The Nutcracker has always been a staple of the holiday season due to its thrilling choreography and magical moments - but we understand it’s not always easy to make it to the ballet, especially with the whole family. Now there is hope: This Christmas, Emerging Pictures is continuing our tradition of offering the very best [...]
VERDI’s DON CARLO opens La SCALA’s New Season 12/07/08
LIVE IN HIGH DEFINITION TO CINEMAS WORLDWIDE
Don Carlo, widely considered to be Giuseppe Verdi’s greatest work, has been selected to open the 2008/09 Teatro alla Scala Opera Season. Now a global audience can see it via a digital cinema release being organized by New York based [...]
Daniela Dessi may be the star of Norma, but in the important role of Adalgisa, another star shone brightly. Kate Aldrich, the American mezzo, gave such a breathtaking performance she deserves her own article. Not only is Aldrich vocally stunning, but as the young temple virgin Adalgisa, it’s easy to see why a man would [...]
Daniela Dessi, an international super star when it comes to Opera singers, made her debut in the incredibly difficult role of Norma, last spring in Italy at Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Now Dessi’s breathtaking Norma is accessible to US audiences thanks to Emerging Pictures, screening Norma in HD in theaters around the US. Norma debuted [...]
The less said about the Cubs post-season performance, the better. Just know that there is definitely something more going on here than your average 100 year curse. Next year will mark the 101st anniversary of their last championship, and the 60th anniversary of their last World Series appearance. Could that be the omen we’ve been [...]
Starting this November, Emerging Cinemas is proud to present two extraordinary pop music events in association with D&E Entertainment, the nation’s pre-eminent pop music specialists for digital cinemas.
Charter members of the “British Invasion” in the 1960s, The Who — Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon — had been on hiatus for more [...]
The new dark comedy, Just Buried, makes its U.S. premiere this weekend in New York City. In “Rocky Horror” tradition, Just Buried will open with two midnight screenings Friday, October 3rd and Saturday, October 4th, at Village East Cinemas in, you guessed it, the East Village (189 2nd Ave).
Just Buried is a film [...]
Emerging Pictures is bringing the critically acclaimed production of Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel from the Glyndebourne Festival to the movie screens of The Peter Jay Sharp Theatre in New York. Directed by Laurent Pelly, the production is superbly executed both musically and directorially, as Pelly brings a more modern version of the traditional German [...]
Here we go again.
The Cubs are in the playoffs for the second year in a row…a feat that they haven’t achieved since 1907-1908. Is that a sign that THIS COULD BE THE YEAR? I made up my mind many years ago that if it ever happened, I would be there to witness it. And [...]
How kooky is this business of making independent films? I left a perfectly fine job in advertising for this. Sure, it was a soul-sucking affair, but it paid well, and it had all sorts of built-in self-congratulatory back-slapping award shows to make you feel like you were heaping gold into the cultural coffers.
Actually, I was [...]