Footage of Bregenz Festival and James Bond Available by Satellite

Footage of Bregenz Festival and James Bond Available by Satellite

Opera "Tosca", Opening Ceremony and James Bond in Two Short Versions for TV Channels

BREGENZ, Austria, July 21/PRNewswire/ -- Satellite broadcast directly after the opening of the festival on 23 July
2008, from 1:30 - 1:50 p.m. (British Summer Time BST (= London Time) / 8:30 -
8:50 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time EDT (= New York City Time)

(Photo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080721/314531 )

Pre-Cut TV Material by Satellite Downlink

The Bregenz Festival will make footage available to television stations
for the purpose of media coverage of the festival. The pre-cut material -
not overvoiced - will be available for downlink by satellite in Europe and
North America on the opening day of the 63rd Bregenz Festival, 23 July,
starting at 2:30 p.m. CEST (see below for international time zones).

Opera "Tosca" Opening Ceremony and James Bond

The footage is supplied in two versions of differing length: 2'45''
(news item) and 5'00'' (feature). Both versions include the edit decision
list and text to accompany the images. They show excerpts from the opera
Tosca on the world's largest floating stage at Bregenz (Austria), which
premieres on the evening of 23 July, as well as film of the opening
ceremony of the Bregenz Festival in the morning.

In addition the TV material includes interviews and clips from the new
James Bond movie Quantum of Solace, some sequences of which were shot on the
spectacular opera set on Lake Constance in May.

Broadcast on EUTELSAT W1 and INTELSAT 3R

The TV material will be broadcast in two repeated sequences on 23 July
2008 from 2:30 to 2:50 p.m. CEST (12:30 to 12:50 p.m. UTC) on EUTELSAT W1
(Europe) and INTELSAT 3R (North America). The technical specifications are
shown under http://www.pressefoyer.com/mc4/index_en.html; edit decision
lists and image texts will follow on 23 July in the afternoon. The footage
is free of charge if used by broadcasters in the provision of current media
coverage of the Bregenz Festival. No other use is permitted.

Coordinated Universal Time UTC 12:30 - 12:50 p.m.

Central European Summer Time CEST (= Berlin Time) 2:30 - 2:50 p.m.

British Summer Time BST (= London Time) 1:30 - 1:50 p.m.

Eastern Daylight Time EDT (= New York City Time) 8:30 - 8:50 a.m.

Pacific Daylight Time PDT (= Los Angeles Time) 5:30 - 5:50 a.m.

For German version please click here:
http://pressefoyer.com/mc4/portal/beitrag.php?id=372

Bregenzer Festspiele
tel. +43-5574-407-209
mailto:presse@bregenzerfestspiele.com

Note to Editors

A picture accompanying this release is available on AP Archive:
http://photoarchive.ap.org . Reference: PRN 7

Photo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080721/314531

Source: Bregenzer Festspiele GmbH

Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080721/314531 .
Bregenzer Festspiele, tel. +43-5574-407-209, mailto:presse@bregenzerfestspiele.com

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