programme autumn 2013 – spring 2014 from the royal opera house ...

BY SATELLITEPROGRAMMEAUTUMN 2013 –SPRING 2014ROYAL OPERA HOUSE - LONDONLIVE&PREVIOUSLY RECORDEDPERFORMANCESAUTUMN 2013-SPRING 2014BY SATELLITETurandot OPERAGiselle BALLET17th September 27th January 2014Don Quixote BALLETDon Giovanni OPERA16th October 12th February 2014Les Vêpres Siciliennes OPERA Sleeping Beauty BALLET4th November 19th March 2014The Nutcracker BALLET A Winter’s Tale BALLET12th December 28th April 2014Parsifal OPERAManon Lescaut OPERA18th December 24th June 2014METROPOLITAN OPERA - NEW YORKEugene OneginPrince Igor5th October 1st March 2014The NoseWerther26th October 15th March 2014ToscaLa Bohème9th November 5th April 2014FalstaffCosi Fan Tutte14th December 26th April 2014RusalkaLa Cenerentola8th February 2014 10th May 2014BOLSHOI BALLET - MOSCOWSpartacusJewels20th October 19th January 2014Le CorsaireLost Illusions17th November 2nd February 2014Sleeping BeautyThe Golden Age22nd December 30th March 2014Enjoy a drink with your viewing or in the interval.The Picture House is now fully Licensed.Please note: Timings are subject to change.Please check with the theatre or online for up to date information.Box Office 01825 764909Open daily 10am-9pm. Sun 1.30-9pm.Book onlinepicturehouseuckfield.comThe Picture House, High Street,Uckfield TN22 1ASEmail: enquiry@picturehouseuckfield.comDESIGN: SIMON FENTON SFCREATIVE.CO.UKFROM THE ROYALOPERA HOUSETHE METROPOLITANOPERA ANDTHE BOLSHOI ATTHE PICTURE HOUSEUCKFIELDCosi Fan Tutte - Metropolitan Opera

Turandot Live - approx 3hrs17th September 2013, 7.15pmThe Royal Opera House Live Cinema Season getsoff to a dramatic start with the return of Puccini’smusically sublime final opera Turandot – a tale ofdisguised identities, riddles, ritual executionsand powerful, triumphant love. AndreiSerban’s production of this dark Orientalfairytale is truly spectacular.Giselle Live - approx 2hrs 30mins27th January 2014, 7.15pmGiselle remains one of the most popular Romantic ballets of all time.The story brings together an engaging mix of human passions, supernaturalforces, and the transcendent power of self-sacrificing love.Don Giovanni Live - approx 3hrs 40mins12th February 2014, 6.45pmMozart’s sublime tragic comedy offers boundless scope for directors, andin this production Kasper Holten shifts the emphasis from Don Giovanni’ssex life into a darker place, showing Giovanni’s womanizing as an attempt tostave off his own mortality.Sleeping Beauty Live - approx 3hrs 10mins19th March 2014, 7.15pmFirst staged in St Petersburg in 1890, The Sleeping Beauty is the pinnacleof classical ballet: a perfect marriage of Petipa’s choreography andTchaikovsky’s music and a glorious challenge for every dancer on stage. It isalso The Royal Ballet’s signature work.Don Quixote Live - approx 3hrs16th October 2013, 7.15pmThe adventures of Cervantes’ bumbling knight havebeen the inspiration for many ballets, best-knownof which is the Don Quixote of Marius Petipa withmusic by Ludwig Minkus. All the elements of thegreat classical ballets are here: emotion, drama andvivid characters. Royal Ballet Principal Guest ArtistCarlos Acosta has danced the virtuoso role of Basiliomany times. So it is especially exciting that he iscreating this new production for The Royal Ballet.A Winter’s Tale Live - Running time TBC28th April 2014, 7.15pmThe story follows the destruction of marriage through consuming jealousy,the abandonment of a child, and a seemingly hopeless love. Yet throughremorse and regret – and after a statue comes miraculously to life – theending is one of forgiveness and reconciliation.Manon Lescaut Live - Running time TBC24th June 2014, 6.45pmThe exciting Latvian soprano Kristine Opolais sings the title role. Aconsummate Puccini