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Long Center launches spring cinema series
The Long Center of the Performing Arts is continuing its partnership with Emerging Cinema and has booked more high definition films of performances by international arts companies including the Globe Theatre and the Paris Opera Ballet. And there’s music documentary to coincide with SXSW.
From the Long Center release:
‘The Harmony Game: The Making of Bridge Over Troubled Water’
4:30p.m. and 7:30p.m. March 19
Tickets: $10
Runs 1 hour 12 minutes.
‘The Harmony Game’ tells the story behind Simon and Garfunkel’s’ Bridge Over Troubled Water’, an album shrouded in rock mythology with legendary tales of inspiration, innovation and separation. This documentary includes archival footage and brand new interviews with Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel along with several of the duo’s collaborators from the period including Roy Halee (co-producer/engineer), Hal Blaine (drums), Joe Osborn (bass guitar), Jimmie Haskell (arranger), and Mort Lewis (manager). Directed by Jennifer LeBeau.
Tosca
3 p.m. March 20
Tickets: $20, students: $16
Runs 2 hours and 30 minutes with two intermissions.
Performed at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, Italy. Tosca is presented in Italian with English subtitles. Presented in partnership with Austin Lyric Opera.
‘Romeo & Juliet’
7:30 p.m. March 23
Tickets: $15, students: $10
Runs 2 hours 51 minutes with one intermission.
Performed at the Globe Theatre in London. ‘Romeo & Juliet’ is directed by Dominic Dromgoole. Presented in partnership with Austin Shakespeare.
‘Caligula’
8 p.m. March 25
Tickets: $15, Students: $10
Runs 1 hour 24 minutes.
Performed by Paris Opera Ballet, Caligula is Principal Dancer Nicolas Le Riche’s first choreography set on the renown French company. Constructed as a tragedy, the choreography follows the inexorable progression of this solitary hero towards death, accompanied by Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.”
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Image: ‘Caligula,’ Paris Opera Ballet.
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