CATALOGUE 2020 CATALOGUE UNITEL AVANT PREMIÈRE CATALOGUE 2020 “Nothing but a sensation!” (SWR2) 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. Photo: Anja Köhler 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. 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 as musical essays, backstage footage, portraits and documentaries. Unitel has always placed the greatest emphasis on quality, which extends to all aspects of the production: from the artists to the technology. This means that Unitel has always been at the forefront of new technological developments , always searching for the most authentic, faithful ways of duplicating and heightening the musical experience. With this catalogue we proudly present not only our first production in Dolby Vision · Atmos, but also nine of Unitel’s most legendary programs remastered by NHK to stunning 8K Super High Vision and 22.2 sound, see page 56. CATALOGUE 2020 Unitel GmbH & Co. KG Gruenwalder Weg 28D 82041 Oberhaching/Munich, Germany CEO: Jan Mojto Editorial: Xenia Hofmann, Arthur Intelmann, Franziska Limmer Layout: mmessner.de All information is not contractual and subject to change without prior notice. All trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners. Date of Print: February 2020 © UNITEL 2020 All rights reserved Front cover: Giuseppe Verdi’s “Rigoletto” / Photo: Mathis Fotografie CATALOGUE 2020 SALZBURG FESTIVAL Handel: Ariodante (Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco / Capuano / Loy) 9 Mozart: Idomeneo (Freiburger Barockorchester / Currentzis / Sellars) 10 Offenbach: Orphée aux enfers (Wiener Philharmoniker / Mazzola / Kosky) 11 Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (Wiener Philharmoniker / Gergiev / Kriegenburg) 12 Wiener Philharmoniker, Emanuel Ax & Bernard Haitink 13 West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim 13 OPERA Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (Wiener Staatsoper / Pidò / Pelly) 14 Gluck: Alceste (Bayerische Staatsoper / Manacorda / Cherkaoui) 15 Massenet: Don Quichotte (Bregenz Festival / Cohen / Clément) 16 Moniuszko: Halka (Theater an der Wien / Borowicz / Treliński) 17 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 Prokofiev: Betrothal in a Monastery (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin / Barenboim / Tcherniakov) 20 Puccini: Tosca (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence / Rustioni / Honoré) 21 Puccini: Tosca (Wiener Staatsoper / Armiliato / Wallmann) 22 Rossini: L’equivoco stravagante (Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro / Rizzi / Leiser & Caurier) 23 Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten (Wiener Staatsoper / Thielemann / Huguet) 24 Verdi: Rigoletto (Bregenz Festival / Mazzola / Stölzl) 25 Verdi: Il Trovatore (Arena di Verona / Morandi / Zeffirelli) 27 Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence / Luisi / Curran) 28 BALLET John Neumeier: Beethoven Project (Festspielhaus Baden-Baden / Hamburg Ballett) 29 CONCERT BBC Proms First Night of the Proms (BBC Symphony Orchestra / Canellakis) 30 Bohemian Rhapsody (Bamberger Symphoniker / Bell / Hrůša) 30 The Warner Brothers Story (John Wilson Orchestra / Wilson) 31 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (Kanneh-Mason / Gražinytė-Tyla) 31 Gala Concerts Grafenegg Midsummer Night’s Gala 32 Vienna State Opera Gala 32 The Odeonsplatz Concert with Renée Fleming & Alan Gilbert 33 The Odeonsplatz Concert with Valery Gergiev 33 Plácido Domingo Anniversary Gala at Arena di Verona 34 Rossini Opera Festival Gala 35 Salzburg Wind Orchestra Gala 35 Münchner Philharmoniker Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (Mumford / Reiss / Dudamel) 36 Czech Philharmonic Martinů Cycle (Bělohlávek, Hrůša) 37 Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen Bach & Schubert (Hahn / Wellber) 38 Ensemble Pygmalion & Raphaël Pichon Bach: Mass in B minor 39 Stravaganza