Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
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…
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…
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…
Once, at a Border - Tony Palmer's film about Stravinsky (1982)- Dir. Tony Palmer
- Another exceptional documentary from Tony Palmer, this time about Igor Stravinsky, the "most important and influential composer of the 20th century".…
Goldberg Variations - Glenn Gould (1981)- Dir. Bruno Monsaingeon
- Carefully prepared filming of Glenn Gould's second version of Bach's 'Goldberg Variations', pieced together over 5 years.
From Mao to Mozart (1980)
- Dir. Murray Lerner
- Deserving winner of the Best Documentary Oscar follows violinist Isaac Stern on his concert and tutorial tour of China in 1979. A film as moving as…
Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was (1979)- Dir. Tony Palmer
- Revered British composer Benjamin Britten’s life and times is given the royal Tony Palmer treatment in this comprehensive, loving portrait of…
Mahler (1974)- Dir. Ken Russell
Feat. Robert Powell, Lee Montague, Georgina Hale… - Ken Russell's biopic on the life of the Jewish composer. As one critic observed – 'Whether the title of the opus is Mahler, Strauss or Elgar,…
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