IMZ Newsletter January 2014

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January 2014

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IMZ INTERNAL NEWS

Avant Première 2014 MUSIC + MEDIA MARKET BERLIN IMZ Activity Report 2013 IMZ Directory 2014 World Music Films On Tour

IMZ MEMBERS NEWS New In The IMZ ORF-Enterprise ScreensArt

SCHEDULE Avant Première 2014 MUSIC + MEDIA MARKET BERLIN Berlin (DE) 08 – 12 February 2014 IMZ Cooperation With ICMA – International Classical Music Award Gala 2014 12 April 2014 | Warsaw, Poland IMZ At Classical:NEXT 14 – 17 May 2014 | Vienna, Austria

New Productions ACCENTUS Music First TV Portrait Of Chailly & Bruckner’s Boldest Symphony Allegro Films Daniil Trifonov At Avant Première 2014 Arthaus Musik Celebrating Gluck & Strauss Bel Air Media The Tsar’s Bride, A Woman Without A Shadow And Further Jewels Clasart Classic Gluck, Jansons & The Met: At Avant Première 2014 C Major Entertainment Lang Lang & A Mind In The Wilderness EuroArts Gala From Berlin EuroArts & Arthaus Musik Richard Strauss And His Heroines gebrueder beetz filmproduktion The Wagner Files & Mali Blues La Monnaie / De Munt Hamlet Les Films Jack Fébus To France And England With Sokiev And Gardiner Telmondis Gergiev, Einstein On The Beach, Le Comte Ory & Balanchine Unitel & C Major Entertainment No Tenors Allowed & The Berlin Trovatore

IMZ At EVDH Workshop On Video Dance 26 May – 1 June 2014 | Madrid, Spain

Laurels, Prizes and Praises ACCENTUS Music ICMA Nominations Arthaus Musik Diapason D’Or

IMZ Academy 5 – 7 October 2014 | Prague, Czech Republic

What’s ON… ARTE

IMZ At WOMEX 14 22 – 26 October 2014 | Santiago de Compostela, Spain

EDITOR’S TIP

Do You Find Opera Tedious?

Film Festival At Wiener Rathausplatz 28 June – 31 August 2014 | Vienna, Austria International Emmy® Awards Semi-Final Judging 2014 3 July 2014 | Vienna, Austria IMZ At ITF Golden Prague 4 – 8 October 2014 | Prague, Czech Republic

IMZ At Viennese Ball Iasi 5 December 2014 | Iasi, Rumania

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2014 Media Summit Save The Date EUROVISION Music & Dance Bureau Looking Forward To A Busy 2014 International Emmy® Awards Competition Call For Entries International Emmy® Kids Awards Save The Date International Music Council Sets Compass For Its Future Rose d’Or Awards Save The Date

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EDITORIAL | 3 Dear IMZ members and friends, on behalf of the whole IMZ team in Vienna, I would like to wish all of you – IMZ members, friends and co-operation partners alike – A Wonderful and Happy New Year 2014!

In 2014, the IMZ will continue to walk the new paths it has already started last year: With the Avant Première 2014 MUSIC + MEDIA MARKET from 8 – 12 February in Berlin a new set-up for THE professional screenings of music and dance-programmes and business-platform of the industry will be launched, offering an additional supporting programme consisting of high-class panels, lectures, special film screenings and much more!

We are overwhelmed by the most positive feedback we have been receiving to moving our Avant Première 2014 MUSIC + MEDIA MARKET to Berlin.

By today we expect more than 200 participants, ranging from broadcasting companies (such as the BBC, ARTE, France TV, ZDF, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, etc.), production companies (such as EuroArts Music International, ACCENTUS Music, François Roussillon et Associes etc.) and distribution companies (such as C Major Entertainment and Arthaus Musik, MODemay) to educational institutions such as the Royal Conservatoire, The Hague and opera houses such as the Vienna State Opera and the Opera de Paris, to name but a few…Furthermore, the following top panelists have already confirmed their participation: Martin Hoffmann, Managing Director of Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation, Hartwig Masuch, CEO of BMG, Tim Renner, journalist, author and CEO of Motor Entertainment GmbH, Jochen Sandig, co-founder of Kunsthaus Tacheles, dance ensemble Sasha Waltz & Guests, Sophiensaele and Radialsystem V – New Space for the Arts, Elmar Kruse, Managing Director of C Major Entertainment GmbH, Peter Maniura, Curator of The Space, Philippe Rixhon, founder of Philippe Rixhon Associates, Michael Nunn and William Trevitt - The BalletBoyz, Bogdan Rošcicć, President of Sony Classical International, Virve Indren, Head of Development Sector at Creative Europe/MEDIA of the European Commission, Elizabeth Scott, Chief Media & Digital Officer at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Bernhard Fleischer, Managing Director of Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH, Thomas Hieber, Head of Business & Legal Affairs at UNITEL CLASSICA, Christian Czychowski, Copyright and Media Lawyer at IP Law firm Boehmert&Boehmert, Andreas Häner, Public Fundraising Expert, among others.

