IMZ Newsletter 04/2011

N E WSLE T T ER APR IL 2011 IMZ INTERNAL NEWS • IMZ WORLD MUSIC FILM SCREENINGS AT WOMEX 2011 LAST CALL FOR ENTRY • IMZ AT THE 48TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE GOLDEN PRAGUE PREMIERES 2011 CALL FOR ENTRY • DANCE SCREEN ON TOUR RE-LAUNCH

• THE MET 2011 NATIONAL COUNCIL AUDITIONS THE WINNERS • QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VOICE COMPETITION THE PARTICIPANTS • SOUNDING IMAGES NOMINATED BEST DOCUMENTARY • RESTRUCTURING THE ORF-ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT • RAI TRADE MERGER BY ACQUISITION

IMZ MEMBER NEWS

RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS

• CLASART BELCANTO SENSATIONS

• WOMEX PROGRAMME PROPOSAL DEADLINE

• C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT SUPERSTARS • EUROARTS SPANISH SPRING

• ONLINE-DANCEFESTIVAL SIDEBYSIDE-NET 2011 CALL FOR PROPOSALS

• FRA PRODUCTIONS MEISTERSINGER

• DANCE CAMERA WEST

• SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY PREMIERE KEEPING SCORE RADIO SERIES

• BEETHOVENFEST BONN

N EWSLE T TER IMZ WORLD MUSIC FILM SCREENINGS AT WOMEX 2011

F O R M O R E I N F O R M AT I O N

Last Call For Entry!

15 April is the deadline for entries to the 10th IMZ-organised World Music

V I S I T O U R W E B S I T E W W W. I M Z . AT

Film Screenings at WOMEX taking place 26 October – 30 October 2011 for

O R J O I N U S O N FAC E B O O K :

Don’t miss the opportunity and submit any recently produced world music

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the third and last time in Copenhagen, Denmark! programmes that have not been presented at WOMEX before. We are looking for undeniable cinematic quality – a film that grabs and moves the viewer, with an intriguing storyline, dramatic composition, strong visuals and first-rate camera work. We welcome new, unheard, unseen subjects and niches but are open to

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established artists as well. In addition the quality of the music itself is most

DANCE SCREEN ON TOUR

You can submit your proposals and find all necessary information here!

important and one of the key criteria for the selection process.

Please note our new conditions this year which include a submission fee of New Programmes!

€60 per programme for non-IMZ members as well as a handling fee of €150 for

Following the success of dancescreen 2010 at Cinedance in Amsterdam, we are

the programmes selected for the screenings. Have a look at the general

thrilled to announce the re-launch of dance screen on Tour. We are in the

information sheet in order to see what the fees include.

making of a new and exciting screening programme that will be touring soon and worldwide. Stay tuned and check the latest updates on the IMZ Facebook page!

Furthermore the proposed entries may also become part of our “World music film on Tour” non-profit distribution project.

For personal support please contact Tatiana Petkova (t.petkova@imz.at)

N EWSLE T TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS IMZ AT THE 48TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE GOLDEN PRAGUE PREMIERES 2011

CLASART

Call for entry

Belcanto Starring…

IMZ would like to invite you to the 48th ITF Golden Prague taking place

Don’t miss the upcoming opera highlights for

on 15 – 19 October 2011 at Žofín Palace, Prague.

TV:

The Golden Prague Premiers will be continued this year!

Le Comte Ory by Gioacchino Rossini

We are happy to offer three screening slots in the framework of Golden

Opera in two acts, live from The

Prague Premieres 2011:

Metropolitan Opera in New York, 2011,

On three evenings three IMZ members will have the possibility to present their latest programme to the professional audience of the festival.

For the “Golden Prague Premieres 2011” we are looking for music and dance television programmes and films, which have not had their premiere yet!

sung in French, approx. 180’, available in August 2011 Rossini’s vocally dazzling comedy stars bel canto sensation Juan Diego Flórez in the title role of this Met premiere production. He vies with

Deadline for submitting programmes: 31 May 2011

mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, in the trouser role of Isolier, for the love of the lonely

For further information, please contact Katharina Jeschke at the IMZ office

Countess Adèle, sung by soprano Diana

(k.jeschke@imz.at) or download the Application form!

