"Hills and the Shakespeare Theater in Washington in Spring 2014 The production returned to the UK, opening at Birmingham Repertory Theatre (where the production originally premiered) and The Lowry, Salford in February 2018 before returning to the Haymarket Cinema in London from March to September 2018. In May 2009 Houston Grand Opera premiered a two-act opera ""Brief Encounter"" based on the story, with music by André Previn from a libretto by John Caird. Streaming audio Brief Encounter Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean about British suburban life on the eve of World War"
"was ""now considered an 'overlooked masterpiece' by one contemporary scholar"". Porgy and Bess (film) Porgy and Bess is a 1959 American musical film directed by Otto Preminger. It is based on the 1935 opera ""Porgy and Bess"" by George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, and Ira Gershwin, which is in turn based on Heyward's 1925 novel ""Porgy"", as well as Heyward's subsequent 1927 non-musical stage adaptation, co-written with his wife Dorothy. The screenplay for the film, which turned the operatic recitatives into spoken dialogue, was very closely based on the opera and was written by N. Richard Nash. The project was the"
"he became an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music. The 1977 television show ""Previn and the Pittsburgh"" was nominated for three Emmy awards. Previn was appointed an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996. (Not being a citizen of a Commonwealth realm, he may use the post-nominal letters KBE but is not called ""Sir André"".) Previn received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1998 in recognition of his contributions to classical music and opera in the United States. In 2005 he was awarded the international Glenn Gould Prize and in 2008 won Gramophone magazine's"
"Oh... Rosalinda!! Oh... Rosalinda!! is a 1955 British musical comedy film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The film stars Michael Redgrave, Mel Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, dancer Ludmilla Tchérina and Anton Walbrook and features Dennis Price. The film is based on the operetta ""Die Fledermaus"" (""The Bat"") by Johann Strauss, but updated to take place in post-war Vienna as occupied by the four Allied powers: the United States, the United Kingdom, France and the USSR The music, played by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under conductor Alois Melichar, has new lyrics by Dennis Arundell, and professional"
"in June 1945 the opera was hailed by public and critics; its box-office takings matched or exceeded those for ""La bohème"" and ""Madame Butterfly"", which were being staged concurrently by the company. Its American premiere was given in 1946 at Tanglewood by Koussevitzky's pupil, Leonard Bernstein. ""Peter Grimes"" has been produced many times at the Royal Opera House. The first was in 1947, conducted by Karl Rankl and with Peter Pears, Joan Cross and Edith Coates reprising their roles from the Sadler's Wells premiere. The most recent was in 2011 with Andrew Davis conducting, and starring Ben Heppner, Amanda Roocroft"
"(1991) and ""The Minotaur"" (2008), premiered at the Royal Opera House in London. The world premiere of ""The Corridor"" on 12 June 2009 inaugurated the new Benjamin Britten Studio at Aldeburgh and was paired with the premiere of ""Semper Dowland, semper dolens"", Birtwistle's setting of John Dowland's ""Lachrimæ, or Seaven Teares"". Both works were commissioned by the Aldeburgh Festival and the Southbank Centre. The premiere production was directed by Peter Gill with Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the London Sinfonietta. Elizabeth Atherton sang the role of Woman (Eurydice); Mark Padmore was Man (Orpheus). The following month, the production and original cast toured"
"Porgy and Bess (film) Porgy and Bess is a 1959 American musical film directed by Otto Preminger. It is based on the 1935 opera ""Porgy and Bess"" by George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, and Ira Gershwin, which is in turn based on Heyward's 1925 novel ""Porgy"", as well as Heyward's subsequent 1927 non-musical stage adaptation, co-written with his wife Dorothy. The screenplay for the film, which turned the operatic recitatives into spoken dialogue, was very closely based on the opera and was written by N. Richard Nash. The project was the last for Samuel Goldwyn. Due to its controversial subject matter,"
"short film prequel to ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", titled ""The Departure"". The short film was written by the novelist Andrew O'Hagan and is part of Young Vic's short film series, which was produced in collaboration with ""The Guardian"". In 1995, an opera was adapted and composed by André Previn with a libretto by Philip Littell. It had its premiere at the San Francisco Opera during the 1998–99 season, and featured Renée Fleming as Blanche. A 1952 ballet production with choreography by Valerie Bettis, which Mia Slavenska and Frederic Franklin's Slavenska-Franklin Ballet debuted at Her Majesty's Theatre in Montreal, featured the"
