November 3-13 at The Boston Opera House. Escape to Verona with John Cranko’s magnificent Romeo and Juliet. This timeless classic features masterful choreography and vivid characterization set to Prokofiev’s score. Created for La Scala Ballet in 1958, Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet brings Shakespeare’s original text to life.
Go behind the scenes with the Boston Early Music Festival as they rehearse Charpentier’s Orphée to be performed November 26 and 27 in Boston at NEC’s Jordan Hall. Video by Kathy Wittman, Ball Square Films. www.businesswire.com
To better explore the themes of war and peace in its 2010 production Champ de Mars: A Story of War, Imago Théâtre produced three short documentaries. Jean Trudel, a Montreal-based peace activist, is president of Cercle de Paix. He saw Champ de Mars: A Story of War at the Monument-National on November 23rd, 2010. To learn more about Cercle de Paix, visit their website: www.cercledepaix.ca And for more details on Champ de Mars: A Story, which runs from November 18th to December 4th, visit Imago’s website: www.imagotheatre.ca
Filmed in conjunction with the opening of “Alter Ego: A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea” at 21c Museum in Louisville, KY This exhibition is organized jointly by the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, and Telfair Museums, Savannah, in collaboration with 21c Museum, Louisville. Learn more at: www.21cmuseum.org About Anthony Goicolea Born in 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia, Anthony Goicolea is a first-generation Cuban American artist now living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Goicolea has exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions at venues throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Goicolea’s work is held in many public collections, including those of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; as well as the Yale University Art Collection, New Haven, Connecticut; the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; and Telfair Museums. 21c Museum owns the largest single collection of works by Anthony Goicolea in the US The artist, who grew up in the metropolitan Atlanta area, holds a BA in art history and a BFA in drawing and painting, both earned at the University of Georgia, Athens. He received an MFA in sculpture, with a minor in photography, from Pratt Institute of Art, New York, in 1996. About 21c Museum 21c Museum is North America’s first museum dedicated solely to collecting and exhibiting art of the 21st century. The 9000-square-foot Museum is part of the 21c Museum Hotel, located in …
Miami Lyric Opera opened it’s 2010 season at the Colony Theater on Miami Beach with a performance of Don Pasquale. Video by Ken English, the MediaMoJoGuy. Distributed by Tubemogul.