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MUSICAL TALES of the VENETIAN JEWISH GHETTO
Written and Directed by Hershey Felder
For more then 500 years the jews of Venice have been kept safe on an island all their own. This is that story.
VIEWING ON DEMAND
$19 PER HOUSEHOLD
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 particular 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.)
VIEWING AVAILABLE THROUGH JUNE 30, 2023.
$19 PER HOUSEHOLD.
VIOLETTA
Based on Giuseppe Verdi’s LA TRAVIATA
The Story Behind the Story
A New Musical Film
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Opera Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
Screenplay by Hershey Felder
Directed by Hershey Felder and Stefano Decarli
In 1853, in Venice Italy, Giuseppe Verdi on his way to becoming Italy’s most beloved and famous composer, premiered his opera, LA TRAVIATA (The Fallen Woman). It is the emotional story of a young courtesan who finally finds love with one man but is riddled with an illness that will soon take her life. With soaring glorious music, it is now said, that every night somewhere in the world, LA TRAVIATA is being performed. But at its premiere, it was laughed at, booed and heckled. This is the story of what happened.
VIEWING ON DEMAND
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MOZART and FIGARO in VIENNA
The world first heard and saw “The Marriage of Figaro” in Vienna in 1786. This opera, considered by many the first and perhaps only perfect opera, was 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.
VIEWING ON DEMAND
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DANTE and BEATRICE
in FLORENCE
a musical film
FLORENCE, ITALY, IS A CITY OF SPIRITS AND GHOSTS, AND A MAGICAL CITY OF LOVE.
Florence is also the city where the piano was invented. When a modern pianist in the city encounters the ghost of the 700 year old poet of love, Dante - mystical things happen.
A love story with a new original musical score by Hershey Felder.
VIEWING ON DEMAND
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Seventh Art Productions
HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS brings you
Seventh Art Productions
My Childhood,
My Country
Award-winning filmmakers Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi present the BAFTA-winning real-life epic of boyhood and manhood, filmed across twenty years in one of the most embattled corners of the globe. My Childhood, My Country - 20 Years in Afghanistan follows the journey of Afghan youth Mir Hussain growing up in a land ravaged by war.
When we first meet Mir, he is a boy of eight playing among the ruins of the Buddhas of Bamiyan in war-torn rural Afghanistan, treating the destruction around him as a wonderful playground. It is 2002 and, in the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Centre, US troops have landed in Afghanistan, thus beginning a seemingly endless war in one of the world’s poorest countries. This intimate feature documentary follows Mir’s journey over the next two decades, telling a remarkably personal story of the poverty, destruction, aspiration and progress that still colours Afghan life today.
Ending up a grown man with a family of his own and an emerging career as a news cameraman in Kabul, Mir’s personal journey of pride, resilience and hope is interwoven with the narrative of his nation.
Two decades on from 9/11 and the subsequent ‘War on Terror’, My Childhood, My Country - 20 Years in Afghanistanoffers a uniquely personal insight into one of the most devastating conflicts of the 21st Century. After 3 trillion dollars spent by 40 countries and 160,000 lives lost, the film asks was it worth it, for Mir, his country and the world?
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Mail On Sunday Financial Times Film Review Daily
“Moving and compelling…” Mail On Sunday “Documentary of the week” Radio Times
“Touchingly universal…” Sunday Times “Could not be more timely…” The Times
“Epic in scope, but extraordinarily intimate with its storytelling” Irish Film Critic
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HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS brings you
Seventh Art Productions
Vermeer, the Greatest Exhibition
In the spring of 2023, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam opened its doors to the largest Vermeer exhibition in history. The show sold out within days of going on sale. This award-winning film from Exhibition on Screen offers you the chance to experience the exhibition of the century in the comfort of your own home.
With loans from across the world, this major retrospective brings together Vermeer’s most famous masterpieces including Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Geographer, The Milkmaid, The Little Street, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, and Woman Holding a Balance. In all, 28 of his surviving 37 works.
This blockbuster documentary caught the world’s attention and is now the highest grossing artist documentary in UK history. Vermeer: the Greatest Exhibition invites audiences to a privileged view of the exhibition, accompanied by the director of the Rijksmuseum and the curators of the show. A truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to discover the genius of Vermeer and his fascinating and mysterious life.
“Breathtaking”
The Times
“This is more than an exhibition. It’s a miracle.”
The Guardian
“There will never be another Vermeer show as great as this one”
Washington Post
Running time: 90 minutes
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HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON
A SEASON OF STORYTELLING & MUSIC
HERSHEY FELDER as Claude Debussy
A PARIS LOVE STORY
Video on Demand
A recording of the Nov. 22, 2020 Live Stream Performance of A PARIS LOVE STORY.
