Avant Première Catalogue 2021 Catalogue 2021 Salzburger Festspiele the Unitel 4K Uhd Catalogue Avant Première 2020
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CATALOGUE 2021 CATALOGUE UNITEL AVANT PREMIÈRE CATALOGUE 2021 SALZBURGER FESTSPIELE THE UNITEL 4K UHD CATALOGUE AVANT PREMIÈRE 2020 UNITEL IS THE EXCLUSIVE AUDIOVISUAL PARTNER OF THE SALZBURG FESTIVAL Camilla Nylund © Bernd Uhlig in Richard Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier "WHY DO SO MANY OF US TRY TO EXPLAIN THE BEAUTY OF MUSIC, THUS DEPRIVING IT OF ITS MYSTERY?“ Leonard Bernstein DOCUMENTARIES 3 EMMY AWARDS NEW PROGRAMMES MIPCOM 2018 CATALOGUE 2021 KARAJAN VS. LEONARD BERNSTEIN OUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERTS Unitel GmbH & Co. KG Gruenwalder Weg 28D 52 EPISODES BERNSTEIN © Zadig Productions 82041 Oberhaching/Munich, Germany BATTLE OF GIANTS CEO: Jan Mojto A film by Emmanuelle Franc Editorial: Arthur Intelmann, Johanna Herbst Layout: mmessner.de All information is not contractual and subject to change without prior notice. LEONARD All trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. BERNSTEIN Published February 2021 © UNITEL 2021 All rights reserved KARAJAN Front cover: Richard Strauss’s “Elektra” / Photo: Bernd Uhlig CONTACT US Unitel GmbH & Co. KG · Gruenwalder Weg 28D · 82041 Oberhaching/Munich, Germany Tel: +49 89 673469-630 · Fax: +49 89 673469-610 · [email protected] Ernst Buchrucker Dr. Magdalena Herbst Arthur Intelmann MUSIC TO WATCH Managing Director Head of Production Editorial and Artists & Repertoire [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] since 1966 +49 89 673469-19 +49 89 673469-862 +49 89 673469-621 Ulrike Gerth Franziska Limmer Ulrike Thiele Assistant to MD Production Management Accounts Payable & General Sales “What do we see when we listen, when we really listen to music?” Most of us [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] would find this question difficult to answer. 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Ursula Wilhelm Walter Reichart Barbara Keller Legal Counsel Material Asset Manager DVD Sales & Releases This Avant Première 2021 catalogue presents all additions from the year 2020 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] to Unitel’s catalogue, which in total features more than 2,000 performances of +49 89 673469-786 +49 89 673469-837 +49 89 673469-616 opera, orchestral & chamber music, ballet and operetta, as well as musical essays, backstage footage, portraits and documentaries. Thereby Unitel has always been at the forefront of new technological develop- Or contact our World Sales distribution partner ments always searching for the most authentic and faithful ways of enlarging and C Major Entertainment GmbH · Meerscheidtstr. 8, 14057 Berlin, Germany heightening the musical experience. Unitel’s 4K catalogue is unmatched and even Tel.: +49 30 303064-64 · [email protected] our legendary productions shine in new lights, as the best possible preservation has made a stunning remastering in 8K Super High vision possible. Elmar Kruse Niklas Arens Nishrin Schacherbauer Managing Director Sales Manager, Sales Manager [email protected] Director Sales & Marketing [email protected] [email protected] Nadja Joost Ira Rost Sales Manager, Director Live Events Sales Manager, & Popular Music Assistant to MD [email protected] [email protected] 100 YEARS SALZBURG FESTIVAL 100 YEARS SALZBURG FESTIVAL HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL JEDERMANN PETER LOHMEYER · TOBIAS MORETTI · EDITH CLEVER SALZBURGER CAROLINE PETERS · GREGOR BLOÉB AND OTHERS FESTSPIELE STAGED BY MICHAEL STURMINGER When the Salzburg Festival presented its 100-year anniversary season with more than 200 perfor- mances in 15 venues over 44 days in Salzburg, London, Paris, Moscow, Tokyo and New York in It is the centerpiece of the Salzburg Festival and an incontrovertible institution: th November 2019, the preparations for this largest and most important classical music festival were For its 100 anniversary, the Salzburg Festival is offering an opulent, effective Jedermann already in full swing and the expectations for an extraordinary summer of music were enormous. by Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Barely four months later, not only society faced one of the greatest challenges since the end of the Second World War, but also the Salzburg Festival. Founded in 1920 as a project in a time of “Tobias Moretti plays with great commitment, Caroline Peters greatest need against the crisis (World War I was followed by the Spanish Flu), the Festival coura- gives a brilliant performance” geously recalled its founding idea – art as “food” and meaning of life – and decided not to cancel Salzburger Nachrichten the anniversary festival: The Festival came up in time with a security concept and presented an incredible 110 performances in 30 days at 8 venues. The Salzburg Festival finally became not only a triumph for the arts under completely different external conditions, but also the strongest, most vital and most essential signal for the music world around the globe! Video Director: André Turnheim | Length: approx. 