"Margherita Grandi, Monica Sinclair and Bruce Dargavel; the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plays. The film's production team includes cinematographer Christopher Challis and production and costume designer Hein Heckroth, who was nominated for two 1952 Academy Awards for his work. Though the original French libretto is presented in English translation, the film is relatively faithful to the traditional adaptations of Offenbach's last opera, and incorporates his unfinished score with the thread of the plot. However, certain important changes were made in the process of adapting the story to film: In the later years of their partnership, Powell became interested in what he"
"Michael Mahony as Chorus, and UK-New Zealand actor Edward Newborn as Pistol/King of France. Three major film adaptations have been made. The first, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier in 1944, is a colourful and highly stylised version which begins in the Globe Theatre and then gradually shifts to a realistic evocation of the Battle of Agincourt. Olivier's film was made during the Second World War and was intended as a patriotic rallying cry at the time of the invasion of Normandy. The second major film, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh in 1989, attempts to give a more realistic"
"Morton). The score was once again released, this time complete and in correct film order with accurate track listings, by speciality-label Intrada in 2010. André Previn chose an extended passacaglia from the score to perform on his television program ""Previn and the Pittsburgh"" in 1978 on the episode ""Music that Made the Movies"". Five tracks of music from the film (""Overture"", ""First Flight"", ""The Bridge"", ""The Attack"" and ""Finale"") were recorded on 11 March 1987, at Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London, and are incorporated as Tracks 1–5 into the CD, ""Goldsmith Conducts Goldsmith"", played by the Philharmonia Orchestra and subsequently released"
"He first came to prominence by arranging and composing Hollywood film scores in 1948. Coincidentally, both composers won 1964 Oscars for different films, both winning in musical categories. In 1951 and 1952, while stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco during his military service, Previn took private conducting lessons from Pierre Monteux, which he valued highly. In 1967, Previn succeeded Sir John Barbirolli as music director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra. In 1968, he began his tenure as principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), serving in that post until 1979. During his LSO tenure, he and the LSO"
"based on Franz Kafka's novel ""The Trial"". Soprano Phyllis Curtin headed the cast. Preminger also adapted two operas for the screen during the decade. ""Carmen Jones"" (1954) is a reworking of the Bizet opera ""Carmen"" to a wartime African-American setting while ""Porgy and Bess"" (1959) is based on the George Gershwin opera. His two films of the early 1960s were ""Advise & Consent"" (1962): a political drama from the Allen Drury bestseller with a homosexual subtheme and ""The Cardinal"" (1963): a drama set in the Vatican hierarchy for which Preminger received his second Best Director Academy Award nomination. Laurence Olivier,"
"The Beggar's Opera (film) The Beggar's Opera is a 1953 Technicolor film version of John Gay's 1728 ballad opera directed by Peter Brook and starring Laurence Olivier, Dorothy Tutin, Stanley Holloway and others. Olivier and Holloway do their own singing in this film, but Dorothy Tutin and several others were dubbed. This was Laurence Olivier's only film musical. With additional dialogue and lyrics by Christopher Fry, the film expands on some elements in the opera, notably giving Mrs Trapes (Athene Seyler) a larger role and adding dramatic action sequences to Macheath's escape. The framing device is also changed: the Beggar"
"Sheep"" by Michael Berkeley (1993), ""Playing Away"" by Benedict Mason (1994), ""The Nightingale's to Blame"" by Simon Holt (1998), Jonathan Dove's ""The Adventures of Pinocchio"" (2007) and ""Swanhunter"" (2009), and ""Skin Deep"" by David Sawer and Armando Iannucci (2009). In July 2009, Opera North premièred ""Prima Donna"", a new opera by Rufus Wainwright, at the Manchester International Festival. Opera North has also given performances of musical theatre works. The first was Jerome Kern's ""Show Boat"" (in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company) in 1989, and productions of Gershwin's ""Of Thee I Sing"" and Sondheim's ""Sweeney Todd"" followed in 1998. Latterly,"
"pointed out that the company's diction had declined to the point that the recently introduced surtitles were essential. In 2015 the film director Mike Leigh directed a new production of ""The Pirates of Penzance""; the critical consensus was disappointment that Leigh had chosen one of the weaker operas in the Savoy canon, but the show provided a box-office hit. The cinema live broadcast of the production broke all previous box-office records for UK opera cinema-event releases. From the 1980s the company has experimented with Broadway shows, including ""Pacific Overtures"" (1987), ""Street Scene"" (1989), ""On the Town"" (2005), ""Kismet"" (2007), and"
