Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the greatest number, focus is rarely put on the strategy he devised and implemented in order to carry out his actions, nor what his actions reveal of the man and artist, and of the resulting metamorphosis from opera singer to pop artist. Through this angle, this film sets out to pay tribute to the man who summed up his credo, obsession and life’s work, in the following way: “They led the public to believe that classical music belonged to a restricted elite. I was the way to prove to the world that was wrong.

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The story of a Finnish rap artist Cheek and his brother.

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The Bang Bang Club were four fearless young photographers who set out to expose the reality of Apart...
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The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole...
Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection.

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