Among its diversified programme, the Avant Première 2014 MUSIC + MEDIA MARKET BERLIN features Special Screenings presenting Orfeo ed Euridice by Clasart Classic in the presence of Bejun Metha or Recomposed by Max Richter - Vivaldi The Four Seasons by Deutsche Gramophone GesmbH, Isis Productions and C Major Entertainment GmbH. With a second edition of the newly founded IMZ Academy, the IMZ fulfils its mission to actively contribute to the development and professional training within the field of producing state-of-the-art audio-visual music and dance programmes. Additional Special Courses and Workshops will transmit knowledge and expertise to cultural institutions guiding them in how to present and market themselves and their portfolio and promote their cause via the various means of audio-visual media.

What else do we have on our agenda in 2014? The IMZ will relaunch its website, there are co-operations with various music film festivals worldwide, and we will be strengthening our existing partnerships with Classical Next, WOMEX, ITF Golden Prague, International Emmy Awards, to name but a few.

We look forward to a very exciting year 2014 and hope to see you soon at the Avant Première 2014 MUSIC + MEDIA MARKET BERLIN! With best wishes and regards,

Franz Patay Secretary General

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AVANT PREMIÈRE 2014 MUSIC+MEDIA MARKET BERLIN Dear IMZ members and friends, It is my pleasure to invite you to a special Avant Première this year: The Avant Première 2014 MUSIC + MEDIA MARKET BERLIN follows a renowned tradition of Avant Première Film Screenings at the Palais de Festival in Cannes since the early 1980s, yet it is the first of its kind with an overall renewed programme. We are proud to draw on a large and stable network and 30 years of experience in the field of audio-visual media and are grateful for new initiatives and inspiration by our members to facilitate a new type of event. I am looking forward to welcoming you all to five days of intensive exchange, business and networking, and to meeting old and new business partners and friends.

Arild Erikstad President of the IMZ – International Music + Media Centre

NOW ONLINE: PARTICIPANTS LIST Start building up your contacts and arrange meetings with public and private broadcasters, production and distribution companies, music labels, festivals, directors, buyers a.o. prior to the event!

We have published our preliminary participants list, which will be updated regularly until the beginning of the event. Have a look and browse companies and participants by industry to find exactly whom and what you are looking for!

NOW ONLINE: SCREENING SCHEDULE It is completed: 55 international production companies have submitted over 460 latest state-of-the-art films on music and dance contributing to the well-known diverse character of the Avant Première Screenings. Have a look at the official Avant Première 2014 Screening Schedule here!

OUR PROGRAMME: TO SPECIAL RATES FOR GET YOU CONNECTED ACCOMMODATION: We have extended our programme UNTIL 15 JANUARY 2014 and now feature Special Screenings, Special Presentations and the IMZ Film Series at Berliner Philharmonie.

Check out the updated programme!

Along with the Avant Première Screenings, Panels and a Lecture, we offer a central Booth Area and Networking Lounge, Individual Presentation Rooms exclusive for IMZ Members, the big ARTE Lounge Opening Party at Radialsystem V, the premiere screenings of the restored silent movie Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari at Berliner Philharmonie and a farewell Closing Cocktail, looking forward to an inspiring experience…

Through your registration take advantage of our special hotel deal for Scandic Hotel Potsdamer Platz, the main event location right across from Berliner Philharmonie, the Berlinale International Filmfestival and the European Film Market. Book early to avoid high rates at a place and time of hightened focus on the international film business.

8 - 12 February 2014 Scandic Hotel Berlin Gabriele-Tergit-Promenade 19 10963 Berlin Germany www.avantpremiere.at

For all further details, please contact: Katharina Jeschke k.jeschke@imz.at Linda Esslinger l.esslinger@imz.at

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Sunday, 09 February 2014

Start 14:30 Arthaus Musik GmbH THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET François Roussillon et Associés Pars Media Idéale Audience Gebrüder Beetz Filmproduktion ORF ORF - Enterprise 16:30 10 min break SVT - Sveriges Television Leopard Films NRK - Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation Sounding Images TVP Kultura makido film Czech Philharmonic End approx. 18:30

Monday, 10 February 2014

Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Start 9:30 SRF - Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen Bel Air Media Kobalt Productions Telmondis Sombrero & Co. NHK - Japan Broadcasting Corporation C Major Entertainment GmbH Clasart Classic 11:30 10 min break RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera Unitel GmbH & Co. KG London Symphony Orchestra Wiener Staatsoper Poorhouse International Ltd. RTV / TV Slovenija ZDF VRT - Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep DEF Media GmbH End approx. 13:30

