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The Tony-nominated Broadway phenomenon comes to the big screen. Composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles is Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim part of herself. Waitress celebrates the power of friendship, dreams, the family we choose and the beauty of a well-baked pie.
3) The Seagull
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Anton Chekhov's first of four major plays dramatizes the romantic and artistic conflicts between its four main characters: Boris Trigorin, a well-known writer, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the would-be playwright Konstantin Treplev. Yury Butusov's Golden Mask Award-winning production abounds in an incredible freedom and openness, delving deep into the throes of artistic creation and the anguish of the artist who...
5) Rigoletto
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It is regarded as the first operatic masterpiece of Verdi's mature artistic period. Its complex psychology identifies characters with different styles of music, and with an incredible variety of accents for a central figure conceived by the composer as 'deformed and laughable, but actually passionate and full of love'. From the famous aria La donna ̈mobile, to the final horrific tragedy as the curse unfolds, the triumphant success of Rigoletto since...
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Christian Räth's inspired staging of Der Freischütz, Weber's seminal Romantic opera, at the Haus am Ring stands out due to the bold set and costume design by Gary McCann. It was ₁a festival of singers, that the young conductor Tomas Netopil underscored with the State Opera Orchestra with warmth. Andreas Schager, the immense Heldentenor, Max, Camilla Nylund as the touching Agathe a magnificent pair. The other roles were also well cast' (Salzburger...
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Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and directed by world-renowned photographer Bert Stern, Jazz on a Summer's Day features intimate performances by an all-star line-up of musical legends including Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Anita O'Day, Chuck Berry, Dinah Washington, and closes with a beautiful rendition of The Lord's Prayer by Mahalia Jackson at midnight to usher in Sunday morning.
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Riccardo Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini is a four-act opera set during the Renaissance period. The plot concerns an arranged marriage between Francesca and Giovanni, also known as Gianciotto, who is impersonated by his handsome brother Paolo, and with whom Francesca falls passionately in love. Sometimes referred to as the 'Italian Tristan', the opera ends in betrayal and a double murder. The production of this rarely performed opera from the Deutsche...
11) Don Giovanni
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Mozart's Don Giovanni, in the beautiful staging by legendary Franco Zeffirelli, is a spectacle with a strong anaesthetizing component, and a feast for the eyes. In this production 'Zeffirelli returns to a representative Super classic line, renewing the complex mechanisms of almost all his other productions' (Il Corriere musicale) with 'beautiful classic costumes by Maurizio Millenotti and lights by Paolo Mazzon' (L'ape musicale).
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In her first-ever HBO solo special, Sarah Silverman takes the stage for an evening of adults-only stand-up comedy. Taped live in front of an intimate audience of 39 fans at Largo, a music and comedy club in Los Angeles, features Silverman taking aim at such subjects as cell-phone porn, crazy religions, specialty deodorants, terrible roommates, eyebrow waxing, her 19-year-old dog, Obama and Republicans, having babies, Pixar movies, the miracle of existence,...
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The land of Homer, Aristotle, Sophocles, and Plato, is commonly described as the birthplace of the Classical tradition. Celebrating this legacy, the high-spirited, world-class musicians travel to Greece, performing works that embody the essence of classical music. In iconic settings like the First Ancient Theatre of Larissa, the historic Church of Pammegiston Taxiarchon at Pelion, this remarkable ensemble performs works by Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn,...
16) Anything goes
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"When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love -- proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, a comical disguise, and some good old-fashioned blackmail"--Container.
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Spanning several decades beginning in the 1950s, Crystal reminisces about what it was like growing up in a loving Jewish family in Long Beach, LI. He recalls the numerous eclectic relatives who inspired him, the huge influence of jazz on his family, his passion for the New York Yankees, and much more.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band Lynyrd Skynyrd traveled back to their hometown of Jacksonville, Florida, where they played their first two legendary albums, Pronounced 'Lěh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd & Second helping in their entirety, live at the historic Florida Theatre. The Southern Rock legends filmed this ultimate fan experience over two unforgettable sold-out nights, giving fans the opportunity to bring this unique concert into their homes.
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Bestselling humorist Sedaris likes to test out new material on twice-a-year reading tours to get the rhythm and phrasing perfected before he puts them down on the page. This live recording of his sold out October 22, 2002, reading at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall finds Sedaris performing debuting new stories, all captured in this audiobook. They include a parrot who mimics an ice maker, lovers quarrelling over a rubber hand, and a Santa Claus who moonlights...
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