110' | Shot in HD | Cat. no. A 040 50134 Borrelli Marco Photo: MAGIC MOMENTS OF MUSIC Salzburg 2005 – Verdi's La Traviata hits like a bomb: never before have opera stars been so seemingly close enough to touch, never before so present in the media. Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón in the leading roles are not on stage together for the first time – but here in Salzburg they finally become superstars. The two main protagonists share their emotions with the audience 15 years after this legendary performance. Willy Decker chats out of the sewing box. The little-known film footage of the rehearsal work gives an intimate and personal insight into the atmosphere on the set. La Traviata in Salzburg 2005: A celebration of the ANNA NETREBKO & highest vocal artistry and lifelike acting. Video Director: Anaïs Spiro ROLANDO VILLAZÓN Length: 43' | Shot in HD | Cat. A 050 50742 SING LA TRAVIATA Photo: ORF / Ali Schafler Photos: Photo: Tourismus SalzburgPhotos: Tourismus Photo: 6 7 100 YEARS SALZBURG FESTIVAL 100 YEARS SALZBURG FESTIVAL In the 100th year of the famous Salzburg Festival, this MAX REINHARDT The renowned stage director Max Reinhardt was known as high-quality docufiction offers a glimpse of the dramas the “magician” of the theatre. For Salzburg he developed THE MAGICIAN’S DREAM and unknown events that took place backstage, from its the dream of a great festival for the genres of theatre founding in 1920, through Hitler’s seizure of power to THE SOUND OF SALZBURG and opera with the genius of Mozart as its driving force. the Karajan era and also a look at the present. Unknown Exactly 100 years after the founding of the Salzburg film material from 30 archives worldwide and numerous Festival, the film traces the roots of the festival on the private films show new facets of the festival. The scenery basis of Reinhardt’s autobiographical sketches. Numerous of the plot is Schloss Leopoldskron, where the key figures well-known actors report anecdotes from 100 years of in the history of the festival meet for a special dinner. the Salzburg Festival and their own experiences with the Their dialogues are based on authentic statements of the institution. Among the stars are Senta Berger, Klaus Maria historical characters. A highly elaborate cinematic journey Brandauer, Peter Simonischek, Veronica Ferres, Cornelius through time with a top-class cast of film and theatre Obonya and Tobias Moretti. But also the life and work of actors, above all Florian Teichtmeister as the servant of Max Reinhardt are the subject of the documentary, which Max Reinhardt’s dinner party. is accompanied by the sound of the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg and the Wiener Philharmoniker. THE GREAT WORLD THEATRE Length: 54' | Shot in HD | Cat. no. A 040 50140 SALZBURG AND ITS FESTIVAL Length: approx. 45' | Shot in UHD HDR Cat. A 040 50144 A film by A film by Beate Thalberg Hannes M. Schalle Setting international standards – that’s what the Salzburg Festival usually does, and they succeeded in doing so also in the crazy year 2020. With the worldwide spread of the novel Sars-CoV-2 virus, the entire cultural scene not only THE MIRACLE in Austria came to a standstill. Rarely has the vulnerability The film by Chris Weisz portrays the world’s largest classical of culture been felt so drastically as in recent months. But OF SALZBURG music festival and traces its incredible rise: From its who, if not the Salzburg Festival, which was founded after beginnings as a peace project after the First World War, World War 1 to give Austria and all of Europe a new cultural through the myth of the Jedermann (Everyman) to the identity, can also defeat a pandemic?! 100 YEARS SALZBURG FESTIVAL present day. What makes the Salzburg Festival so special After months of stagnation, the Festival became a feast of and unique? Answers are provided by the festival organizers FROM AUSTRIA joy for the music-hungry public. Shortened and modified and some of the most internationally renowned festival TO THE WORLD according to the new patterns of art, checkered and artists – including Tobias Moretti, Daniel Barenboim, Teodor distant, with mask and disinfectant, this year’s festival A film by Chris Weisz Currentzis, Anne-Sophie Mutter or Peter Sellars.