"Gandalf" Ian McLean, literary god Ralph Fiennes, "Elf Prince" Orlando Bloom, "White Widow" Vanessa Kirby, Oscar Golden Globe Grammy winner Ryuichi Sakamoto, surrealist painter Dalí, the great Spanish poet Lorca and the long-unknown "Joltson" and "Big Titi", the latest adaptation of Strindberg's "Miss Julie", Arthur Miller's "The Witch of Salem", the six-time Tony Award-winning play "Red", the sign language version of "Three Sisters" from Russia As well as endless operas and ballets... The new 2019 new film list of the "New Live" HD video screening series has been announced, and a total of 26 new films will be released in the first half of 2019, which will meet the audience.
Half of the content of the "New Live" HD video screening every year is bound to be "Shakespeare", which shows the wide range and number of Shakespearean works rehearsed around the world. In addition to the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, which are "compulsory" to Shakespeare, the British National Theatre and many independent productions have also contributed praiseworthy versions of Shakespeare, although each one is "fearsome", but the famous directors of the famous troupe are not tired of watching from multiple angles.
In 2019, half of Middle-earth reunited. The Lord of the Rings film series witch "Gandalf" was played by Ian McLean and the "Elf Prince" Orlando Bloom brought their own starring roles in "King Lear" and "Romeo and Juliet", respectively.
Grandpa Ian, 79, is double-gnashing to play King Lear again, and in this work, Ian McLean presents a very emotional performance, and the final scene of Lear dying on stage is really heart-wrenching. The production, which had previously been staged at the Festival Theatre in Chichester in 2017, was transferred to the West End this summer because of the difficulty of getting a ticket. Ian McLean felt that he had reached the age of the real King Lear and had acted in Shakespeare all his life, and had the heart to end this as a Shakespeare for the whole of his life. In fact, as early as 2007, he portrayed a king Lear in history at the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by the troupe's former artistic director Trevor Nunn; in 2008, the version was also made into a TV movie.
"Elf Prince" Orlando Bloom's "Romeo and Juliet" is from Broadway in the United States, recorded on Broadway HD, documenting Orlando Bloom's 2013 Broadway debut, praised by the always mean New York Times drama critic Ben Brantley. Playing him is the African-American actress Candora Rosard, who has been nominated for four Tony Awards at a young age, the most nominated by young actors. This edition focuses on two families with racial issues, a very typical American work.
The National Theatre has also been busy doing Shakespeare recently, and "Anthony and Cleopatra", starring Ralph Fiennes, will be screened in China after the Spring Festival. As the only story in Shakespeare's Rome history series with a slightly less bloody and slightly higher degree of gossip, the play tells the love history of Cleopatra and the Roman general Mark Antony, and of course, there is no shortage of rivalries between various political groups in Rome after Caesar's death. Audiences who have seen this season of "Julius Caesar" starring Ben WeiShaw can see this as a follow-up story. In addition, this version of director Simon Goodwin has previously directed "Mortal and Superman", "Perfect Plan" and "Twelfth Night", which have also been released in China.
In 2019, the "New Live" HD video screening series intends to introduce the National Theatre version of Macbeth, starring Oliver Award winner Rory Chennell, directed by The National Theatre Artistic Director Rufus Norris, who has directed Shakespeare for the first time after a gap of 25 years, and Mrs Macbeth, who plays opposite Luo Fat, is played by The Banner Evening Theatre Award and British Independent Film Award winner Ann Marie Duff.
Speaking of the Universal Theater's Universal Picture Series, 16 Shakespearean dramas have been completed in the past year. In addition, the all-male class "Twelfth Night", led by numerous award winner Mark Relais, "The Merchant of Venice", starring Cannes film emperor Jonathan Price, and "The Tempest", co-starring two-time Oliver Award winners Roger Alam and Colin Morgan, are also expected to be released at the end of January next year. In addition to being paid to watch on iQIYI Education Channel, the Global Pictures series will also be available on more channels in 2019.
In the first half of 2019, there will be many Shakespeare dramas that have not been seen by the audience, including "Coriolanus" starring Jitterson, "Richard II" starring David Tennant, the just mentioned Nine Uncle Christopher Exxton version of "Macbeth", the Royal Shakespeare Company re-scored version of "Twelfth Night" and the high-tech version of "The Tempest" combined with AR+ dynamic capture.
The 2010 Tony Award-winning drama work "Red" was also rearranged in the West End this year, and it is the re-assembly of the original team, including director Michael Grandaghi and alfred Molina, the artist Rothko in the original cast, unfortunately, the Oscar film emperor "Little Freckles", who played the apprentice in the original version, has not returned, but the balance between artistic belief and worldliness in the original work has not changed, and the compact and delicate two-business confrontation is still exciting and fierce.
