| Hershey Felder Presents – Live from Florence announces 2021-2022 season | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 07:52 am EDT 10/01/21 | |
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| Hershey Felder Presents - Live from Florence announces 2021-2022 season World Premiere musical films include Dante & Beatrice in Florence Mozart and Figaro in Vienna The Verdi Fiasco The Assembly Chopin in Paris The Crazy Widow of Moses de Leon A Musical Surprise for Holiday Time (Florence, Italy - October 1, 2021) - Hershey Felder Presents - Live From Florence is pleased to announce a 2021-2022 season of new musical and dramatic films, to be produced in Europe and broadcast for American audiences. Writer, pianist, and actor Hershey Felder together with the arts broadcasting company he founded, Live from Florence, will expand beyond its home base in Florence, Italy, with a season of new musical and dramatic stories set and filmed in Paris, Vienna, Venice, Warsaw, Avila Spain, as well as Florence. The new season follows the international success of Live From Florence, Season 1 produced during the global pandemic, which featured Irving Berlin; George Gershwin Alone; Beethoven; Debussy: A Paris Love Story; Tchaikovsky in Florence; Puccini; Nicholas, Anna & Sergei and Before Fiddler. The 2021-2022 season will include Dante in Florence, premiering November 28, 2021, about Italy's greatest poet Dante Alighieri and his muse, Beatrice; Mozart and Figaro in Vienna, premiering January 9, 2022, about the outrageous collaboration between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte that created the perfect comic opera, The Marriage of Figaro; The Verdi Fiasco, premiering March 27, 2022, about the disastrous opening night of Verdi's immortal La Traviata; The Assembly, premiering May 29, 2022,featuring the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts and telling the real-life story of Holocaust survivor Eva Libitzky's visit to diverse urban schools and the shocking events that occurred; Chopin in Paris, premiering August 7, 2022, adapted from Felder's critically acclaimed stage play Monsieur Chopin about the music and life of Polish Pianist-composer Fryderyk Chopin; The Crazy Widow (of Moses de Leon), premiering October 16, 2022, set in Avila, Spain, and focusing on 13th century Jewish mysticism that is the basis for Kabbalah; and A Musical Surprise for Holiday Time, premiering December 18, 2022, the subject of which will be decided by viewers who have purchased season tickets. Since the start of the worldwide pandemic in March 2020, Felder has been residing in Florence, Italy. With a need to support artists and arts organizations in impossible times, Felder advanced plans for filming productions (which were planned to begin in 2028) and created the Live From Florence film studio in Tuscany. Proceeds from the first season of productions benefitted the theatres and arts organizations that have been Felder's artistic homes in the U.S., as well as additional U.S. and international institutions. Hershey Felder Presents - Live from Florence, has featured both world premiere productions created expressly for streaming as well as filmic adaptations of Felder's popular theatrical shows centered around the work of famous composers. Felder's unique productions include pre-filmed and live performance elements. Felder's 2020-2021 season featured eight streaming productions that employed over 300 artists. The productions sold over 56,000 tickets and distributed over $1.5 million to US and international arts institutions in need. After its live streaming debut, each production will be subsequently available on demand for one week after the premiere to single ticket holders. Season purchasers will have continuous access to the complete library of Hershey Felder Presents - Live From Florence including its first season, as well as additional content. Tickets will be available for individual productions, or via a season pass, at www.HersheyFelder.net - Tickets for all shows go on sale on October 4, 2021 at 12 pm PDT, 3 pm EDT. An actor, pianist, writer, director, composer, conductor, and producer, Hershey Felder has created lauded shows about composers Claude Debussy, George Gershwin, Fryderyk Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Leonard Bernstein, Irving Berlin and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Felder's solo shows have been seen across America at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, San Diego Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Cleveland Playhouse, and Seattle Repertory Theatre, with long runs at Chicago's Royal George Theatre and engagements at New York's Town Hall, 59E59 and the Streicker Center and