Polish composer Stanisław Moniuszko fights for the right to stage his opera "Halka".

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the ove...

The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey...

The story of Johann Friedrich Böttger, an apothecary’s apprentice and alchemist’s assistant. Fleeing...

The cunning Cardinal Richelieu must save King Louis XIII from treachery within his inner circle.

A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last mo...

This music filled biopic follows the life of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso from childhood povert...

Celebrating the end of World War II and liberation of their city, a group of students is set on hold...

The two pigs building houses of hay and sticks scoff at their brother, building the brick house. But...

Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di...

Based on the operetta of the same name by Carl Milöcker. The residents of an Austrian town decide to...

Dr. Peter Blood, unjustly convicted of treason and exiled from England, becomes a notorious pirate.

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty....

Marika is a cheerful girl who lives on the Danube aboard an old barge she inherited from her father....

Franz Schubert toils by day as his father’s clerk while secretly composing in Beethoven’s shadow, ga...

We have linguists, we have literary men, we have newspapers, actors, musicians, but we have no natio...

Without his brother's knowledge, Joseph Schrammel popularizes his songs in Vienna. When Johann learn...

In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminate...

Sándor Barinkay joins the gypsies en route to his home village hiding his real identity as an Hungar...

Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with D...

Shortly after WWII, the DEFA Studios produced a series of operas and operettas which belonged to the...