Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty

A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

Frederick Ashton's La Fille mal gardée (The Wayward Daughter) is one of the choreographer's most joyous and colourful creations. Inspired by...

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.

Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is forced to give up her newborn but unknown to her,...

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

A vacuum repairman moonlights as a street musician and hopes for his big break. One day a Czech immigrant, who earns a living selling flowers,...

In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his...

Documentary on conductor Herbert van Karajan, focusing on his early adoption of audio and video recording technology and his impetus to make use of...

As Tobias, a young director, supposes that his girl-friend Ellen had an affair with his brother Markus, front man of "Hansen", one year ago, he...