Start 9:30 Pan Dream MODemay Entertainment Rhombus Media Inc. Bernhard Fleischer Moving Images GmbH ServusTV Les Films Jack Fébus ACCENTUS Music GmbH & Co. KG Opéra de Paris Productions 11:30 10 min break Allegro Films EuroArts Music International GmbH France Télévisions ARTE Deutschland Riddle Films Inc. BBC Music Television ScreensArt Ltd. End approx. 13:30

Wednesday, 12 February 2014 Start 9:30 Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. Classic Arts Showcase RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana SpA LGM Télévision ZDF/3sat ARTE France YLE - Finnish Broadcasting Company Czech Television The Space Electric Sky Royal Conservatoire, The Hague End approx.12:00

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09:30 -­‐ 11:30 Avant Premiére Screenings V

09:30 -­‐ 11:30 Avant Premiére Screenings VII

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Screening Hall, Scandic Hotel

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11:30 -­‐ 11:40 coffe break 11:40 -­‐ 13:00 Avant Premiére Screenings IV

11:30 -­‐ 11:40 coffe break 11:40 -­‐ 13:00 Avant Premiére Screenings VI

11:30 -­‐ 11:40 coffe break 11:40 -­‐ 13:00 Avant Premiére Screenings VIII

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Screening Hall, Scandic Hotel

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14:30 -­‐ 16:30 Panel I Change of Channels, Change of Style

14:30 -­‐ 16:30 Panel II

9:00 -­‐ 19:00 Registration

11:00 -­‐ 12:10 Silent Movie with live music "Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari"

09:30 -­‐ 11:30 Avant Premiére Screenings III

9:00 -­‐ 19:00 Registration

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12:00 14:00 Arte Concert Presentation 14:30 -­‐ 16:30 Panel III

Performing Arts on Sreen

The Future of Funding

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Screening Hall, Scandic Hotel

Screening Hall, Scandic Hotel

17:00 -­‐ 19:00 Reg.

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Radialsystem V

16:30 -­‐ 16:40 coffe break 16:40 -­‐ 18:30 Avant Premiére Screenings II

17:00 -­‐ 18:00 Lecture: Copryright & Audio-­‐Visual Media

Screening Hall, Scandic Hotel

17:30 -­‐ 19:30 IMZ Film Series Philharmonie Berlin

15:30 -­‐ 17:30 IMZ Film Series Philharmonie Berlin

18:30 -­‐ 19:30 IMZ General Assembly

Screening Hall, Scandic Hotel

17:00:00 -­‐ 18:00 IMZ Closing Cocktail

Screening Hall, Scandic Hotel

17:30 -­‐ 19:30 IMZ Film Series Philharmonie Berlin

IMZ Stand, Scandic Hotel

19:30 Special Screening Orfeo ed Euridice

17:30 -­‐ 19:30 IMZ Film Series Philharmonie Berlin 20:00 Special Screening Max Richter -­‐ Vivaldi Recomposed -­‐ live in Berlin

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Philharmonie Berlin

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IMZ DIRECTORY 2014 All IMZ members will be receiving the updated IMZ Directory 2014, providing exclusive contact details of our members being key players of the industry, by special email mid of February.

Furthermore, from mid-February on, a printed version will be available on demand at a price of 16 Euro. Please contact the IMZ office at office@imz.at.

IMZ ACTIVITY REPORT 2013 For the first time, information about the many IMZ activities of the recent year as well as a profile of the IMZ are combined in one special brochure – the IMZ Activity Report 2013.

Learn more about the recent Avant Première event at midem 2013 in Cannes, about the various (Vienna) Music Film Festivals, the IMZ programmed or jointly organised in Barcelona, Yekaterinburg, Osaka, Iasi, at Rathausplatz in Vienna etc., our co-operation with Classical:NEXT,

the special edition of dance screen with San Francisco Film Festival, the Semi-Final Judging of the International Emmy Awards, Film Screenings at WOMEX, the first edition of the IMZ Academy within our longstanding co-operation with the ITF Golden Prague etc. etc.

Your free copy to have a look at all the work and projects the IMZ was involved with in 2013 will be for download on the IMZ website at the beginning of February at the latest.

WORLD MUSIC FILMS ON TOUR Ever since the non-commercial distribution project World Music Films On Tour was founded in co-operation with WOMEX in 2006, the IMZ has successfully been bringing World Music in film and video to a wider public, in various locations around the world.

Have a look at our unique selection of films here.

