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Wagner´s Jews Richard Wagner was notoriously anti-Semitic, and his writings on Jews were later embraced by Hitler and the Nazis. But for years, many of Wagner‘s closest associates were Jews - young musicians who became personally devoted to him, and provided crucial help to his work and career. Why were they drawn to him? And how could Wagner even accept their embrace? These questions are at the heart of ‘Wagner‘s Jews’, the first film to focus on Wagner‘s complex personal relationships with Jews. Filmed on location in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, ‘Wagner‘s Jews’ reveals this remarkable story through archival sources, re-enactments, interviews, and performances of original musical works by Wagner‘s Jewish colleagues. Featuring Zubin Mehta and Leon Botstein among others, the film also explores the ongoing controversy over performing Wagner‘s music in Israel. The same questions asked in Wagner‘s time still resonate today: is it possible to separate the art from its creator? Can sublime music transcend prejudice and bigotry, and the weight of history? Directed by Hilan Warshaw 2013

Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García-Alarcón (Conductor) Mariana Flores (Soprano) Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676) ‘Mira questi due lumi’ | Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo (1639) ‘Or con pania e con esca’ | Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo ‘Volgi, deh volgi il piede’ | Gli amori di Apollo e Dafne (1640) Sinfonia di viole a 5 | Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo ‘Amanti, se credete’ | Egisto (1643) ‘Aprite, aprite gl’occhi’ | L’Ormindo ‘Udite, amanti’ | Doriclea (1645) ‘A tuo dispetto Amor’ | Scipione affricano (1664) ‘Occhi per pianger nati’ | La virtù dei strali d’Amore (1642) ‘Dell’antro magico’ | Giasone (1649) ‘Dimmi Amor, che farò?’ | Oristeo (1651) ‘Lassa, che far degg’io?’ | Giasone ‘Una stila di speme’ | Ercole amante (1662) ‘Restino imbalsamate’ | La Calisto (1651) ‘Speranze voi che siete’ | Erismena (1655) ‘Ed è pur vero, o core’ | Xerse (1655) ‘Quest’è un gran caso al certo’ | Hipermestra (1658) Sinfonia a 3 (Prologo) |  L’Orione (1653) ‘Menfi, mia patria, regno’ | La Statira (1655) ‘Pur ti stringo, pur t’annodo’ | Eliogabalo (1667) ‘E vuol dunque Ciprigna’ | Ercole amante Directed by John Blanch Bayreuth, Ordenskirche St. Georgen (Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival), 11 September 2025

Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko (conductor) Benjamin Bernheim (ténor) Piotr Tchaikovsky 1840 - 1893 Eugen Onegin, op. 24 | Polonaise - Introduction, Scene and Lensky’s Aria from Act 2 Gabriel Fauré 1845 - 1924 Pelléas et Mélisande, orchestral suite, op. 80| Sicilienne Charles Gounod 1818 - 1893 Roméo et Juliette | L’amour ! (Act 2) Piotr Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture after Shakespeare Jules Massenet 1842 - 1912 Werther | Prelude to Act 1 - Pourquoi me réveiller (Act 3) Georges Bizet 1838 - 1875 L'Arlésienne, Suite No. 2 | Farandole Carmen | La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (Act 2) Emmanuel Chabrier 1841 - 1894 España, Rhapsody for orchestra George Gershwin 1898 - 1937 Cuban Overture Berlin, Philharmonie, 31 December 2025

Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) Il Pomo d’Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev (conductor) The choir of the music-oriented classes of Puolala School Marie Lambert-Le Bihan (stage director) John Torres (lighting designer) Charles Ives 1874–1954 The Unanswered Question Rachel Portman 1960– The First Morning of the World Gustav Mahler 1860–1911 Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft (from Rückert-Lieder) Marco Uccellini ca. 1603–1680 Sinfonia terza (a cinque stromenti) op. 7 Biagio Marini 1594–1663 Con le stelle in Ciel che mai (from Scherzi e canzone op. 5) Josef Mysliveček 1737–1781 Toglierò le sponde al mare (from the oratorio ‘Adamo ed Eva’) Giovanni Valentini 1582–1649 Sonata enharmonica Francesco Cavalli 1602–1676 Piante ombrose (from the opera ‘La Calisto’) Christoph Willibald Gluck 1714–1787 Danza degli spettri e delle furie: Allegro non troppo | Recitativo accompagnato: Misera, dove son! | Aria: Ah! non son io che parlo (from the opera ‘Orfeo ed Euridice’) George Frideric Handel 1685–1759 As with rosy steps the morn (from the oratorio ‘Theodora’) Gustav Mahler 1860–1911 Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (from Rückert-Lieder) Turku, Concert Hall (Turku Music Festival), 29 August 2024

