The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Director helmut Dietls and Patric Susskinds illustrate a legendary story of two lovers who cant keep...
After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...
Music is an integral part of most films, adding emotion and nuance while often remaining invisible t...
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rival...
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...
Leonard Bernstein discusses his Boston childhood, his musical growth at Harvard and the Curtis Insti...
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone...
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced...
Newly arrived in the nineteenth century court of Emperor Francis 1st of Austria Countess Valerie hap...
When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, la...
A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.
Charles Price may have grown up with his father in the family shoe business in Northampton, central ...
The historic Toscanini television concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Broadcast #9 was of a co...
The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.
The historic Toscanini television concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Broadcast #8 was of a co...
In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and ...
Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the grea...
The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...