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Hainan intangible cultural heritage exhibition held in Malta

STORY: Hainan intangible cultural heritage exhibition held in Malta SHOOTING TIME: May 10, 2024 DATELINE: May 12, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:58 LOCATION: Valletta CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of people attending opening ceremony of the exhibition 2. various of people viewing the exhibition STORYLINE: The first stop of the European tour exhibition of Hainan provincial intangible cultural heritage kicked off at the China Cultural Center in Malta on Friday evening. Running until May 17, the exhibition features a variety of artifacts and photographs representing cultural heritage from south China's Hainan Province, including Li brocade, Miao embroidery and Qiong opera. The first stop of the exhibition was jointly hosted by the China Cultural Center in Malta and the Hainan Provincial Department of Culture, Radio, Film, Television, Publications and Sports. The exhibition will also be held in Berlin, Germany, and Sofia, Bulgaria. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Valletta. (XHTV)

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Ópera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia greets the audience as she leaves the Carlos Saura tribute event at the Ópera Prima film festival, with a plan named after Princess Leonor, at the Moncayo Cinema, Nov. 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for best direction at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Ópera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia greets the audience as she leaves the Carlos Saura tribute event at the Ópera Prima film festival, with a plan named after Princess Leonor, at the Moncayo Cinema, Nov. 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for best direction at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Ópera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia waves as she leaves the Carlos Saura tribute event at the Ópera Prima film festival, with a plan named after Princess Leonor, at the Moncayo Cinema, Nov. 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for best direction at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Ópera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia greets the audience as she leaves the Carlos Saura tribute event at the Ópera Prima film festival, with a plan named after Princess Leonor, at the Moncayo Cinema, Nov. 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for best direction at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Ópera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia greets the audience as she leaves the Carlos Saura tribute event at the Ópera Prima film festival, with a plan named after Princess Leonor, at the Moncayo Cinema, Nov. 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for best direction at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Ópera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia on her way out of the Carlos Saura tribute event at the Ópera Prima film festival, with a plan named after Princess Leonor, at the Moncayo Cinema, on November 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for best direction at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia and the director of the Muestra de Cine Español and the Opera Prima de Tudela Film Festival, Luis Alegre, during the tribute ceremony to Carlos Saura at the Ópera Prima film festival, with a plan named after Princess Leonor, at the Moncayo Cinema, on November 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for best direction at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACA

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia's boots on her arrival at the Carlos Saura tribute event at the Ópera Prima film festival, with a plan named after Princess Leonor, at the Moncayo Cinema, on November 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for best direction at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Eulalia Ramon, partner of Luis Saura receives an award in his name, from Queen Letizia (2r), in the presence of the Minister Spokesperson of the Government in functions, Isabel Rodriguez (c) and the president of the Government of Navarra, Maria Chivite, during the act of tribute to Carlos Saura in the Ópera Prima film festival, with a plan with the name of Princess Leonor, in the Moncayo Cinema, on November 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for best direction at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia during a tribute ceremony to Carlos Saura at the Ópera Prima film festival, at the Moncayo Cinema, Nov. 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia on her arrival at the Carlos Saura tribute ceremony at the Ópera Prima film festival, with a plan named after Princess Leonor, at the Moncayo Cinema, on November 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for best direction at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

The president of the Government of Navarra, María Chivite and Queen Letizia during a tribute ceremony to Carlos Saura at the Ópera Prima film festival, at the Moncayo Cinema, on November 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

A man attends as an audience member in the vicinity where the tribute ceremony to Carlos Saura is held at the Ópera Prima film festival, with a plan named after Princess Leonor, at the Moncayo Cinema, on November 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for best direction at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia picks up a loaf of bread with the name of Princess Leonor on her arrival at a tribute to Carlos Saura at the Ópera Prima film festival, at the Moncayo Cinema, Nov. 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia on her arrival at the Carlos Saura tribute ceremony at the Ópera Prima film festival, with a plan named after Princess Leonor, at the Moncayo Cinema, on November 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for best direction at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia waves upon her arrival at a tribute to Carlos Saura at the Ópera Prima film festival, at the Cine Moncayo, Nov. 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia on her arrival at a tribute to Carlos Saura at the Ópera Prima film festival, at the Cine Moncayo, Nov. 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia during a tribute ceremony to Carlos Saura at the Ópera Prima film festival, at the Moncayo Cinema, Nov. 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia greets attendees upon her arrival at a tribute to Carlos Saura at the Ópera Prima film festival, at the Cine Moncayo, Nov. 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia waves upon her arrival at a tribute to Carlos Saura at the Ópera Prima film festival, at the Cine Moncayo, Nov. 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia waves upon her arrival at a tribute to Carlos Saura at the Ópera Prima film festival, at the Cine Moncayo, Nov. 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia waves upon her arrival at a tribute to Carlos Saura at the Ópera Prima film festival, at the Cine Moncayo, Nov. 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia waves upon her arrival at a tribute to Carlos Saura at the Ópera Prima film festival, at the Cine Moncayo, Nov. 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia waves upon her arrival at a tribute to Carlos Saura at the Ópera Prima film festival, at the Cine Moncayo, Nov. 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Queen Letizia At The 23rd Opera Prima Film Festival - Tudela