If you want to learn more about this special opportunity to screen world music films at a reasonable price within non-commercial festivals or cultural initiatives, please do not hesitate to contact us at worldmusicfilms@imz.at.

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WELCOME TO THE IMZ! ORF-ENTERPRISE ORF-Enterprise GmbH & Co KG was founded on 1 April 1999 as a 100% ORF subsidiary. ORF-Enterprise is marketing exclusively all advertising time and offerings for all media and brands of the ORF. In addition to conventional advertising on television, radio and the internet, since 2010, ORF-Enterprise is merchandising international rights for TV programmes and footage sales of ORF as well as independent producers: Therefore, the Content Sales International department is combining the marketing of TV-rights for ORF and all the activities of ORF-Enterprise concerning several ancillary rights to a strong unit. The offerings of Content Sales International are aimed at professional media opera-

tors such as TV stations, producers, VoD platforms, DVD merchants in Austria and abroad. The sales-oriented focus lies on documentaries, TV series and films, children's shows, music, special formats and comedy shows. Thanks to their international networking regarding partners and agents as well as long-lasting relationships and several decades of experience, they are able to respond perfectly to the needs of the global market.

ORF-Enterprise GmbH & Co KG EUROPLAZA/Building A Am Europlatz 1 1120 Vienna Austria T: +43 1 87 87 81 30 30 F: +43 1 87 87 81 27 57 enterprise@orf.at http://enterprise.ORF.at http://contentsales.orf.at

SCREENSART The IMZ also welcomes ScreensArt, the Tel Aviv based creative production team of Director Oren Shkedy and choreographer Dana Ruttenberg. ScreensArt focuses on the creation of high quality dance films and dance video art. Their recent productions include the award winning Pri-

vate I's and the newly released Glove Story.
To learn more about their projects, visit ScreensArt's website: www.screensart.com and come meet them in person at the upcoming Avant Première 2014 MUSIC + MEDIA MARKET BERLIN!

Screensart Ltd. 32 Hashmonaim street #9 63264 Tel Aviv Israel T: +972 528468564 F: +972 36203136 dana@screensart.com www.screensart.com

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ACCENTUS MUSIC First Ever TV Portrait Of Riccardo Chailly In December 2013, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan confirmed that Riccardo Chailly will become Principal Guest Conductor on 1 January 2015, and will go on to become musical director of the world-famous opera house in 2017. Chailly has been chief conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig since 2005, and in summer 2013 he extended his collaboration until June 2020.

Since its foundation, ACCENTUS Music has been producing a large number of concert recordings and documentaries with Riccardo Chailly for TV and DVD and last year produced the first ever film portrait of the outstanding Italian conductor: Music – a journey for life. The conductor Riccardo Chailly. The film by Paul Smaczny was coproduced by MDR in co-operation with ARTE and was supported by Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung. It will air on ARTE on 23 March 2014. On 4 March, ARTE and the Leipzig Gewandhaus will present a preview screening in the Gewandhaus in presence of Riccardo Chailly.

ALLEGRO FILMS Bruckner’s Boldest Symphony New On DVD And Blu-Ray

ACCENTUS Music continues the release of its cycle Bruckner – The Mature Symphonies with Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin.

After the Symphonies No. 4 and 5, both extremely well received by critics, Bruckner’s rarely performed 6th Symphony will be released in January 2014 on DVD and Blu-ray. The concert recording from Philharmonie Berlin was produced by ACCENTUS Music in co-production with Unitel Classica.

Find the trailer and more information on this release here. www.accentus.com

Daniil Trifonov Allegro has completed the second shoot with Daniil Trifonov: „It went very well in an exceptionally happy spirit which we hope will be reflected in the finished film...“, Christopher Nupen says. „This is a film about the most talked-about piano talent in the world today and one that several people have said the world has not seen in 100 years.“ Allegro Films will present an excerpt of the film at the Avant Première 2014 MUSIC + MEDIA MARKET BERLIN. According to Martha Argerich, one of the world’s most respected pianists – and one of the most difficult to please, “Trifonov has everything and more. What he does with his hands is both technically and musically unbelievable. It is also his touch — he has tenderness plus also the demonic element. I have never heard anything like this before”.

