IMZ Newsletter October 2011

N E WS L E T T E R OCTOBER 2011 IMZ INTERNAL NEWS

IMZ MEMBER NEWS

• FILM FESTIVAL AT WIENER RATHAUSPLATZ 2011 REVIEW

LAURELS – ENTRIES, NOMINATIONS, PRIZES AND PRAISES:

• IMZ WORLD MUSIC FILM SCREENINGS AT WOMEX: WINE & DINE AT THE AUSTRIAN BOOTH • WORLD MUSIC FILMS ON TOUR: WEBSITE UPDATE • 39TH INTERNATIONAL EMMY AWARDS NOMINEES ANNOUNCED • IMZ AT GOLDEN PRAGUE: TWO GP PREMIÈRES & IMZ-EBU PITCHING SESSION

• SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY KEEPING SCORE: MAHLER DVD WINS GERMAN RECORD CRITICS’ ANNUAL AWARD • PETER ROSEN PRODUCTIONS: ECHO KLASSIK: BEST DVD OF 2011 • ZDF: PINA TO COMPETE FOR THE OSCAR 1 FESTIVAL NEWS: • 48TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE • THE MET: LIVE IN HD NEW PRODUCTIONS: • EUROARTS • C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT

N E WS L E T T E R OCTOBER 2011 IMZ MEMBER NEWS

RELATED INDUSTRY NEWS

• CLASART • CÉCILE CLAIRVAL-MILHAUD

• EUROPEAN FESTIVALS ASSOCIATION 4TH ATELIER FOR YOUNG FESTIVAL MANAGERS

NEW COOPERATIONS:

• MIDEM 2012

• ARTHAUS MUSIK AND EUROARTS

• MODUL-DANCE

NEW IN THE IMZ: • CULTURAL MEDIA COLLABORATIVE JOB CAROUSEL: • WOLFGANG BERGMANN NEW ZDF COORDINATOR FOR ARTE

F O R M O R E I N F O R M AT I O N VISIT OUR WEBSITE AND J O I N U S O N FAC E B O O K / IMZMedia

N EWSL ET TER IMZ INTERNAL NEWS FILM FESTIVAL AT WIENER RATHAUSPLATZ 2011 From 2 July – 4 September 2011, more than 520.000 visitors enjoyed the famous free open-air Film Festival in front of Vienna´s City Hall in Austria.

More than 40 different productions were featured on the 65 festival evenings, offering a fine selection of music films, including highlights from the fields of classical music, jazz and world music, as well as a special homage to the art of Gustav Mahler and Franz Liszt.

All in all, a splendorous celebration of tradition and the contemporary, of opera, operetta, classical and modern dance, for regulars, youngsters, lovers, experts, sceptics and novices… The absolute highlights of the festival were the live transmissions of Beethoven’s Fidelio from the Bavarian State Opera, Munich (with Jonas Kaufmann as Florestan and Anja Kampe as Leonore) and Verdi’s Simone Boccanegra from the Vienna State Opera starring Placido Domingo, whose 70th birthday and 50th anniversary of his stage debut this year provided the perfect occasion for a marvellous Domingo Special featuring several opera film treasures from the archives. Appearing at the Rathausplatz after the performance in the Vienna State Opera and singing Wien, Wien nur Du allein… he topped even the highest expectations of the Viennese Domingo fans!

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N EWSLE T TER IMZ INTERNAL NEWS WORLD MUSIC FILMS ON TOUR Website update For all those planning a festival, a world music event or any kind of

IMZ WORLD MUSIC FILM SCREENINGS AT WOMEX: WINE & DINE AT THE AUSTRIAN BOOTH

We are looking forward to seeing you in

non-commercial screenings: we are happy to present an updated and

Copenhagen at the IMZ stand L.16 and at

improved worldmusicfilms.com website. See the complete film list and

the screenings in the Cinema.

book the movies you like.

NB: Registration for programme

The next step is the mandatory programme selection update that will follow the

buyers is free of charge! Please

IMZ World Music Film Screenings at WOMEX 2011. So stay tuned!

Less then 3 weeks to go for the IMZ

contact Tatiana Petkova for

World Music Film Screenings at WOMEX

further details.

2011.

Finally make sure to see also all

Join us for a Wine & Dine session at

submitted programmes.

the Austrian Booth (K.01-04, L. 17-20): Thu 27.10.11 starting 16:00.

