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Choreographed in 1969 by the legendary John Cranko, this technically virtuoso and irresistibly comic Taming of the Shrew remains a landmark production of the Stuttgart Ballet.
In Padua, three gentlemen, Hortensio, Lucentio and Gremio, are assiduously courting the sweet Bianca. But Baptista, the girl's father, refuses to marry her until Catharina, her older sister with a terrible temper, has a ring on her finger. The three suitors manage to convince Petruchio, whom they met in a tavern, to ask for the hand of the reluctant damsel. Petruchio challenges himself to win over - and soften - the beautiful Catharina.

A Ballet by John Cranko after William Shakespeare

Based on one of Shakespeare's most famous comedies, a virtuoso and irresistible ballet choreographed by John Cranko to music inspired by Scarlatti.

The Taming of the Shrew

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Celebrated crossover Violinist David Garrett is back on tour, performing at the Terme di Caracalla in Rome. A spectacular theatrical performance in an ancient setting.

Terme di Caracalla, Rome

Alive: David Garrett & Band

A world in constant restless motion: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, artistic director at the Geneva Grand Théâtre choreographs Ukiyo-e - a meditation on impermanence and our capacity for resilience.

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Grand Théâtre of Geneva

A world in constant restless motion: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's work is a meditation on impermanence and our capacity for resilience.

Ukiyo-e: Images of a Floating World

At the Berlin State Opera, “Twilight of the Gods” marks the end of “The Ring of the Nibelung” – an extremely ambitious undertaking for any opera house. A musical triumph for all the singers and the conductor Christian Thielemann.

The final part of Richard Wagner’s monumental tetralogy in a new staging by Dmitri Tcherniakov.

Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung

The European Parliament’s reputation is at stake after police uncover bribery in a cash for influence scandal. Across Europe, governments try to cope with an acute labour shortage. In this week’s cultural pick, we go behind the scenes of a musical that mixes science fiction with comedy.
 

Corruption / Labour shortage / Musical theatre

A major corruption scandal unfolds at the heart of the EU. Meanwhile Europe struggles with a major labour shortage.

ARTE Europe Weekly

Over the centuries this famous island, floating between sea and sky, has been a sanctuary, an abbey, a fortress and a prison. But how did this architectural wonder come to be built?

The Enigmatic Labyrinth

Over the centuries this famous world heritage site has been a sanctuary, an abbey, a fortress and a prison.

Mont Saint Michel

In Khartoum an anonymous protester dressed as Spiderman has joined hundreds of thousands of demonstrators protesting against the military coup of October 2021, becoming an icon of the protest movement in Sudan.

Sudan: Spiderman - Hero of the Resistance

An anonymous protester dressed as Spiderman has joined demonstrators protesting against the military coup of October 2021 in Khartoum.

ARTE Reportage

Perseverance is the latest rover designed by NASA to explore Mars. A marvel of technology that is hoped will lead to new discoveries and help prepare for a future manned mission to the Red Planet in the 21st century.

Perseverance is the latest rover to explore Mars that could help prepare for a future manned mission to the Red Planet.

Perseverance: A Year on Mars

The Russian enclave of Kaliningrad sits between Lithuania and Poland. Once German East Prussia, it is now home to 1 million Russian citizens. What is life like in this small territory now practically cut off from its EU neighbours since the war in Ukraine began?

The Russian enclave of Kaliningrad sits between Lithuania and Poland and is now practically cut off from its EU neighbours since the war in Ukraine began.

Kaliningrad: Putin's Enclave

When bombs are raining down all around, when freedom of expression is removed, does this make you laugh? Tracks East looks at how humour is used as a weapon in testing times in Belarus, Ukraine and Bulgaria. (And how dictators don’t have a very developed sense of humour.)

Humour as a Weapon

Tracks East looks at how humour is used as a weapon in testing times in Belarus, Ukraine and Bulgaria. (And how dictators don’t have a very developed sense of humour.)

Tracks East

In a special Christmas edition, violinist Daniel Hope and guests perform a varied and atmospheric repertoire including traditional Christmas songs in new arrangements, classical works and the hit song "Fields of Gold".
Daniel Hope's guests are British musician, composer, and living-legend, Sting, Canadian pianist Bruce Liu, winner of the 18th International Chopin Piano Competition, South African soprano Golda Schultz, Argentinian-British guitarist Dominic Miller, Brazilian pianit Sylvia Thereza, the up-and-coming Leonkoro Quartet, cellist Nicola Mosca and percussionist Michael Metzler. 

