MIPCOM 2019 CATALOGUE
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Photo: © Monika Rittershaus SALZBURG FESTIVAL 2019 OPERAS & CONCERTS UNITEL is the exclusive audiovisual partner of the Salzburg Festival, the world's most prestigious classical music festival.
"On the podium, Teodor Currentzis unleashes the mania of a new generation, with an obsessive passion for every detail of each phrase" Financial Times
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART IDOMENEO
Length: approx. 185‘ | Cat. no. A 040 50117 | Opera
Cast: Russell Thomas, Paula Murrihy, Ying Fang, Nicole Chevalier Freiburger Barockorchester conducted by Teodor Currentzis Staged by Peter Sellars A production of Servus TV and UNITEL Photo: © Ruth Walz WEST-EASTERN DIVAN ORCHESTRA WIENER PHILHARMONIKER
DANIEL BARENBOIM & MARTHA ARGERICH Photo: © Marco Borrelli BERNARD HAITINK & EMANUEL AX Photo: © Silvia Lelli
Length: 93‘ | Cat. no. A 045 50118 0000 | Concert Length: approx. 120‘ | Cat. no. A 045 50119 0000 | Concert
Schubert: Symphony No. 7 Beethoven: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 Lutosławski: Concerto for Orchestra Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Bernard Haitink West-Eastern Divan Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim A production of NHK and UNITEL A production of ZDF/3sat and UNITEL
GIUSEPPE VERDI JACQUES OFFENBACH Photo: © Monika Rittershaus
SIMON BOCCANEGRA Photo: © Ruth Walz ORPHÉE AUX ENFERS
Length: approx. 140‘ | Cat. no. A 040 50116 | Opera Length: approx. 140‘ | Cat. no. A 040 50113 | Opera
Cast: Luca Salsi, Marina Rebeka, René Pape, Charles Castronovo Cast: Joel Prieto, Kathryn Lewek, Max Hopp, Anne Sofie von Otter Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Valery Gergiev Wiener Philharmoniker conducted by Enrique Mazzola Staged by Andreas Kriegenburg Staged by Barrie Kosky A production of ORF/3sat and UNITEL A production of ORF, ZDF/ARTE and UNITEL CLASSICAL MUSIC OPEN-AIR Summer time means open-air time! UNITEL presents five of this summer's most spectacular classical music open-air operas and concerts
'Game of Thrones' meets Verdi!
GIUSEPPE VERDI IL TROVATORE
Cast: Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov, Luca Salsi Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona conducted by Pier Giorgio Morandi Staged by Franco Zeffirelli
Length: approx. 150‘ | Cat. no. A 000 50067 | Opera
A production of ZDF/3sat and UNITEL Photo: © Ennevi/Fondazione Arena di Verona THE ODEONSPLATZ CONCERT THE ODEONSPLATZ CONCERT WITH VALERY GERGIEV WITH RENÉE FLEMING Münchner Philharmoniker Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks conducted by Alan Gilbert Beethoven: Coriolan Overture Symphony No. 5 Works by Tchaikovsky, Korngold, Bernstein, von Flotow & Rodgers and Hammerstein
Length: approx. 60‘ | Cat. no. A 055 51292 0000 | Concert Length: approx. 100‘ | Cat. no. A 055 51291 0000 | Concert
A production of BR, medici.tv and UNITEL Photos: © Marcus Schlaf A production of BR and UNITEL
PLÁCIDO DOMINGO OPERA GALA GRAFENEGG MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S GALA 50 YEARS AT THE ARENA DI VERONA Soloists: Sonya Yoncheva, Ludovic Tézier, Emmanuel Tjeknavorian Highlights from Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco, Works by Tchaikovsky, Bizet, Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni, Giordano, Macbeth, Simon Boccanegra Massenet, von Suppé, Kreisler, Lehár & Elgar Tonkünstler-Orchester conducted by Yutaka Sado Soloists: Plácido Domingo, Anna Pirozzi, Marco Mimica Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona
conducted by Jordi Bernàcer Photo: © Thomas Jantzen Photo: © Ennevi/Fondazione Arena di Verona
Length: 155‘ | Cat. no. A 005 50093 0000 | Concert Length: 76‘ | Cat. no. A 045 50075 0000 | Concert
A production of ZDF/ARTE and UNITEL A production of ORF and UNITEL ROSSINI OPERA FESTIVAL GALA GIOACHINO ROSSINI In celebration of the 40th edition of Rossini Opera Festival L’EQUIVOCO STRAVAGANTE Soloists: Juan Diego Flórez, Lawrence Brownlee, Cast: Teresa Iervolino, Paolo Bordogna, Davide Luciano Angela Meade, Paolo Bordogna Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI conducted by Carlo Rizzi conducted by Carlo Rizzi Staged by Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier Photo: © Gregor Hohenberg
Length: approx. 140‘ | Cat. no. A 005 50095 0000 | Concert Length: approx. 150‘ | Cat. no. A 000 50068 | Opera Photo: © Studio Amati Bacciardi
A production of UNITEL A production of UNITEL
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK MÜNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER ALCESTE GUSTAVO DUDAMEL Cast: Charles Castronovo, MAHLER 2 Dorothea Röschmann, Michael Nagy Soloists: Chen Reiss, Tamara Mumford Bayerisches Staatsorchester Orfeó Català & Cor de Cambra del Palau, conducted by Antonello Manacorda Münchner Philharmoniker Staged by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui conducted by Gustavo Dudamel Photo: © A. Bofill
Length: 135‘ | Cat. no. A 050 50681 | Opera Photo: © Wilfried Hoesl Length: approx. 90‘ | Cat. no. A 930 50016 | Concert
A production of BR/ARTE and UNITEL A production of ZDF/ARTE and UNITEL LIVE FROM THE
AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL
Four mesmerizing concerts from this year's BBC Proms, the world's most popular classical music festival!