Argerich’s words are echoed by the public, by musicians and by the critics, one of whom, Anne Midgette — among the most demanding critics in the USA — likens the 22-year-old Trifonov to a present day Liszt…

For further information, please contact Nupallegro@gmail.com. www.allegrofilms.com

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ARTHAUS MUSIK Christoph Willibald Gluck – 300 Years

BEL AIR MEDIA the Salzburg Festival. The film shows opera stars Sena Jurinac, Reri Grist, Hildegard Hillebrecht and Jess Thomas in renewed splendour. Günther Rennert directed the masterpiece for stage. (107255)

Christoph Willibald Gluck Orfeo Ed Euridice As one of the most important composers of the pre-classical era, Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787) had great influence on the development of music theatre. Honouring Gluck’s 300th anniversary, Arthaus Musik will release a special box set with three prize-winning productions of his most popular operas. Alceste from Stuttgart, awarded Performance of the Year in 2006 by the magazine Opernwelt, Iphigénie en Tauride from Zurich, led by the baroque specialist William Christie as well as Harry Kupfer’s legendary production of Orfeo ed Euridice from the Royal Opera House Covent Garden with Jochen Kowalski in the title role, which won the Olivier Award. (107540)

Richard Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos

Bel Air Media At The Staatsoper Bel Air Media filmed the Staatsoper Berlin new production of Rimsky-Korsakov‘s The Tsar‘s Bride (Daniel Barenboim/Dmitri Tcherniakov) and the Bayerische Staatsoper new production of Strauss‘ Die Frau ohne Schatten (Kirill Petrenko/Krzysztof Warlikowski).

Both programmes will be released on DVD and Blu-ray in 2014.

Bel Air Media Bringing The World Bolshoi

The soloists Bejun Mehta, Eva Liebau and Regula Mühlemann are brilliant in Christoph Willibald Gluck’s revolutionary opera Orfeo ed Euridice, which was staged in the unique Baroque Theatre of the Bohemian Ceský Krumlov Castle. Conductor Václav Luks and director Ondrej Havelka promise a matchless team for a deeply touching production. This is an event of great value, which will be released on DVD and Blu-ray in May 2014. (102184) www.arthaus-musik.com

The 1965 staging of Ariadne auf Naxos under the baton of the legendary Karl Böhm is a gem in the history of

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The Bolshoi ballet will be live on widesreens worldwide with Balanchine‘s Jewels on 19 January 2014 – in a joint co-operation of the Bolshoi Theatre with Bel Air Media and Pathé Live. www.belairmedia.com

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CLASART CLASSIC

C MAJOR ENTERTAINMENT

At Avant Première 2014

Lang Lang Live At Royal Albert Hall

Christoph Willibald Gluck Orfeo Ed Euridice The completely preserved Baroque theatre of Cesky Krumlov provides an ideal backdrop for this production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice. Director Ondrej Havelka chooses a cinematic approach that literally takes us behind the scenes. In the role of Orfeo, Bejun Mehta lends credibility to the emotions tormenting his heart. As Euridice, Eva Liebau juggles joy and jealousy as the beloved who doesn’t realize just how lucky she is. Bringing comic relief to the work’s dark tone is Regula Mühlemann as Amor.

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Mariss Jansons

Elza van den Heever & Joyce DiDonato © Ken Howard

role; Un ballo in maschera in David Alden’s celebrated new production; Rigoletto with an excellent cast lead

by Diana Damrau, Piotr Beczala and Željko Lucic; and Parsifal starring Jonas Kaufmann in the title role of the innocent who finds wisdom.

Heralded as the „hottest artist on the classical music planet“ by the New York Times and the „world’s ambassador of the keyboard“ by the New Yorker, Lang Lang has played sold out recitals and concerts in every major city in the world. Following his sold-out Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle in 2012, the Royal Albert Hall welcomes back Lang Lang for this exclusive recital of Mozart and Chopin.

The first classical music production in 4K! Length: 126 min. A co-production of BFMI, ZDF/3sat, Sony Professional and Sony Classical. 4K version available upon request.

www.tmg.de

For a performance at Royal Albert Hall, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Mariss Jansons are joined by star pianist Mitsuko Uchida performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4.

Berlioz’s masterpiece Symphonie fantastique concludes the concert.

A recording of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem at the Vienna Musikverein marks another highlight. The cast includes Krassimira Stoyanova, Marina Prudenskaja, Saimir Pirgu and Orlin Anastassov.

© Magdalena Lepka

Khatia Buniatishvili – Mind In The Wilderness Khatia Buniatishvili’s playing has been described as having “an aura of elegant solitude and even melancholy.” Her approach to making music is associated with the Romantic tradition, always maintaining a fine balance between unhinged wildness and lyrical introspection. The repertoire of this exceptional recital – including works by Bach, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Kancheli, Debussy, Brahms, Skrjabin, Scar-

The Metropolitan Opera Out of the Met HD-live catalogue, Clasart Classic would like to give a special mention to the following productions: Maria Stuarda with Joyce DiDonato in the virtuosic title

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EUROARTS latti, Ravel, Chopin, Grieg, Händel, Liszt, Dvorák, Buniatishvili and Pärt – comprises cheerful moments, melancholic passages and nocturne-like episodes: virtuously brought to life throughout a concert experience with a great quality of intimacy and generous ardour.

