U-CARMEN — Both brilliantly acted and sung by the internationally acclaimed South African theater company, Dimpho Di Kopane (DDK), U-Carmen is a stunning adaptation of perhaps the world?s best-loved opera, Carmen . Re-imag... more »ined in the modern world of South African pool halls, bars, courtyards and barracks U-Carmen tells the story of a cigarette factory-worker, Carmen, (Malefane) and her doomed love affair with a police sergeant. MESSIAH
Photographer-filmmaker William Klein takes on Handel?s Messiah and has created a compelling and musically-rich film that mixes the sacred with the profane. Performed in its entirety, the oratorio provides a narrative of Christ?s nativity, passion and resurrection juxtaposed against images of man?s atrocity against man.« less