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2006
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams1 2006 HD
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...
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1985
Carmen - Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Carmen - Glyndebourne Festival Opera1 1985 HD
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...
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1990
The Prince of the Pagodas
The Prince of the Pagodas1 1990 HD
The Prince of the Pagodas is a ballet created for The Royal Ballet by choreographer John Cranko with music commissioned from Benjamin Britten. Its...
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1983
Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut7.00 1983 HD
"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...
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1998
Swan Lake
Swan Lake9.00 1998 HD
Contemporary dance company Adventures In Motion Pictures' triumphant modern re-interpretation of Swan Lake, with its cast of male swans, has turned...
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1999
Definitely Dusty
Definitely Dusty8.00 1999 HD
Documentary looking at the life and work of soul and pop diva Dusty Springfield.
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1992
Rimsky-Korsakov: Mlada (Bolshoi Opera/Ballet)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Mlada (Bolshoi Opera/Ballet)1 1992 HD
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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1997
A Night with Handel
A Night with Handel1 1997 HD
Handel is a thoroughly 'modern' composer whose genius for expressing human emotions is undimmed by time. This performance-based film, A Night with...
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1996
Lulu
Lulu7.20 1996 HD
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...
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1992
Verdi La Traviata
Verdi La Traviata4.00 1992 HD
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,...
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1989
Giovanna d'Arco
Giovanna d'Arco1 1989 HD
Director Werner Herzog, one of the most highly acclaimed German film makers, joins forces with the great Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly to effect...
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1983
The Sleeping Beauty
The Sleeping Beauty1 1983 HD
Romance and fairy tale come alive in this astounding interpretation of a childhood classic, Sleeping Beauty. In the hands of the celebrated Kirov...
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1987
Boris Godunov
Boris Godunov3.00 1987 HD
Mussorgsky's quintessential Russian opera is captured live on stage in this performance by the Bolshoi Opera featuring Rimsky-Korsakov's revised...
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1997
Nobody Does It Better: The Music of James Bond
Nobody Does It Better: The Music of James Bond7.00 1997 HD
TV documentary exploring the musical world of James Bond through interviews with key figures and discussion of work of David Arnold.
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1986
I Vespri Siciliani
I Vespri Siciliani1 1986 HD
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...
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1982
Swan Lake
Swan Lake1 1982 HD
The Royal Ballet's 1980 production of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet.
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1998
Richter: The Enigma
Richter: The Enigma10.00 1998 HD
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...
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2009
Antonín Dvorák: The Devil and Kate
Antonín Dvorák: The Devil and Kate1 2009 HD
Albert Rosen conducts the Wexford Festival Opera's production of the classic Antonín Dvorák tale about a young woman who defies her...
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1989
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker1 1989 HD
The Paris Opera Ballet's 1988 revised version of Rudolf Nureyev's 1963 production of The Nutcracker.
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1984
Monteverdi - L'Incoronazione Di Poppea
Monteverdi - L'Incoronazione Di Poppea1 1984 HD
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...