As to the screening selection we have 12 exciting movies from 8 countries recorded in nearly all parts of the world, featuring more than 30 artists and of course loads of wonderful music…

WINE E & DIN

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WORLD MUSIC FILMS ON TOUR Join our non-profit initiative and let the world’s musics be your guest!

N EWSLE T TER IMZ INTERNAL NEWS 39TH INTERNATIONAL EMMY® AWARDS

The competition has three rounds of judging over a period of 6 months, with participation from over 800 judges in 67 different countries.

Nominees Announced

Among the 2011 Semi-Final Judging

On 3 October, at a press conference at Mipcom,

Hosts: Franz Patay and Chris Hunt, IMZ

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the Nominations for the 39th International Emmy® Awards. There are 40 n o m i n e e s i n 1 0 c a t e g o ri e s , a n d Nominations span a record 20 countries.

Find the list of all 2011 International Emmy®

Winners will be announced at a black-tie ceremony on 21 November 2011 at the Hilton New York Hotel.

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is a membership based organization

Mexican tenor Francisco

We are happy to announce the participation of two IMZ

to join forces to promote and

members at the Golden Prague Premieres: TV Kultura (Russia): Sunday 16 October 16:30

Araiza.

The EBU - European Broadcasting Union - and the IMZ have once again decided strengthen the arts in the audiovisual media!

We are looking forward to setting up at least one new

figures from over 50 countries and 500

The Vienna State Opera:

original project/event every year, from 2012 to 2014, aimed

The famous opera house seen

at prime time international

competition with over 1000 entries from 61

companies from all sectors of television including internet, mobile and technology. The Academy's

through the eyes not only of

audiences, which will be

countries, this year." said Bruce L. Paisner,

yearly schedule of events includes the prestigious

Russian artists

offered to all members within

President & CEO of The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. "The number and range of

International Emmy® Awards Ceremony held in

Loft (Germany): Tuesday 18

the EBU and the IMZ.

countries represented by this year's nominees is

Awards at MIPTV and a series of industry events

astonishing and a testament to the growing strength

such as Academy Day, The International Emmy®

and skill of television production around the world."

World Television Festival and Panels on

Awards Nominees here.

"The International Emmy® Awards is a tough

comprised of leading media and entertainment

IMZ AT GOLDEN PRAGUE Two GP Premieres & IMZ-EBU Pitching session

New York, The International Digital Emmy®

substantive industry topics.

For more information: www.iemmys.tv

October 16:30 The Beauty of the Voice: A documentary about the international opera studio at the Zurich Opera, led by

For this we have set a joint Pitching Session to be held on Monday 17 October 14:00 – 15:30.

See

Golden

programme.

Prague

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS Laurels – Entries, Nominations, Prizes And Praises SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY Keeping Score: Mahler DVD Wins German Record Critics’ Annual Award

Association, on behalf of the jury. “Like the seven previous releases, it is the result of the initiative of the San Francisco Symphony and its superb conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas. We know of no other major

Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco

educational project in the arts since Lenny Bernstein's

Symphony’s DVD Keeping Score: Mahler –

legendary television programs with the New York

Origins and Legacy has been awarded the most

Philharmonic that has achieved comparable success. The

prestigious German recording award, Preis der

California team explains and interprets the heritage of

deutschen Schallplattenkritik, in the

classical music within the framework of a nationwide

Concerts and Documentaries category. The winning DVD includes a two-hour documentary on

mission through multimedia channels – television, radio, Internet, and various educational programmes for

composer Gustav Mahler, hosted by Tilson Thomas,

students and teachers. Their enthusiasm for the project

San Francisco Symphony Music Director, and two SF Symphony concert performance programmes:

is convincing and is also apparent in the praiseworthy

Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, and A Mahler Journey,

and legacy of the composer's works during nearly four

tracing the origins and influences of his music in a

hours of film sequences and concert performances.”

variety of orchestral and vocal works.

The documentaries were shot on location in the

“The most recent release in this highly acclaimed series

Czech Republic, Austria, and New York, and concert

is devoted to Gustav Mahler, in commemoration of the

footage shot was at Davies Symphony Hall in San

100th anniversary of his death,” said Lothar Prox,

Francisco.