soprano, Opolais caused a sensation as MadamaButterfly in 2011, and with Manon Lescaut, the bold but impressionableheroine, we will see a very different side of her character.Les Vêpres SiciliennesLive - approx 4hrs 45mins4th November 2013, 5.45pmThe Royal Opera presents Verdi’s grand operaLes Vepres siciliennes for the very first time – andin a major new production. The story is set toimpassioned and dramatic music, rich in showpiecearias and ensembles and with striking choruses,taking us over the threshold from the reality of theopera house into the dreamlike stories of the operasthey present.The NutcrackerThe Nutcracker Live - approx 2hrs 10mins12th December 2013, 7.15pmFrom the very first notes of Tchaikovsky’s overtureto The Nutcracker, a sense of mystery and magicpervades the theatre as Herr Drosselmeyer sets intrain the events that will see his beloved nephew,Hans Peter, freed from the enchantment of the evilMouse King by the resourceful Clara.Parsifal Live - approx 5hrs 30mins18th December 2013, 4.45pmA new production of Parsifal, Wagner’s huge,profound meditation on guilt, death and possibleredemption, is always a remarkable event.GiselleProductions feature atleast one interval.

Eugene Onegin Live – approx 3hrs 45mins5th October 2013, 5.55pmFrom Pushkin’s classic novel, Onegin is simultaneously abouttwo colliding Russian societies—rustic provincialism andcosmopolitan decadence—and three wasted lives.The Nose Live - approx 2hrs 15mins26th October 2013, 5.55pmWilliam Kentridge’s dazzlingly innovative production of Shostakovich’sshocking, unconventional opera about a beleaguered Russian official andhis runaway nose returns to the Met for the first time since its sold-out2010 premiere.Tosca Live - approx 3hrs 35mins9th November 2013, 5.55pmPatricia Racette portrays the tempestuous diva Floria Tosca in Luc Bondy’sproduction of Puccini’s enduring favorite. Roberto Alagna sings Tosca’slover, the painter Cavaradossi, and George Gagnidze is the corrupt, lustfulScarpia. Riccardo Frizza conducts Puccini’s sweeping, dramatic tale ofmurder, lust, and political intrigue.Falstaff Live – approx 3hrs 20mins14th December 2013, 5.55pmVerdi’s brilliant final masterpiece Falstaff hasits first new Met production in nearly 50years, Ambrogio Maestri sings theiconic basso buffo role of Sir JohnFalstaff, the boorish, blusterycharacter originally seen inShakespeare’s Henry IV andMerry Wives of Windsor.Rusalka Live – approx 4hrs8th February 2014, 5.55pmRenée Fleming sings her firstLive in HD performance of one ofher signature roles, the lovelornmermaid Rusalka, in Dvorák’ssumptuously melodic opera.Prince Igor Live – approx 4hrs 30mins1st March 2014, 5.00pmAlexander Borodin’s epic Prince Igor has its first Met performances since1917 in a new production staged by noted Russian opera director DmitriTcherniakov in his Met debut.Werther Live - approx 3hrs 15mins15th March 2014, 5.55pmDirector Richard Eyre returns to the Met with anew staging of Massenet’s tragic romanceWerther, starring Jonas Kaufmann and ElïnaGaranča in their first Met performances as thebrooding poet Werther and his unattainablelove, Charlotte.La Bohème Live – approx 3hrs 25mins5th April 2014, 5.55pmAn exciting young cast stars in Franco Zeffirelli’sclassic production of La Bohème, themost-performed opera in Met history.Cosi Fan Tutte Live – approx 4hrs26th April 2014, 5.55pmJames Levine conducts the first Live inHD performance of Mozart’s barbedromance.La CeneretolaLive – approx 3hrs 40mins10th May 2014, 5.55pmJoyce DiDonato sings her first Metperformances of the title characterin Rossini’s Cinderella story,La Cenerentola, with bel cantomaster Juan Diego Flórez asher dashing prince.RusalkaLa Bohème

