atmos, All trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. but also nine of Unitel’s most legendary programs remastered by NHK to Date of Print: February 2020 stunning 8K Super High Vision and 22.2 sound, see page 56. © UNITEL 2020 All rights reserved Front cover: Giuseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto” / Photo: Mathis Fotografie Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Bach & Schubert (Hahn / Wellber) 38 Ensemble Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon Bach: Mass in B minor 39 CATALOGUE 2020 Stravaganza d'amore 39 Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine 39 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra SALZBURG FESTIVAL Eumeralla - A war requiem for peace (Cheetham) 40 Handel: Ariodante (Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco / Capuano / Loy) 9 East Meets West (Hanggai / Reeves / Dun) 40 Mozart: Idomeneo (Freiburger Barockorchester / Currentzis / Sellars) 10 Handel/Davis: Messiah (Davis) 41 Offenbach: Orphée aux enfers (Wiener Philharmoniker / Mazzola / Kosky) 11 Stravinsky: Perséphone & The Rite of Spring (Davis) 41 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (Wiener Philharmoniker / Gergiev / Kriegenburg) 12 Wiener Philharmoniker, Emanuel Ax & Bernard Haitink 13 Orchestre de Paris West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim 13 Berlioz: Concert monstre (Roth) 42 Rachmaninoff: The Complete Piano Concertos (Matsuev / Abduraimov / Lugansky / Kochanovsky) 42 OPERA Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (Wiener Staatsoper / Pidò / Pelly) 14 Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (Sado) 43 Gluck: Alceste (Bayerische Staatsoper / Manacorda / Cherkaoui) 15 Massenet: Don Quichotte (Bregenz Festival / Cohen / Clément) 16 Le Poème Harmonique Moniuszko: Halka (Theater an der Wien / Borowicz / Treliński) 17 Monteverdi, Castaldi & others (Zaïcik / Dumestre) 43 Monteverdi: La favola d’Orfeo (Vicenza Opera Festival / I. Fischer) 18 Mozart: T.H.A.M.O.S. (Mozartwoche Salzburg / de la Parra / La Fura dels Baus) 19 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Prokofiev: Betrothal in a Monastery (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin / Barenboim / Tcherniakov) 20 Tchaikovsky (Lamsma / Chan) 44 Puccini: Tosca (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence / Rustioni / Honoré) 21 Rossini, Mozart & Haydn (Faust / Zimmermann / I. Fischer) 44 Puccini: Tosca (Wiener Staatsoper / Armiliato / Wallmann) 22 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Welser-Möst) 45 Rossini: L’equivoco stravagante (Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro / Rizzi / Leiser & Caurier) 23 Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten (Wiener Staatsoper / Thielemann / Huguet) 24 Staatskapelle Dresden Verdi: Rigoletto (Bregenz Festival / Mazzola / Stölzl) 25 Festive Gala at the Semperoper Dresden (Thielemann) 46 Verdi: Il Trovatore (Arena di Verona / Morandi / Zeffirelli) 27 Festive Advent Concert at the Frauenkirche Dresden (de la Parra) 47 Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence / Luisi / Curran) 28 Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 (Thielemann) 47 BALLET West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Beethoven & Bruckner: (Mutter / Ma / Barenboim) 48 John Neumeier: Beethoven Project (Festspielhaus Baden-Baden / Hamburg Ballett) 29 Wiener Philharmoniker: Bruckner Cycle CONCERT Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 (Thielemann) 49 BBC Proms Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Thielemann) 49 First Night of the Proms (BBC Symphony Orchestra / Canellakis) 30 Bohemian Rhapsody (Bamberger Symphoniker / Bell / Hrůša) 30 RECITAL & CHAMBER MUSIC The Warner Brothers Story (John Wilson Orchestra / Wilson) 31 Beethoven: The 