When ARTE Germany CEO Wolfgang Bergmann approached Toronto director Larry Weinstein in January 2023 about making a documentary to mark the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the ...
Kerry Candaele’s second Beethoven film (after Following the Ninth) explores the composer’s only opera, Fidelio, through the lens of a contemporary political context: the long shadow of Pinochet’s ...
Two hundred years ago last month, in Vienna’s Kärntnerthor Theater, the curtain went up on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. And across the intervening centuries, that curtain has never really fallen. In ...