A spectacular performance of Isaac Albeniz's lost opera in Madrid's state-of-the-art Teatro Real. David Wilson-Johnson stars as Merlin, Stuart Skelton as Arthur and Eva Marton as Morgan Le Fay. Jose de Eusebio conducts.
Written 101 years ago, Merlin was intended as the first part of an Arthurian trilogy. Albeniz teamed up with amateur poet Francis Burdett Money-Coutts - who offered him a pension for life if the composer used him as a librettist- but died while working on part two, so the opera was never completed. Consequently this magical production is the world stage premiere.
r*** Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez star in Cyrano de Bergerac director Jean-Paul
Rappeneau's 1995 period drama. In cholera-ridden 19th-century
Provence, an Italian cavalryman on the run from killers takes refuge with a mysterious noblewoman. In French with English subtitles.
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They are the toast of a rundown port on Norway's Arctic rim. In Knut Erik Jensen's uplifting 2000 music documentary, the gloriously eccentric members of a male voice choir talk of their hopes and dreams. In Norwegian with English subtitles.
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