Philip Glass’ opera “Akhnaten”, premiered in Stuttgart in 1984, forms the third part of the portrait opera trilogy about personalities who have influenced the course of human history. The conclusion of the trilogy deals with the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, who attempted to establish a kind of monotheistic cult around the god Aton during his reign in the 14th century BC, but failed due to the resistance of the priesthood. The production presented here was undoubtedly one of the very great successes of the 2019/20 season at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, due not only to the outstanding cast of singers (led by countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo) but also to Phelim McDermott’s imaginative staging, which captivates with sometimes breathtaking imagery.
Disguised as an Italian medic, Dolas finds himself on a ship evacuating wounded Axis soldiers to Italy. He leaves the ship disguised as a Nazi soldier, but is found out, declared a deserter and sent to the Eastern Front. However, on the flight to Russia, he is able to escape with a parachute, and finds himself back in Poland, now occupied by Nazis.
Kathleen Madigan drops in on Detroit to deliver material derived from time spent with her Irish Catholic Midwest family, eating random pills out of her mother's purse, touring Afghanistan, and her love of John Denver and the Lunesta butterfly.
I Want to Live is a documentary on the lives of Kurdish Refugees from Syria, living in refugee camps in Kurdistan. Shot on location, it is set against the Syrian civil war and the ISIS (Islamic State) attacks upon Kurdistan. Told through the eyes of a young boy, Shndar, living with Thalassemia disease, he searches for an immediate treatment as he ages without losing hope, leaving his home amid simmering ethnic and religious hatred to live the life of a refugee. The film tells stories of daily life on the camp and outside of it. More than being a film on the life of refugees, it is an intimate character study and gripping tale of innocent lost amides wars, a meditation on life, death, war, peace, and tolerance.
John tells the story of a young male, a psychiatric hospital patient who witnesses the death of another Black male patient at the hands of white staff. Blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, this work draws from real life cases of mentally ill Black men who have died as a result of excessive force of the State.
Two Minions are busy at work in the mailroom. One of them, bored, decides to throw a box of expired PX-41 samples into its designated chute.
Spike has just finished the 20 year process of digging a tunnel from his prison cell but he picks the wrong place to hide.
Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.
Hanni en Nanni staan vol verwachting te wachten voor het internaat Lindenhof, op Britse uitwisselingsstudentes. Door een fout van mevrouw Mägerlein, blijkt nu dat de Britse bus gevuld is met mannelijke passagiers. Hanni en Nanni zijn een beetje in de war en weten niet precies wat aan te vangen met deze situatie. Maar de relaxte Mademoiselle Bertoux heeft wel een idee.
A cockney lad pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess
Traveling cowboy gets involved in political issues in a town he passes through. Also a romance.
A biopic about the rise and fall of one of Greece's most esteemed poets, Napoleon Lapathiotis.
Het legendarische leven van de Mexicaanse zanger Lucha Reyes vormt de basis van deze fictieve biografie (of zoals regisseur Arturo Ripstein het zegt 'een denkbeeldige biografie'). Lucha Reyes was een onconventionele en seksueel bevrijde vrouw, vooral bekend om haar zang in 'cancion ranchera'-stijl. Haar verhaal begint in 1939, waar ze op 33-jarige leeftijd nog steeds thuis woonde bij haar moeder, Dona Victora, de madame van een gerenommeerd hoerenhuis in Mexico-Stad. Lucha trouwt met de liberale Pedro Calderon en koopt vervolgens een bedelaarsdochter. Ze wordt de moeder van dit kind, Luzma. Lucha hunkert naar blijvende liefde, zoals junkies naar heroïne hunkeren. Maar voor haar trouwe dochter vindt ze het nooit en uiteindelijk kan niemand haar helpen.
Een politieagent (Andy Lau) uit het jaar 2085 komt per ongeluk aan in het jaar 2010. Hij ontmoet een vrouwelijke agente (Barbie Hsu) en samen vormen ze een team tegen een internationaal misdaad syndicaat.
Elton Chong stars as a martial arts whiz-kid named Chuck, who, after being taught by master Leon Chan, becomes an expert in the Shaolin "13 styles" and all forms of swordplay. On a secret mission for General Ching, Chan escorts a treasure to a section of the Yangtze River where a flood has ravaged the area. In his way is Eagle, a henchman of General Ching, who inflicts a fatal wound on Chan. Now it is up to Chuck to save the day and avenge his master. Mad trad kung fu all the way!
Five African Colombian women sing about the life and death of their peoples through traditional music and dirges. Tracing a musical journey, the singers show us how to respond to violence with art and creation. Musical Memories Of Life And Death In Colombia The word Cantadora comes from traditional Colombian music influenced by African roots and refers to the women that compose and sing their songs while going through their daily chores. "Cantadoras" provides a portrait of rural life in Colombia in its Caribbean and Pacific regions through the words and songs of the resilient Afro-Colombian singers that farm there. These resilient women speak of memories of violence at the hands of paramilitaries, and the power of song to build strength and give voice to dignity and creativity.