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- In the 1990s the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in bloody wars. Perpetual student Milan, a Serb from a patriarchal community, and Kenan, a Muslim cellist, are a homosexual couple living in Sarajevo. Their lives, intimate and public, are shaken up by the aggression in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose devastating consequences unfold in inter-ethnic hatred. Trapped in Sarajevo during the siege of the Serb forces, the lovers manage to flee to Milan's home village and take shelter there, waiting for Milan's father Ljubo to find a way to the Netherlands. Witnessing the brutality of Serb forces and their hatred towards Muslims, Milan desperately improvises: he disguises Kenan as a woman and present him as his wife Milena, a secret discovered by Milan's best friend, Lunja. Milan is drafted into the army and the situation becomes almost unbearable for Kenan. His one companion is Ranka, a waitress in a local café, whose dark secrets terrify most of the villagers around her.
- In a gypsy camp the orphan Perhan lives with his grandmother Hatidza, his gambling and womanizing uncle Brandes and his sister Danira. Perhan is in love with Azra, but her mother refuses to let them marry, hoping to find someone with more money as a husband for her daughter. Perhan's sister is crippled, but the big gangster Ahmed owes the Perhan's grandmother a favour for saving his sick son, and agrees to take her to the hospital in Ljubjana for treatment. Instead, Ahmed puts the young girl out begging on the streets of Milan - part of a people trafficking operation he is running with his brothers. Perhan has no choice but to work with Ahmed, but the business of thievery, begging and prostitution is a lucrative one and soon Perhan makes his fortune in Italy. He returns to marry Azra, but finds that she is now pregnant, apparently with the child of his uncle. It's a situation that is to end in tragedy for all concerned.
- Springtime tells the story of four people who meet in Amsterdam by accident, leading to a lot of confusion that has to be solved in a short time.
- In the city of hyenas Fando and Lis has hopes of an elsewhere world "Tar", even if this is completely uncertain. Fable of a post-apocalyptic world, where Lis remains the last woman, the work expresses all the loneliness and wandering of Man, approaching the void. Based on the play of the same name by Fernando Arrabal, this opera in six scenes was commissioned by the Opéra de Saint-Étienne.
- Jinzi is a prestigious modern Sichuan Opera that is considered to be one of the best Operas in China. DearHeart Productions London was commissioned by the Chongqing Chuanju Theatre to shoot a film version of the opera in 2017.
- Paris 1960 - Faust is unsatisfied with his land becomes depressed. After an attempt to take his own life, he calls on the Devil for further knowledge and magic powers with which to indulge all the pleasure and knowledge of the world. In response, the Devil's representative, Mephistopheles, appears. He makes a bargain with Faust: Mephistopheles will serve Faust with his magic powers for a set number of years, but at the end of the term, the Devil will claim Faust's soul, and Faust will be eternally enslaved.
- Here's to love, laughter, and happily ever after. Svadba, a new cinematic opera experience, tells the story of a bride-to-be on the eve of her wedding as four of her closest friends and an elder family member gather to help her prepare for the big event. This chamber opera dramatizes the ritual of preparing for marriage, the importance of preserving tradition, and the true power of friendship and community. Sung completely a cappella, Svadba's mesmerizing music by Serbian composer Ana Sokolovic combines with dance-led visuals from film director Shura Baryshnikov and screenwriter Hannah Shepard. Slovenia-born Daniela Candillari conducts the music.
- Digging once again into the deep archives of 20th century audiovisual history, Sergei Loznitsa crafts this elegant, ironic mini-portrait of the galas of Paris's Palais Garnier in the 1950s and 60s. With his typically masterful use of montage, and a minutely reconstructed soundtrack, Loznitsa revisits a socio-political microcosm that features adoring crowds and glimpses of Bardot, Cocteau, and Queen Elizabeth II amid the pomp and ceremony of Parisian high society.
