Created by filmmaker Duncan Copp and produced by The Houston Symphony, THE PLANETS–AN HD ODYSSEY is a spectacular presentation of Gustav Holst’s cosmic masterpiece, The Planets. Opus 3 Artists is proud to offer this powerful, high definition experience to orchestras throughout the world.

Projected in HD on a giant screen over the stage, the latest images from modern space exploration provide a stunning visual canvas, as your orchestra performs Gustav Holst’s glorious musical score. The video was created by celebrated director/producer Duncan Copp in cooperation with NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratories. Duncan Copp is best known as the producer of In the Shadow of the Moon, a 2006 documentary film on the U.S. manned missions to the Moon, which was presented by Ron Howard and introduced at the Sundance Film Festival.

“The London Philharmonic Orchestra brought their HD Odyssey to a packed Bridgewater Hall, giving an audiovisual feast…alongside impressive footage of the Earth and space. The music was certainly well played, and the photography was astonishing.” Bachtrack

“The film panned over the planet’s rocky, rust-colored surface as if it were carrying you across it at low altitude.” the MiaMi herald

the planets - an hd odyssey

A HiGH-DEfiNiTiON fiLm PrESENTATiON TO AccOmPANY HOLST’S mASTErPiEcE

film by Duncan copp commissioned by the Houston Symphonyin cooperation with NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratories

“The images in the movie, produced and directed by Duncan Copp, were often astonishing. Photographs from rovers and satellites, radar images and computer-generated graphics were combined to give the audience the impression of circling individual planets and sometimes flying over their awesomely barren landscapes...There is, of course, a film-score-like quality to the music, and combining it with imagery has been done before, though not to my mind with such sophistication.” the New York tiMes