Elisabeth Söderström

A farcical biopic about Pablo Picasso, from his early years, to his middle years, to the years right before his death, and some of the years before and in-between that.

Agneta Gyllencrona is in love with Henrik Lettnoff, a refugee from the Baltic. They have to leave together when her mother, the Countess, wants to tear them apart.

Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström takes on Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice.

Sir Peter Hall's remarkably faithful interpretation of Beethoven's opera, recorded live at Glyndebourne in 1979. Elizabeth Söderström plays Leonore, with Elizabeth Gale as Marzelline and Curt Appelgren as Rocco.

La production atmosphérique d’Elijah Moshinsky, conçue par Mark Thompson, prépare le terrain pour cette performance captivante de la mise en scène passionnée de Tchaïkovski du roman classique de Pouchkine. La direction idiomatique et autoritaire de Valery Gergiev inspire une superbe distribution, dirigée par Plácido Domingo (Ghermann), époustouflant dans son portrait d’un homme en train de se suicider. Galina Gorchakova est Lisa, la femme qu'il aime et détruit, Dmitri Hvorostovsky prête une voix superbe et une allure royale au prince Yeletsky ; et Elisabeth Söderström est époustouflante dans le rôle de la vieille comtesse. Olga Borodina est Paulina et Nikolai Putilin est le comte Tomsky.

Göran Gentele (1917 - 1972) was a Swedish actor, director, and opera manager. He studied at The Royal Dramatic Theatre's acting school 1944-46, followed by acting and directing theatre and film, became artistic director of the Swedish Royal Opera in 1963 and of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1972.

Nobel Laureate Harry Martinson's famous poem consists of 103 cantos and relates the tragedy of a space ship which, originally bound for Mars with a cargo of colonists from the ravaged Earth, is ejected from the solar system after an accident and into an existential struggle.

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The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.