Queen Letizia waves upon her arrival at a tribute to Carlos Saura at the Ópera Prima film festival, at the Cine Moncayo, Nov. 3, 2023, in Tudela, Navarra (Spain). To pay tribute to Saura, the event concludes with the screening of 'La caza', a film by Saura awarded in 1966 with the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2021, the Tudela festival inaugurated a parallel section whose vocation is to bring students closer to the great figures of Spanish cinema and to exalt the value of watching a classic Spanish film in a movie theater, which is why the majority of the event's audience are students. The official program of the 23rd edition of the festival includes seven films in competition, a series of preview events and the screening of the closing film "Amigos hasta la muerte" directed by Javier Veiga. Photo by Eduardo Sanz/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Conductor Albrecht dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in December 2001 shows German conductor Gerd Albrecht. Albrecht died Feb. 2, 2014, in Berlin from an illness at the age of 78. He led the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra as principal conductor from 1998 to 2007 after serving as music director of Germany's Hamburg State Opera and chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic.

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Koizumi views Wagner's 'Tannhauser' in Beyreuth

BERLIN, Germany - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) returns to Berlin from Beyreuth with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Aug. 18 after viewing a ''Tannhauser'' opera performance at the annual Richard Wagner Festival.

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Mayuzumi died

Toshiro MAYUZUMI (1929-1997), composer, is responsible for introducing electronic musin to Japan and his XYZ (1953) was the first Japanese work composed in the manner of musique concrete. Influenced by Buddhism and Asian cultures, in 1958 he composed the symphony ""Nehan "" (Nirvana) and in 1963 the cantata ""Keka"" (Repentance). In 1976 he composed an opera based on Mishima Yukio's novel ""Kinkakuji"" that was first performed by the Berlin Opera. Mayuzumi was also politically oriented, denying, like some right-wing Japanese politicians, Japan's wartime aggression. (Picture was taken in February 11, 1989 at ""Ceremony or Japanese National Foundation"".)

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Mayuzumi died

Toshiro MAYUZUMI (1929-1997), composer, is responsible for introducing electronic musin to Japan and his XYZ (1953) was the first Japanese work composed in the manner of musique concrete. Influenced by Buddhism and Asian cultures, in 1958 he composed the symphony ""Nehan "" (Nirvana) and in 1963 the cantata ""Keka"" (Repentance). In 1976 he composed an opera based on Mishima Yukio's novel ""Kinkakuji"" that was first performed by the Berlin Opera.

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GERMANY-BERLIN-CHRISTMAS MARKETS

(221123) -- BERLIN, Nov. 23, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People visit the Christmas market in front of the Berlin State Opera in Berlin, Germany, Nov. 22, 2022. (Photo by Stefan Zeitz/Xinhua)

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GERMANY-BERLIN-CHRISTMAS MARKETS

(221123) -- BERLIN, Nov. 23, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A performer dances at the Christmas market in front of the Berlin State Opera in Berlin, Germany, Nov. 22, 2022. (Photo by Stefan Zeitz/Xinhua)

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German conductor Wand dies at 90

BERLIN, Germany - Guenter Wand, a noted German conductor with a large following in Japan, died Feb. 14 at his home in Switzerland at the age of 90. Wand began his career as an opera conductor in Cologne in 1939 and later conducted various orchestras, including the Cologne Gurzenich Orchestra and the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. The photo was provided by Kajimoto Music Office.

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Koizumi views Wagner's 'Tannhauser' in Beyreuth

BERLIN, Germany - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi (L) returns to Berlin from Beyreuth with Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Aug. 18 after viewing a ''Tannhauser'' opera performance at the annual Richard Wagner Festival. (Kyodo)