The Ninth Symhony Maurice Béjart, choreography After Schiller's "Ode to joy" Ludwig van Beethoven, music Maurice Béjart, staging Friedrich Nietzsche, Prologue Gil Roman, artistic director Israel Philharmonic orchestra Zubin Mehta, conductor Ritsuyukai choir Kufiami Kuriyama, chorus master Gil Roman, narratorr Kristin Lewis, soprano Mihoko Fujimura, mezzo-soprano Kei Fukui, tenor Alexander Vinogradov, bass JB Meier and Thierry Hochstätter, percussion Joëlle Roustan abd Roger Bernard, original costumes and sets Henri Davila, costumes adaptation Dominique Roman, Lighting realisation Piotr Nardelli, Ballet Master revival With The Béjart Ballet Lausanne The Tokyo Ballet and Solooists Dan Tsukamoto, Mizuka Ueno, Iori Nittono, Aya Takagi, Kathleen Thielheilm, Masayoshi Onuki, Elisabet Ros, Juien Favreau, Lisa Cano, Fabrice Gallarrague, Pauline Voisard, Felipe Rocha, Oscar Chacon, Keisuke Nasuno, Marsha Rodriguez, Cosima Munoz, Mari Ohashi, Kwinten Guilliams, Aldriana Vargas Lopez, Hector Navarro, Alanna Archibald Recorded on November 9 th 2014 at the NHK Hall Tokyo TV Director, Mari Hnamasu

Lahav Shani, Yulianna Avdeeva (piano), Anton Barakhovsky, Mark Karlinsky (violin), Sara Ferrández (viola), Ivan Karizna (cello) Sergei Rachmaninov Suite for two pianos No. 2, Op. 17 Mieczysław Weinberg Quintet for Piano and Strings in F Minor, Op. 18 Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival 2022

Fidelio Opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Libretto by Joseph Sonnleitner and Stephan von Breuning First performance in Vienna, Theater and der Wien, 20 November 1805 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Andrés Orozco Estrada (conductor) Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Edward Ananian-Cooper (Chorus master) Andriy Zholdak (Stage direction, set and lighting design) Andriy Zholdak, Simon Machabeli (Costume design) Andriy Zholdak, Daniel Zholdak (Set design) Etienne Guiol (Video design) Jacquelyn Wagner (Leonore) Eric Cutler (Florestan) James Creswell (Rocco) Nicholas Brownlee (Don Pizarro) Anna El-Khashem (Marzelline) Linard Vrielink (Jaquino) Mark Kurmanbayev (Don Fernando) Amsterdam, Dutch National Opera, 29 June 2024

Born in the United States, Madeleine Peyroux is a jazz singer and guitarist with an unclassifiable style and an exceptional artistic personality, carried by a voice that is both soft and husky, with blues and folk accents. After spending part of her childhood in the United States, she moved to France as a teenager where she joined her first jazz bands. An atypical artist, she performs a lot in the street while participating in festivals and creating her own albums. In 2004, she had an international success with Careless Love. Other albums have been released since, including the recent Anthem (2018), the title of which is taken from a Leonard Cohen song.

Go behind the scenes at the Steinway & Sons factory and discover Spirio, the incredible technology that allows a piano to replay a performance exactly as it was played live. Mr. Guido Zimmermann, the president of the world-famous pianomakers, talks us through the revolutionary concept, accompanied by images of the precise, fascinating craftmanship and engineering that goes into each one of the Spirio pianos. Hugo Cohen Sprung's documentary also allows us insight into French pianist and Steinway artist Bertrand Chamayou's experience with the technology and features a preview of his unique two-piano concert in which he performs with his "shadow"!