Length: approx. 124 min. A production of BFMI, ZDF/3sat and Sony Classical.

Lang Lang Gala From Berlin

Richard Strauss And His Heroines A film by Thomas von Steinaecker, featuring Brigitte Fassbaender, Renée Fleming, Gwyneth Jones, Christa Ludwig, Christian Strauss, Rufus Wainwright, Franz Welser-Möst and Strauss expert Christoph Wagner-Trenkwitz who leads us through the film. © Holger Kettner

Khatia Buniatishvili ©BFMI

www.cmajor-entertainment.com

EUROARTS MUSIC AND ARTHAUS MUSIK PRESENT…

What better way to ring in the New Year than by celebrating with the world class Berliner Philharmoniker and virtuoso pianist Lang Lang performing a repertoire guaranteed to rouse the audience for the beginning of a festive night? It doesn’t have to be a Viennese Waltz... Alongside Prokofiev’s 3rd Piano Concerto, the orchestra invites the audience to Dvorák’s Slavonic Dances, Hindemith’s Symphonic Dance No. 3 and, as a further highlight, the movements from Khachaturian’s Gayaneh suite including the famous, madcap Sabre Dance.

Live broadcasted in HD from the Philharmonie Berlin. Produced by EuroArts Music in co-production with ARTE, RBB & BR. www.euroarts.com

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The film Richard Strauss and his Heroines goes on an exciting journey discovering the women in Strauss’ life.

In the focus is primarily his relationship with the choleric and chronically jealous Pauline, to whom he was married for over 55 years up to his death. Until today, she is seen as a

harridan who often embarrassed her husband in public. It hereby falls under the table that Strauss at the beginning and the end of his relationship composed his finest songs for the trained singer who gave up her career for him and covered his back for the rest of his life.

What was it that made the broken old man, who experienced the most varied of epochs in German history,

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GEBRUEDER BEETZ FILMPRODUKTION from the Empire to the Nazi dictatorship to the post-war period, write in 1948 in his final song (At Sunset) one of the most moving declarations of love in the history of music: “We have through sorrow and joy gone hand in hand”?

Richard Strauss and his Heroines is the first filmed search for clues about the unforgettable heroines created

by Strauss.

Now available for TV distribution and to be released on DVD in Spring 2014.

A production of Studio.TV.Film in co-production with SRF, distributed for TV by EuroArts Music and for home video by Arthaus Musik.

The Wagner Files Hit Canadian Cinemas

www.euroarts.com

“You might not expect a documentary about 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner to borrow techniques from modern espionage films, graphic novels and 1950s melodrama. But Ralf Pleger’s marvellous film – timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the

Following the great success of the cross-media project with the interactive book(App), printed graphic novel and the feature length film The Wagner Files (SWR/ARTE/part of the TV format The Culture Files) at the World Film Festival in Montreal, where it received the Audience Award for the best documentary, the film just celebrated its official cinema release in Canada.

For more information and a list of all cinema screenings here.

composer’s birth in 2013 – does all of those things and still adds up to a respectful and informative portrait. [...] A must for classical music fans and an entertaining intro for Wagner neophytes.” NOWMagazine.

Mali Blues – Successful Pitching At IDFA 2013 Producer Christian Beetz has successfully pitched the feature documentary Mali Blues at IDFA 2013.

Mali Blues (ZDF/ARTE/director: Lutz Gregor) is a musical road movie illustrating Mali’s rich musical culture.

Alongside Fatoumata Diawara – the young rising star of the global pop scene – we travel through breath-taking landscapes and discover Mali’s agitated heart from Bamako in the Southwest to Timbuktu.

Find more information and the trailer here. www.beetz-brothers.de

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LA MONNAIE/ LES FILMS DE MUNT JACK FÉBUS

TELMONDIS

Hamlet

Valery Gergiev – The Complete Symphonies Of Shostakovich

Hamlet ©Hermann und Clärchen Baus

The rarely seen opera Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas, based on Shakespeare’s masterpiece, received raging reviews in the national and international press, particularly praising the performance of Stéphane Degout as Hamlet but also lauding the impressive staging of director Olivier Py, as well as the sweeping conducting of Marc Minkowski at the helm of La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.

This opera will be available on www. lamonnaie.be from 31 December 2013 until Monday 20 January 2014. www.lamonnaie.be

Les Films Jack Fébus is proud to present its next concert recordings in France and England. On 11 January, Tugan Sokiev and the Toulouse National Capitol Orchestra are going to welcome the soloist Katia Buniatishvili who will perform the piano concerto by Edvard Grieg and Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 1 which has become the most famous one. This classical performance will be broadcast on the ARTE Maestro television programme. Then, following the first series (Brahms and Szymanowski), in co-production with LSO Live, Les Films Jack Fébus will present a concert recording with the London Symphony Orchestra and John Eliot Gardiner conducting a Mendelssohn and Schumann programme; with pianist Maria Joao Pires. This concert will be performed by John Eliot Gardiner and the LSO on 21 January; to be broadcast on the French channel Mezzo.

