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Shot over the course of a year, this intimate portrait of provocative composer John Adams presents scenes of the artist at work and at play against...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Adams

I Vespri Siciliani must me Verdi's most underrated masterpiece. Most people are put off by the fact that it has 5 acts, therefore they conclude that...

Genre: Music

Cast: Susan Dunn

Director Werner Herzog, one of the most highly acclaimed German film makers, joins forces with the great Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly to effect...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Renato Bruson

TV documentary exploring the musical world of James Bond through interviews with key figures and discussion of work of David Arnold.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Don Black

The Prince of the Pagodas is a ballet created for The Royal Ballet by choreographer John Cranko with music commissioned from Benjamin Britten. Its...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Darcey Bussell

Don José is a guard who begins an affair with the tempestuous Carmen. He is imprisoned and loses his job, then flees with her to the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Malcolm Walker

Contemporary dance company Adventures In Motion Pictures' triumphant modern re-interpretation of Swan Lake, with its cast of male swans, has turned...

Genre: Music

Cast: Adam Cooper

This biography of Sviatoslav Richter, the great Russian pianist who dedicated his life to music and had little regard for fame in the West, shines a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sviatoslav Richter

Handel is a thoroughly 'modern' composer whose genius for expressing human emotions is undimmed by time. This performance-based film, A Night with...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sarah Connolly

Nina Ananiashvili dances the dual roles of Mlada and Cleopatra in this acclaimed production of composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Mlada," directed...

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Cast: Nina Ananiashvili

This set has Edita Gruberova singing in top form, all her scooping cast aside, which one finds in abundance in her Lucia under Richard Bonynge. Here,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Edita Gruberova

"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and therefore she cannot fail to win the heart of the...

Genre: Music

Cast: Plácido Domingo

Documentary looking at the life and work of soul and pop diva Dusty Springfield.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dusty Springfield

Romance and fairy tale come alive in this astounding interpretation of a childhood classic, Sleeping Beauty. In the hands of the celebrated Kirov...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Irina Kolpakova

Mussorgsky's quintessential Russian opera is captured live on stage in this performance by the Bolshoi Opera featuring Rimsky-Korsakov's revised...

Genre: Music

Cast: Alexander Lazzrev

The Paris Opera Ballet's 1988 revised version of Rudolf Nureyev's 1963 production of The Nutcracker.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Elisabeth Maurin

Albert Rosen conducts the Wexford Festival Opera's production of the classic Antonín Dvorák tale about a young woman who defies her...

Genre: Music

Cast: Anne-Marie Owens

The Royal Ballet's 1980 production of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Natalia Makarova

Alban Berg's black, satirical opera is one of the masterpieces of the 20th Century. It charts the rise and fall of a femme fatale "created to make...

Genre: Music

Cast: Christine Schäfer

This is a finely tuned opera with music by the Italian composer, Claudio Monteverdi, libretto by G. E. Busenello, and the fine voices of contralto...

Genre: Music

Cast: Maria Ewing