Damrau. Director Bartlett Sher describes the

http://www.festivalgoldenprague.cz.

world of the opera as, “a place where love is dangerous. People get hurt. That can be very

funny and very painful. Rossini captures both – with the most beautiful love music he ever wrote.”

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS CLASART Anna Bolena by Gaetano Donizetti Opera in two acts, live from The Metropolitan Opera in New York, 2011, sung in Italian, approx. 210’, Available in February 2012 Anna Netrebko opens the Met season 2011/12 with her portrayal of the illfated queen driven insane by her unfaithful king. She sings one of opera’s greatest mad scenes in a production that also stars Elīna Garanča as her r i v a l , J a n e S e y m o u r, a n d I l d a r

FRANÇOIS ROUSSILLON & ASSOCIÉS FRA Productions Proudly Present…

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (285’; HD) – the ground-breaking production of Wagner’s masterpiece directed by David McVicar and conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.

The Glyndebourne 2011 Festival opens with this production of one of the most popular operas in the repertory, and among the longest still commonly performed today. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg occupies a unique place in Richard Wagner's oeuvre. It is the only comedy among his mature operas, and is his only opera centered on a historically well-defined time and place rather than a mythical or legendary setting.

Gerald Finley makes his role debut as Hans Sachs, with tenor Marco Jentzsch as Walther, soprano Anna Gabler as Eva and baritone Johannes Martin Kränzle as Sixtus Beckmesser.

Abdrazakov, as Henry VIII. The duet "Sul

F o r m o r e i n f o r m a t i o n , p l e a s e c o n t a c t D av i d R e b o u l a t

suo capo aggravi un Dio" between Anna Bolena and Jane Seymour is considered

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one of the finest in the entire operatic repertoire…

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT

LIVE On 16 August 2011: Three Superstars at the Waldbühne Berlin

On the Trail of Easy Rider

Anna Netrebko will be back at Berlin’s stunning

“A man went looking for America and couldn’t find it anywhere…”

Waldbühne! Joining her are baritone super star Erwin

proclaimed the film poster of Easy Rider back in 1969. Now, 40 years

Schrott and star tenor Jonas Kaufmann. On the

on, we are undertaking that odyssey afresh. To bring the anniversary of

programme famous duets and arias by Gershwin,

this milestone to life for a TV audience, Hannes Rossacher and Simon

Bernstein, Puccini, Mozart and Gounod. Length approx.

Witter retraced the route of that original adventure – a route designed

90’; Format: HD (5.1 Surround Sound). Production: ZDF

to slice through a variety of social strata – and find out how its issues

in co-production with Unitel; TV distribution

resonate with the America of 2010. Length: 4x60’, 2x45’, 90'; Format:

worldwide: C Major Entertainment.

HD; Production: studio.tv.film in co-production with ZDF. TV distribution: C Major Entertainment..

The Queens of Pop In January 2011, ARTE viewers voted for the Queens of Pop. 10 pop queens were chosen from 50 proposals (10 from each decade, starting in

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the 1960s), and each presented in a 26-minute documentary: From the 1960s: Aretha Franklin and Diana Ross. From the 1970s: Donna Summer and Kate Bush. From the 1980s: Madonna and Nena. From the 1990s: Britney Spears and Mariah Carey. From 2000 – 2009: Lady Gaga and Beyoncé. Length: 10x30’; Format: HD; Production: Signed media in coproduction with arte. TV distribution: C Major Entertainment.

fwww.cmajor-entertainment.com

N EWSL ET TER Joaquín Achúcarro – Manuel de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain

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Berliner Philharmoniker · Sir Simon Rattle. Duration: 28’; HD; Progr. No.: 5878. A Sintonía production in

EUROARTS

association with Fundacíon BBVA

Berlin Goes Madrid

Joaquín Achúcarro: Recital at the Teatro

Europa Konzert 2011 from Madrid

Real in Madrid

Live from the Teatro Real, Madrid on Sunday,

Duration: 88’; HD; Progr. No.: 5879. A Sintonía

1 May 2011, 11:00 am CET. Live signal

production in association with Fundacíon BBVA.

available!

