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

 

Fonteyn and Nureyev: The Perfect Partnership

(100 min; 1985; dvd; English)

Narrated by Robert Powell

 

The film traces Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev's partnership from its glorious inception in 1962 (in Giselle at Covent Garden), to its grand finale some 17 years later. It is unique that it includes rare, behind-the-scene footage of both dancers and includes film clips from Le Corsaire, Les Sylphides, and Romeo and Juliet

 

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

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (the Magic Flute)

(185 min; 2003; dvd; English subtitles)

With Dorothea Röschmann (Pamina); Simon Keenlyside (Papageno); Diana Damrau (Queen of the Night); Franz-Josef Selig (Sarastro)

 

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Conductor: Colin Davis

 

The Magic Flute, singspiel in two acts, with a German libretto by Austrian actor and theatrical producer Emanuel Schikaneder. The opera, Mozart’s last, premiered at the rustic Theater auf der Wieden near Vienna on September 30, 1791, not long before Mozart’s death

 

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

 

Joseph Haydn: The Creation

(102 min; 1990; dvd; English)

With Emma Kirkby (Gabriel, Eve); Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Uriel); and Michael George (Raphael, Adam)

 

The Choir of New College, Oxford

Chorus and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music

Conductor: Christopher Hogwood

 

Christopher Hogwood conducts outstanding soloists and the Chorus and Orchestra of the Academy of Ancient Music in this performance of Haydn’s much-loved oratorio, sung in English and filmed in the ancient splendour of Gloucester Cathedral

 

 

MUSIC APPRECIATION PROMOTION

Composing Music in Context of Poetry and Dance  

Presentation by Smt Jamuna Krishnan

 

Since 1980s, Jamuna Krishnan has been researching in bhakti literature of North Indian poets.  A large number of such compositions are being widely used in Bharatanatyam even today 

 

INDIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

 

Excavations at Sanauli – Recent Discoveries

Illustrated lecture by Dr. Sanjay Manjul, Director, Institute of Archaeology

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

 

Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

(130 min; 1966; dvd)

The Royal Ballet with Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn

Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Conductor: John Lanchbery

 

This historical production stars Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev as the quintessential stage lovers. It captures the greatest dance partnership of our century at the peak of their careers

 

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: Eugene Onegin

(154 min; 1994; dvd; English subtitles)

Graham Vick’s acclaimed production with Wojciech Drabowicz (Eugene Onegin); Elena Prokina (Tatyana); Martin Thompson (Lensky); Louise Winter (Olga); and Frode Olsen (Gremin) 

 

The London Philharmonic

Conductor: Andrew Davis

 

Graham Vick’s acclaimed production sets Pushkin’s tale of doomed love, tragedy and rejection against an acutely observed backdrop of Russian society, with spectacular choruses and dances

 

History of Indian Philosophy

Discussion on the new book edited by Purushottama Bilimoria with Amy Rayner (Routledge, 2018)

 

Panelists: Prof.  Purushottama Bilimoria, distinguished Teaching Fellow and Visiting Professor of Comparative Philosophy, Graduate Theological Union and the University of California, Berkeley; Prof. Shashi Prabhu Kumar, formerly at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Indo-Tibetan Sanchi University; Prof. Hari Shankar Prasad, Chair, Philosophy Department, University of  Delhi; and Prof. Raghunath Ghosh, University of North Bengal

 

Chair: Prof. Bindu Puri, Head of Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

The History of Indian Philosophy is a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the movements and thinkers that have shaped Indian philosophy over the last three thousand years

 

Koel  ke Swara:  IIC Summer Festival of Music 2018

 

At 18:00

Sitar  Recital

By  Sandip Banerjee  from West Bengal, disciple of  Pt Monilal Nag and Pt Ajoy Sinha Roy 

 

Followed by

 

At 19:00

Hindustani Vocal Recital 

By Saptak Chatterjee from Delhi, disciple of Guru Pt Arun Kumar Chatterjee and Pt Sarathi Chatterjee 

Koel  ke Swara:  IIC Summer Festival of Music 2018

 

At 18:00

Sarod Recital

By Prabhat Kumar from Delhi, disciple of  Late Vidushi Pandita Smt Sharan Rani 

 

Followed by

 

At 19:00

Hindustani Vocal Recital

 By Kanakshree Bhatt from Indore, disciple of Vidushi Kalpana Zokarkar