"associated with the 1959 world premiere of Joseph Jongen's ""Symphonie Concertante for Organ and Orchestra"", Op. 81, with Virgil Fox and the Paris Opera Orchestra. Eclectic musician, he also conducted in Vienna, in 1962, ""L'Opéra d'Aran"" by Gilbert Bécaud. He conducted the La Scala Orchestra in Franco Zeffirelli's 1982 film versions of Mascagni's ""Cavalleria rusticana"" and Leoncavallo's ""Pagliacci"". Both films starred Plácido Domingo. In 2009, at the age of 85, he returned to these two Italian operas in the Roman amphitheater at Orange, for televised performances starring Roberto Alagna. Prêtre conducted the Vienna New Year's Concert twice, in 2008 and"
"travelled around the world as well as being turned into films. Lloyd Webber has worked with producer Cameron Mackintosh, lyricist Tim Rice, actor Michael Crawford (originated the title role in ""The Phantom of the Opera""), actress and singer Sarah Brightman, while his musicals originally starred Elaine Paige (originated the role of Grizabella in ""Cats"" and had a chart hit with ""Memory""), who with continued success has become known as the First Lady of British Musical Theatre. Agatha Christie's ""The Mousetrap"" has seen more than 25,000 performances in the West End, and is the longest-running West End show. ""The Woman in"
"2018; the ""Opera"" reviewer noted the ""pin-sharp visuals and dynamic sound, highlighting the spatial care with which Bergman matches music to word and image"". The restoration was coupled with ""In Mozart's Footsteps"" (Dunn, 1938), the animation ""Papageno"" (Reiniger, 1935), and ""On Such a Night"" (Asquith, 1955). The Magic Flute (1975 film) The Magic Flute () is Ingmar Bergman's 1975 film version of Mozart's opera ""Die Zauberflöte"". It was intended as a television production and was first shown on Swedish television on 1 January 1975, but was followed by a cinema release later that year. The work is widely viewed as"
"earliest known film adaptation of ""Wuthering Heights"" was filmed in England in 1920 and it was directed by A. V. Bramble. It is unknown if any prints still exist. The most famous was 1939's ""Wuthering Heights"", starring Laurence Olivier and Merle Oberon and directed by William Wyler. This acclaimed adaptation, like many others, eliminated the second generation's story (young Cathy, Linton and Hareton) and is rather inaccurate as a literary adaptation. It won the 1939 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film and was nominated for the 1939 Academy Award for Best Picture. In 1967 the BBC produced"
"on vocals. This track was then developed into a short film with Scottish Film Director Uisdean Murray which was nominated for Best Music Based Short Film at Cannes in a Van 2012, Best Film & Script at Renderyard Film Festival (Spain) & nominated for a Scottish Short Film Award at The Glasgow Short Film Festival 2012. Oh Jackie screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 In 2009 A Band Called Quinn toured in award-winning Scottish based Vanishing Point (Theatre Company)'s revision of John Gay's 18th Century classic The Beggars Opera. It was a co-production by The Lyceum in Edinburgh"
"editions by Broadway Play Publishing Inc., Theatre Communications Group, Penguin/Mentor, Smith & Kraus, Applause Books, and University of Illinois. His book ""Cult Films: Taboo and Transgression"" ( University Press of America, 2008; ) covers ninety years of cinema. Southern Illinois University Press published his next edited anthology 2010, ""American Political Plays after 9/11"". His first opera libretto, ""Lilith"" (music by Anthony Davis), had its world premiere concert recital at the Conrad Prebys Music Center, UC San Diego on December 4, 2009. The chamber opera, based on his play, highlights Adam's first wife of supernatural proportion and partly staged in a"
"Paris. Memorable films from post-war England include David Lean's ""Great Expectations"" (1946) and ""Oliver Twist"" (1948), Carol Reed's ""Odd Man Out"" (1947) and ""The Third Man"" (1949), and Powell and Pressburger's ""A Matter of Life and Death"" (1946), ""Black Narcissus"" (1946) and ""The Red Shoes"" (1948), Laurence Olivier's ""Hamlet"", the first non-American film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture and ""Kind Hearts and Coronets"" (1949) directed by Robert Hamer. Italian neorealism of the 1940s produced poignant movies made in post-war Italy. ""Roma, città aperta"" directed by Roberto Rossellini (1945), ""Sciuscià"" directed by Vittorio De Sica (1946), ""Paisà"" directed"
"ten short plays, presented in various permutations across three evenings. One of these plays, ""Still Life"", was expanded into the 1945 David Lean film ""Brief Encounter"". ""Tonight at 8:30"" was followed by a musical, ""Operette"" (1938), from which the most famous number is ""The Stately Homes of England"", and a revue entitled ""Set to Music"" (1938, a Broadway version of his 1932 London revue, ""Words and Music""). Coward's last pre-war plays were ""This Happy Breed"", a drama about a working-class family, and ""Present Laughter"", a comic self-caricature with an egomaniac actor as the central character. These were first performed in"
"1989. Outside France it was seen in Massachusetts in 1953, Basel in 1957, and at Aldeburgh in 1958 in an arrangement by the composer for two pianos (played by Poulenc and Benjamin Britten; Peter Pears sang the role of Thérèses husband, transposed to suit his range.). Further local premieres took place in Philadelphia in 1959, New York in 1960, Milan in 1963, London in 1979, Düsseldorf in 1982, Tokyo in 1985, and at the Barcelona Liceu in its 2009-2010 season In a short prologue, the theatre director introduces the work, promising the audience a moral piece on the necessity of"