Daniel Hope, Sting and Guests

Violinist Daniel Hope invites star performers into his Berlin home for Christmas including, Sting, Golda Schultz and Dominic Miller.

Christmas@Home 2022

Total is one of the five big oil multinationals with over 1,000 subsidiaries producing oil and gas in 130 countries. In 2021, they rebranded themselves as TotalEnergies and claim to want to become a serious player in renewable energy. But can oil giant really be a credible player in the green transition?

Anatomy of an Energy Multinational

Can the oil giant really be a credible player in the green transition?

The Total System

A journey into the youth of a grandmother illustrates the status of Slovenian women in the early 20th century, when strict catholic doctrine ruled.

European Short Film Award 2022 Winner

Granny's Sexual Life

Ever since his wife ran off with a sailor, József Pelikán, a dam keeper on the Danube, has been struggling to feed his eight children. One day on the riverbank, he spots Dániel Zoltán fishing. An old friend who József saved from the Nazis by hiding him in his cellar during the war, Dániel is now a minister. Unfortunately for József, this reunion will lead him down a path of unforeseen troubles.

In this unbridled satirical comedy, a dam keeper on the Danube River suffers the absurdities of the communist regime in the 1950s.

The Witness

It's back to school for Oscar, Maxime, Johan, Camille, Kenza and the 23 other students in their third year at the prestigious Conservatoire in Paris. Whether trained in classical or contemporary dance, all of them are working on a performance of Trisha Brown's choreography. Her fluid, free but precise style is a tall order for dancers used to the straight, long lines of ballet. After intense rehearsals, the students also have to contend with stage fright.

At The Paris Conservatory


An academic year at the elite Paris dance school. Demanding training schedules, exam stress and fear of injury are offset by the joy of being on stage

A Dancer's Life

MC Solaar, perhaps France’s most famous rapper, revisits his greatest hits accompanied by the New Big Band Project, the combination of the Orchestre national d’Île de France with jazz group The Ice Kream.
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Lune solaire
Qui sème le vent
La fin justifie les moyens
Sequelles
Obsolete
Quand le soleil devient froid
Gangster moderne
A temps partiels
Victimes de la mode
In god we trust
Inch'allah
La concubine de l'hémoglobine
Nouveau western
Armand est mort
La devise
Bouge de là
Bouge de là (reprise)
Les boys bandent
La musique adoucit les mœurs
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France’s most famous rapper revisits his greatest hits accompanied by the Orchestre national d’Île de France with jazz group The Ice Kream.

MC Solaar

Wexford Festival Opera presents the first modern staging of French composer Fromental Halévy's adaptation of Shakespeare's late masterpiece The Tempest. Conducted by Francesco Cilluffo and directed by Roberto Catalano.
 Wexford Festival opera would like to thank the tenor Giulio Pelligra for singing the role of Fernando despite being unwell.

Wexford Festival Opera 2022

A forgotten opera by Fromental Halévy, based on Shakespeare's The Tempest, from the Irish opera festival.

La Tempesta

A journey into the heart of the Andes to discover its landscapes and unique wildlife: salt deserts, high grasslands and prehistoric forests are populated by impressive animals like bears, pumas and condors.

Extreme Nature

A journey into the heart of the Andes to discover its landscapes and unique wildlife.

The Andes

Energy from fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas made modern life possible in the first place; but that modern way of life is now in danger from the climate crisis and temperature extremes. Can we find an energy source that provides just as much energy as fossil fuels, but is still clean and easily available - a kind of perfect energy?

42: The Answer to Almost Everything

Can we find an energy source that provides just as much energy as fossil fuels, but is still clean and easily available - a kind of perfect energy?

The Perfect Energy Source

The Bangladesh cultural scene is dynamic, creative and on the up. With fashion designer Bibi Russell, art patron Nadia Samdani, the Britto Arts Trust and photographers Shahidul Alam and Munem Wasif.

The cultural scene in Bangladesh is dynamic, creative and on the up. 

