Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Nigel Kennedy - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (1990)- Nigel Kennedy and the English Chamber Orchestra play their signature versino of Vivaldi's 'The Four Seasons'.
Testimony (1989)- Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. Ben Kingsley - The life, artistry and anguish of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich receives a vivid, stylistic treatment here, with Ben Kingsley in the central…
Madame Sousatzka (1988)- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Shirley Maclaine - Shirley Maclaine is acutely cast as an eccentric, reclusive piano teacher forced to confront the modern world when her talented pupils deny her their…
Music Teacher, The (1988)- Dir. Gerard Corbiau
Feat. Jose Van Dam, Anne Roussel, Patrick Bauchau - Sterling voiced Jose Van Dam plays an opera star who retires to train an aspiring nymphette and her wayward peer. Like the superlative operatic…
Melba (TV Mini-series) (1987)- Dir. Rodney Fisher
Feat. Linda Cropper, Tom Burlinson, Hugo Weaving - Biopic of famed Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba, whose professional veneer hid a tumultuous private life, her struggles to provide as a…
Beethoven's Nephew (1985)- Dir. Paul Morrissey
Feat. Wolfgang Reichmann, Dietmar Prinz, Nathalie Baye… - Thoughtful story of the destructively possessive relationship between Ludwig Von Beethoven and his nephew, leading to humiliation and tragedy.…
And the Ship Sails On (1984)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti - An idyllic odyssey aboard an ocean liner, where celebrated guests who have gathered for the funeral voyage of a great opera star are introduced in…
Three of Us, The (Noi Tre) (1984)- Dir. Pupi Avati
Feat. Christopher Davidson, Ida De Benedetto, Gianni Cavina… - Charming, though slender, portrayal of Mozart’s teenage life as the 14–year old musical prodigy spends a summer in Italy and starts to…
Wagner (1983)- Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud… - Epic tele–production with Richard Burton as the manic German composer. Includes the Tony Palmer documentaries "In From the Cold? A Portrait of…
Diva (1982)
- Dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix
Feat. Frederic Andrei, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, Richard Bohringer… - Stylish romantic thriller in which an opera–intoxicated youth bootlegs a concert of an unrecorded opera star which leads to trouble with shady…
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