New Releases DVD © Javier de Real

Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila from the Vlaamse Opera Ghent/Antwerp

C a ñ i z a re s , g u i t a r · B e r l i n e r

New Releases Blu-ray

Philharmoniker · Sir Simon Rattle

Abbado-Mahler-Box: Claudio Abbado/Lucerne Festival

Chabrier: España · Rodrigo: Concierto de

Orchestra (Mahler 1-7).

Aranjuez · Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2; Duration: approx. 90’; HD; Progr. No.: 5839;

Claudio Abbado/Berliner Philharmoniker: Brahms, Dvořák.

TV Director: Rhodri Huw. Produced by

New Releases Blu-ray

EuroArts, in co-production with RBB, NHK,

Abbado-Mahler-Box: Claudio Abbado/Lucerne Festival

BBC, TVE

Orchestra (Mahler 1-7).

www.euroarts.com

© Amancio Guillén

Claudio Abbado/Berliner Philharmoniker: Brahms, Dvořák.

© Monika Rittershaus

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS THE SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Premiere Keeping Score Radio Series

style episodes and two live concert programmes, airing on KQED at 9 p.m. on 14 and 21 April 2011. The documentaries, titled Origins and Legacy, were shot on locations in the Czech Republic, Austria, and New York, and

The San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas’ new Keeping

along with concert footage shot in San Francisco reveal the life and music

Score radio series, 13 Days When Music Changed Forever, will

of this emotionally charged composer, providing viewers with an

be broadcast locally beginning 2 April on KQED (88.5 FM in San

unprecedented journey through his music and the influences that shaped it.

Francisco and 89.3 FM in Sacramento), KDFC (90.3FM in San Francisco and 89.9 FM in the East Bay and North Bay) and 4 April on KALW (91.7

For detailed programme descriptions and to view the trailers, click here!.

FM in San Francisco).

The radio series of 13 one-hour episodes will explore composers, compositions or musical movements that changed the way people heard

Keeping Score: Mahler (captured in full HD) will be released on DVD and

and thought about music. 13 Days When Music Changed Forever looks at the historical backdrop and musical precursors to these revolutionary

Blu-Ray High Definition formats through SFS Media, the San Francisco

changes and their lasting influence, including seminal events such as the

such as iTunes, Zune, and others.

premieres of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Eroica; Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle; and Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.

Also part of the Keeping Score project, the television series Keeping Score: Mahler will present two one-hour documentary-

Symphony’s own label, in April 2011 and on download-to-own channels www.sfsymphony.org www.sfsymphony.org/store www.keepingscore.org

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS THE METROPOLITAN OPERA National Council Auditions Winners On 13 March, The Metropolitan Opera announced the winners of the 2011 National Council Auditions. They are: Joseph Barron, bass-baritone from Pittsburgh, PA; Ryan Speedo Green, bass-baritone from Suffolk, VA; Michelle Johnson, soprano from Pearland, TX; Joseph Lim, baritone from Seoul, South Korea; and Philippe Sly, bass-baritone from Ottawa, Canada. The winners were selected from eight finalists who performed arias with the Met Orchestra, conducted by Patrick Summers. Each winner receives a cash prize of $15,000 and even more importantly, the opportunity to launch a major operatic career…

The Grand Finals Concert, held on 13 March, was recorded for broadcast at a later date on public radio stations across the United States.

In 2007, the National Council Audition process was captured by Susan Froemke in an acclaimed documentary, The Audition, which was shown on PBS and released on DVD.

