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André Midani: An Insider's Story of Brazilian Music Based on his autobiography, this unique session of intimate conversations reveals the key events in the history of Brazilian music through the eyes of André Midani, who helped shape the Brazilian music scene like no other from the 1950s to the new millennium. With Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Marisa Monte, Chico Buarque, Frejat, Jorge Ben Jor, Erasmo Carlos, Boni, Fernanda Torres, Washington Olivetto, Carlos Lyra, Miúcha, Roberto Menescal, Baby Brazil, Dadi, Liminha, Nelson Motta, Carlos Diegues, Fernanda Montenegro - and many others Directed by Andrucha Waddington, Mini Kerti 2015

Aida Garifullina (Soprano), Maciej Pikulski (Piano) Gerónimo Giménez/Manuel Nieto El Barbero de Sevilla, II : ‘Me llaman la primorosa’ Carlos Gardel Por una cabeza Frédéric Chopin Trois valses, op. 64: no. 2 in C sharp minor Jules Massenet Élégie Georges Bizet Carmen : ‘L'amour est un oiseau rebelle’ Léo Delibes Les Filles de Cadix Franz Schubert/Franz Liszt Ständchen, S. 560/7 Antonín Dvořák Gypsy Songs, Op. 55 : IV. Když mne stará matka zpívat učívala (Songs My Mother Taught Me) Rusalka: ‘Mĕsičku na nebi hlubokém’ (Song to the Moon) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov The Golden Cockerel: The Queen of Shemakha’s aria (Hymn to the Sun) Sergei Rachmaninov Zdes' khorosho, Op. 21, No. 7 Prelude, Op. 3, No. 2 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Sadko, Scene IV: Song of India Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Iolanta: Iolanta's Arioso, ‘Atchevo eta prezhde ne znala?’ Six Romances, Op. 63 : 6. Serenada Giuseppe Verdi/Franz Liszt Rigoletto, Concert Paraphrase for Piano, S. 434 Franz Schubert Ave Maria, D. 839 Giacomo Puccini Tosca, II: Vissi d'arte Gianni Schicchi : ‘O mio babbino caro’ Ruggero Leoncavallo Mattinata Évian, La Grange au Lac, 3 July 2023 Directed by Jean-Pierre Loisil

Rivalry in Music – Furtwängler vs. Toscanini Two men without whom the profession of conductor would not be what it is today. Two men who couldn't be more different from each other: Arturo Toscanini and Wilhelm Furtwängler. The former was rigorously faithful to the musical score, the latter conducted with radical subjectivity. In 1931 they both conducted at the Bayreuth Festival – for the first and last time. Soon the polite rivalry turned into bitter enmity. Both men were forced to take a stand on the regimes in their respective countries – and chose radically different paths. Toscanini, "the dictator", bravely challenged Mussolini; Furtwängler, a conservative, meanwhile proclaimed that art is always apolitical and reluctantly made a pact with the Nazis. The documentary not only opens up the different musical universes of the two great conductors by retracing their careers in Milan, Bayreuth and New York, but also raises a question that is more topical than ever: what has art to do with politics? Directed by Thomas von Steinaecker 2020

Rivalry in Music – Callas vs. Tebaldi Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi were the two most famous sopranos of the second half of the last century. Turned into hostile enemies by their admirers, the two became untouchable goddesses of opera. For their fans, Callas was known as "the tigress", Tebaldi as "the voice of an angel": the two singers could hardly have been more different, whether in their professional or private lives. To this day, Callas remains perhaps the greatest soprano of all time. Her rival, Tebaldi, is best known to opera lovers. Why is the posthumous fame of the two prima donnas so different? Directed by Andreas Morell 2020

Rachmaninov revisited Celebrated in his day not only as a great composer, Sergei Rachmaninov was also admired as an outstanding pianist who was a peerless interpreter of his own works including the piano concerti and the Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini. It is well known that he was in effect the sole pianist capable of performing his most demanding Third Piano Concerto and his performances and recording of the concerto came to be considered as the definitive ones. The relationship between performance, interpretation, and Rachmaninov’s own life is addressed in this film by young pianists. They explore the evolution of interpretation over the past few decades with brief excerpts of recordings by Rachmaninov as contrasted with contemporary performances by today’s well-known young pianists as they comment on the differences (or similarities) of their approach. Directed by Peter Rosen

POPPEA // POPPEA by Christian Spuck Choregraphed by Christian Spuck for Gauthier Dance Music by Martin Donner, Claudio Monteverdi and others Gauthier Dance Emma Ryott — Set designer, costume designer Dunja Funke — Dramaturgy Reinhard Traub — Lighting Eric Gauthier — Dancer Anneleen Dedroog — Dancer Miriam Gronwald — Dancer Anna Süheyla Harms — Dancer Maria Prat Balasch — Dancer Rosario Guerra — Dancer Florian Lochner — Dancer William Moragas — Dancer David Stiven Valencia Martinez — Dancer Tars Vandebeek — Dancer Directed by Nikolai Vialkowitsch Stuttgart, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, 2013

Marina Viotti (Mezzo-soprano) Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal de Versailles, Andrés Gabetta (Conductor, Violin) Henry Purcell 1659–1695 The curtain tune | Timon of Athens  Giovanni Porta 1675–1755 Volate gentes, venite cum spe Antonio Vivaldi 1678–1741 Violin Concerto in D Major ‘Grosso Mogul’ RV 208 | Allegro Nicola Antonio Porpora 1686–1768 Salve Regina in F Major Pietro Locatelli 1695–1764 Concerto grosso Op. 1/11 | Largo Antonio Vivaldi O servi volate | Juditha triumphans RV 644 Ascende læta RV 635 Violin Concerto in B Minor ‘Per Signora Anna Maria’ RV 387 Canta in prato, ride in monte RV 636 Armatae face et anguibus | Juditha triumphans RV 644 Bayreuth, Margravial Opera House Bayreuth, 13 September 2025