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Enter Achilles
In « Enter Achilles », there is no room for individual desires to be confused with peer pressure and the need to conform.
In Enter Achilles, there is no room for individual desires to be confused with peer pressure and the need to conform. Anything that threatens individual integrity is considered socially unacceptable : over-sentimentality, a longing for intimacy, displays of tenderness.
« What constitute masculinity ? Our premise is to show how feelings, thoughts and actions deemed to be « unmanly » are hidden by men only to manifest themselves, albeit subliminally, in other ways.
Men have historically oppressed women, but the question explored here is : how oppressive havemen been to themselves », says Lloyd Newson of his most successful work.
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Arthaus Musik is a label for classical music on DVD and Blu-ray. The company belongs to Studio Halle GmbH and maintains the subsidiary Monarda Arts.
Arthaus Musik GmbH was founded in Munich in March 2000 and has been based in Halle (Saale) since 2007. The label has been publishing records of operas, ballets, classical concerts, jazz, theater productions and selected documentaries on music and the arts for thirteen years. Since then, over 700 titles have been released on DVD and Blu-ray with up to 100 releases per year.
Among the publications are recordings with artists such as Plácido Domingo, Cecilia Bartoli, Luciano Pavarotti, Maria Callas, Jonas Kaufmann, Burkard Schliessmann and conductors, such as Carlos Kleiber, Claudio Abbado, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Lorin Maazel, Pierre Boulez and Zubin Mehta. The recordings come from opera houses such as La Scala, the Vienna State Opera, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Opéra National de Paris and the Zurich Opera House.
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