5 Cello Sonatas (Hoffman / Selig) 50 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Kanneh-Mason / Gražinytė-Tyla) 31 Beethoven: The Piano Trios (D. Barenboim / M. Barenboim / Soltani) 50 Gala Concerts Grafenegg Midsummer Night’s Gala 32 SPECIALS Vienna State Opera Gala 32 Philharmonic 5: Beethoven @ teamLab Tokyo 51 The Odeonsplatz Concert with Renée Fleming & Alan Gilbert 33 Hollywood in Vienna – A Night at the Oscars with Gabriel Yared 52 The Odeonsplatz Concert with Valery Gergiev 33 David Garrett at the Arena di Verona 53 Plácido Domingo Anniversary Gala at Arena di Verona 34 Rossini Opera Festival Gala 35 DOCUMENTARY Salzburg Wind Orchestra Gala 35 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli – Beyond Perfection 54 Münchner Philharmoniker Rigoletto on the Lake – The creation of a spectacle 54 Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (Mumford / Reiss / Dudamel) 36 “It's Me. Hilary”(working title) 55 Friedemann Vogel – Wings of Dance 55 Czech Philharmonic Martinů Cycle (Bělohlávek, Hrůša) 37 CONTACT US 58 GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL ARIODANTE SALZBURG FESTIVAL CECILIA BARTOLI (ARIODANTE) · NATHAN BERG (THE KING OF SCOTLAND) · KATHRYN LEWEK (GINEVRA) Photo: Tourismus Salzburg Salzburg Tourismus Photo: ROLANDO VILLAZÓN (LURCANIO) · CHRISTOPHE DUMAUX (POLINESSO) · SANDRINE PIAU (DALINDA) OPERAS & CONCERTS KRISTOFER LUNDIN (ODOARDO) UNITEL is the exclusive audiovisual partner of the Salzburg Festival, LES MUSICIENS DU PRINCE – MONACO CONDUCTED BY GIANLUCA CAPUANO SALZBURGER BACHCHOR · CHORUS MASTER ALOIS GLASSNER the world’s most prestigious classical music festival. STAGED BY CHRISTOF LOY The UNITEL catalogue features more than 130 productions from Salzburg Festival. “This year’s installment “The Mount Olympus FESTIVAL MonikaPhoto: Rittershaus will be hard to top” OF THE YEAR of summer festivals” Musical America At Salzburg Festival, Cecilia Bartoli in the title role of Ariodante “is in a lets Bartoli’s Prince Ariodante break free from gender clichés, based on New York Times Financial Times league of her own!” (Standard). Christof Loy, one of Germany’s most the premise that true love doesn’t decide by gender. In her arias, the distinguished stage directors, gives a compelling psychological reading Italian superstar effortlessly switches between cheerful and lamenting of Handel’s opera about the intrigues at the Royal Scottish court. He coloraturas. “The singing was sensational!” (LA Times). Cat. no. A 040 50084 | Video Director: Tiziano Mancini | Length: approx. 220' | Filmed in Ultra High Definition A co-production of UNITEL and ORF/3sat in cooperation with Salzburg Festival 8 – SALZBURG FESTIVAL SALZBURG FESTIVAL – 9 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART JACQUES OFFENBACH IDOMENEO ORPHÉE AUX ENFERS RUSSELL THOMAS (IDOMENEO) · PAULA MURRIHY (IDAMANTE) · YING FANG (ILIA) · NICOLE CHEVALIER (ELETTRA) JOEL PRIETO (ORPHÉE) · KATHRYN LEWEK (EURYDICE) · MARCEL BEEKMAN (ARISTÉE/PLUTON) LEVY SEKGAPANE (ARBACE) · ISSACHAH SAVAGE (GRAN SACERDOTE) · JONATHAN LEMALU (NETTUNO/LA VOCE) MARTIN WINKLER (JUPITER) · ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER (L’OPINION PUBLIQUE) · VASILISA BERZHANSKAYA (DIANE) DAVID STEFFENS (BASS SOLO) · BRITTNE MAHEALANI FUIMAONO, ARIKITAU TENTAU (DANCERS) LEA DESANDRE (VÉNUS) · FRANCES PAPPAS (JUNON) · NADINE WEISSMANN (CUPIDON) · RAFAŁ PAWNUK (MARS) · PETER RENZ (MERCURE) FREIBURGER BAROCKORCHESTER CONDUCTED BY TEODOR CURRENTZIS WIENER PHILHARMONIKER CONDUCTED BY ENRIQUE MAZZOLA MUSICAETERNA CHOIR · CHORUS MASTER VITALY POLONSKY VOCALCONSORT BERLIN · CHORUS MASTER DAVID CAVELIUS STAGED BY PETER SELLARS STAGED BY BARRIE KOSKY Photo: MonikaPhoto: Rittershaus Photo: Ruth Walz After their successful collaboration for La clemenza di Tito the dream precision,