The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.
A full concert filmed at the Sun Theatre in Anaheim, California, on December 14, 2000. Setlist: Whisper My Name; Before You Kill Us All; Spirit Of A Boy, Wisdom Of A Man; Better Class Of Losers; On The Other Hand; Look Heart, No Hands; If I Didn't Have You; The Hole; Horse Called Music; Shallow Water; Baptism; It's Just A Matter Of Time; Hard Rock Bottom Of Your Heart; He Walked On Water; Deeper Than The Holler; Forever And Ever, Amen; Diggin' Up Bones; Runaway Train
D'Angelo had it all: two platinum selling albums, a sold out world tour and a body chiselled to perfection. However, one day at the height of his career in 2000 the soul singer vanished. For 12 years he descended into darkness. Out of nowhere, in December 2014, his third album Black Messiah was suddenly released: soundtrack of the lost years.
The alluring sounds of violin music bring back memories that reunite a father and daughter separated at birth. Though neither realized what had happened in the past, they were unmistakably drawn to each other when they did meet.
Everything Live is a live video released in 1997, just after the Manics fourth album, Everything Must Go, a major commercial and critical success for the band. The atmosphere of the performance is great, with the bands and fans coming together after Richey's disappearance to create a wonderful, tense, sad and beautiful mood. Musically the Manics rock out with excellent versions of 7 of their best songs to date when the video was made and 6 tracks from the aforementioned then-new album, with Elvis Impersonator and No Surface All Feeling the picks of these.
This year Take That embarked on the biggest tour the UK and Ireland had ever seen breaking all previous records. The Progress Live Tour went through 29 UK stadiums and played to over 1.8 million people. Progress Live 2011 tour, was one of the biggest and most anticipated reunions of the summer, with Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams, playing to massive sell-out audiences around the UK and Ireland.
During the production of his album “Sobre Crianças, Quadris, Pesadelos e Lições de Casa”, rapper and activist Emicida visited several communities to create an overview of the reality of young people who live outside the standards of the upper classes.
The plot this time concerns a Lonely Hearts club which is used as a front by con artist Colonel Winchester. Trying to promote a phony formula for synthetic rubber, Winchester gets mixed up with diligent young DA Tony Warren and lady detective Linda Marlowe.
Aboard a giant slave ship in an abandoned Citroën factory, the history of the West Indies is traced through several centuries of French oppression. The ship becomes a stage for the people to tell stories via song and dance—from their enslavement to their displacement in Metropolitan France.
The 50th anniversary of the Barrandov studios was celebrated with a spectacular show: many directors and other important people gathered in the expensive decorations of the Variety Theatre auditorium (built for the Circus Humberto series). They smiled and showed well-deserved relaxation after a job well done in managing socialist cinema. Vladimir Sís interspersed this with excerpts from films, mainly his own and also a little of others who had worked on the "Hill of Dreams".
The doors of the jam produced by a company do not open. In order for them to be able to sell their jam, they reward the one who can open the jam. All the people try to open the door of the jam.
Royal Opera favourite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this new production of Donizetti’s comedy of domestic drama across two generations. The witty story of a middle-aged man whose supposed young wife runs rings around him – with her own ulterior romantic purpose in mind – has long delighted and surprised audiences, not least as presented with the sparkle of its music and the virtuoso skill of its performers. Damiano Michieletto’s exhilarating production shows how contemporary the characters still are and how immediate and touching the story remains.