Don Kent

Flight from Justice (1993)

An ex-fighter pilot encounters turbulence when he finds the company he works for is actually a front for art smuggling.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don Kent
CAST:  Jean Reno  •  Carole Laure  •  Bruce Boxleitner

An ex-fighter pilot encounters turbulence when he finds the company he works for is actually a front for art smuggling.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don Kent
CAST:  Jean Reno  •  Carole Laure  •  Bruce Boxleitner

Einstein on the Beach (2014)

This seminal work of avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson arrives full-circle, coming to France, the site of its 1976 Avignon Festival world premiere, at the tail end of this 2014 revival tour for a landmark Theâtre du Châtelet ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Wilson  •  Don Kent
CAST:  Antoine Silverman  •  Helga Davis  •  Kate Moran  •  Jasper Newell

This seminal work of avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson arrives full-circle, coming to France, the site of its 1976 Avignon Festival world premiere, at the tail end of this 2014 revival tour for a landmark Theâtre du Châtelet ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Robert Wilson  •  Don Kent
CAST:  Antoine Silverman  •  Helga Davis  •  Kate Moran  •  Jasper Newell

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DIRECTION:  Alain Bashung  •  Pierre Lescure  •  Don Kent
CAST:  Alain Bashung

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DIRECTION:  Don Kent
CAST:  Bertrand Cantat  •  Serge Teyssot-Gay  •  Denis Barthe  •  Jean-Paul Roy

Un Ballo in Maschera (2005)

Live performance from Oper Leipzig, 26 November 2005.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ermanno Olmi  •  Don Kent
CAST:  Chiara Taigi  •  Eun Yee You  •  Franco Vassallo  •  Massimiliano Pisapia

Live performance from Oper Leipzig, 26 November 2005.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ermanno Olmi  •  Don Kent
CAST:  Chiara Taigi  •  Eun Yee You  •  Franco Vassallo  •  Massimiliano Pisapia

Carmen (2006)

Martin Kušej's brilliant 2006 Carmen represents a landmark interpretation of a truly timeless opera. Led by Rolando Villazón as Don José and Marina Domashenko in the title role, the virtuoso cast joins forces with the celebrated Staatskapelle Berlin under the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don Kent  •  Martin Kušej
CAST:  Marina Domashenko  •  Rolando Villazón  •  Norah Amsellem  •  Alexander Vinogradov

Martin Kušej's brilliant 2006 Carmen represents a landmark interpretation of a truly timeless opera. Led by Rolando Villazón as Don José and Marina Domashenko in the title role, the virtuoso cast joins forces with the celebrated Staatskapelle Berlin under the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don Kent  •  Martin Kušej
CAST:  Marina Domashenko  •  Rolando Villazón  •  Norah Amsellem  •  Alexander Vinogradov

Lucie de Lammermoor (2004)

Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don Kent
CAST:  Patrizia Ciofi  •  Roberto Alagna  •  Ludovic Tézier  •  Nicolas Cavallier

Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don Kent
CAST:  Patrizia Ciofi  •  Roberto Alagna  •  Ludovic Tézier  •  Nicolas Cavallier

Dmitri Shostakovich - Complete Symphonies & Concertos (Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra) (2015)

Nobody is better suited to undertake such a challenge than Valery Gergiev and his Mariinsky Orchestra. Over a period of a year all 15 Symphonies and 6 Concertos have been recorded at Salle Pleyel in Paris. What an adventure for the artists and the big production ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don Kent  •  Reiner Moritz
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Nobody is better suited to undertake such a challenge than Valery Gergiev and his Mariinsky Orchestra. Over a period of a year all 15 Symphonies and 6 Concertos have been recorded at Salle Pleyel in Paris. What an adventure for the artists and the big production ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don Kent  •  Reiner Moritz
CAST: 

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DIRECTION:  Claude Ventura  •  Don Kent
CAST:  Corine Marienneau  •  Louis Bertignac  •  Richard Kolinka  •  Jean-Louis Aubert

Les Deschiens - Les pieds dans l'eau (1993)

With their faces of sweet lunatics or lighted beaufs, citizens of the ordinary or pochards between two wines, they interpret, in twos or threes, conversations seized on the zincs of the bistros or in the corners of our kitchens. A few minutes of delirium or ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jérôme Deschamps  •  Don Kent
CAST:  Jean-Marc Bihour  •  Lorella Cravotta  •  Philippe Duquesne  •  Yolande Moreau

With their faces of sweet lunatics or lighted beaufs, citizens of the ordinary or pochards between two wines, they interpret, in twos or threes, conversations seized on the zincs of the bistros or in the corners of our kitchens. A few minutes of delirium or ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jérôme Deschamps  •  Don Kent
CAST:  Jean-Marc Bihour  •  Lorella Cravotta  •  Philippe Duquesne  •  Yolande Moreau

Die Walküre (2008)

Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in Stepháne Braunschweig's production of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre. A Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2007 production, in coproduction with Osterfestspiele Salzburg. Directed for HDTV and video by Don Kent.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don Kent
CAST:  Eva Johansson  •  Willard White  •  Eva-Maria Westbroek  •  Robert Gambill

Simon Rattle conducts the Berliner Philharmoniker in Stepháne Braunschweig's production of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre. A Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2007 production, in coproduction with Osterfestspiele Salzburg. Directed for HDTV and video by Don Kent.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Don Kent
CAST:  Eva Johansson  •  Willard White  •  Eva-Maria Westbroek  •  Robert Gambill