Emerging Pictures
International Opera and Ballet in Cinema
Season 2012 - 2013
Presented in High Def and Digital Surround Sound
Emerging Cinemas is a member of the Emerging Pictures family, the largest all-digital theater network in the U.S. Nearly 100 arts institutions, media arts centers and independent art houses across the nation are connected by Emerging Cinemas through state-of-the-art digital technology that enables venues to exhibit exclusive independent cinema, documentaries, arts programming and foreign language films.
BIG ARTS Opera in Cinema and Ballet in Cinema programs bring live and pre-recorded performances directly from the world's most distinguished theaters and opera houses.
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Ballet in Cinema
Giselle
Presented from Royal Opera House, London
BIG ARTS will screen Giselle in replacement of the originally scheduled
The Rite of Spring ballet
7 PM Thursday, April 11
BIG ARTS Schein Performance Hall
Giselle is one of the most influential of all Romantic ballets, and one of the greatest and most popular works of the dance canon and of The Royal Ballet's repertory. The title role presents the transcendental power of a woman's love in the face of betrayal and is one of the most technically demanding and emotionally challenging roles in classical dance – not surprisingly, it is here a great showcase for the leading ballerinas of the Company. Peter Wright's sensitive staging in the atmospheric designs by John Macfarlane heightens the contrast as the story moves between the human and supernatural worlds. This production stars artists of The Royal Ballet, featuring Marianela Nuñez and Rupert Pennefather.
2 hrs 30 mins, including two intermissions
Admission $20
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Opera in Cinema
Tosca
Presented in HD from The Royal Opera House, London
November 2011
Captured live from a production at the Royal Opera House, Puccini's Tosca is a melodramatic three-act opera set in Rome in June 1800 during Napoleon's invasion of Italy. Dramatic depictions of torture, murder and suicide accompany some of Puccini's best known lyrical arias, which have inspired many memorable performances from opera's leading singers over the years. Tosca itself premiered at a time of noted unrest in Italy in 1900 but became an immediate success with the public. The dramatic force of Tosca continues today as one of the world's most frequently performed and revered operas.
3 hrs 15 mins, plus intermissions
Italian with English subtitles
Admission $20
Opera in Cinema
Don Giovanni
Presented LIVE from Opening Night
at Teatro alla Scalla, Milan, Italy
December 2011
Mozart's Don Giovanni is one of the most-performed operas worldwide and has proven the subject of interest for many writers and philosophers since it premiered in 1787 in Prague, Italy. This two-act opera introduces audiences to its principal character, Don Giovanni, an arrogant murderer and serial womanizer who refuses even in the face of death to repent for his many wrongdoings. Mozart's Don Giovanni gave the world such enduring melodies as Là ci darem la mano and Madamina, il catalago è questo. BIG ARTS brings this production live via satellite from opening night at La Scala.
3 hrs 15 mins, including one intermission
Italian with English subtitles
Admission $25
Opera in Cinema
Cendrillon
Presented in HD from The Royal Opera House, London
January 2012
An opera in four acts by Jules Massenet based on the Cinderella fairy tale, Cendrillon premiered in 1899 in Paris at the Opéra-Comique. The opening scene is set in the home of Madame de la Haltière as her two daughters prepare their gowns for the palace ball in an effort to woo the prince. Pandolfe, the second husband of Madame de la Haltière, begins to notice that his daughter, Lucette, is treated as a mere servant by her new step-mother. When the group abandons Lucette for the ball, a Fairy Godmother enters to transform the young damsel into an enchanted princess with whom the prince shall fall in love.
2 hrs 50 mins, including one intermission
French with English subtitles
Admission $20
Opera in Cinema
Il trittico
Presented in HD from The Royal Opera House, London
February 2012
Puccini's Il trittico is a collection of three one-act operas: Il tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi. The operas premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in 1918 to overwhelmingly positive reviews. Il tabarro explores the dangerous nature of infidelity and how jealousy can ultimately lead a man to commit the most serious act of vengeance. Suor Angelica tells the tale of a nun sent by her family to the convent as punishment for giving birth to an illegitimate child. Gianni Schicchi sees its greedy characters rewrite a deceased family member's will so as to maintain an estate to which a local church is bequeathed.