The third part of the cycle combining performances of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphonies No. 7, 8, 11 and 12, conducted by Valery Gergiev, and the Violin Concertos No. 1 and 2 with Vadim Repin and Alena Baeva. Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre.

A co-production by Telmondis, Mariinsky Theatre, Mezzo, in association with France Télévisions.

Filming date: 16 – 18, February 2014 / Salle Pleyel, Paris

Valery Gergiev © Joachim Ladefoged

For more information, please contact Grand Angle Distribution. www.jackfebus.com

Philip Glass – Robert Wilson Einstein On The Beach Widely credited as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the 20th century, this rarely performed work launched its director Robert Wilson and composer Philip Glass to international success when it was first produced in Avignon, France in 1976. Nearly four decades after the

© Lesley Leslie-Spinks

NEW PRODUCTIONS

14 | IMZ MEMBER NEWS premiere, and twenty years since its last production, Einstein on the Beach is reconstructed for a major international tour. A co-production

by Telmondis, Théâtre Musical de Paris-Châtelet, Mezzo, in association with France Télévisions.

Filming dates: 7 – 10 January 2014 / Théâtre Musical de Paris-Châtelet

Le Comte Ory Opéra de Lyon

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From Smetana Hall In Prague: Thomas Hampson & Luca Pisaroni

© Petr Dyrc_Nachtigall Artists © Opéra de Lyon

New production of the comic opera

by Gioacchino Rossini at Opéra de Lyon, in co-production with Teatro alla Scala, Milan. A co-production by Telmondis, Opéra de Lyon, in association with France Télévisions. Filming dates: 27 February and 1 March 2014 / Opéra de Lyon, France

Balanchine/Millepied

The two baritones embark on a musical journey – No tenors allowed – with Mozart operas, via Gounod’s Faust, Verdi’s Don Carlo and Otello, roaming through works by Bellini, Rossini and Donizetti before finally arriving at Cole Porter. Julian Kovatchev conducts the Prague Philharmonia.

Length: approx. 120 min. A production of Czech TV and Nachtigall Artists in co-production with Unitel Classica.

From Teatro Filarmonico Di Verona: Gaetano Donizetti – Don Pasquale Encounter between two great French composers, Bizet and Ravel, and two choreographers from the New York City Ballet, its founder George Balanchine and his former student Benjamin Millepied. A co-production

by Opéra de Paris Production, Telmondis, Mezzo, in association with France Télévisions. Filming dates: May 2014 / Opéra national de Paris www.telmondis.fr

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Donizetti's comic masterpiece in a new production from Verona’s magnificent Teatro Filarmonico: Staged by the famous Italian actor Antonio Albanese (Woody Allen’s To Rome with Love) and led by Omer Meir Wellber, since 2011 General Mu-

NEW PRODUCTIONS

sic Director of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia, in succession to Lorin Maazel. The soloists are: Simone Alaimo, Mario Cassi, Francesco Demuro, Irina Lungu and Antonio Feltracco.

Length: approx. 150 min. A production of Unitel in co-production with Classica Italia.

From Staatsoper Berlin: Anna Netrebko & Plácido Domingo In Verdi’s Trovatore

Netrebko/Trovatore © Matthias Baus

Anna Netrebko makes her role debut as Leonora in Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece Il trovatore at the Staatsoper Berlin in a production by German director Philipp Stölzl. The cast further includes Plácido Domingo as Conte di Luna, Gaston Rivero as Manrico, Marina Prudenskaya as Azucena and Adrian Sâmpetrean as Ferrando. Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin.

Length: approx. 150 min. A production of Unitel in co-production with Staatsoper Berlin and ARTE Live Web. www.unitelclassica.com www.cmajor-entertainment.com

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ACCENTUS MUSIC

ARTHAUS MUSIK

ARTE

Four ICMA Nominations Diapason d’Or For Lulu Krzysztof Penderecki:

By Alban Berg Galakonzert zum 80.

In 2012, ACCENTUS Music received Geburtstag the prestigious International Classical Music Award (ICMA) for its production of Mahler’s 9th Symphony with Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in the category DVD Performance; in 2013, John Cage – Journeys in Sound won the ICMA in the DVD Documentaries category. For the 2014 awards, the following Accentus productions have been nominated in the DVD Performance category: Mozart Requiem with Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Mahler 4 with Chailly and the Gewandhaus Orchestra, as well as the releases of Bruckner 4 and Bruckner 5 with Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin.

