I was a blackened corpse among the living, and in this hour I am the fire of life, and my flame burns up the darkness of the world.’ Those are Elektra’s words to her sister Chrysothemis in answer to the latter’s announcement that Orestes, their long-awaited brother, has miraculously appeared and is being given a triumphant welcome, having killed, one after the other, Clytemnestra, their mother, and Aegisthus, her lover and the new ruler of the city. She then speaks her last words, before collap...

Experience four essential works – performed in their unsurpassable original choreography. At the beginning of the last century, Serge Diaghilev shook conventions and threw open the door to modernity by bringing the artistic elite of the era - choreographers, painters and musicians - under one breathtaking playbill: Debussy, Stravinsky, Falla, Picasso, Bakst, Massine, Nijinsky, Fokine... This tribute reveals an unexpected diversity of inspiration.

Celebrating the 5th anniversary of the most popular girl band in the world we bring you this exclusive view into the last 5 years of the BLACKPINK girls as we follow them on their rise to superstardom including concert footage and behind the scenes documentary footage. BLACKPINK has broken numerous online records throughout their career. Their music videos for "Kill This Love" (2019) and "How You Like That" (2020) each set records for the most-viewed music video within the first 24 hours of r...

A course of three lectures. Buy a ticket to sit in the stalls and watch what is happening on stage ... Or maybe not: a modern theater offers the audience a variety of roles and strategies of behavior. A whole city can become a stage space, where every passer-by turns into a participant in the performance. Or vice versa: you are the only spectator of the theatrical performance in your own bathroom. You turn into a creator of a performance, assemble it from scenes-fragments like a puzzle, watch...

On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis (Carey Mulligan) receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant (Bill Nighy), a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires. Bill Nighy, whose extensive film credits include Love Actually, Notes on a Scandal a...

EXHIBITION ON SCREEN opens its fifth season with Canaletto & the Art of Venice, an immersive journey into the life and art of Venice’s famous view-painter. No artist better captures the essence and allure of Venice than Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto. The remarkable group of over 200 paintings, drawings and prints on display offer unparalleled insight into the artistry of Canaletto and his contemporaries, and the city he became a master at capturing. The film also offers the ...

On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis (Carey Mulligan) receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant (Bill Nighy), a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires. Bill Nighy, whose extensive film credits include Love Actually, Notes on a Scandal a...

Mustafà feels in urgent need of a ‘second spring’ in matters of love. But no woman in the geographical vicinity is suitable, least of all his wife Elvira. He finds Muslim women too ingratiating and submissive. What he’s after is temperament and exoticism, or to put it more precisely: the charms of an attractive Italian woman. One of these is what Haly, the Captain of the Corsairs, must procure for him, and within six days, otherwise he will be impaled. As Bey, Mustafà can’t be contradicted, and ...

Maurice Béjart’s compelling staging of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony has been enchanting audiences worldwide since its inception and its idea of universal brotherhood remains highly topical. “Alle Menschen werden Brüder” (All men will be brothers) is the powerful message communicated by the unforgettable music and choreography. From the stage of the NHK Hall in Tokyo 250 dancers and musicians send this message out into the world. “It is a ‘manifestation’, in the deepest sense of the word.” Maurice ...

‘But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod. Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask. And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger.’ The event that leads to the beheading of John the Baptist is related in a few brief sentences in the gospels of Matthew and Mark. The step-daughter of Herod, tetrarch of Galilee, is as yet nameless here, and her egregious de...