Early Music on Film 2018
Early Music on Film 2018
June 2–16, 2018
In conjunction with the Berkeley Festival, this series features live musical performances along with films meant to be heard, not just seen.
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L'Orfeo
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Barry Lyndon
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Facing Agrippina
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Amadeus
- Upcoming
Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Past Events
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Friday, June 8, 1 PMGalax Quartet
The Galax Quartet performs works by Nancy Galbraith, Jacques Meyer, J. S. Bach, and others with guest soloists Stephen Schultz (baroque flute) and Cheryl Ann Fulton (harp).
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Sunday, June 3, 12 PMJunior Recorder Society
In celebration of the group’s twentieth anniversary, the Junior Recorder Society returns to BAMPFA to delight us with period music performed on wind instruments of various sizes.
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Sunday, June 3, 4 PMVajra Voices
Vajra Voices, known for their “shimmering resonance and elegantly paced performances” (Choir and Organ), present a program of music by Guillaume de Machaut. With Shira Kammen on vielle and harp.
Past Films
Barry Lyndon
Stanley Kubrick
United States, 1975Digital Restoration
Saturday, June 2 7 PMView DetailsKubrick’s historical drama follows the travails of a young Irishman (Ryan O’Neal) determined to rise in the world. Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Soundtrack. “A movie at once florid in its realism and brazenly, gluttonously formalistic” (New York Times).
Facing Agrippina
Nayo Titzin
Bulgaria, 2010Sunday, June 3 2 PMView DetailsThis behind-the-scenes look at an opera production documents a performance of Handel’s Agrippina by the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, as conducted by René Jacobs and performed at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.
L’Orfeo
Emanuele Garofalo
Italy, France, 2009Wednesday, June 6 1:30 PMView DetailsL’Orfeo showcases Robert Wilson’s wonderful minimalist interpretation of Monteverdi’s seminal first opera, based on Ovid’s Metamorphosis. Performed by the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala and Concerto Italiano under the direction of Rinaldo Alessandrini.
Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
Stéphane Metge
France, 2016Thursday, June 7 1:30 PMView DetailsHandel’s allegorical first oratorio comes alive in stage director Krzysztof Warlikowski’s contemporary adaptation. Emmanuelle Haïm conducts her ensemble Le Concert d’Astrée, with Sabine Devieilhe, Franco Fagioli, Sara Mingardo, and Michael Spyres.
The Color of Pomegranates
Sergei Parajanov
USSR, 1969Digital Restoration
Friday, June 8 2:30 PMView DetailsThis magical work, rich in period music, reimagines Armenian history and culture through the life and writings of its greatest poet. “Watching [it] is like opening a door and walking into another dimension, where time has stopped and beauty has been unleashed” (Martin Scorsese).
The Color of Pomegranates
Sergei Parajanov
USSR, 1969Digital Restoration
Saturday, June 9 8:15 PMView DetailsThis magical work, rich in period music, reimagines Armenian history and culture through the life and writings of its greatest poet. “Watching [it] is like opening a door and walking into another dimension, where time has stopped and beauty has been unleashed” (Martin Scorsese).
Amadeus
Milos Forman
United States, 1984BAMPFA Collection Print
Director’s CutWednesday, June 13 7 PMView DetailsThis adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s “black opera” reinterprets the life of Mozart (Tom Hulce) as seen through the eyes of his envious rival Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham). Winner of Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Screenplay, and Sound Design.
The Magic Flute
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1975Saturday, June 16 4:30 PMView DetailsThis witty, loving adaptation of Mozart’s exuberant opera revels in its own theatricality, revealing the joy and wonder in Bergman’s metaphysics. “A blissful present, sensuous, luxuriant” (New Yorker).