The Arthaus Musik production Lulu

by Alban Berg has been honoured with the Diapason d’Or d’Arte by the French magazine Diapason (January issue).

Due to the controversial material and the exceedingly difficult vocal parts, Lulu was not performed regularly for a long time. Evelyn Lear gives a breathtaking performance in the title role. At her side, the German baritone Paul Schöffler and heroic tenor Rudolf Schock give highly appraised interpretations of Dr. Schön and Alwa. Maestro Karl Böhm conducted this Austrian premiere in 1962. (101687)

19 January 2014, 11:50 pm, on ARTE Featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter, Roman Patkolo, Daniel Müller-Schott, Valery Gergiev, Charles Dutoit a.o.

Plácido Domingo auf der Freilichtbühne Loreley

26 January 2014, 06:30 pm, on ARTE With Plácido Domingo, Micaela Oeste, Angel Blue, Philharmonie Baden-Baden The conductor is Eugene Kohn. www.arte.tv

www.accentus.com

www.arthaus-musik.com

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EUROVISION MUSIC & DANCE BUREAU The EUROVISION Music & Dance Bureau is looking forward to a busy year of international TV co-productions and collaborative projects.

Broadcast highlights will include the 17th edition of the biennial Eurovision Young Musicians competition for young classical instrumentalists to take place in Cologne, Germany, and the very first edition of Europe Sings!, a brand-new live event co-production bringing the best of Europe's amateur choirs to a single stage in Vienna. Elsewhere the group continues to offer concerts and other music programming to EBU Members through the Eurovision network.

and music broadcasting from ORF (Austria), Czech Television, France Télévisions, NRK (Norway), TVP (Poland), and the BBC (UK), the Bureau represents the wider EBU broadcasting community, identifying and executing international collaborative projects. Following elections in October 2013, the group operates under the chairmanship of Lothar Mattner (WDR, Germany).

For further information contact the Bureau’s EBU Project Manager, Matthew Trustram (trustram@ebu.ch), or visit http://tinyurl.com/eurovisionmusicanddance.

Operated under the auspices of the European Broadcasting Union, and consisting of senior figures in arts

2014 MEDIA SUMMIT

28 May 2014 Intercontinental Hotel Vienna, Austria Save the Date!

The summit theme is: Setting Strategies for a Sustainable Future, and it is jointly hosted with Austrian public service broadcaster ORF. While the world changes around us at ever-increasing speed, we still need to plan sustainable strategies that future-proof our organisations.

But what exactly is the future, what will the world look like in ten years?

When we look at the trends, which ones are passing fads, which ones are reliable predictors for the future?

How can we future-proof, when the future is a mystery?

The Media Summit will address the key issues we all face, giving you food for (new) strategic thought, and applicable and relevant ideas to take back to your organisation.

Find more information on the 2014 Media Summit here.

THE 2014 INTERNATIONAL EMMY® AWARDS COMPETITION IS NOW OPEN! Deadline for entries: 17 February 2014.

For Rules & Regulations and to enter, go to www.iemmys.tv.

THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS & SCIENCES The International Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences Invites you to the second International Emmy® Kids Awards. Save the date!

The Second International Emmy® Kids Awards will take place Monday,

10 February 2014 at Pier 60 at Chelsea Piers, New York, NY. For more information or to reserve your table/tickets click here.

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INTERNATIONAL MUSIC COUNCIL SETS THE COMPASS FOR ITS FUTURE The 35th General Assembly of the International Music Council, held in Brisbane (Australia), 24 – 25 November 2013, adopted a series of key decisions that will pave the way to building greater capacity of the or-

ganization and its members to work towards its vision to be the world's leading professional organization dedicated to promotion of the value of music in the lives of all people.

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ROSE D’OR AWARDS September 2014 Berlin, Germany Registration For The Competition To Open On 31 January For more than 50 years, since the first edition in 1961, the prestigious Rose d'Or Awards have seen entries from around the world and across a broad range of categories and genres. Last year was a record-breaking year, with 320 entries from more than 30 countries. In 2014, the Rose d'Or Awards are looking forward to an excellent group of entries again…

The categories are: Arts, Factual & Reality Entertainment, Game Show, Comedy, Sitcom, and Entertainment.

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... picked from the IMC Music World News Bulletin: Music news from around the world – brought to you by the International Music Council

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How Shazam Uses Big Data To Predict Music's Next Big Artists Users of song-finding application Shazam search for music millions of times a day and the company is using this information to predict next year's likely movers-and-shakers.

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Breaking The Wagner Ban In Israel How the Principal Conductor of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra hopes to perform “forbidden” Wagner operas.

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