7TH QUEEN ELISABETH INTERNATIONAL VOICE COMPETITION

with the La Monnaie/De Munt Symphony

The Participants

Vlaamse Opera, under the baton of Dmitri

Of the 189 candidates whose DVDs have

Jurowski.

been screened by the preselection jury in

All IMZ members are warmly invited to

February 2011, 98 have been admitted to the first public round of this year’s voice

attend the competition sessions and the

competition. Find out the names and nationalities of the candidates on

Etienne Van Neste, Secretary-General of the Competition (mevanneste@qeimc.be).

www.qeimc.be

This year’s voice competition will be

On the preselection jury, chaired by Arie Van

podcasted as from the first round and

Lysebeth: Renée Auphan, Marius Brenciu,

streamed live as from the semi-finals on the

Sophie Karthäuser, Tom Krause, José Van Dam

Competition’s website. More information on

and Jard van Nes.

http://www.qeimc.be.

The selected singers will come to Brussels to compete in the first round (5 – 7 May) and 24 of them will go through to the semi-final (9 – 11 May). From 13 – 15 May, 3 members of the

During a typical opera season, more than one hundred alumni of the

jury – Teresa Berganza, Grace Bumbry and

Auditions are on the Met roster…

José Van Dam – will give public master

Read more…

classes. The 12 finalists will perform from 18 – 21 May at the Brussels Palais des Beaux-Arts

Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Rizzi. On 9 June then, the laureates will sing at the closing concert with the Symphony Orchestra of the

laureates’ concert! Please contact Michel-

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS SOUNDING IMAGES Kinshasa Symphony Nominated for German Film Award LOLA

interruption. Kinshasa Symphony has also made a successful start in Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland. France and Austria are about to follow suit. The film has won a number of

Kinshasa Symphony, the film about an incredible

international awards, notably in the United

classical symphony orchestra in the Congo, has

States, Canada, Korea and Russia.

been nominated for the German Film Awards in the category “Best Documentary”. The members of the Academy have selected two films. The decision which of them will be awarded the “Lola”, Germany’s most generously endowed culture prize, will be taken on 8 April.

Many initiatives and donation campaigns have come about as a result of Kinshasa Symphony.

Musicians of the West German Radio Symphony Orchestra have held workshops in Kinshasa and many enthusiastic cinemagoers have donated instruments and money to the Congolese

The film by Claus Wischmann and Martin Baer,

orchestra featured in the film, the Orchestre

c o - p ro d u c e d by W D R ( We s t G e r m a n

Symphonique Kimbanguiste.

Broadcasting) and RBB (Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting) has been on show in German cinemas since 23 September (it is now in its 24th week) and audience interest is unabated.

One Munich cinema has had the film in its programme from the very outset and without

The DVD by Edition Salzgeber will be in the shops in early April.

Contact: info@sounding-images.de

RAI Merger by acquisition of the company RAI TRADE Società per Azioni (joint stock company) – into the company RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana Società per Azioni (joint stock company) By way of merger by acquisition dated 23 February 2011, the company RAI TRADE S.p.A., with registered office in Rome, at 18 Via Novaro, has been merged into the company RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana S.p.A., which hereby takes over, for all intents and purposes, all the acquired company’s rights and obligations, continuing its activity without interruption.

Contact: info@raitrade.it

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS ORF Restructuring The ORF-Enterprise Management Beatrice Riesenfelder has taken on the role of Chief Financial Officer,

Also ORF has tapped Andrew Solomon as new head of its natural history and science department called UNIVERSUM. Read more…

working alongside with Franz Prenner, Chief Executive Officer of ORF's

Contact:

commercial arm, ORF Enterprise, who's responsibilities as first managing director

ORF-Enterprise GmbH & Co KG

and speaker of the Enterprise management, include classical advertising in TV,

Content Sales International

radio and online media, extending across vast areas such as Sales & New Business

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Development, Special Advertising, Airtime-Management, Research & Pricing,