more as well as Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre and in London's West End. He has also created and/or produced plays for other artists including the award-winning The Pianist of Willesden Lane for Mona Golabek, Flying Solo for Nathan Gunn and Louis and Keeley Live at the Sahara for Vanessa Stewart and Taylor Hackford, among others. HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS - LIVE FROM FLORENCE 2021-2022 SEASON Ok (0). DANTE in FLORENCE The heroine of Dante's The Divine Comedy is Beatrice whom he met but only twice in Florence, once when he was nine, and again when he was eighteen. But Dante was so smitten with Beatrice that she remained his ideal love for the rest of his life. Our story begins in the little church that still stands in Florence where they first met more than 700 years ago. Known as the "Chiesa Di Dante," it is where Beatrice is said to be buried. Next to Beatrice's tomb is a basket, where for hundreds of years notes of hope, dreams, heartbreak, and love have been left by visitors with open hearts asking for Beatrice's blessing. One of those notes, is a mysterious old musical manuscript, and it is there that our adventure begins. Airing: Sunday, November 28, 2021 Ok (0). MOZART and FIGARO in VIENNA The world first heard and saw The Marriage of Figaro in Vienna in 1786. The opera considered by many the first and perhaps only perfect opera borne of a staggering collaboration between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte - a Jew, a Priest and a Brothel owner all rolled into one. Da Ponte had been banished from Venice due to his low-rent behavior, and he ended up in Vienna, where he was introduced to Mozart by Mozart's landlord, a mutual acquaintance of both. Finding each other full of jokes and high jinks, with Mozart at the helm, the two of them decide to take a banned play by the French writer Beaumarchais and turn it into the greatest and most beloved opera ever composed. Airing: Sunday January 9, 2022 Ok (0). THE VERDI FIASCO 1853. Venice, Teatro La Fenice, La Traviata's opening night. Would a story about a courtesan dying of consumption sung by a soprano too "ample" to be consumed by anything, and a cast of characters that seemed to have wandered into the theatre off the street, survive the most vicious public shaming that an opera had ever seen? Even Verdi himself wasn't sure. Airing: Sunday, March 27, 2022 Ok (0). THE ASSEMBLY The true story of Holocaust survivor Eva Libitzky who spent her post-war life in America visiting primary and secondary schools throughout the United States to tell her story. At one school, a diverse group of students who study music but are unaware of the events of WWII gather at an assembly to "honor" their guest with music. As Eva's story reveals itself, there is a shocking turn of events, where everyone present finds themselves reliving a very terrifying past. (In collaboration with the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts.) Airing: Sunday, May 29, 2022 Ok (0). CHOPIN in PARIS Based on the well-known play Monsieur Chopin, and filmed in Paris and Warsaw, Hershey Felder recreates Paris, 1848, at the time of the revolution where the great Polish Composer-Pianist, Fryderyk Chopin, gives a piano lesson that reveals his secrets about music, and even more so, secrets about himself. Airing: Sunday, August 7, 2022 Ok (0). THE CRAZY WIDOW (of Moses de Leon) In the 13th century, the medieval walled city of Avila, Spain, was home to hundreds of Jewish Mystics, among them Moses de Leon, author of The Zohar - the work of literature upon which the Kabbalah - Jewish Mysticism - is based. Red strings tied around wrists and other such fanciful actions are only but a tiny part of a little-known story that is sure to surprise, delight and elicit a great deal of wonder of a wild mystical world. Airing: Sunday, October 16, 2022 Ok (0). A MUSICAL SURPRISE FOR HOLIDAY TIME Over some 30 years, patrons have asked for productions telling the stories and featuring the music of composers and musical stars throughout the ages. For our season closer, the artist chosen to be featured will be based on patron choice. When you purchase a season ticket, you will be able to send us your request, which we will officially register, one request per ticket. The composer/artist with the most requests will be the subject of our second season closer, the only requirement being that the composer or musical artist, must no longer be "with us." Winner(s) of this audience event will be granted a walk-on role, in the filmed production, all-expense paid travel and lodging to location of production for five days. Airing: Sunday, December 18, 2022 |
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