d'amore 39 Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine 39 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Eumeralla - A war requiem for peace (Cheetham) 40 East Meets West (Hanggai / Reeves / Dun) 40 Handel/Davis: Messiah (Davis) 41 Stravinsky: Perséphone & The Rite of Spring (Davis) 41 Orchestre de Paris Berlioz: Concert monstre (Roth) 42 Rachmaninoff: The Complete Piano Concertos (Matsuev / Abduraimov / Lugansky / Kochanovsky) 42 Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (Sado) 43 Le Poème Harmonique Monteverdi, Castaldi & others (Zaïcik / Dumestre) 43 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Tchaikovsky (Lamsma / Chan) 44 Rossini, Mozart & Haydn (Faust / Zimmermann / I. Fischer) 44 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Welser-Möst) 45 Staatskapelle Dresden Festive Gala at the Semperoper Dresden (Thielemann) 46 Festive Advent Concert at the Frauenkirche Dresden (de la Parra) 47 Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 (Thielemann) 47 West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Beethoven & Bruckner (Mutter / Ma / Barenboim) 48 Wiener Philharmoniker: Bruckner Cycle Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 (Thielemann) 49 Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Thielemann) 49 RECITAL & CHAMBER MUSIC Beethoven: The 5 Cello Sonatas (Hoffman / Selig) 50 Beethoven: The Piano Trios (D. Barenboim / M. Barenboim / Soltani) 50 SPECIAL Philharmonic 5: Beethoven @ teamLab Tokyo 51 Hollywood in Vienna – A Night at the Oscars with Gabriel Yared 52 David Garrett at the Arena di Verona 53 DOCUMENTARY Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli – Beyond Perfection 54 Rigoletto on the Lake – The creation of a spectacle 54 “It's Me. Hilary”(working title) 55 Friedemann Vogel – Wings of Dance 55 CONTACT US 58 SALZBURG FESTIVAL OPERAS & CONCERTS Salzburg Tourismus Photo: UNITEL is the exclusive audiovisual partner of the Salzburg Festival, the world’s most prestigious classical music festival. The UNITEL catalogue features more than 130 productions from Salzburg Festival. “This year’s installment FESTIVAL “The Mount Olympus will be hard to top” OF THE YEAR of summer festivals” Musical America New York Times Financial Times 8 – SALZBURG FESTIVAL GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL ARIODANTE CECILIA BARTOLI (ARIODANTE) · NATHAN BERG (THE KING OF SCOTLAND) · KATHRYN LEWEK (GINEVRA) ROLANDO VILLAZÓN (LURCANIO) · CHRISTOPHE DUMAUX (POLINESSO) · SANDRINE PIAU (DALINDA) KRISTOFER LUNDIN (ODOARDO) LES MUSICIENS DU PRINCE – MONACO CONDUCTED BY GIANLUCA CAPUANO SALZBURGER BACHCHOR · CHORUS MASTER ALOIS GLASSNER STAGED BY CHRISTOF LOY Photo: MonikaPhoto: Rittershaus 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 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 SALZBURG FESTIVAL – 9 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART IDOMENEO RUSSELL THOMAS (IDOMENEO) · PAULA MURRIHY (IDAMANTE) · YING FANG (ILIA) · NICOLE CHEVALIER (ELETTRA) LEVY SEKGAPANE (ARBACE) · ISSACHAH SAVAGE (GRAN SACERDOTE) · JONATHAN LEMALU (NETTUNO/LA VOCE) DAVID STEFFENS (BASS SOLO) · BRITTNE MAHEALANI FUIMAONO, ARIKITAU TENTAU (DANCERS) FREIBURGER BAROCKORCHESTER CONDUCTED BY TEODOR CURRENTZIS MUSICAETERNA CHOIR · CHORUS MASTER VITALY POLONSKY STAGED BY PETER SELLARS Photo: Ruth Walz After their successful collaboration for La clemenza di Tito the dream precision, and MusicAeterna Choir can rightfully be called “the best team Peter Sellars and Teodor Currentzis again joined forces to trans- choir in the world” (Süddeutsche Zeitung). Chinese lyric soprano and pose Mozart’s extraordinary opera Idomeneo into the present world. rising star Ying Fang gives her highly acclaimed Festival debut in The fabulous Freiburger Barockorchester shines with elegance and the role of Ilia, Nicole Chevalier is brilliant as furious Elettra. Cat. no. A 040 50117 | Video Director: Peter