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

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A chronicle of the personal life and public career of the celebrated artist and filmmaker Julian Sch...

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Documentary about the life and career of Vittorio Mezzogiorno through the voice of his daughter Giov...

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With his affinity for the 16th-century sculptor Benvenuto Cellini's advocacy of artistic and persona...

Documentary about film director and actor Bernhard Wicki.

An excellent performance of this delightful opera. The principals are superb, especially the sisters...

The views and thoughts of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have never been more relevant than today. ...

Deep in a forest where druids and warriors seek revenge against the conquering Romans, Norma is scor...

After the acclaimed Met premiere of Thomas Adès's "The Tempest" in 2012, the composer returned with ...

Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...

A portrait of the British writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who, although he had radical instincts, h...

He is a 75-year-old half-blind man. He takes 3000 steps every day. Since 2004 he has made a decision...