Spartacus Live – approx 3hrs 15mins20th October 2013, 4pmWith the Bolshoi Principals, Soloists andCorps de BalletCaptured by the Roman army, Spartacusand Phrygia are condemned to slavery. Afterbecoming a gladiator, Spartacus foments alegendary rebellion.This grandiose epic is one Khachaturian’smost famous works, and has beenconsidered one of the greatest ballets in the Bolshoi repertoire since the1960s. A production with spectacular choreography and scenery, YuriGrigorovich’s version remains the most critically acclaimed.Le Corsaire Recorded - shown as live - approx 3hrs17th November 2013, 4pmIn the marketplace of Adrianople, the beautiful Medora is sold to Pasha bya slave dealer. But a pirate, hidden among the crowd with his companions,decides to ravish her.Inspired by Lord Byron’s poem, Marius Petipa’s version of the ballet waspart of the Bolshoi’s repertoire until the beginning of the 20th century. In2007 Alexei Ratmansky and Yuri Burlaka presented a new choreographicversion, which stands out as the most sumptuous of all. Thrilling suspenseis at the core of this lavish exotic fable, an amazing production completewith pirates, kidnapping, a shipwreck, and a record 120 dancers on stage.Sleeping Beauty Recorded - shown as live - approx 2hrs 35mins22nd December 2013, 4pmCursed at birth by the evil fairy Carabosse, Princess Aurora descends into adeep slumber on the day of her 16th birthday. Only the kiss of a prince willawaken her.Based on Charles Perrault’s classic fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty has beenhugely successful since its premiere in 1890. Marius Petipa’s masterpieceis one of the most popular and accomplished choreographic works in theclassical repertoire. The new version by Yuri Grigorovich will captivate fairytalelovers and the whole family during the Christmas season.Jewels Live – approx 2hrs 30mins19th January 2014, 3pmInspired by the famous jewellers of New York’s Fifth Avenue, this triptych isa tribute to women, and to the cities of Paris, New York and St Petersburg.Choreographed in 1967 in New York City, this ballet, with its jewel-likecostumes, celebrates the three cities and three dance schools that forgedthe elegance, aesthetic and style of choreographer George Balanchine.Emeralds was conceived as a poetic tribute to the French romantic schooland Rubies to the American tradition of Broadway musicals, while Diamondshonours the virtuosity of classical Russian dancers.Lost Illusions Live – approx 3hrs2nd February 2014, 3pmLucien, a young provincial and buddingcomposer, sets out to conquer the Parisianscene in search of glory.His success soon blinds him, and he betrayshis friends and his love.Lost Illusions is a new ballet, created inMoscow in 2011 by Alexei Ratmansky withdramaturgical advice by French actor,writer and director Guillaume Gallienne.This stylised adaptation of Honoré deBalzac’s novel features thwarted love,ambition and disillusionment, with19th century Paris as its backdrop.The Golden Age Live – approx 2hrs 30mins30th March 2014, 4pmWith the Bolshoi Principals, Soloists and Corps de Ballet.In 1923, in a seaside town in the south of the Soviet Union, where trade andthe mafia are flourishing, Boris falls in love with Rita – a cabaret dancer atThe Golden Age, and the girlfriend of the local gangster.The Golden Age is a refreshing satire created for the Bolshoi by YuriGrigorovich. Audiences will be fascinated by this original and delightfulballet with its jazz and cabaret musical parodies, frantic pace, passionateintrigue and variety of dance styles (classical, neo-classical, free, grotesque,folk and acrobatic). In the midst of this magical whirlwind, Boris and Rita’slove is drenched in poetic lyricism.Le CorsaireFULLY AIR CONDITIONEDAll productionsare presented in stunninghigh definition andDolby Digital sound.