Chairman of the German Record Critics' Award

www.sfsymphony.org

portrait of Gustav Mahler, which examines the origins

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS PETER ROSEN PRODUCTIONS

ZDF

ECHO Klassik: Best DVD of 2011

Pina To Compete For The Oscar 1

ECHO Klassik Best DVD of 2011

Germany enters the ZDF coproduction Pina by Wim Wenders for

award goes to Peter Rosen's feature

competition for the Foreign Oscar®. The jury, assigned by German

length film A Surprise in Texas and

Films, judges the film as a cinematic complete work of art. The film is

coproducers Van Cliburn Foundation,

seen as conveying a “sensual experience of dance”, being an “excellent

EuroArts, NHK, and Avex Classics of Japan.

portrait of an important German artist”.

The story of 20 year old pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, blind from birth, winning the world's most prestigious piano contest has just been licensed for broadcast by Lothar Mattner at WDR. "No surprise for me - this is one of the most popular programmes I ever have broadcast in

Wim Wenders had started the extraordinary film project, recorded with 3D technology, while Pina Bausch, the great choreographer and director of Tanztheater Wuppertal was still alive.

In the middle of preparing the film her sudden death was announced.

The dancers and Wim Wenders decided to finish the film nevertheless – with a unique result.

my slot here in Norway, and it is very

The film was premiered this year during Berlinale festival. In

entertaining and telling a fantastic

spring 2011 it was awarded as best documentary film with the

story." (Arild Erikstad, NRK)

German „Filmpreis“. Pina is a coproduction of “Neue Roadmovies”

Read more… www.peterrosenproductions.com

with German Television ZDF, ZDFtheaterkanal and ARTE. Responsible editors are Wolfgang Bergmann, Gabriele Heuser and Dieter Schneider.

For more information, please contact Cathrin Ehrlich

N EWSL ET TER FESTIVAL NEWS

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA

IMZ MEMBER NEWS

48TH ITF GOLDEN PRAGUE

The Met: Live In HD

What’s On… ZDF In October:

15 – 19 October 2011 / Zofin Palace, Prague

Entering The Sixth Season With Largest-Ever Worldwide Distribution

2 October 2011, 10:00 pm, ZDF

The festival is ready, set, and…

Echo der Stars. Gala-Konzert zur Verleihung des ECHO Klassik 2011

If you have not registered yet, please do so by filling in the personal registration form at www.festivalgoldenprague.cz!

10 October 2011, 10:15 pm, ARTE MUSICA: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf – Getriebene der Kunst 21 October 2011, 11:30 pm, ZDF Lang Lang und Liszt. Aus dem Leben eines Klaviervirtuosen 24 October 2011, 09:50 pm, ARTE MUSICA: Franz Liszt – Die späten Jahre www.zdf.de

Also on the festival’s website: the final programme update, a list of all competition and non-competition programmes, as well as the festival catalogue.

The ITF GP team looks forward to meeting you in Prague!

Contact: Andrea Savane

The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live transmissions to movie theaters around the world, has expanded its worldwide distribution to 1,600 theaters in 54 countries, the largest global audience the initiative has ever reached. The newest countries to sign on for Live in HD transmissions include Russia, Israel, China, Cyprus, the Dominican Republic, Morocco, Slovenia, and the territory of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Last year, a record of more than 2.6 million Live in HD tickets were sold to opera lovers across the globe, effectively quadrupling the Met’s paying audience (approximately 800,000 people attend performances in the opera house in a Met season)!

The sixth season of live transmissions begins 15 October with the Met premiere production of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, featuring Anna Netrebko in the title role. She stars in the first transmission to be shown in her native country, joined by Russian colleagues Ekaterina Gubanova as Jane Seymour and Ildar Abdrazakov as Enrico (Henry VIII).

The 2011-12 Live in HD season features 11 transmissions, which include a Met premiere, a world premiere, three new productions of repertory favorites, and the final two installments of a new Ring cycle. All 11 high-definition productions will be shown live worldwide on Saturdays…

Read more…

N EWSL ET TER C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT

IMZ MEMBER NEWS

DVD and TV highlight: On the occasion of Steve

NEW PRODUCTIONS

C Major Entertainment And San Francisco Ballet Present…

Reich’s 75th anniversary on 3

The Little Mermaid

EUROARTS

October…

After making its triumphant U.S. Premiere and playing to sold-

October News

Steve Reich – Phase to Face

out houses this past season, John Neumeier’s superlative work

Blu-ray + DVD:

by Lera Auerbach, this heart-wrenching story of sacrifice and

75 Years Israel Philharmonic Orchestra The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra – a cultural icon of Israel and one of the greatest orchestras in the world celebrates its 75th Birthday in 2011. The documentary by János Darvas portrays the orchestra and tells of its moving history, which is both a reflection of the history of Israel and the fate of the Jews in the 20th Century.