A very personal journey through the beloved city of Paris through the music of Claude Debussy (“Clair de Lune,” Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune …) and how this music shaped a whole new world of color in sound. This new world of “musical impressionism” gave us the beginnings of what we have come to know as “Movie Music.”
HERSHEY FELDER
TCHAIKOVSKY
Video on Demand
A recording of the Dec. 20, 2020 Live Stream Performance of TCHAIKOVSKY.
Based on the original OUR GREAT TCHAIKOVSKY, and featuring an extended focus on The Nutcracker Ballet (in honor of Christmas) as well as Tchaikovsky’s life in Florence Italy where he spent a good deal of time - Live from Florence will be filmed live on location where Tchaikovsky actually lived and worked in Florence. An interesting, surprising and engaging holiday treat.
HERSHEY FELDER as Sholem Aleichem in
BEFORE FIDDLER
Video on Demand
Featuring Klezmerata Fiorentina
A recording of the February 7, 2021 Live Stream Performance of BEFORE FIDDLER.
Before the beloved musical Fiddler on the Roof there was Sholem Aleichem and his beloved character of ‘Tevye the Milkman.’ Before the beloved songs, “Tradition,” “If I were a Rich Man,” “Matchmaker” and more, there was music of the old world… a music that imitated talking, laughing, weeping, and singing, where musicians didn’t just make music, they spoke to you in song - Klezmer. In Florence, Italy, one of the oldest artistic centers in the world, a group of such musicians have been by day, virtuosos in Florence's world famous Maggio Musicale symphony orchestra, by night, they are the Klezmerata Fiorentina…with their ancient European roots, and Hershey Felder as their storyteller, playing an array of characters and music from the “old world,” from a Tevyeh, to a Yenteh, to a Rabbi, to a newlywed daughter, to many many more…
HERSHEY FELDER
PUCCINI
Video on Demand
A recording of the March 14, 2021 Live Stream Performance of PUCCINI.
Hershey Felder, PUCCINI is the story of a young musician in love with the world of opera, and in particular Giacomo Puccini’s La bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly. When, through a series of unusual circumstances, the young musician meets the musical master himself, secrets are revealed that for the young man soaring.
With special guests, Baritone Nathan Gunn, Soprano Gianna Corbisiero and Tenor Charles Castronovo, this new Hershey Felder creation, will spur the imagination and move the musical soul.
Filmed and performed on location in Lucca Italy, in the very home where Giacomo Puccini was born, this new work featuring Hershey Felder and three world-renowned Opera stars promises to be a very special event.
HERSHEY FELDER as Sergei Rachmaninoff in
NICHOLAS, ANNA & SERGEI
Video on Demand
A recording of the May 16, 2021 Live Stream Performance of NICHOLAS, ANNA & SERGEI.
Taking place as a memory play in the house in which the Russian Rachmaninoff died in Beverly Hills, this is the story of a very strange meeting Between Rachmaninoff and Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be the sole surviving member of the Romanov Dynasty, the Princess Anastasia. Featuring Rachmaninoff’s most beloved melodies and music.
HERSHEY FELDER
GREAT AMERICAN SONGS… and the fascinating stories behind them.
Video on Demand
A recording of the August 22, 2021 Livestream performance of GREAT AMERICAN SONGS
Based on the popular 'Audience Singalongs' that took place on Sunday and Monday nights during runs in theatres throughout the country, Hershey Felder and his team have created an event, where you can be directly involved and take part with a world-wide audience from home.
HERSHEY FELDER as
GEORGE GERSHWIN ALONE
Video on Demand
A recording of the September 13, 2020 Live Stream Performance of GEORGE GERSHWIN ALONE.
George Gershwin Alone tells the story of America’s great composer, who with the groundbreaking Rhapsody in Blue,made a “Lady out of Jazz.” The show incorporates the composer's best-known songs from “The Man I Love” and “Someone to Watch Over Me,” through the hits of An American In Paris and Porgy and Bess, to a complete performance of Rhapsody In Blue. As the only actor-musician to create the role of George Gershwin on the stage, and with over three-thousand performances, from California to Broadway to London’s West End, for the first time, Hershey Felder will bring George Gershwin to life on the stage of one of Europe’s oldest and most famous theatres. We will bring the show to you LIVE from Florence, Italy, on Sunday, September 13th, 2020.
