Amahl and the Night Visitors (50 mins) 

A one-act opera by Gian Carlo Menotti

Presented by the Lyric Ensemble of Delhi

          

Music Director/Conductor – Clayton Duggan

Stage Director/Choreographer – Diniz Sanchez

Founder/Voice Coach – Situ Singh Buehler

Piano Accompaniment – Dinai Rentta

Flute – Nathalie Ramirez Tovar

 

Soloists: Mother, Amahl, 3 Kings and a Page, Chorus of Shepherds and Dancers 

 

Followed by Christmas Carols

 

Amahl and the Night Visitors is a retelling of the 3 wise men of the Orient from the point of view of a young disabled boy named Amahl, who lives in poverty with his widowed mother near Bethlehem. He sees a bright star in the sky and tells his mother to go look, but she brushes him off. That night 3 Kings come across their meagre hut and seek shelter for they have travelled long and far following the star of which Amahl had spoken. They bring with them treasure and gifts to give "the Child" who has just been born and will reign over all. Blinded by the lure of Gold and what it could do for her family the mother attempts to steal just a bit of the treasure, but is caught red handed. What no one expects is a gift far greater than Gold - blessed by "the Child", Amahl finds himself suddenly cured of his disability! Amahl follows the Kings to visit the "infant Child"

 

 

 

A discussion on the book by Dr. Geeta Patel, Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Language and Cultures, University of Virginia

 

Panelists: Mekhala Krishnamurthy, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shiv Nadar University; Simona Sawhney, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Delhi; and Akhil Katyal, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shiv Nadar University

 

The author will also speak

 

(Collaboration: Women Unlimited)

 

 

Curated by Rajiv Mehrotra

 

Until Space Remains – The Dalai Lama & India (65 min; 2016; dvd; English)

A film directed by Gaurav Saxena

 

The Dalai Lama has often described India as the Guru of the Tibetan people. Today, that role in many ways has been reversed. He and the Tibetan people have been in exile in India since the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1959 and their story continues to be one of the most significant success stories of a displaced community. The Tibetan people have managed to preserve their identity, keeping their cause alive and reaming welcome in India, while the Dalai Lama is an eloquent and influential ambassador of India’s civilizational heritage, its inclusive philosophy and the most sophisticated mind training techniques in history. The Film explores this remarkable relationship that began in the 8th Century AD 

 

(Collaboration: Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama)

 

 

 

Archaeology of Brajbhoomi

Speaker: Dr. Vinay Kumar Gupta

Chair: Prof. R.C. Agarwal

 

ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH SERIES

 

You are Circled by Non–ionizing Radiations! Health Concerns of ELFEMF and RFEMF (includes Health Impact of mobile phones)

 

Series Moderator: Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi

Keynote Speaker: Dr. T.V. Ramachandran, Chairman, European Business Group

 

Panelists: Dr. R.M. Chaturvedi, DDG, Department of Telecommunications; Dr. Manoj Sharma, Ex-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College; Dr. Naresh Gupta, Director-Professor, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi and  Dr. B. P. Baruah, Department of Radiology, Sharda Medical College

 

(Collaboration: Health Environment Foundation in association with Consumers India)

CANCELLED
 

Trombone Concert

By Lisa Sarasini

Accompanied on the piano by Aron Tringali

 

(Collaboration: Delhi Music Society)

 

“AGE CANNOT WITHER…” SHAKESPEARE 400

Films

Much Ado About Nothing (UK/USA)

(111 min; 1993; dvd; English)

Director: Kenneth Branagh

With Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves

Multiple award winner including Best Actress Award, Evening Standard British Film Awards 1994; Guild Film Awards – Silver for Foreign Film, Guild of German Art House Cinema 1994; ALFS Award for British Producer of the Year, London Critics Circle Film Awards 1994; NBR Award for Top Ten Films, National Board of Review, USA 1993; among others

Sunshine and laughter, and merrymakers on a hillside sprinkled with flowers. In the opening scene of Much Ado About Nothing, Kenneth Branagh insists on the tone the movie will take: These are healthy, joyful young people whose high spirits will survive anything, even the dark double-crosses of Shakespeare's plot

At 14:00

Richard III (USA/UK)

(104 min; 1995; dvd; English)

Director: Richard Loncraine

With Ian Mckellan, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent

Multiple award winner including Bafta Film Award for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design, Bafta Awards 1997; Silver Berlin Bear for Best Director, Berlin International Film Festival 1996; European Film Award for European Actor of the Year, European Film Awards 1996; among others

Was ever there a villain such as Richard the Third? Murderer of his brother Henry VI; of Prince Edward; later of Edward's wife Anne; of his own brother Clarence; of Anne's brother Rivers; of his henchmen Grey and Vaughn; of Lord Hastings; his own two young nephews; of Lady Anne; and finally his long-loyal retainer Buckingham. All had to make way for Richard's overwhelming ambition to rise to the throne. All died in vain, as Richard was unmounted in battle and uttered the famous cry: "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!"

 

(Courtesy British Council Division)

 

At 17:00

The Abiding Appeal of Shakespeare: Some Considerations beyond the Pragmatic

Speaker: Professor Shirshendu Chakrabarti, Department of English, University of Delhi

Chair: Professor R.W. Desai

 

Exhibition: Archival Photographs from Shakespearean adaptations produced by National School of Drama

 

READINGS /CONCERT  C D DESHMUKH AUDITORIUM AT 18:30

Sonnets: Recitation and Song

Recitations: Sunit Tandon; Sabina Mehta Jaitly; Shormistha Panja; and Anhad  Anand

Songs: Justin McCarthy (harpsichord) and Sunanda Rao Erdem and others (vocal)

 

Coordinator: Bhaskar Ghose

 

 

Film

Hamlet (UK/USA)

(242 min; 1996; dvd; English) 

Director: Kenneth Branagh

With Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi

Recipient of the Empire Award for Best Actress, Empire Awards, UK 1998; Special Jury Award, Evening Standard British Film Awards 1998; and Best Cinematography Awards, British Society of Cinematographers 1997

With his Hamlet, Ken Branagh presents as uncompromised and unabridged version of Shakespeare's best-known tragedy as humanly possible

(Courtesy: British Council Division)

 

At 15:00

Quiz Programme

“Lend me your ears” : An Open Quiz on Shakespeare, his life and works

The life, works and neologisms of Shakespeare as well as the endless literature and media responses that these have spawned lend themselves to a delightful collection of trivia.

The Shakespeare quiz is a celebration of the quirky and the quotable about the Bard.

Seema Chari, author, polyglot and anchor, will quiz Shakespeare enthusiasts of all persuasions about the life and times of the greatest English dramatist of all time

Organised by Xpress Minds Edutainment Pvt. Ltd. 

 

 

At 18:00

Adapting Shakespeare to the Indian Stage

A discussion coordinated by Professor Tripurari Sharma, National School of Drama and Professor Shormistha Panja, University of Delhi

Speakers: Prof. Tripurari Sharma, Raj Bisaria, K. Rajendran and others

Exhibition: Archival Photographs from Shakespearean adaptations produced by National School of Drama

 

 

 

 

An exhibition of paintings by Sipra Dattagupta from Kolkata

 

Inauguration on Wednesday, 7 December at 18:30 by Mr. M. Jean-Yves Coquelin, Deputy Cultural Counsellor, Embassy of France and Deputy Director, Institut  Française India