SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS

This year the festival presents operas, ballets, a ballet biography and choral works

Curated and introduced by Dr. R.P. Jain

 

Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers of the Blessed Virgin 

(90 min; 1990; dvd; English)

Live recording from the Basilico di San Marco, Venice

 

With Ann Monoyios, Marinella Pennichhi (sopranos); Michael Chance (countertenor); Mark Tucker, Nigel Robson, Sandro Naglia (tenors); and Bryn Terfel & Alastair Miles (basses)

 

The English Baroque Soloists

The Monteverdi Choir

Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner

 

A towering masterpiece of the early Baroque — at once intimate and grand, prayerful and dramatic, exalted and sensual. Monteverdi’s rarely performed 1610 Vespers of the Blessed Virgin offers up a dizzying array of textures and sonorities in brilliant instrumental writing, opulent choruses, and moving solo arias and duets

 

Arthritis – Myths and Facts

Speaker: Dr. R. Handa, Senior Consultant, Rheumatologist, Apollo Hospital & former Professor, All India Institute of Medical Sciences

 

(Collaboration: KLM  Public Charitable Trust)

Abode of Clouds

An exhibition of paintings by artists who participated at the International Art Residencey held at Artists’ Point, Meghalaya

 

On view are works by Jana Bednárová (Slovakia); Juhidevi Bhanjdeo (India); Dominik Bouma (Czech Republic); Eliška Failová (Czech Republic); Zsofia Hajdu (Hungary); Barbora Chlastáková (Czech Republic); Moinuddin Moni (Bangladesh); Juliana Mrvová (Slovakia); Kate?ina P?kná (Czech Republic); Jan Pražan (Czech Republic); Gabriela Valls  Schorr (Spain); and Michaela Vrbková (Czech Republic)

 

Inauguration on Friday, 8 June 2018 at 18:30 by Shri P. Sampath Kumar, IAS, Commissioner & Secretary to the Chief Minister, Resident Commissioner, Meghalaya House

 

The inauguration will include a brief musical performance by Alakesh Dutta

 

 

(Collaboration: Picasso Pupils, Meghalaya; Department of Art & Culture, Govt. of Meghalaya; and Embassy of the Slovak Republic)

METAMORPHOSES: TALKING TECHNOLOGY

 

Leading Digital Transformation and Innovation

Speaker: Prof. Soumitra Dutta, Professor of Operations, Technology and Information Management, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, New York, founding Dean Professor of Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Chair, Board of Directors, Global Business School Network (GBSN), Washington DC
 

Chair: Dr. Ambuj Sagar, Vipula and Mahesh Chaturvedi Professor of Policy Studies, IIT Delhi

 

 

Finland, Switzerland, Sweden, Israel, Singapore, the Netherlands and the United States are leading the world when it comes to generating economic impact from investments in information and communications technologies (ICT), according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Information Technology Report 2016. all known for being early and enthusiastic adopters of ICT and their emergence is significant as it demonstrates that adoption of ICTs – coupled with a supportive enabling environment characterized by sound regulation, quality infrastructure and ready skills supply among other factors – can pave the way to wider benefits. 

 

Innovation is broad based capability is societies around us, both in developed and developing markets. The Global Innovation Index 2017 indicates that data can be analysed in various ways, which result in rich insights that are hard to obtain otherwise. Besides numerical, data is fundamental in terms of values

 

(Collaboration: Niti Aayog; and Centre for Policy Research)

SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS

This year the festival presents operas, ballets, a ballet biography and choral works

Curated and introduced by Dr. R.P. Jain

 

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty

(105 min; 2012; dvd; English)

Conductor: Brett Morris

Directed and choreographed by Matthew Bourne

 

With Hannah Vassallo (Aurora), Dominic North (Leo), Christopher Marney (Lilac Fairy), Adam Maskell (Carabosse)

 

Matthew Bourne’s version of the iconic Russian classical ballet masterpiece Sleeping Beauty

 

To Celebrate World Environment Day 2018

 

Awareness Workshop on Implementation of Sustainable Development Goals: Beating Plastic Pollution

 

(Collaboration: The Climate Change Research Institute)

Romancing Nature – An Evening of Tagore Songs

By Kamalini Mukherji, leading exponent of Rabindra Sangeet

 

(Collaboration: Seher)

SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS

This year the festival presents operas, ballets, a ballet biography and choral works

Curated and introduced by Dr. R.P. Jain

 

Jacques Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann 

(150 min; 1981; dvd; English subtitles)

The Royal Opera, Covent Garden

Conductor: Georges Pretre

 

With Placido Domingo (Hoffmann), Luciana Serra (Olympia), Agnes Balsta (Giulietta), Ileana Cotrubas (Antonia)

 

Offenbach’s ‘fantastic’ grand opera, The Tales of Hoffmann (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), is based on tales by the German writer, E.T.A. Hoffmann. In a tavern in Nuremberg, the drunken poet, Hoffmann, is lamenting his failed love life, and how it’s all caused by his rival, the Councillor Lindorf. He tells his fellow-drinkers about his three past loves, three personifications of the same woman – Olympia, the ‘daughter’ of an inventor, who turns out to be a doll; a courtesan, Giulietta, who is under the spell of a sorcerer; Antonia, a sick girl who is lured into singing herself to death by the evil Dr. Miracle. An opera about an artist’s hopes and disappointments, in a fantasy world that is both romantic yet grotesque

 

Panchsheel: Principles and National Interests in Foreign Policy

Speaker: Ambassador Chandrashekhar Dasgupta, former Indian Ambassador to China and currently a member of the Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change and also member, UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva. Author of War and Diplomacy in Kashmir

Chair: Ambassador Ashok Kantha

 

Contrary to popular belief, the archival record shows that the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, or Panchsheel, were formulated by China, not India. Their roots lie in Chinese foreign policy, not Indian philosophy. China has regularly proposed sets of “principles” to guide bilateral and multilateral negotiations in diverse fields. We need a clearer understanding of this diplomatic tool

 

(Collaboration: Institute of Chinese Studies)

TO MARK WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2018

 

The Sixth Edition of the Dialogue to Develop a Vision of the Environment of Delhi – 2025

Speakers: Shri P.K. Tripathi, former Chief Secretary of Delhi; Prof. Sanghamitra Sheel Acharya, Professor, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Prof. R.B. Singh, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Delhi; and Dr. R. Gopinath, IFS, Assistant Inspector General of Forests, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change

 

Moderator: Shri Dinesh C. Sharma, Managing Editor, India Science Wire

 

(Collaboration: The Green Circle of Delhi)