DVD & BD Catalogue, including all EuroArts and Idéale Audience Releases John Nelson – The Soli Deo Gloria Collection

of dance-theatre returns in 2011. Featuring an evocative score unrequited love comes to life against dazzling scenic, costume and lighting designs…

Soloists: Yuan Yuan Tan, Lloyd Riggins, Tiit Helimets, Sarah Van Patten. Director: Thomas Grimm. Length: 124’. Production: SFB in coproduction with WNET, NDR/arte and BFMI. Release on DVD and Blu-Ray in November 2011. For further information please contact C Major Entertainment.

© IPO

www.euroarts.com

© Erik Tomasson

N EWSL ET TER New Year's Eve Concert 2011

IMZ MEMBER NEWS

German Television’s traditional New Year’s

C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT

Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala and Erwin

C Major Entertainment And San Francisco Ballet Present…

Schrott! Together with Maestro Christian

Gustavo Dudamel & Herbie Hancock: Opening Concert

they are celebrating the most beautiful

Eve Concert from Semperoper featuring

LA Phil The Opening Night Gala 2011/2012 of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra features keyboard legend Herbie Hancock who joins Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic for a high-spirited

Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden, melodies from operetta and opera…

Production: ZDF in coproduction with UNITEL. Length: 90’. TV distribution worldwide: C Major Entertainment.. © Matthias Creutziger

celebration of George Gershwin. Production: BFMI. Length: 90’. TV Festive Advent Concert at the

distribution worldwide: C Major Entertainment..

Frauenkirche 2011 In addition to the New Year’s Eve Concert, Christian Thielemann will conduct the Staatskapelle in this year’s Advent Concert, also broadcast by the German television

For further information, please

network. Among the soloists: Joyce

contact C Major Entertainment

DiDonato! Production: UNITEL in coproduction with ZDF. Length: 60’. TV distribution worldwide: C Major Entertainment. © BFMI

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS CLASART CLASSICS Dove è amore è gelosia: Historical Reconstruction At The Baroque Theatre Of The Castle Český Krumlov In coproduction with BVA, NHK and Czech Television, Clasart Classics has just recorded the Baroque opera Dove è amore è gelosia at the castle of the UNESCO world heritage site Český Krumlov. In this reconstruction of a historical opera performance, one can admire the completely preserved theatre stocks such as machinery, costumes and props. In addition, the theatre also boasts a rich library, in which the scores by Giuseppe Scarlatti were found.

Prince Joseph Adam of Schwarzenberg, the Duke of Krumlov, commissioned Scarlatti in 1768 to compose this opera buffa. The first performance, given at the Baroque theatre, was conducted by Scarlatti himself.

Thanks to the surviving documents and objects, it was possible to reconstruct this unique event: Wearing wigs and dressed in original costumes, conductor Vojtěch Spurný and his Schwarzenberg Court Orchestra delicately express the charm and elegance of Scarlatti’s music, while the quartet of outstanding soloists infuse their waggish characters with bright humour.

The opera (approx. 90 min), directed by Ondřej Havelka, was taped in highdefinition during live performances presented in September 2011 and is paired with a 52-minute documentary that gives additional information about the history of the site, the theatre and the opera including rehearsal segments.

For further information please contact Katja Raths at or Katharina Biro

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS CÉCILE CLAIRVAL-MILHAUD Darius Milhaud And His Music: The French documentary we have seen on ARTE last year comes out in a set of 2 DVDs, with the English, German and Portuguese versions of the film. Director Cécile Clairval-Milhaud has realised a rich programme of seven bonus features: 3 documentaries • Madeleine Milhaud tells … A century of memories • Darius Milhaud by William Bolcom, the American composer • Le Logis du Bras d’Or, the family house in Aix-en-Provence); 4 musical bonus tracks • Darius Milhaud and Brazil, with the musicologist Manoel Corrêa do Lago and a great orchestra Choro conducted by Mauricio Carrilho • La cheminée du Roi René performed by the wind quintet of the Berliner Philarmoniker • 1st string quartet performed by Eclipse Quartet from Los Angeles • 18th string quartet performed by Eclipse Quartet from Los Angeles “This set is a new approach on this great composer, one of the most original in the music of the 20th Century.” (Cécile Clairval-Milhaud) Contact: Cécile Clairval-Milhaud

NEW COOPERATIONS Arthaus Musik And EuroArts Start New Cooperation In TV Distribution Arthaus Musik and EuroArts Music International have decided to form a closer alliance for television distribution. EuroArts will distribute the existing Arthaus Musik catalogue of programmes for television and new media, starting from MIPCOM 2011.