3 hrs 45 mins, including two intermissions
Italian with English subtitles
Admission $20
Ballet in Cinema
Le Corsaire
Presented LIVE from The Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
March 2012
Presented in three acts, Le Corsaire is a ballet which was first presented in 1856. The audience is introduced to Medora, a young Greek girl, and Conrad, a dashing pirate, as they journey through a tapestry of captive maidens, rich sultans, swashbuckling abductions, and dramatic rescues - culminating in a shipwreck that's one of the most breathtaking spectacles in all of ballet. This lavish revival, streamed live via satellite from Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet is believed to be the most expensive production of a ballet ever mounted, estimated at $1.5 million.
3 hrs 35 mins, including two intermissions
Admission $20
Opera in Cinema
Rigoletto
Presented LIVE from The Royal Opera House, London
April 2012
Considered one of Verdi's greatest accomplishments, Rigoletto has enthralled audiences worldwide with memorable arias like La donna è mobile since its premiere in Venice in 1851. This three-act opera is set in Mantua, Italy, in the Sixteenth century and tells the story of Rigoletto, a court jester to the Duke, and his daughter, Gilda, whom the Duke mistakes as Rigoletto's lover. When Rigoletto learns that the Duke has played a trick on him by seducing Gilda, he vows to seek revenge upon the Duke for destroying his daughter's innocence. This production will be streamed live via satellite from the Royal Opera House, London.
2 hrs 40 mins, including intermission
Italian with English subtitles
Admission $25
Opera in Cinema
Peter Grimes
from Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Italy
BIG ARTS will screen Peter Grimes in replacement of the originally scheduled Lohengrin opera
December 2012
at BIG ARTS Schein Performance Hall
Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes premiered in London in 1945. It is set in a fishing village on the east coast of England around 1830, and is described by Britten as "the struggle of the individual against the masses." The story is about a fisherman accused by his neighbors of committing unspeakable crimes, and how their actions ripple further and further. Britten's incredible score includes the Four Sea Interludes, instrumental music between scenes that perfectly express the mystery and pain at the heart of this opera. This production, captured live at La Scala in May 2012, stars John Graham-Hall, Susan Gritton, Christopher Purves and Felicity Palmer.
3 hrs, including intermissions
Sung in English with English subtitles
Admission $20
Opera in Cinema
Norma
from Teatro Antico - Taomina, Italy
January 2013
BIG ARTS Schein Performance Hall
Norma is considered Vincenzo Bellini's magnum opus, and the apex of the bel canto operatic style. BIG ARTS and Emerging Cinemas, the largest all-digital theater network in the United States, present this story of a high priestess forced to choose between duty and desire, due to her treasonous love for a Roman soldier. Flowing, lyrical melodies - including the infamously difficult soprano aria Casta Diva - heighten this sweeping drama. Starring Chiara Taigi, Gregory Kunde, Irina Lungu and Giacomo Prestia.
3 hrs, including one intermission
Italian with English subtitles
Admission $20
Opera in Cinema
Carmen
from The Royal Opera House, London
7 PM Wednesday, February 27
BIG ARTS Schein Performance Hall
Captured live in High-definition from a production at the Royal Opera House, Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet. The opera was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1875, and tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naïve soldier seduced by the charms of Carmen, a young gypsy maiden. When Carmen abandons José for the toreador Escamillo, José seeks fatal revenge against Carmen for her treachery. Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre, the toreador's song from Act 2, is one of the best-known arias in the history of opera.
3 hrs 45 mins, including intermissions
French with English subtitles
Admission $20
Ballet in Cinema
La Bayadère
Presented from The Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
BIG ARTS will screen La Bayadère in replacement of the originally scheduled
Don Quixote ballet
7 PM Wednesday, March 27
BIG ARTS Schein Performance Hall
La Bayadère tells the story of sacred dancer Nikiya and the warrior Solor, who have sworn eternal fidelity to one another. The High Brahmin, however, is also in love with Nikiya and intends to marry her at any cost. True love's strength is put to the test in this ballet when intervening forces threaten to dismantle all that Nikiya and Solor once held dear.
Marius Petipa's seminal work La Bayadere was first performed at the Imperial Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg in 1877 in a grandiose production portraying a mysterious India. A scene from the ballet, known as The Kingdom of the Shades, is one of the most celebrated excerpts in all of classical ballet, and is consdered to be one of the first examples of abstract ballet. Although a major work in Russian tradition, the ballet remained unknown for a long time in the West.
This production stars Svetlana Zakharova, Maria Alexandrova and Vladislav Lantratov.
3 hrs 18 mins, including one intermission
Admission $20
