From: Gulb Marketing
Sent: 21 May 2013 13:13
Subject: Glyndebourne at the Gulbenkian
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Glyndebourne Cinema
Screenings
Gulbenkian, University of Kent
Opera on Screen!
Catch Glyndebourne Festival 2013 screenings in partnership with
Picturehouse Entertainment at the Gulbenkian this summer.
In the fourth year of their partnership, Glyndebourne and
Picturehouse Entertainment are offering cinema-goers the chance to see the
entire Glyndebourne Festival 2013 at their local cinema. For the first time all
six operas in the season will be broadcast in over 100 cinemas in the UK and
around the world in a combination of live and recorded live transmissions. Cinema broadcasts from Glyndebourne take
place on the following dates:
Tuesday 4 June ? Ariadne auf
Naxos (LIVE), Sunday 23 June ? Falstaff (Recorded live) , Sunday 16
June ? Le nozze di Figaro (Recorded
live) , Thursday 25 July ? Hippolyte et
Aricie (LIVE) , Tuesday 6 August ? Don
Pasquale (LIVE) and Sunday 25 August ? Billy
Budd (Recorded live).
This comprehensive digital
programme will ensure audiences have more opportunities to experience
Glyndebourne?s work than ever before, either on stage, on screen or online. In
2007 Glyndebourne became the first UK opera house to screen its work in cinemas
and last year was the first year the Gulbenkian screened the Glyndebourne Opera
Season.
David Pickard, General
Director, Glyndebourne said: ?Glyndebourne has always taken great pride in the
quality of the productions we create and we are delighted that in 2013 we will
be sharing our work with as broad a range of audiences as possible through a
multi-channel platform of stage, screen and online delivery."
Marc Allenby, Head of
Commercial Development, Picturehouse Entertainment said: ?Picturehouse is
delighted to be working in partnership with Glyndebourne for a fourth year.
Screening live and recorded live opera directly from Glyndebourne has proved an
exciting concept to our audiences and has pushed the envelope of live
?transmission? events even further. The audience for cultural content in cinemas
has become firmly established in the UK and Glyndebourne?s pioneering
screenings have now become favourites with Picturehouse audiences.?
The Glyndebourne cinema
season begins on Tuesday 4 June.
Ticketing & Information 01227 769075
Free on line booking www.thegulbenkian.co.uk
Ends.
Notes to editors:
About
Glyndebourne
The
Glyndebourne Festival was founded in 1934 by John Christie and his opera singer
wife, Audrey Mildmay. Glyndebourne has remained financially independent since
then and whilst receiving valued Arts Council support for the Tour and some
educational work, the Festival receives no public subsidy. As a registered
charity, it is funded by box office income, its members and supporters.
Today the Festival runs
from May to August with a programme of six operas in a 1,200-seat opera house.
Glyndebourne Festival 2013 runs between 18 May and 25 August. Tickets are
available now via the booking is available online at Glyndebourne.com and on
01273 815000.
Glyndebourne Festival
together with Glyndebourne on Tour presents 120 performances annually to an
audience of 150,000. Glyndebourne began its Tour in 1968 to bring opera to new
audiences and create opportunities for young singers in the Glyndebourne
Chorus. As part of Glyndebourne?s mission to reach new audiences, it delivers a
widely respected education programme and offers reduced-price tickets to
under-30s. Glyndebourne has also pioneered specialist recordings to open up its
work to a global audience through live broadcasts, cinema screenings, DVDs and
internet streaming. The Glyndebourne Label was launched in early 2008 and is an
extension of Glyndebourne?s work to take opera beyond the opera house. Releases on The Glyndebourne Label draw on
the extensive recordings in the company?s archive which span the years from
1960 to the present day.
About Picturehouse Cinemas
/ Picturehouse Entertainment
Picturehouse Entertainment is the distribution arm of Picturehouse Cinemas, the
owner and operator of 21 Picturehouse Cinemas and programming agent for a
further 49 venues around the country.
Formed in 1989 to challenge
the multiplex model, Picturehouse Cinemas are Britain?s largest circuit of
independent cinemas, located in city centres and offering diverse programmes
that encompass quality mainstream, family, art-house, independent,
foreign-language and documentary films.
Picturehouse Cinemas have been at the forefront of digital cinema and pioneered
live satellite broadcasts, bringing non-film content such as director Q&As,
concerts, the New York Met Opera and the Royal Ballet to community cinema
screens.
Sister company Picturehouse Entertainment launched in 2010. Its theatrical
releases to date include: Jean Becker's My Afternoons with Margueritte; the
record-breaking Werner Herzog 3D documentary, Cave of Forgotten Dreams; Miranda
July?s The Future; Jean-Pierre Am?ris? Romantics Anonymous; Rebecca Thomas?s
Electrick Children; and BAFTA winner The Imposter. Forthcoming releases in 2013
include Shane Meadows? The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (5 June) and Ben
Wheatley?s A Field in England (5 July). Picturehouse Entertainment also
distributes a wide variety of non-film content to cinemas around the country.
These include live satellite transmissions of seasons from world-class arts
organisations such as the Bolshoi Ballet and the National Theatre, and special
one-off events such as Stephen Fry?s talk, The Fry Chronicles, and Jamie Cullum
live at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
For further information
please contact Kate Harvey, Campaigns Officer, on 01273 812 321 or email: kate.harvey_at_glyndebourne_dot_com.
For high resolution images please email Jess Thomas, Marketing
Officer, Gulbenkian on j.l.thomas_at_kent_dot_ac_dot_uk
| 01227 827956.