George Gershwin was born in 1898 to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents in Brooklyn. Together, he and his brother Ira wrote standards such as “The Man I Love,” “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “Embraceable You,” “Fascinating Rhythm,” “I Got Rhythm,” “’S Wonderful” and “They Can’t Take That Away from Me.” His groundbreaking opera, Porgy and Bess, is now considered an American classic. All told, George Gershwin wrote more than 1,000 songs for the stage and screen as well as works for the opera house and the symphony orchestra. In 1937, Gershwin
died of an undiagnosed brain tumor at the age of 38, never knowing how famous and beloved he and his work would become.
HERSHEY FELDER
BEETHOVEN
Video on Demand
A recording of the July 12, 2020 Livestream performance of BEETHOVEN.
Based on Dr. Gerhard von Breuning’s factual “Aus dem Schwarzspanierhaus,” Hershey Felder brings Ludwig van Beethoven to life through the eyes of the Viennese Doctor Breuning who spent his boyhood by the Maestro’s side.
Described by American Theatre Magazine as “a seductive portraitist, compelling storyteller, and superb concert pianist,” Hershey Felder portrays both Beethoven and Dr. Gerhard von Breuning, the young boy who cared for him in the last years of his life. Felder’s profound musical understanding brings this legend to life, offering an enthralling performance that can satisfy musical experts, as well as captivate audience members with little background in classical music. Featuring some of the composer’s greatest works, from the Moonlight Sonata and Pathétique Sonata to selections from the 5th and 9th Symphonies, Hershey Felder’s Beethoven is an intense, illuminating, unforgettable journey through time that immerses audiences in the astounding life of Ludwig van Beethoven.
HERSHEY FELDER
IRVING BERLIN
Video on Demand
A recording of the May 10, 2020 Live Stream Performance of Irving Berlin.
The Immigrant Songwriter Who Gave America a Voice.
Experience some of America's greatest songs in the context in which they were written! From "God Bless America," to "There's No Business Like Show Business," "Puttin' on the Ritz," "White Christmas," "Always," and so many more... in a musical event that has been performed in theatres throughout the nation and abroad.
HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS
BACKSTORY
Video on Demand
Hershey Felder Presents: Backstory - In the last century, three children of Russian and Ukrainian immigrants were a massive part of shaping the American Musical Landscape. Irving Berlin (1888-1989), George Gershwin (1898- 1937), and Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) gave us “God Bless America,” “A Rhapsody in Blue,” and “West Side Story," respectively, but the “story behind the story” is even more fascinating than we ever knew.
HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS
COOKING RUSSIAN IN FLORENCE
Video on Demand
Cooked in tandem by Hershey Felder and Cordon Bleu Chef, Jeff Thickman.
In honor of Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff and Hershey Felder’s, NICHOLAS, ANNA & SERGEI
HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS
COOKING FRENCH IN FLORENCE
Video on Demand
Learn to prepare Parisian Delicacies loved by Claude Debussy, featuring internationally renowned Chef Jeff Thickman and Hershey Felder - one, a chef and pianist, and the other a pianist who cooks – in this wild kitchen comedy, where the delicacies are actually prepared while teaching you to do so!
Learn to make these magnificent delicacies from exclusive chocolate truffles, to assorted desserts (Debussy was a dessert-fiend!) so that you are able to prepare for an at-home “Soiree in Paris!” Jeff Thickman, now a resident of Florence, Italy, was trained in Paris with Cordon Bleu Chefs and has been private chef for Sting, Madonna, Tony Bennett, Hubert de Givenchy, Roberto Cavalli, Gregory Peck, Daniel Day Lewis, Walter Matthau, Sophia Loren, Maestro Zubin Mehta, while also having cooked for Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman and more.
You will laugh, you will learn, but above all, you will enjoy a bit of Paris as an entrée to the show.
OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES. AT HOME. ANYTIME.
HERSHEY FELDER PRESENTS VIDEOS ON DEMAND
COOKING FRENCH IN FLORENCE
A MUSICAL SURPRISE
FOR VALENTINE’S DAY
After thousands of votes that included requests to hear the music and
learn the story of composers and musicians such as…
Bach, Handel, Dvorak, John Lennon, Copeland, Liszt, Strauss, Rossini, Vivaldi, Schubert,
Paganini, Offenbach, Grieg, Richard Rogers, Elvis Presley (!)…
…and those are the top 15 that had multiple votes; the artist with the most votes by
subscribers to have a show created about his person or an aspect of his work is…
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
New Airing Date: Valentine’s Day
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
5pm Pacific, 6pm Mountain, 7pm Central, 8pm Eastern$19 PER HOUSEHOLD