Bohemian Rhapsody with the Zosha Di Castri's world premiere, Dvořák The Warner Brothers Story – City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Bamberger Symphoniker & Janáček’s Glagolitic mass with the The Golden Age of Hollywood & Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla & Jakub Hrůša BBC Symphony Orchestra and Choir & with the John Wilson Orchestra & Cello: Sheku Kanneh-Mason Violin: Joshua Bell Karina Canellakis John Wilson Howell: Lamia Soloists: Asmik Grigorian, Soloists: Kate Lindsey et al. Dvořák: Violin Concerto Elgar: Cello Concerto Jennifer Johnston, Ladislav Elgr, Smetana: Má vlast Works by Korngold, Steiner, North, Knussen: The Way to Castle Yonder Jan Martínik Mancini, Williams et al. Weinberg: Symphony No. 3
Length: approx. 125‘ Length: approx. 90‘ Length: approx. 135‘ Length: approx. 110‘ Cat. no. A 025 50460 0000 | Concert Cat. no. A 025 50459 0000 | Concert Cat. no. A 025 50461 0000 | Concert Cat. no. A 025 50462 0000 | Concert Photo: © Chris Christodoulou, Shervin Lainez (Bell), Algirdas Bakas (Grigorian), Lars Borges (Kanneh-Mason)
A production of BBC and UNITEL "A masterful interpreter of early music" BR Klassik GIACOMO PUCCINI RAPHAËL TOSCA PICHON ENSEMBLE PYGMALION
BACH‘S MASS IN B MINOR Soloists: Joanne Lunn, Lea Desandre, Lucile Richardot, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Christian Immler Photo: © Francois Sechet Length: approx. 110‘ | Cat. no. A 010 50111 | Concert
A production of Camera Lucida, Radio France and France Télévisions Distributed by UNITEL
'STRAVAGANZA D’AMORE' The Birth of Opera at the Medici Court – shot at Versailles Soloists: Lea Desandre, Eva Zaïcik, Lucile Richardot, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Zachary Wilder, Nicolas Brooymans Length: 107‘ | Cat. no. A 015 50174 0000 | Concert
MONTEVERDI: VESPRO DELLA BEATA VERGINE
Length: approx. 125‘ | Cat. no. A 010 50113 | Opera Soloists: Eva Zaïcik, Lea Desandre, Lucile Richardot, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Zachary Wilder, Olivier Coiffet, Cast: Angel Blue, Catherine Malfitano, Renaud Bres, Nicolas Brooymans, Geoffroy Buffière Joseph Calleja, Alexey Markov Length: 118‘ | Cat. no. A 010 50112 | Concert Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon conducted by Daniele Rustioni Staged by Christophe Honoré Produced by Camera Lucida, mezzo, Productions of Camera Lucida and ARTE France Radio France, ARTE France, France Télévisions and UNITEL Distributed by UNITEL Photo: © Jean Louis Fernandez BEETHOVEN2020 On the occasion of his 250th anniversary in 2020 UNITEL proudly presents more than 200 hours of Beethoven among them the six complete Beethoven Symphonic Cycles incl. the legendary cycles with Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, Beethoven's only opera Fidelio in several recordings, the latest starring Jonas Kaufmann from Salzburg Festival, the Complete Piano Sonatas with Rudolf Buchbinder, the Complete String Quartets with the award-winning Belcea Quartet, two episodes of the outstanding series Young People’s Concerts dedicated to Beethoven only and a nine-part documentary series on the symphonies with Christian Thielemann.
NEW PRODUCTIONS Among others UNITEL will produce the following highlights of the Beethoven anniversary year:
OCTOBER 2019 JOHN NEUMEIER: BEETHOVEN PROJECT "A choreographic poem inspired by Beethoven." (Neumeier) Renowned choreographer John Neumeier brings the first full-length ballet with Beethovenʼs music to the stage.
NOVEMBER 2019 BEETHOVEN – THE JAZZ PROPHET WITH PHILHARMONIC FIVE @ TEAMLAB TOKYO With this extraordinary project, the Philharmonic Five demonstrate to us that the phenomenal composer Beethoven is the real inventor of jazz.
MARCH 2020 FIDELIO: THEATER AN DER WIEN Oscar winner Christoph Waltz will stage a new Fidelio under the baton of Manfred Honeck in Vienna, where Beethoven’s only opera was premiered.
MAY & JUNE 2020 BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY CYCLE NELSONS & WIENER PHILHARMONIKER The first Beethoven cycle ever to be recorded in 8K: On four evenings, Andris Nelsons and the Wiener Philharmoniker will present all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies at Vienna’s Musikverein.
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