The Bentley Gallery Opera Film Series is in its third year and is presented in partnership with Phoenix Art Museum's "Movies at the Museum." The summer series is composed of three films that relate to the company’s upcoming season, which begins in October.
Films are free to the public and begin at 2:00 p.m. at Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 N. Central Avenue.
“The collaboration with Bentley Gallery, Phoenix Art Museum and Arizona Opera has created a wonderful dialogue between the visual arts and the performing arts.” says General and Artistic Director Joel Revzen. “Each film was selected for its relationship to one of our 2007-08 operas. This is an exciting way to spend a Sunday afternoon and to explore the always thought provoking exhibits at the Museum.”
Arizona Opera’s 2007-08 season includes Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Strauss’ Die Fledermaus, Gems, a concert of opera favorites, Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Verdi’s La Traviata.
Bentley Film Series schedule:
Sunday, August 19, 2007, “Camille” George Cukor, 1936.
Greta Garbo performs one of cinema’s greatest death scenes in this adaptation of Alexandre Duma’s love story of the romantic yet doomed courtesan with a passion for camellias. A luminous companion to Verdi’s operatic adaptation La Traviata.
Sunday, September 23, 2007, “William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet” Baz Luhrmann, 1996.
The story of “star cross’d lovers” has jumped creative mediums and international borders. It has been set in a New York housing development, “West Side Story”, the Scottish moors, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, and in the mythical Verona Beach, in Luhrmann’s vision of boy meets girl. This dynamic tale of feuding dynasties races with a whirlwind pace, contemporary soundtrack and Leonardo DiCaprio as Romeo, bringing visual flamboyance to the Bard’s poetry.
Arizona Opera gratefully acknowledges support for the 2007-2008 season from: Arizona Commission on the Arts, The Arizona Republic, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Foundations, The Herberger Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Phoenix Office Arts and Culture, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, Tucson Pima Arts Council, SCF, US Airways and Wyndham Phoenix. -- www.azopera.com
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