Paul Gay

Paul Gay

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Opéra National de Paris: Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots
Title: Opéra National de Paris: Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots
Character: Le Comte de Saint-Bris
Released: October 4, 2018
Type: Movie
Les Huguenots is a monumental fresco featuring various impossible loves in the context of the Saint Bartholomew Massacre. Andreas Kriegenburg places these timeless conflicts of love and religion in an immaculate setting in which the costumes appear yet more flamboyant and the victims’ blood more violently red.
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Les Contes d'Hoffman
Title: Les Contes d'Hoffman
Character: Luther, Crespel
Released: November 15, 2017
Type: Movie
This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the German poet as both narrator and hero recounting his love affairs with Olympia, Antonia and Giuletta. Robert Carsen’s spectacular production highlights the melancholy genius of a man marked by life, with a coherence and dramatic sense remarkable for a work that leaves numerous questions unanswered. Under the baton of Philippe Jordan, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Ermonela Jaho, Kate Aldrich, Yann Beuron and Ramón Vargas and Stefano Secco in the main role, interpret the legendary airs of this work whose brilliant mystery will continue to dazzle opera houses for countless years to come.
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Les contes d'Hoffmann - Opéra Bastille novembre 2016
Title: Les contes d'Hoffmann - Opéra Bastille novembre 2016
Character: Luther / Crespel
Released: November 3, 2016
Type: Movie
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L'Enfant et les Sortilèges
Title: L'Enfant et les Sortilèges
Released: September 30, 2013
Type: Movie
Kazushi Ono and Laurent Pelly offer audiences an inspired and poetic interpretation of Ravel's classic children's opera, L'Enfant et les Sortilèges.
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L'heure espagnole
Title: L'heure espagnole
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
L'Heure espagnole is a one-act operatic farce written by Ravel and first premiered in 1911. The title's literal translation is "The Spanish Hour", but here the word "heure" refers more generally to "time", reminiscent of the cliché, "How They Keep Time in Spain". The work's Latin atmosphere is reinforced through Ravel's incorporation of dance music like the malagueña, the jota, and the habañera.
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The Cunning Little Vixen
Title: The Cunning Little Vixen
Character: Harasta
Released: November 4, 2008
Type: Movie
In the forest, the animals and insects are playing and dancing. The Forester enters and lies down against a tree for a nap. A curious Vixen Cub inquisitively chases a frog right into the lap of the surprised forester who forcibly takes the vixen home as a pet. Time passes and we see the Vixen, now grown up into a young adult tied up in the forester's yard with the conservative old dachshund. Fed up with life in confinement, the vixen chews through her rope and runs off to freedom.
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Two Hours to Kill
Title: Two Hours to Kill
Character: Lucien
Released: January 14, 1966
Type: Movie
In the waiting room of the Auvernaux station, the atmosphere is very lively. Several passengers, who have missed their train, are discussing the killer of young girls who is rampant in the region. While the criminal might be in the vicinity, pursued by the police, a journalist leads the investigation inside the station.
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Dom Juan
Title: Dom Juan
Character: Monsieur Dimanche
Released: November 6, 1965
Type: Movie
This telefilm in black and white is diffused on the first French chain the November 6th 1965. It undoubtedly remains the most known adaptation of the Dom Juan of Molière.
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Carom Shots
Title: Carom Shots
Character: Le reporter radio
Released: May 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...
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Paris Pick-Up
Title: Paris Pick-Up
Released: May 4, 1962
Type: Movie
On a Christmas night, an ex-convict meets a beautiful Italian married woman who has got a lot of things to hide.
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The Marriage of Figaro
Title: The Marriage of Figaro
Character: Double Main
Released: December 25, 1961
Type: Movie
Comedy in five acts by Beaumarchais, filmed by Marcel Bluwal in studio and on location. The cast, in accordance with Marcel Bluwal's wishes, is in keeping with the age and character of the characters, to give it rhythm. At once "a comic baroque play, a bourgeois drama, a chansonnier's number, a social satire, a farce and a very pretty love story" according to Marcel Bluwal, it can also be summed up, according to Beaumarchais, as "the most bantering of intrigues".
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Les joueurs
Title: Les joueurs
Character: Alexis
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Ikhariev is a professional gambler who made his fortune by cheating. Having just won eighty thousand roubles, he comes to try his luck again at a new inn. He is accosted by three men, also cheaters, who offer to join forces with him to ruin their new prey: young Glov, heir to a rich landed estate.
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Le plus heureux des trois
Title: Le plus heureux des trois
Character: Krambach
Released: August 17, 1957
Type: Movie
The incredible story of three promiscuous friends who share more things than they think. Ernest, Jobelin and Marjavel collect pranks and exchange wives and mistresses in the greatest secrecy. But their joyous merry-go-round threatens to collapse at the slightest misstep.