The last classic work that has long been heard in the fan circle but has not yet met is Arthur Miller's famous work "The Witch of Salem" produced by the Old Vic Theatre in 2014, which is difficult to find for three months and receives five-star praise from 10 media. The series is directed by Yael Farber, a South African female director who pretends to be a ghost, and richard Armitage, who played the dwarf king in "The Hobbit", starred in richard Armitage.
In addition to these long-awaited classics, the latest contemporary interpretations have not fallen, including the latest translation of strindberg's book "Miss Julie", starring "White Widow" Vanessa Kirby, directed by Kerry Clarknell, who has directed the National Theatre version of Medea and "The Deep Blue Sea"; "Skylight" author David Hale's new work "I Believe in Things"; Russia also contributed a russian sign language version of Chekhov's famous "Three Sisters", the expressiveness of the action is no less than any language.
Classics and new works that will still be screened and re-screened in the first half of 2019 include "The Queen's Call" starring Oscar-winning actor Helen Mirren, "Jane Eyre" co-produced by Bristol's Old Vic Theatre and the National Theatre of the United Kingdom, and the original "Big Nose Love" by the French Comedie.
In March and April 2018, the "New Live" HD video screening series entered the field of opera and ballet for the first time in addition to theatrical content, introducing 5 operas and 3 ballets from the Royal Opera House and 5 ballets from the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet. In 2019, the new content of the two groups will continue to be high-energy PK.
The configuration of the Royal Opera House will continue to be 5 operas and 3 dance plays. The operas include Wagner's Valkyrie, conducted by The Royal Opera's Chief Antonio Papano, the newly produced Tchaikovsky Queen directed by the Norwegian opera House Steffan Heheim, Verdi's opera La Traviata, co-starring Elmorya Yaho, Charles Castronov and Placido Domingo, Anna Neribeko, the "Superstar of the 21st Century" and Jonas Kaufmann, the "Power of Destiny" co-starring Jonas Kaufmann. and The Gounod opera Faust directed by David McVicah.
Royal Ballet's work includes the classic Swan Lake, reinterpreted by resident artist Liam Scarlett, which was released in June 2018, which swept London and received unanimous five-star recognition from the mainstream media; the dance drama "Frankenstein", also choreographed by Liam Scarlett, is also adapted from Mary Shelley's science fiction novel with the NT Live version of "Frankenstein", but in a very different story structure and expression, and is directed by lead dancer Steven Spielberg. McRae's monster has become one of his iconic characters; the classic choreography "Romeo and Juliet", created by former artistic director of the Royal Ballet, Kenneth MacMillan, has been performed more than 400 times since its premiere.
The Bolshoi Theatre Ballet brought don Quixote, a technical stream dance drama starring the company's chief Ekaterina Kressanova and Semyon Chukin, Tchaikovsky's festive classic The Nutcracker, the exotic Maihime, The Sleeping Beauty starring the head of the family, Orga Smirnova, and two collections of contemporary new dance dramas, Carmen Suite and Petrushka.
In addition to honestly carrying the theater content, as last year, there are also some different video presentations. For example, Ryuichi Sakamoto's latest concert documentary, "Async," a professor who won oscars, Golden Globes and Grammy Awards for scoring the film "The Last Emperor," documents the latest concert held by the master at the Armory in New York earlier this year.
Another example is the 400-year-old Edinburgh-preserved programme, and the latest live video of the Royal Edinburgh Military Music Festival held at the same time as the Edinburgh Festival in 2018.
For example, the latest documentary produced by the Dalí Foundation, "Dalí: The Journey of Immortality", documents the artistic and emotional entanglement between the surrealist master Salvador Dali and his goddess Gala for 60 years, and many precious images are first seen.
In addition, the famous Spanish poet García Lorca twice visited the Americas – New York in North America and Uruguay and Argentina in South America – to listen to the poet's followers emotionally tell the talent and misfortune of this talented poet.
It is reported that "King Lear" and "The Queen's Summons" have been screened or ticketed at the Beijing Intermediate Theater, China Film Archive, Shanghai Grand Theatre, Shanghai Huangpu Theatre, Majestic Theatre, Light and Shadow Workshop Jing Theatre, Orchid Yue Cube Small Theater, Chengdu Eying 1958 Cinema, Xi'an Lumiere Cinema, Chongqing Cathay Art Center and other places.
Author: Tong Weijing
Production Editor: Tong Weijing