Booming Bangladesh

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The Grand Palais during renovation work, a perfect setting for Berlin electronic supergroup Moderat to perform.

Passengers

Moderat at the Grand Palais

Art history remembers Mondrian, Malevitch and Kandinsky as founders of abstract art and forgets about Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957). Born in Bohemia, the Czech artist was nevertheless the first to exhibit a non-figurative work as early as 1912.

The Czech artist Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957) was the first to exhibit an abstract work as early as 1912.

Kupka – Pioneer of Abstract Art

An unexpected interaction on Twitter leads Luisa, a young actress, to meet Antonio, an author and journalist who conceals his identity by using the pseudonym Rasputin. Their online relationship becomes central to their lives and one day, they finally decide to meet. But Antonio has an accident along the way.

A story of love affairs that aren’t what they seem, of consequences, and of fate’s inevitable interferences.

Crooked Lines

A fable for our times about the rise of streaming. What was just fun at first, has now taken over our lives and contributes significantly to carbon emissions.

The Devouring Monster

We’ve created a monster, and now it’s coming for us: The story of streaming is a fable for our times.

Frankenstream

Profoundly in love with life, Fellini went through his existence always seeking its meaning. This documentary investigates in depth his passion for what he defined as "mystery", the esoteric, the unseen world in a relentless pursuit of other possibilities, other dimensions, and of the things that can make spirit and mind fly.

Profoundly in love with life, the Italian director went through his existence always seeking its meaning.

Fellini of the Spirits

What awaits us after death? Death is everywhere in our world. How we deal with it shapes religious belief, culture and social relations. A history of death from ancient times to the modern day.

A History of Death

How we deal with death shapes religious belief, culture and social relations. A history of death from ancient times to the modern day.

This Mortal Coil

The beloved film E.T. is now forty years old. This masterpiece by the young Steven Spielberg was released in 1982 and was a blockbuster hit. It was one of the highest-grossing films of all time. The story of a friendly alien and his lonely human friend was in fact about the director's own profound sense of loss in the wake of his parent's divorce.Thanks to extensive archive material, including contemporary interviews with the man himself, we get a no-holds-barred, behind-the-scenes look at the making of this classic.

An emotional blockbuster

A no-holds-barred, behind-the-scenes look at the making of beloved classic E.T. - 40 years on from its release!

E.T.

“The world has lost its love for democracy. The world has become disappointed with the power elite. The world has begun to turn to dictatorship” So said Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of the Moscow opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta, on receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021. While Belarus and Russia are striking examples of dictatorships,  Tracks East also looks at the situation in Iran.

Dictators: Control over Mind and Body

Dictatorships want to control your mind and body. Tracks looks at the situation in Russia, Belarus and Iran.

Mariupol, in Ukraine, wealthy from its steelwork and coal industries, got caught up in the conflict between separatists and the Ukrainian government. In spite of the threat, life continues, with all its joys, loves and sorrows. Filmed before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Director Mantas Kvedaravicius has sadly died in the Russian siege of the city in April 2022.

A poetic portrait of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, caught up in the conflict. Filmed in 2016.

Mariupol

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Tracks East interviews Ukrainians who refuse to take up arms and Russian men who have been living in fear of being called up since the call for partial mobilisation.

Tracks East - Mobilisation

In this tenth and final part of Tracks East, Central and Eastern Europeans - journalists, artists, a male model and a former sex worker - hold up a mirror to Western Europeans.

The West Seen from the East

Most Ukrainian refugees are women. Just like much of the visible resistance in Russia. With the men at the front, the women find themselves taking on new responsibilities. On more than one level. They fight, save their families, reinvent themselves. What role do they play in this war? And how has this conflict affected them?

Women in War

Most Ukrainian refugees are women. Just like much of the visible resistance in Russia. With the men at the front, the women find themselves taking on new responsibilities.

If the truth is the first victim of war, many voices are trying to defend it in Ukraine, Russia and elsewhere. Alternative culture programme Tracks goes east to meet journalists and artists from Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia who have a different perspective on the war in Ukraine. On the programme: propaganda and counter-propaganda in times of conflict.

