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After years of touring have taken George Ezra to the furthest corners of the world, End to End is a musical journey closer to home. Joined by his best friends Adam and Christy, the musician embarks on a 1200 mile walk across the UK from Land’s End, the most southerly point of England, to John O’Groats, the northern tip of Scotland.
A documentary on the behind the scenes of the 2022 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival.
A new open-air spectacle under the stars brings Schlager queen Andrea Berg home to Aspach, where 35,000 fans transform her village into a music metropolis. Host Florian Silbereisen goes behind the scenes, at rehearsals, in wardrobe, and at Berg’s family home, to capture her pre-show jitters, wardrobe changes, and rituals (“Uncle Piti” on hand, her lucky charm, and mother by her side). On “Sternennacht,” Andrea and guests like DJ Ötzi and Xavier Naidoo perform her biggest hits in an intimate celebration of life, love, and music.
A portrait of the film-composer David Raksin, made for German television. Released in 1994.
In the fall of 2017, 40 years after her first major tour of Quebec, Angèle Dubeau will embark on her final concert tour in Quebec. For this tour, entitled "Pour une dernière fois" (One Last Time), Angèle Dubeau will be accompanied by her orchestra La Pietà and will perform a program composed of beloved works requested by the public, works that have marked her career.
Supertramp was one of the last major progressive-rock bands to enjoy an international commercial breakthrough; the band had cultivated a devoted following with their witty and intelligent music since their debut in 1970, but it was 1979's Breakfast in America album which made them a household name in America and Europe. Inside Supertramp 1974-1978 - A Critical Review features rare performance footage of the band along side a panel discussion in which musicians and music writers offer their insights on this especially fruitful period in the group's history
Tommy, a little boy who lives alone with his mother, sees a circus set up near his home. He sets off to discover this new world.
The composer of Land of Hope and Glory is often regarded as the quintessential English gentleman. But Elgar's image of hearty nobility was deliberately contrived. In this revelatory portrait of a musical genius, John Bridcut explores the secret conflicts in Elgar's nature which produced some of Britain's greatest music. Featuring specially filmed performances by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
The passionate advocates of the ‘Cigar Box Guitar Revolution’ express their love of making unique hand-made instruments and the democratic, re-cycling ethos of the movement. Many of these musicians are from northern, post-industrial British towns, and create a self-identity through making these three-stringed guitars. Born from the Blues, the emotional connection they feel for their instruments creates a unique and evocative sound that transports musicians and audiences alike. Screened on BBC1 & BBC4 & iplayer
Documentary exploring the truth behind the legend of John Lennon.
A documentary of the band's first 12 years with interviews and live footage.
Beautiful Jocelyn Lane goes sightseeing in Portugal accompanied by bandleader George Melachrino and his orchestra. Featuring Portugal's top singing star Amália Rodrigues and the world-famous Tagide Club Dancers of Lisbon.
A girls only hotel in Austria, run by a man-hating grandmother. Her daughter and three pretty grand daughters are chased by men, nevertheless (and chase the guys themselves), so everything is back to heterosexual normality in the happy ending. It's a musical.
A journey into the enigmatic universe of the Piedmontese singer-songwriter COSMO. From his indie rock beginnings, COSMO narrates the development of an unconventional career—and a character who struggles with social conventions and the expectations of the music industry.
Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic after his last performance in Milan, attempts to find a way to win over the audience and the critics, while wooing his love interest.
The Road to Oranges & Lemons is a promotional short for the 1989 release of Oranges & Lemons. It features Andy, Colin, and Dave documenting and spoofing XTC's career from its formation and meeting with Barry Andrews, to recording its albums, to the "Dear God" controversy, and finally to Oranges & Lemons. The three make use of toys, pictures, and briefly a potato, to represent (and poke fun at) the different people XTC meets, as well as background sound effects and backdrops to represent different locations.
SH!TS!CK are a band of punk sisters responding to today's corrupt governments and global turmoil. Quartina Blue, Tilly Squeaks and Jaime Renae use punk and the divine feminine to give fascism the finger. They are the antidote to the feelings of loss and displacement that pervade modern society. SH!TS!CK's search for home invites you to question the world around you and to connect to our shared humanity.
The ruthless gangsters of New York and the rough cowboys of the dusty prairie; the magic of cinema and the rich sound of a symphony orchestra. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sarah Hicks, performs masterful pieces by legendary film composer Ennio Morricone, accompanied by Sonny Bono, Bernard Herrmann and Nino Rota.
The film was created in relation to a musical improvisation project in which Antonello Salis, Sandro Satta, Mark Dresser, and Massimo Carrano participated. The work is based on abstract animations made with various techniques directly on 35mm cinema film that are interspersed with live action sections that creatively document the stages of the jam session.
This ever-popular opera is given a fresh point of view in Barrie Kosky’s highly physical production, originally created for Frankfurt Opera. The Australian director is one of the world’s most sought-after opera directors, whose Royal Opera debut with Shostakovich’s The Nose in 2016 was greeted with delight. For Carmen he has devised a far-from-traditional version, incorporating music written by Bizet for the score but not usually heard, and giving a new voice to the opera’s endlessly fascinating central character.
Alfred Boulard, a good-natured electrician, gives his blood to save Mona Thalia, a great theater actress. Mona Thalia survives and Boulard becomes the man of the hour. Grateful to him, Mona helps Alfred to become a singing star. But his fame will be short-lived.
Despite his magnificent voice, the singer Riccardo is far too short to have a career on stage. Through cunning, he manages to work his way up to become the director of the radio station and quickly becomes popular. He falls in love with the saleswoman Nina, who adores the tenor’s voice and is disappointed when she meets him in person...
