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Opera Atelier Tours Don
Giovanni
Toronto's acclaimed
Opera Atelier, will
return to the U.S. to tour Mozart's
Don Giovanni February 15 -
March 17, 2010. This is a fully staged Commedia dell’Arte
production of Mozart’s superb creation – a dark, ironic comedy which
reflects the style of Mozart’s 1787 premiere. This newly designed
production goes beyond Opera Atelier's first Don Giovanni, which traveled to Korea’s
prestigious Seoul Arts Centre, toured eight cities in Japan, and
visited the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, causing a sensation wherever
performed.


Iphigenie en Tauride
Don Giovanni
"Opera Atelier's merging of music and dance and
scenery proved to be elegantly persuasive... one went away both
instructed and entertained." New York Times
The Toronto Sun hail's Opera Atelier's spring 2008 production of
Mozart's Idomeneo:
"...yet another gloriously musical work from the hand of a master --
and it's given life here, not just by the artists of the Tafelmusik
Orchestra, conducted by Andrew Parrott, but by an extraordinary cast
who, under Pynkoski's direction, fairly electrify the tale."
"From a design point of view, Gerard Gauci scales new heights,
collaborating with lighting designer Bonnie Beecher to create a set
that blends trompe l'oeil and forced perspective to breath-taking
effect, creating a jewel-like setting for the elegance of Margaret
Lamb's costumes."
"Brueggergosman tackles the difficult role of Elettra... turning on
the heat in a flaming climax that is truly breathtaking"
Ensemble
Galilei with Neal Conan
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Ensemble
Galilei tours two programs with spoken word with Neal Conan,
host of NPR's Talk of the Nation. A Universe of Dreams
with images from the Hubble Space Telescope, and First Person:
Stories From the Edge of the World and spectacular photographs
from the National Geographic Society image collection. Holiday programs
are also available.
For more
on all Ensemble Galilei's programs, including audio, click here! |
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I Musici de
Montréal Classic Film Project
The Phantom of the Opera
Cyranno de Bergerac
Metropolis
The Fall of the House of Usher
City Lights
The Circus
The Gold Rush
"The orchestra showed precise
attention to detail without sacrificing the passionate expression
needed for the score." |

I Musici de
Montréal performs new scores for classic silent films, live in
concert, through a collaborative project with Cinemateque Quebecoise.
Now available on tour is the group's performance of the new score by
Canadian composer Gabriel Thibodeau for the silent film classic The
Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney. The other great films available
on tour by I Musici de Montréal are Metropolis, the Fall of the House
of Usher, Cyranno de Bergerac, and Charlie Chaplin's City Lights, The
Circus and The Gold Rush. Some of these are also enhanced by the
extraordinary work of composer Thibodeau, one of the few specialists
the world over, in the field of live accompaniment for silent films.
He recreated the lost score for the Fall of the House of Usher, the
French 1920's masterpiece based on the Edgar Allen Poe story. The cult
film Metropolis, with it's larger-than-life robot heroine, is now
available with the recreated Gottfried Huppertz score, heard at the
1927 Berlin premiere. The score for City Lights was written by Chaplin
himself. The music for this tender and exciting film was recreated for
the 1989 Chaplin Centenary performances by I Musici de Montréal. The
little known masterpiece, The Circus, features Chaplin himself as the
clown in love and received it's first recreated performances with live
orchestra by I Musici de Montréal in Brussels and Geneva.
Palm Beach Daily News
January 29, 2005
I Musici de Montréal delivers perfect voice to 'Cyrano'
By Jeanne Tarrant
The 1923 silent movie Cyrano de Bergerac was
eloquently illuminated by the music of Kurt Kuenne Wednesday night at
The Society of the Four Arts.
The orchestra showed precise attention to detail without sacrificing
the passionate expression needed for the score. The film was projected
on a screen small enough so that the musicians could be seen, as well
as heard. The woodwinds were particularly beautiful in expressing
recurring love themes, with notable contributions from flutist Heather
Howes.
I Musici de Montréal has a well-deserved reputation as one of the
world's finest chamber orchestras and among the most important touring
orchestras in Canada. Known for gutsy, passionate music-making, I
Musici de Montréal presents imaginative programs that draw on
repertoire spanning centuries. Under the direction of cellist Yuli
Turovsky, the orchestra performs more than 100 concerts annually. To
meet the demands of a wide repertoire, the group tours and records
with 14-33 members.
The orchestra's precision, cohesion, brio, and distinctive sound charm
audiences and critics. Fanfare magazine recently named I Musici de
Montréal "one of the best chamber orchestras in North America."
Kuenne is an award-winning filmmaker and composer who began making
films during childhood. He is an honors graduate of the University of
Southern California School of Cinema-Television (class of 1995), where
he won the Harold Lloyd Scholarship in Film. Kuenne has scored many of
his own films, and he studied Scoring for Motion Pictures and
Television at the USC School of Music. Kuenne was hired by
Oscar-winning film preservationist David Shepherd to score the
restored version of Cyrano de Bergerac (1925), which was premiered by
the San Diego Symphony on May 8, 1999.
This silent version of Edmond Rostand's classic play Cyrano de
Bergerac was the first cinematic adaptation of the tale. The eloquent,
deeply poetic Cyrano de Bergerac is a swordsman famous for his
ugliness, which is accented by an enormous nose. He adores his lovely
cousin, Roxanne, but fears that his ugliness will prevent her from
returning his feelings. So he uses the handsome but inarticulate
Christian as a conduit for his emotions, pouring his heart out in
letters signed with Christian's name. Wooed by the beauty of the
words, Roxanne falls in love with the man she believes wrote the
missives -- never realizing that is Cyrano whose voice has aroused her
passion.
Made in 1923, Cyrano de Bergerac was the first film version of French
dramatist Edmond Rostand's tragedy. Shot in one of the first
hand-painted color processes, Pathecolor, Cyrano is one of the few
surviving examples of this visually stunning, lyrical technique, which
required three years of meticulous work applying tinting, toning,
stencil coloring and hand-painting to each individual frame.
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