"by Georg Solti. This production was revived six times to 1984. The English Music Theatre Company staged the opera at Snape Maltings in 1980, directed by Christopher Renshaw and designed by Robin Don; the production was revived at the Royal Opera House for one performance in 1986. In 2005, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, produced a version directed by Olivia Fuchs at the Linbury Studio Theatre with the Tiffin Boys' Choir. William Towers was Oberon, and Gillian Keith Tytania. English National Opera's production of 2011, directed by Christopher Alden, set the opera in a mid-20th-century school, with Oberon (Iestyn"
"at the box office and a lukewarm critical reception before becoming a massive hit, largely by word-of-mouth. In 1986, Mackintosh produced Andrew Lloyd Webber's ""The Phantom of the Opera"", which is (most likely) the most commercially successful musical of all time, outgrossing hit films such as ""Titanic"" and ""E.T."". The original London production is still running, along with the New York production, which is the longest-running Broadway musical of all time. He produced Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's next musical ""Miss Saigon"", which opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in the West End in September 1989, and was similarly"
"""Skellig"" has been adapted into a contemporary opera with music by American composer Tod Machover and libretto by David Almond himself. The opera was staged at The Sage Gateshead from 4 November to 19 December 2008, with orchestration by the Northern Sinfonia. The Opera starred Omar Ebrahim as Skellig with Sophie Daneman and Paul Keohone as Michael's parents. ""Skellig"", produced by Feel Films, was part of Sky 1's plan to invest £10 million in producing three new high-definition dramas. Filming started on 2 September 2008 in Caerphilly in Wales. Cast members included Oscar-nominee Tim Roth in the title role and"
"now working for a Ministry of Defence (MoD). Adjusted for inflation, David Lean's ""Doctor Zhivago"" (1965) is among the top ten highest-grossing films. ""A Man for All Seasons"" (1966), based on Sir Thomas More, is listed by the Vatican as being among the greatest religious movies. Other major British films of the 1960s included ""Lawrence of Arabia"" (1962), ""Tom Jones"" (1963), ""Zulu"" (1964) and ""Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines"" (1965). Four of the decade's Academy Award winners for best picture were British productions, including the film musical ""Oliver!"" (1968) based on Charles Dickens' classic ""Oliver Twist"", with Ron"
"title refers to Giacomo Puccini's ""Tosca"", which is performed during the film. Before Him All Rome Trembled Before Him All Rome Trembled (Italian:Avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma) is a 1946 Italian musical war melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Anna Magnani, Tito Gobbi and Hans Hinrich. Ado and Marco are a pair of opera singers, who moonlight working for the Italian resistance at the time of the German occupation of Rome during the Second World War. They are sheltering a British soldier with whom they make contact with the advancing Allied forces. Sylistically the film is a"
"and Don Boyd (who also provides an audio commentary). A DVD has also been released in Japan. War Requiem (film) War Requiem is a 1989 film adaptation of Benjamin Britten's musical piece of the same name. It was shot in 1988 by the British film director Derek Jarman with the 1963 recording as the soundtrack, produced by Don Boyd and financed by the BBC. Decca Records required that the 1963 recording be heard on its own, with no overlaid soundtrack or other sound effects. The film featured Nathaniel Parker as Wilfred Owen, and Laurence Olivier in his last acting appearance"
"cinema adaptation of Proust's ""Remembrance of Things Past"". The production, which transferred to the Olivier stage in 2001, was described as ""ravishing"" by critic Nicholas de Jongh in the ""Evening Standard"" and won an Olivier Award. Trevis has also worked extensively at the Royal Shakespeare Company, with productions of ""Happy End"", ""The Taming of the Shrew"", ""The Revenger's Tragedy"", ""Much Ado About Nothing"" and ""Elgar’s Rondo"". In 1991 she mounted a production of Harrison Birtwistle's opera ""Gawain"" at the Royal Opera House. She also directed ""The Merry Widow"" for Scottish Opera and ""The Voluptuous Tango"" for the Almeida. Trevis has"
"activities. The remainder of the play deals with the fallout of Michael's return on the various protagonists. ""The Years Between"" was first performed on stage at the Manchester Opera House in the autumn of 1944. It then transferred to London, opening at Wyndham's Theatre on 10 January 1945 starring Nora Swinburne and Clive Brook. The production, directed by Irene Hentschel became a long-running West End hit, completing 617 performances. It was also turned into a 1946 film starring Michael Redgrave and Valerie Hobson. After 60 years of neglect the play was revived by Caroline Smith at the Orange Tree Theatre"