William Shimell

James, un écrivain quinquagénaire anglo-saxon, donne en Italie, à l'occasion de la sortie de son dernier livre, une conférence ayant pour thème les relations étroites entre l'original et la copie dans l'art. Il rencontre une jeune femme d'origine française, galeriste. Ils partent ensemble pour quelques heures à San Gimignano, petit village près de Florence. Comment distinguer l'original de la copie, la réalité de la fiction ?

Georges et Anne sont octogénaires, ce sont des gens cultivés, professeurs de musique à la retraite. Leur fille, également musicienne, vit à l’étranger avec sa famille. Un jour, Anne est victime d’une petite attaque cérébrale. Lorsqu’elle sort de l’hôpital et revient chez elle, elle est paralysée d’un côté. L’amour qui unit ce vieux couple va être mis à rude épreuve.

Séparés par le passé en raison d’un accident, une mère et son fils seront amenés à se retrouver grâce à une jeune journaliste française. Leurs retrouvailles viendront combler un sentiment d’absence et remettront le sens de la vie et de l’art en question.

A television version of Berlioz's oratorio.

A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Abbas Kiarostami’s "Certified Copy" (2010).

Miranda's Letter takes as a starting point the 'missing women' in Shakespeare, in this instance, The Tempest, and imagines what Miranda's mother would have wanted to say to her daughter. Commissioned as part of Shakespeare Lives 2016.

Stravinsky's masterwork The Rake's Progress, created for La Fenice in Venice in 1951, is based on a libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, inspired by a series of 18th century prints by William Hogarth. This amazing production from La Monnaie De Munt jazzifies the setting by replacing Hogarth's sin city, London, with 1950s Las Vegas, turning it into a glittering, cinematic gallery of tableaux vivants inspired by the early days of television. Staged by one of the most visionary theatre directors of our age, the Québécois Robert Lepage, the neo-classical morality tale truly becomes a grand spectacle. Lepage's visual imagination works its magic superbly, while Kazushi Ono's energetic musical direction drives the sparkling ensemble to exhilarating heights. Recorded in High Definition and true surround sound.

William Christie, the master of Baroque music, and stage producer Luc Bondy join forces in Paris to give Handel's masterwork a new lease of life.

Who loves whom in Così fan tutte, Mozart’s and Da Ponte’s cruelly comic reflection on desire, fidelity and betrayal? Or have the confusions to which the main characters subject one another ensured that in spite of the heartfelt love duets and superficially fleetfooted comedy nothing will work any longer and that a sense of emotional erosion has replaced true feelings? Così fan tutte is a timeless work full of questions that affect us all. The Academy Award-winning director Michael Haneke once said that he was merely being precise and did not want to distort reality. In only his second opera production after Don Giovanni in 2006, he presents what ARTE described as a “disillusioned vision of love in an ice-cold, realistic interpretation”.