- New Belgrade Opera and Opera-Theater "Madlenianum" (Serbia) presented their first Monteverdi opera "L'Incoronatione di Poppea" in 2014 to great acclaim. And now in 2017, just three years later and in the year that celebrates the 450th anniversary of the great composer's birth, they embarked on a journey to put together the first performance of Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo" in Serbia ever - a piece generally acknowledged as "the first opera". Written in 1607, Monteverdi's use of vocal and orchestral colors, played on period instruments of the time, put the basis for the further development of opera as a genre, and his expert vocal writing inspired generations to come. The archaic sound of period instruments, expert coaching and musical direction by Marijana Mijanovic and Predrag Gosta, and sublime stage direction by German director Daniel Pfluger provide an opportunity to enjoy this music in the manner as the composer intended it.
- Namwayut is a word in Kwak'wala, the language of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples from northern Vancouver Island, smaller surrounding islands and adjacent mainland BC in Canada, meaning "we are all one". The piece grew out of Canadian opera singer and dramaturg Marion Newman's artistic impulse to conceptualize and create an opera under Indigenous leadership in an entirely new way. This project was a collaboration of singers, composers, a librettist and musicians, that allowed each artist's voice to be heard and held with respect, equal weight and a sense of community. Working in this new way, they planted the seeds of an operatic work based on elements from the oral history of First Nations storytelling that celebrates the resilience of Indigenous peoples and their enduring connection to the land.
- The Queen, who possesses complete control over her servants and people, has killed most of Tintagiles' family. Ygraine and Bellangère try to protect him, but he is captured by the Queen's servants and brought to her castle. Ygraine pursues them to the castle door.
- The Cipher Clerk is the third complete opera commissioned by Calgary Opera from composer John Estacio. This commission follows on the Calgary Opera world premieres of Estacio's operas Filumena and Frobisher. It is the opera's second collaboration with librettist Clem Martini and a continuation of a long-established relationship with director and dramaturg Glynis Leyshon. This workshop was the third and final workshop of The Cipher Clerk and the first workshop that included the music of the final act. The Cipher Clerk is the true story of events that took place in Ottawa at the end of World War II. Just as the war was ending, Igor Gouzenko, a clerk at the Soviet Embassy responsible for decoding secret missives from Moscow, happens to decode a letter that indicates his imminent fall from grace in the eyes of the Soviet Government. Gouzenko decides to save himself and his family by alerting the Canadian, American and British governments that Russia has been spying on the countries covertly, effectively initiating the Cold War.
- Arriving at the Fire is a compositional experiment pairing the inspiration of Canadian composer Kelly-Marie Murphy and librettist Paula Wing. Murphy is a well-established voice in the orchestra, choral and chamber music world. Wing is a playwright fixture of the Canadian theatre scene. Together, they are tackling the operatic format to find out for themselves if their gifts translate into compelling operatic storytelling. With the working title of Arriving at the Fire, this is an excerpt developed for consideration of a full-length opera based on the story of a charismatic new-age spiritual guru who leads his disciples down a dangerous path.
- Two enemies, passionate and vengeful; an old gypsy woman with a mysterious bond to them both, and a passionate young woman who must either betray an all-consuming love or face death itself - these are the fiery elements that govern Giuseppe Verdi's unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, madness and retribution.
- An introduction and behind-the-scenes documentary about the creation of the musical Kaspar, based on Werner Herzog's film "The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser" (1974) at Malmö Opera in the summer of 2001. World premiere Sept. 15, with music of four Scandinavian composers.
- A contemplation of love caught between the polar opposites of joy and despair and Marquis de Sade's novels Justine and Juliette, in which hope of a virtuous life is abandoned for the destructive pursuit of pleasure. The opera premiered in 1965 in Palermo with soprano Cathy Berberian, who portrayed the titular characters from two novels by the Marquis de Sade, Justine and Juliette. Recorder at Théâtre Bernadette Lafont of Nimes.