Stunning opera singer Cecilia Bartoli has become one of the genre's most celebrated mezzo-soprano voices. This melodic biography of the big-voiced star offers an extraordinary glimpse into her private life, starting with some of her beginning work, showcased through footage and performances. Also included is a dramatic performance at the Savoy Hotel that truly highlights Bartoli's talents.
Stunning opera singer Cecilia Bartoli has become one of the genre's most celebrated mezzo-soprano voices. This melodic biography of the big-voiced star offers an extraordinary glimpse into her private life, starting with some of her beginning work, showcased through footage and performances. Also included is a dramatic performance at the Savoy Hotel that truly highlights Bartoli's talents.
This film follows the remarkable and inspirational true story of Paul Potts, a shy, bullied shop assistant by day and an amateur opera singer by night.
Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.
Featuring never-before-seen footage, concert performances and intimate interviews, filmmaker Ron Howard examines the life and career of famed opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti.
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
The life and career of one of comedy's most inimitable modern voices, Mr. Gilbert Gottfried.
Goltzius and the Pelican Company tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a late 16th century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints. A contemporary of Rembrandt and, indeed, more celebrated during his life, Goltzius seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books. In return, he promises him an extraordinary book of pictures of illustrating the Old Testament’s biblical stories. Erotic tales of Lot and his daughters, David and Bathsheba, Samson and Deliah and John the Baptist and Salome. To tempt the Margrave further, Goltzius and his printing company will offer to perform dramatisations of these erotic stories for his court.
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
A raw and emotionally revealing look at one of the most iconic artists of our time during a transformational period in her life as she learns to embrace her role not only as a songwriter and performer, but as a woman harnessing the full power of her voice.
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars.
The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.