No doubt, Sir Georg Solti was one of the most auratic maestros of the past century. Being a real master of the orchestra he inevitably impressed his great visions of sound and interpretation upon the musicians and the audience. These rare black and white documentations produced in 1966 and 1968 show how Solti's amiable insistence in rehearsal with the Süddeutsche Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Stuttgart turns Wagner's Tannhäuser Overture and Berlioz' Hungarian March into sharpened and haunting performances.

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

Trapped in an abusive marriage, a wealthy German prince desperately seeks a way out. But what appear...

After Tristan und Isolde (2016), Parsifal (2017) and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2018) this is t...

Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...

A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virt...
Around 1536, at Windsor Castle, King Henry VIII of England fell in love with the young queen's lady-...

In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to h...

An account of the life and work of controversial German orchestra conductor Herbert von Karajan (190...

Twenty-two year old Neuroscience student Wendy is in the midst of a transition from pre-med to perfo...

Based on a revolutionary play supposedly written by the Eternal President of the Democratic People's...

A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Bi...

The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.

Recorded at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1995, this acclaimed presentation of composer Gioachi...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

Sir Simon Rattle, the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Rundfunkchor Berlin give an impeccable perform...

"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performe...

Tan Dun portrays the Venetian explorer's travels to the Far East as a journey of both inner and phys...

This short animation draws on advanced digital technologies to offer a new vision of dance in cinema...