Berlioz's "BENVENUTO CELLINI" / Opera in Cinema

ONE SHOW ONLY!
Tuesday, May 25th at 7:00 p.m.
Admission: $20.00 general; $16.00 Loft members
HD Digital Presentation made possible by COX COMMUNICATIONS

The Loft Cinema proudly presents exclusive world class cultural programming with the HIGH ART IN HIGH DEF series, featuring acclaimed opera, ballet and theatre productions from across the globe, presented on the big screen in stunning, crystal-clear High Definition digital projection. From the La Scala Opera House in Milan to The National Theatre in London, HIGH ART IN HIGH DEF takes viewers on a grand tour of the greatest productions from the most famous performance venues in the world.

PLUS: Come see BENVENUTO CELLINI and enter the "Barcelona Live" contest! Emerging Pictures will be giving away a fabulous trip for two to Barcelona (including airfare, hotel stay and two tickets to the Liceu Opera)! The raffle is FREE, and this contest ends July 31st, 2010.

Emerging Pictures' exclusive digital cinema opera series presents Hector Berlioz‘s BENVENUTO CELLINI, performed at The Salzburg Festival, Austria.
Hector Berlioz‘s BENVENUTO CELLINI, a French opera written in the 1830s, is so complex, richly detailed and prolifically imaginative that Berlioz‘s contemporaries often considered it unplayable. However, this is resoundingly proven false in the 2007 Salzburg Festival production of director Philipp Stölzl, conductor Valery Gergiev (“the wild man of music“) and a high-caliber cast accompanied by the Vienna Philharmonic and its chorus. Called “the surprise hit of this year’s Salzburg festival” (Bloomberg), this spectacularly inventive production met with rave reviews:
"BREATHTAKING! Conductor Valery Gergiev pulled out all the stops. He whips the Vienna Philharmonic into a delirium similar to that which possibly took hold of the composer. The result was an unremittingly exalted atmosphere...“ - DER STANDARD

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