“We see this as a perfect completion of our existing catalogue due to the nature of these excellent programmes which are not in competition with EuroArts’ and Idéale Audience’ programmes and guarantee the highest level of cultural and artistic quality.” (Dieter Gross, Managing Director of EuroArts Music) “We strongly believe that closer alliances are a necessity in this constantly developing and specialised market. EuroArts has proved to be one of the best distributors for television rights in the field of music, art and culture and we have decided to work together with them.” (Erwin Stürzer, Managing Director of Arthaus Musik) There is also a preferred partnership for television distribution of all new Arthaus Musik productions and coproductions for the future…

N EWSL ET TER IMZ MEMBER NEWS NEW IN THE IMZ Cultural Media Collaborative Please welcome the newest member in the IMZ family!

Cultural Media Collaborative is a New York based

Job Carousel

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On 1 Oktober 2011, Wolfg a ng Bergmann has taken over as ZDF coordinator for ARTE and President of

MIDEM 2012

ARTE's Musica meeting group. Mr.

midem is the place to discover all manner of

Bergmann is also co-managing director of

opportunities to grow

Arte Deutschland TV GmbH.

world’s music community and all the new segments -

your business. Meet with the

notably brands and technology - that engage audiences

production organization creating both performance and

Contact:

documentary films specifically designed to increase and

Wolfgang Bergmann

enhance public awareness of music, dance, art and

bergmann.w@zdf.de

More reach, more people, more expertise, more

culture.

ARTE Koordination Sendezentrum 2

networking and more business at midem 2012: create bridges with other industries. More midem for your

55100 Mainz Tel. +49 6131 70-16250

registration fees here.

Scenes from their newest production, Of Love, Death and Beyond – Exploring Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, introduced and narrated by Thomas Hampson, will be screened at MIDEM 2012.

Contact: Jason Starr, starr@culturalmedia.net www.culturalmedia.net

CULTURAL MEDIA COLLABORATIVE

with music.

money - please find more information about the new midem, connected by music.

January 28-31, 2012, Cannes, France. www.midem.com

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MODUL-DANCE

Supported by the European Dancehouse

ASSOCIATION

Starting Into The Next

22 European dance houses and media institutions

Inspiring Encounters…

Season…

from 15 countries, modul-dance is aiming at

4 7 Pa rt i c i p a n t s S e l e c t e d , 1 0 P re s e n t e rs

Follow the artists selected for Modul-dance on

Confirmed For The 4th Atelier For Young

their way through Europe! What were their

Festival Managers

expectations, and what experiences have they

The Atelier for Young Festival Managers – initiated by the

made at different places, with different audiences

European Festivals Association (EFA) – will take place in Izmir/

and dance communities? Read all reports on

Turkey from 24 to 31 October 2011, hosted by the

www.modul-dance.eu!

International Izmir Festival. Following its last remarkable

From 9 – 13 November 2011, the Mercat de les

edition in Singapore (May 2011), the Atelier IZMIR 2011 will

Flors / Barcelona will present the first small

bring together 42 talented young festival managers from 31 countries, eager to learn from the experience of 8 renowned

version of a "modul-dance festival" featuring Perrine Valli (CH), Kaori Ito (GER) and Fearghus

festival directors, artists and cultural managers from all over

O´Conchuir (IE). This format will be worked out

the world.

together with further European partners, thus in

Follow all news on the Atelier at www.atelierforyoungfestivalmanagers.eu and on Facebook.

2012 the first round of modul-dance festivals will

Please contact atelier@efa-aef.eu for any questions.

Europe…

be taking place at various venues throughout What is it about? Modul-dance is a multi-annual cooperation project funded by the European Commission through the Culture Programme.

Network and based on a collaboration between

creating the optimum production conditions for artists, dancers and choreographers throughout Europe in order to facilitate their mobility and promote the dissemination of their work.

Every participating artist has the possibility of going through 4 module phases, i.e. research, residency, production and presentation of the works. A pre-modular programme (carte blanche) is offered to promising young artists to complete a short residency at one project partner's dance house. In parallel to this modular process, additional artistic programmes are being organised, such as conferences, artists' think tanks, film screenings, roadshow activities and festivals.

Modul-dance runs from June 2010 to December 2014.

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