A-1136 Vienna, Austria

Strategic Units as well as B2B-Communications. Just as Franz Prenner, Beatrice

+43(0)1/87878-13030

Riesenfelder is an ORF-Enterprise home-comer. After successfully establishing the Content Sales International department, specialising in international programme

contentsales@orf.at Online-Dancefestival SideBySide-

people. The audience’s favourite artists

net 2011

(watch&vote-principle) receive prizes

responsibilities in the field of Finance & Administration. Alongside her new

Call For Proposals

summing up to 3,000 Euro. Crucial criteria

obligations, Riesenfelder will continue to manage her existing responsibilities of

At the 7th international online-

content distribution, merchandising and licensing, as well as Sound & Vision, which

dancefestival SideBySide-net 2011, artists

integrates different media co-operations, as for instance the Universum Magazine

get the unique opportunity to present

and music publishing of the ORF-Enterprise.

their work on an established dancevideo-

ORF Enterprise has restructured its Content Sales Team and upped

platform and to a broad international

here.

Berend Dreier and Marion Camus Oberdorfer to Sales Directors.

audience for a longer period of time. In

Application deadline: 1 June 2011

recent years, the festival's website has been visited by in sum over 100,000

(The postmark’s date is relevant).

sales, Riesenfelder has rejoined the ORF-Enterprise Management Team since the beginning of this year. Her position as CFO encompasses main duties and

for nominations are the quality of dance, an individual style, and an innovative realisation of an interesting topic.

Application forms can be downloaded

N EWSL ET TER RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS WOMEX 11 Call For Proposals Artists, speakers, and filmmakers are called on to submit their showcase,

Dance Camera West Festival Dance Media Film Festival

conference, and film proposals for WOMEX 11, taking place on 26 – 30

Mark Your Calendar For DCW'S 10th Anniversary!

October 2011 in Copenhagen/Denmark. The deadline is Friday, 15

16 – 19 June 2011, Los Angeles

April 2011.

• 16 June: Opening Night Screenings and Celebration at The Getty Center

Submission forms and further information are available online.

• 17 June: Dance Media: Active Spectrum Conference – International presenters

Mark your calendars…

UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance

WOMEX is "The most important international professional market of world

Dinner for conference attendees

Outdoor screening at the UCLA Fowler Museum Amphitheater

music of every kind. This international fair brings together professionals from the worlds of folk, roots, ethnic and traditional music and also includes concerts, conferences and documentary films. It contributes to networking as an effective means of promoting music and culture of all kinds across frontiers."

• 18 and 19 June: Screenings and Special Events at Hammer Museum

Director's Round Table

Receptions; Artists Luncheon

Please visit DCW's website for continuous updates: www.dancecamerawest.org

N EWSL ET TER RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS Beethovenfest Bonn 2011

The Beethovenfest Bonn is approaching Liszt the innovator

Music Of The Future. Beethoven, Liszt And Innovation In

by taking an historical look at Liszt’s relationship to music

Music 9 September – 9 October 2011, under the patronage of State Premier Hannelore Kraft

history, and placing this relationship in a topical context. The composer of avantgarde music, of symphonies, of religious and folk music, of lieder and of chamber music, his influence on his contemporaries and on later composers such as

In this Liszt bicentenary year, the Beethovenfest Bonn is

Wagner, Richard Strauss, Schönberg, Bartók, Kodály and

looking back on its long tradition: in 1845 Franz Liszt

Kurtág… Following the tradition of Liszt’s concern with

organised a three-day music festival to mark the unveiling of

Hungarian folk music, the Beethovenfest has invited

the Beethoven Memorial on Bonn’s Münsterplatz on the

musicians and ensembles who foster the musical heritage of eastern Europe and the Balkans: the cimbalom player Ágnes

occasion of the 75th anniversary of the composer’s birth.

Under the motto “Music of the Future” the Beethovenfest Bonn 2011 is introducing Liszt as a personality, visionary, patron, virtuoso and composer, who revered Beethoven and, starting from here, developed his own music of the future of which the influence was still felt in the 20th century.

Szakály, Fanfare Ciocãrlia, the Roma and Sinti Philharmonic, the Gypsy Devils with Paul Gulda and Goran Bregovic.

The complete programme with a total of 150 events in the main and accompanying programmes will be published in summer! www.beethovenfest.de