Propaganda and Truth

lternative culture programme "Tracks" goes east to meet journalists and artists from Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia who have a different perspective on the war in Ukraine

A Polish cyber elf, a Ukrainian DJ on the front line, a militant Russian grandmother, and Belarusian hackers... On the face of it, they have little in common. And yet they are all resisting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, fighting back on different fronts.

Resistance

A Polish cyber elf, a Ukrainian DJ on the front line, a militant Russian grandmother, and Belarusian hackers...They are all resisting the Russian invasion of Ukraine on different fronts.

Whether they have fled, been banished or deported, some exiles find themselves alone, while others form communities in their host countries. But all feel nostalgia and even homesickness. Tracks East goes in search of the exile experience.

Exile

Tracks East goes in search of the exile experience of those who have fled, been banished or deported.

Can identities be forced, discarded, changed or revived? In the USSR, national identities were a political instrument. Millions of people were resettled, deported, and Russified. Today, the multi-ethnic social fabric of post-soviet nations harbours explosive tensions and the Ukraine war is opening up old wounds. What does identity mean for the next generation?

Identity

The multi-ethnic social fabric of post-soviet nations harbours explosive tensions and the Ukraine war is opening up old wounds. What does identity mean for the next generation?

Tracks East highlights the multiplicity of creative and surprising expressions of solidarity with Ukraine by artists in Ukraine and elsewhere.

Solidarity

At the cusp of adulthood, an entire generation is now facing an unprecedented crisis. Between escape and resistance, Gen East shares its vision of tomorrow with us.

New Generation

Between escape and resistance, Gen East shares its vision of tomorrow with us.

In 1991, the Soviet empire collapsed, giving rise to the Russian Federation and fifteen other independent states. Today, Vladimir Putin does not respect the sovereignty of these independent nations, particularly Ukraine. How is a nation defined? Are borders the only constituent element? A focus on the renewed patriotism in the post-Soviet world.

The New Patriotism

More than 30 years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. What remains today of what was the largest federation of states in the world? As the Ukraine war shows, the ghosts of the USSR still linger. Nowhere is safe for critics of the Kremlin: they could be denounced to the authorities by their own families and neighbours.

Soviet Heritage

Nowhere is safe for critics of the Kremlin: they could be denounced to the authorities by their own families and neighbours.

Russian artists have two choices: silence, or exile. There's been a mass creative exodus in recent weeks, including Russian rap stars like Face and Oxxxymiron. Art rockers IC3PEAK post protest videos that would get them arrested in Russia. TikTok star Nikita Sass bravely continues to post his opinion and stays. Few dare to do that.

Russian Artists Against the War

Russian artists have two choices: silence, or exile

Tracks

As much of Western Europe worries about having enough gas for the winter, Tracks East looks at how people in Poland, the Czech Republic and Ukraine are facing the energy crisis and a cold winter ahead.

Winter of War

Tracks East looks at how people in Poland, the Czech Republic and Ukraine are facing the energy crisis and a cold winter ahead.

Suddenly it's back - the fear of nuclear Armageddon. Tracks East explores this highly explosive topic in this latest episode. Ukrainian writer Mitya Churikov recalls the Chernobyl disaster and ask whether Zaporizhzhya will be the trauma of the next generation. Tracks East also meets bestselling Russian author Dmitry Gukhowsky, whose novel Metro 2033 imagines a post-apocalyptic Moscow after a nuclear war.

Going Nuclear

Suddenly it's back - the fear of nuclear Armageddon. Tracks East explores this highly explosive topic in this latest episode.

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Pianist Sofiane Pamart takes over the majestic Hôtel de la Marine in Paris for a nocturnal concert with magical overtones.

An Evening at the Hôtel de la Marine

Sofiane Pamart

ArteKino Zone Event

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Isa uses a tape recorder to record messages to herself and then reads them out. She is hoping for change to come, which isn’t surprising. She lives in a small community in southwest Spain where nothing ever happens. All the young people have left. For those who stay behind, time seems to stand still.

Isa records messages with a tape recorder in case she disappears or loses her memory.

Mighty Flash

In this dystopian world set in the near future, everyone’s reputation is measured and visible. Your “Karma count” defines you, as Cee soon discovers. Victim of a sexual assault that goes viral on social media, the young graphic designer becomes more ostracised as she fights back.

