Music on Screen 2010
Light House presents another Music on Screen season of opera, ballet and music from April to September 2010. New this season are live transmissions via satellite link of opera from La Scala, Milan, the first staring Plácido Domingo in the title role of Simon Boccanegra with Daniel Barenboim conducting. These take their place alongside three outstanding films featuring music and ballet and an exclusive presentation of Swan Lake from St Petersburg. So book your tickets now for ‘the best seats in the house.’
Various ticket prices apply. Receive a 10% discount for group bookings of 10 or more. Pre-order your interval drinks before the screening (where applicable) so that you can beat the rush at the bar and enjoy your interval. To book tickets contact Light House Box Office on 01902 716055 or visit www.light-house.co.uk
Simon Boccanegra
Thu 29 Apr, 7pm
Plácido Domingo plays the lead in this live satellite transmission of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra direct from Teatro alla Scala, Milan. Domingo, a star tenor for 50 years, transforms himself into a baritone for this role, and is conducted by Daniel Barenboim in a moving story of love and politics. Also starring Ferruccio Furlanetto as Fiesco, the plot of Simon Boccanegra weaves a thread of inconsolable sadness through a disloyal world of self-interest, conflict and ambition. An opera noted for its tender duets, especially between Boccanegra and his long-lost daughter, Amelia.
A co-production with Staatsoper unter den Linden, Berlin.
Sung in Italian with English subtitles.
The audience is requested to be seated by 6.45pm. 2 hrs20 plus intermissions.
Tickets cost: £14 full / £11.50 conc. / £7 under 15s
Das Rheingold
Wed 26 May 7pm
Live from La Scala, conducted by Daniel Barenboim.
Das Rheingold is the first of four operas that comprise Richard Wagner’s epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, the largest musico-dramatic work ever written. Through a complex tale inspired by Teutonic and Norse folklore, Wagner explored key issues central to civilised life, starting in Das Rheingold with the primal relationship between Love and Power. Conducted by Daniel Barenboim with staging and sets by Guy Cassiers, and starring René Pape as Wotan, this new production of Das Rheingold comes direct from the Teatro alla Scala, Milan in a co-production with Staatsoper unter den Linden, Berlin.
Sung in German with English subtitles.
The audience is requested to be seated by 6.45pm. 2 hrs10 (no intermission).
Tickets cost: £14 full / £11.50 conc. / £7 under 15s
The Red Shoes (U)
Thurs 24 Jun, 7pm
Neatly restored in HD digital, this Powell and Pressburger classic is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made and is winner of two Oscars. It focuses on Vicky, a young ballerina starring in a ballet The Red Shoes. Like her character in the ballet, she is irresistibly drawn to dancing. Her life becomes split between her simple human passion and artistic devotion to her profession. The film contains ballet sequences of stylistic mastery, and is visually one of the most innovative and beautiful works of cinema ever created. Starring Moira Shearer, Marius Goring, Anton Walbrook and Royal Ballet star Robert Helpmann, who also choreographed The Ballet of The Red Shoes, the music for which was conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.
Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger UK, 1948, 1hr33
Cast: Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring
Tickets cost: £5.50 full / £4.20 conc.
Swan Lake
Thu 22 July 7pm
Swan Lake is considered to be one of the greatest classical ballets of all time and remains a popular feature of ballet company repertoires worldwide. Its romance and beauty has entranced audiences for more than 100 years, offering the magical combination of Tchaikovsky’s score, a compelling love story and choreography that demonstrates the superb technical skills of the dancers. This production comes from the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, in a HD Digital presentation and stars Ulyana Lopatkina as Odette-Odile and Danila Korsuntsev as Prince Siegfried. Tchaikovsky’s music is conducted by Valery Gergiev.
Choreography and direction by Konstantin Sergeyev.
2hrs9 plus intermission.
Tickets cost: £14 full / £11.50 conc. / £7 under 15s
Calamity Jane (U)
Thurs 19 Aug, 7pm
The Deadwood Stage is coming to town, bringing Doris Day and Howard Keel to fuss, feud and fall in love as Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok in this classic from the golden age of movie musicals. There are wide-open Technicolor Western spaces, lots of high-stepping terpsichory and a hummable humdinger of a score by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster, who won an Oscar for the classic ballad 'Secret Love'.
Dir: David Butler USA, 1953, 1hr 51mins
Cast: Doris Day, Howard Keel
Tickets cost: £5.50 full / £4.20 conc.
The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) (PG)
Thurs 23 Sept, 7pm
Set in a shadowy, stylised and dreamlike Victorian London, the story of Mackie 'The Knife' Messer and Polly Peachum is timeless, and the combination of playwright Bertolt Brecht's biting social satire and composer Kurt Weill's compelling music is as fresh as ever. In contrast to Brecht and Weill's musical play - an entertainment 'for beggars, by beggars', with minimal staging and props - Pabst and his designer created the biggest and most elaborate studio set that had ever been built in Germany. Brecht and Weill jointly sued Pabst’s production company for his treatment of their opera – an entertainment ‘for beggars, by beggars’ rather than a lavish and lyrical movie – but the play’s satirical bite is intact.
Dir: G.W. Pabst, Germany-USA, 1931, 1hr 53mins
Cast: Lotte Lenya, Rudolf Forster
Tickets cost: £5.50 full / £4.20 conc.
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