San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor) Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano) Mathilde Laurent (perfumer) Alexander Scriabin 1872 - 1915 Prometheus, The Poem of Fire Alexander Scriabin’s symphonic poem ‘Prometheus, The Poem of Fire’ celebrates synesthesia and cosmic unity. Devised by San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Cartier in-house perfumer Mathilde Laurent, the San Francisco Symphony and Cartier present a multisensory production of ‘Prometheus’. This collaborative world premiere combines dynamic musical and light performance with olfactory curation, subsuming audiences in Scriabin’s creative vision more than a century after the piece of total art was composed. Directed by Sébastien Glas San Francisco, Davies Symphony Hall, 3 mars 2024

Orchestre Prométhée, Pierre-Michel Durand (Conductor) Florence Alayrac (Stage Direction) María Brea (soprano) | Venezuela William Desbiens (baritone) | Canada Anna Harvey (mezzo-soprano) | UK George Vîrban (tenor) | Romania María Carla Pino Cury (soprano) | Chile Serena Sáenz Molinero (soprano) | Spain Luke Scott (baritone) | Scotland Aytaj Shikhalizada (mezzo-soprano) | Azerbaijan Deniz Uzun (mezzo-soprano) | Germany Paris Opera Competition Final Leo Delibes Lakmé | 'Où va la jeune Hindoue' | Serena Sáenz Molinero Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Maid of Orleans | ‘Da tchas nastal’ | Deniz uzun Charles Gounod Faust | ‘Avant de quitter ces lieux’ | Luke scott Giuseppe Verdi La Traviata | ‘Parigi o cara’ | George Vîrban and María Brea Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart La Clemenza di Tito | "Parto, parto ma tu ben mio" | Anna harvey Ambroise Thomas Hamlet | ‘Doute de la lumière’ | William Desbiens and María Carla Pino Cury Gioachino Rossini L'Italiana in Algeri | ‘Cruda sorte’ | Aytaj Shikhalizada Il barbiere di Siviglia | "Ah qual colpo inaspettato" | Deniz Uzun, George Vîrban and Luke Scott Gaetano Donizetti Linda di Chamounix | "O luce di quest'anima" | María Carla Pino Cury Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov The Tsar's Bride | ‘Zachem ty’ | Aytaj Shikhalizada and William Desbiens Gustave Charpentier Louise | ‘Depuis le jour’ | María Brea Engelbert Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel | 'Wie duftet’s von dorten' | Anna Harvey and María Carla Pino Cury Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Così fan tutte | 'Il core vi dono' | Deniz Uzun and Luke Scott Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Eugène Onegin | "Kuda, kuda" | George Vîrban Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Lucio Silla | 'D’elisio in sen m’attendi' | Aytaj Shakhalizada and Serena Sáenz Molinero Gioachino Rossini The Barber of Seville | ‘Largo al factotum della città’ | William desbiens Richard strauss Der Rosenkavalier | 'Marie Theres'! Hab 'mir’s gelobt'| María Brea, Anna Harvey and Serena Sáenz Molinero Gioachino Rossini L'Italiana in Algeri | 'Va sossopra il mio cervello' | Tutti Paris, Palais Garnier, January 22, 2022

Lausanne, Théâtre de Beaulieu, 8 February 2026

Claudio Abbado 10 years after

Serse Opera in three acts by Georg Friedrich Handel (1685 – 1759) Libretto by Nicolo Minato and Silvio Stampiglia First performnce in London, King’s Theatre, 15 April 1738 Opéra de Rouen Normandie Orchestra, David Bates (Musical direction, harpsichord) Clarac & Deloeuil > The Lab (Stage Direction, sets, costumes) Christophe Pitoiset (Set design collaboration), Lodie Kardouss (Artistic collaboration), Rick Martin (Lights), Julien Roques and Benjamin Juhel (Video), Julien Roques (Graphic design), Luc Bourrousse (Dramaturgy) Jake Arditti (Serse) Jakub Józef Orlinski (Arsamene) Cecilia Molinari (Amastre) Mari Eriksmoen (Romilda) Sophie Junker (Atalanta) Luigi de Donato (Ariodate) Elviro Riccardo (Novaro) Rouen, Théâtre des Arts, March 14, 2023

Dizzy Gillespie Quartet - Berliner Jazztage Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Mickey Roker (drums) Earl May (bass) Alexander Gafa (guitar) Berlin, Deutschlandhalle, 2 November 1974 Directed by Sigrid Schröder

Gil Evans Orchestra & Mccoy Tyner Sextet - Berliner Jazztage Gil Evans Orchestra McCoy Tyner Sextet McCoy Tyner (piano) Ron Bridgewater (saxophone) James Ford – reeds Guilherme Franco (percussions) Charles Fambrough (bass) Eric Gravatt (drums) Berlin, Philharmonie, 3 November 1976 (Gil Evans), & 6 November 1976 (McCoy Tyner Sextet ) Directed by Oskar Krüger

Oregon - Berliner Jazztage Oregon Ralph Towner (guitar) Collin Walcott (percussion/tabla) Paul McCandless (oboe) Glenn Moore (bass) Berlin, Philharmonie, 2 November 1980 Directed by Dieter Krause