In a dystopic world set in the near future, everyone’s reputation is measured by their “Karma count”.

Hyperland

A professor and a group of illegal construction workers, left without money and deprived of basic rights, band together to try and fight their employers by any means available. What started as a simple construction job becomes a fight for survival.

A group of construction workers fight their bosses by any means available.

Working Class Heroes

After the death of her father, Leo leaves her life as a student in London and returns to her home town of Gijón, where her mother is about to be evicted. The two survive by selling personal belongings and running up debts based on lies. The family bond they forge around their shared tragedy grows stronger as misfortune approaches.

In a post-crisis Spain, a mother and daughter try to maintain the lifestyle they think they deserve.

El Planeta

Old friends meet in an isolated house tucked away in a remote Sardinian valley. Defeated by their own lives, the men travel through their memories and escape the present moment by taking refuge in the past. As the present offers them no way forward, their only way out is through alcohol and drugs.

A reunion of old friends. An isolated house in a forgotten valley. A collection of memories and love stories from the abyss.

The Giants

Indre, an ambitious young psychologist, reluctantly agrees to transport two patients from one psychiatric ward to another in exchange for research privileges at her clinic. As they travel along the coastline, what looks like a carefree summer road trip becomes the start of a journey to recovery, for Indre as well as the two patients in tow.

A psychologist agrees to take two patients to a psychiatric ward and ends up embarking on a therapeutic journey along the coast.

Summer Survivors

Éva and her family live in a small Hungarian village. Her 16-year-old child has recently come out as transgender and is living under his chosen name, Tobi. After digesting the initial shock, the family has banded together to support him. While Éva silently suffers at the thought of losing the daughter she raised, Tobi is determined to become a man.

A moving coming of age story about liberation and acceptance.

Colors of Tobi

Irina wants to go to school, get her degree and escape her dysfunctional family. Liviu, her cousin, is a businessman who lives in a village. He doesn’t believe much in the importance of an education and finds himself at loggerheads with Irina, who would sacrifice anything to go to school.  

Irina is 22 years old and has one burning desire that will allow her to escape her dysfunctional family: study.

Blue Moon

Residents of the same nursing home, Bruno and Duša enjoy each other’s company. But their moments together are always short-lived, since they both suffer from dementia. Every encounter resembles the first time they met, with their only shared memory being the Sanremo festival in the 1960s.

Against all odds, a budding love affair forms between Bruno and Duša, who live in an elderly home for people with dementia.

Sanremo

"Heavy Metal Dancers" is a documentary about accepting one’s imperfections while striving for perfection on stage. The pole dancers may all be from Finland, but their stories are universal. Their passion for this unusual sport has allowed them to come to terms with their bodies, their lives and sometimes their difficult pasts.

A film about reclaiming one's body and accepting one's own imperfections through pole dancing.

Heavy Metal Dancers

The 'animograph' was the first cartoon machine created in the 1960s by self-taught French cartoonist and inventor Jean Dejoux. Though it revolutionised the animation industry and titillated professionals all the way to the US, this innovative, hand-crafted invention was inexplicably abandoned well before the advent of computer graphics.

How French inventor Jean Dejoux used a simple shoebox to revolutionise the world of animation in the 1960s.

The animograph, or I was born in a shoebox

Discover 12 independent films in our online festival of European cinema.

ArteKino Festival 2022

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Violinist Daniel Hope invites star performers into his Berlin home for Christmas including Sting, Bruce Liu, Golda Schultz and Dominic Miller.

Conducted by Adrien Perruchon and with Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France get us in the festive spirit.
 
 
Programme:

Gioachino Rossini - L'Italiana in Algeri: Overture and  "Cruda sorte” aria
Gioachino Rossini - La pietra del paragone : " Quel dirmi, oh Dio !”
Charles Gounod - Faust: Ballet
Georges Bizet - L'Arlésienne (Adagietto, Intermezzo and Farandole)
Max Reger - Maria Wiegenlied
Pietro Yon - Gesù bambino
Augusta Holmès – Trois anges sont venus ce soir
Traditionnal - Les anges dans nos campagnes
Adolphe Adam - Minuit chrétien

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France

The French radio orchestra gives a festive concert with Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux, conducted by Adrien Perruchon.