ALEXANDER NEVSKY, film with orchestra

Alexander Nevsky, Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 film masterpiece with music by Sergei Prokofiev, can be seen and heard in all its magnificence in concert performances for full symphony orchestra, chorus, mezzo-soprano and film.

Alexander Nevsky is a unique phenomenon in film and music history. Created by John Goberman, the Emmy-Award winning producer of "Live from Lincoln Center", the authentically restored version of Prokofiev's brilliant orchestral and vocal score, combined with new prints of the film from the original nitrate negative in the Moscow film archives, rejuvenated dialogue and sound effects, a system for synchronizing the orchestra and screen and newly translated subtitles reveal Alexander Nevsky to be one of filmmaking's towering achievements and an extraordinary concert experience.

Premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under André Previn with subsequent performances by the Cleveland Orchestra (Ashkenazy) and the Philadelphia Orchestra (Temirkanov), this concert version of Alexander Nevsky makes it possible for the first time, according to Goberman, "for film audiences to hear the film and music audiences to see the music". Alexander Nevsky will be featured at the 2010 Festival of the Arts BOCA with full symphony performance by the Russian National Orchestra, Seraphic Fire Chorus and Kelley O’Connor mezzo-soprano.