Maria João Pires recital live on International Women’s Day
The pianist is the featured figure on the Mezzo TV website, on the pages of a program exclusively dedicated to women composers and performers.
The opera program will look for female characters that marked the repertoire, such as ‘Carmen’, by Bizet, ‘Lady Macbeth’ by Mzensk, by Chostakovitch, and ‘Lulu’, by Alban Berg, and singers such as Joyce DiDonato, Elina Garanca, Sabine Devieilhe and Susan Graham star in some of the broadcasts.
The conductors Ariane Matiakh, Cathrine Winnes, Elin Chan, Emmanuelle Haïm, Laurence Equilbey, Marin Alsop, Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla, and Susanna Mälkki are other names for the programming of the channels Mezzo and Mezzo Live, around the 8th of March.
In the jazz area the highlights are also for women: the singers Dianne Reeves and Susanne Abbuehl, the pianist Renee Rosnes, the drummer Anne Paceo, the trumpeters Airelle Besson and Ingrid Jensen, the saxophonists Anat Cohen and Melissa Aldana.
In dance, works of choreographers Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Eva Yerbabuena, Blanca Li, Carolyn Carlson are remembered.
Documentaries to be broadcast between Sunday, the 6th, and Wednesday, the 9th, are aimed at musicians such as pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque (‘The Labèque Way’), soprano Barbara Hannigan (‘I am a creative animal’) and pianist Martha Argerich, in the context of the relationship with Steven Kovacevich, in a film directed by their daughter, Stéphanie Argerich (‘Bloody Daughter’).
On the 8th, the documentary ‘She composes like a man’ will be broadcast, directed by Anders Lindstad, with narration by conductor Cathrine Winnes, which addresses the universe of female composers, such as Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, Lili Boulanger, Grazyna Bacewicz and Kaija Saariaho.
Maria João Pires‘ recital will be broadcast live on Tuesday, March 8, starting at 8:00 pm local time (7:00 pm, in mainland Portugal), on Mezzo Live, with direction by Guillaume Klein and an estimated hour and a half.