Sergey Khachatryan and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alain Altinoglu, perform Aram Khatchatourian's Violin Concerto. Also on the programme, Igor Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'.
One of the (eternal) most eagerly awaited returns to Hellfest 2025. Half a century into their metal career, Judas Priest deliver an epic concert, all riffs, pyrotechnics and studded biker leather.
In the spring of 2024, the Berliner Philharmoniker, under the direction of their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko, presented a staged production of Richard Strauss’s thrilling and dark opera Elektra – the highlight of the Baden-Baden Easter Festival. The title role was sung by the acclaimed soprano Nina Stemme. Philipp Stölzl, who has caused a sensation with his spectacular productions on the lake stage at the Bregenz Festival, was the director and set designer.
A young Italian director encounters Nigerian musician and revolutionary Fela Kuti and for years chases the dream of making a film about him. He will never succeed but he will discovers something more important: a new idea of existence.
Uto Ughi recounts the life and artistic career of Franz Schubert, performing several of his pieces, including: Rondo in A major, D. 438, for violin and strings, with I Filarmonici di Roma; Sonata for violin and piano “Gran Duo,” Op. 162, with Rudolf Buchbinder; Quartet in D minor, “Death and the Maiden.”
The triumphant return of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds to France bring with them a full stage show brimming with elegant fury and mystical fervour.
Early 20th century. Singer Marie Toulinguet has lost her voice. Deeply affected by this personal tragedy, she is haunted by frightening memories of her childhood in Newfoundland (Canada). She remembers an Indian doll, a gift from her mother. It was made by a maid named Shanawdithit, the last survivor of the Beothuk Indians. As Marie relives her loss of voice, a bond is reestablished between her and the Indian woman who is dead. Through this enigmatic relationship, Marie can reconcile herself with her past and perhaps invent a future.
Behind the scenes with he world's longest-running oi! band.
In a large building full of sounds, people are waiting for a new melody that will change their lives. No one has realised that it has already begun to play.
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra performed for the first time in its history at the Palais Garnier on May 11, 2025. A centuries-old institution, this orchestra has been the embodiment of musical excellence in Europe and around the world for more than 180 years.
The documentary features the group discussing the success and impact of Girls Aloud so far, spending time with family and friends at home, performances and backstage footage from their What Will the Neighbours Say? Live tour, behind the scenes filming the music video for "Long Hot Summer", recording their third studio album, Chemistry.
Follows the artist over two years as he explores his „life after Beethoven“, as he searches for his next challenge, his identity as an artist.
The film shot signed by Mario Martone of the Ten Commandments, the legendary Decalogue by Raffaele Viviani, in the version staged by Martone himself in Naples, in the popular district overlooking casa Viviani. The director said: "Viviani's theater is not bourgeois, it takes place on the street, with the people as the protagonist, and is made up of texts and music. Written in ' 44, during the bombing of Naples, the Ten Commandments is Eduardo's answer to Naples millionaire.
Guiseppe Verdi’s Requiem is still heard mainly in theatre and concert halls. However, the author himself intended this composition to be performed in church, and on special occasions. Conducted by Teodor Currentzis and performed by soloists and musicAeterna choir and orchestra, Verdi’s famous funeral mass returns from the concert stage to Milan’s Church of San Marco, the same place where it was premiered in 1874. The seven parts of the Requiem become steps on the way to comprehending the sacrament of death, the operatic character of orchestral and vocal writing acquires the strictness of the Catholic tradition, and musical images of rage, despair, and rebellion against the inevitable end are crowned with appeasement.
This elegant romance is the least-known work of the mature Giacomo Puccini . The story concerns a kept woman who defies convention to chase a dream of romantic love with an earnest, if naïve, young man. This Met Opera production features the dynamic soprano Angela Gheorghiu and Frenchborn tenor Roberto Alagna performing the roles of Magda and Ruggero, it blooms into its rightful place in the glorious Puccini canon. La Rondine (The Swallow) was commissioned by Vienna s Carltheater in 1913. Due to the impending outbreak of World War I, premiered in 1917, at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo with Gilda Dalla Rizza and Tito Schipa. Set in a Parisian salon, it is the story of Magda, the glamorous mistress of wealthy banker Rambaldo. Her yearning for romantic love compels her into the arms of the ardent and adoring young Ruggero.
Don Carlo (1980) Metropolitan Opera. Verdi / italian. King Philip's court is plagued by rebels, family squabbles and intrigue. The Spanish Inquisition tries to exert its influence. The tension finally ignites at the King's coronation, where heretics are to be burned at the stake
A full live set from the Brighton based DJ, musician, producer accompanied by a full band and filmed live at London's Koko. Trip hop wizard Bonobo takes to the stage of London's historic Koko nightclub for an evening of laid back tunes and chilled out grooves. Bonobo's typically downtempo sound is perfectly captured in this full live set.
Kraftwerk's vision of a keyboard-driven world of clicking metronomic rhythms and digitised sound bites may have been the stuff of avant fantasy in the 1970s (the decade that saw the band's first groundbreaking albums), but it is a reality in the new millennium. Their visionary style is explored in KRAFTWERK AND THE ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION, a study of the group, their career and their emergence as the most influential electronic band in the world.
Christine and the Queens — A.K.A. French musician Héloïse Letissier — transformed into Chris for her second album. To mark its release, Apple Music goes behind the scenes in an exclusive short film about the creation of the project and the new alter-ego from which it takes its name.
A comedy directed by Helmut Förnbacher.