The Full Monteverdi

January’s BBC Music Magazine features a great 3-page feature on the filming of The Full Monteverdi. Reading it took us straight back to the cold early mornings of January 2007, and filming in those glamorous toilets!

The December/January edition of Muso magazine features a half-page write up on the newly released DVD. “…a fascinating and well-produced lesson in cross-genre art.”

In his piece in The Observer (11/11/07) on using sex to sell opera (”I can’t see any harm in it…“), Peter Conrad added a column which recommends The Full Monteverdi on DVD.

The DVD of The Full Monteverdi, released this week by Naxos, has debuted at number 8 in the HMV.com Classical Music DVD chart. Could it be a Christmas number 1?!

TFM producer Greg Browning has just spent the last few days down in Cannes at the MIPCOM conference and broadcast market. Greg spent hours trailing the “bunker” and spreading the good word about The Full Monteverdi and new projects to the international broadcast makret.

Thanks to PACT, UKTI and SW Screen for their support.

Below is an extract of a review from the preview screening at the Southbank Centre’s Early Music Weekend:

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“This astonishing film, here screened in public for the first time, is based on John La Bouchardière’s collaboration with I Fagiolini, and charts the emotional progress of six failing couples through the deeply moving music of Monteverdi’s Fourth Book of Madrigals. This remarkable, intricately constructed film is aesthetically beautiful in every aspect: masterfully shot, sensitively arranged images, utterly glorious singing, impressive operatic acting, and a terrifyingly involving narrative flow. This encounter between yesterday’s music and today’s medium can’t help but deliver Monteverdi’s masterpieces to a new and deeply appreciative audience in a thoroughly spectacular fashion.”

Edward Lewis - Classical Source

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Click here for the full review

The Full Monteverdi project and I Fagiolini are the cover feature of the October/November issue of Early Music Today. Available now from all good stockists!

From the article:

“Bouchardière’s verité-style direction, reminiscent of Kieslowski in its bold opening silence and unrelenting in emotional delivery, has the makings of an award winner”

Andrew Stewart Early Music Review

The Early Music Festival at London’s Southbank Centre will host a special preview screening of The Full Monteverdi in the Purcell Room.

14 September 2007 - 9.15pm

To book tickets and for more information click here

The Arts Channel New Zealand is the latest international broadcaster to acquire The Full Monteverdi. The channel has taken the feature version and will also screen the series of shorts.

The live show in New York gets ‘critic’s pick’ in Time Out NY - including a great little plug for the film.

…or is that a plane?

The live show is back. After sell-out performances in London this week, it will play at New York’s prestigious Lincoln Center from 22 to 29 July. See www.lincolncenter.org for more details. The run is sold out.

The film is featured in The Times today (Sat 7/7/07)

Follow this link to read it on-line - TIMES FEATURE

Click here to view the trailer : TFM - TRAILER

Or visit our YouTube Channel : TFM - YOUTUBE

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Norwegian broadcaster NRK has acquired the rights for The Full Monteverdi just weeks after completion of the project. They will show the short series of 25′ programmes possibly starting as soon as the summer. The deal was agreed by our distributor Hazel Wright Media Ltd.

With Sweden big fans of the film already (SVT is a key co-producer) and Finland also having secured a pre-sale of the film, we now have a full compliment of Scandinavian broadcasters on board. Watch out Denmark…

Click below to download the announcement of completion of the The Full Monteverdi.

Download Press Release here