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The Beggar's Opera is one of the earliest examples of a Musical in the history of theater (from which Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill drew inspiration for the Threepenny Opera). A crowd of thieves and prostitutes, fences and swindlers, speaking various dialects with Peppe Servillo as the shady fence, Angela Baraldi (the wife), Marco Alemanno and opera singer Borja Quiza Martinez (Captain Uccello) directed by Lucio Dalla. New translation and dramaturgical version by Giuseppe Di Leva of John Gay's play transported from the slums of 18th-century London to the Bologna of today.

The program featured Annalisa performing songs from her discography. During the show, the singer-songwriter also duetted on songs by five musical guests: “Eppure sentire (un senso di te)” with Elisa, “La genesi del tuo colore” with Irama, “Superclassico” with Ernia, ‘Tango’ with Tananai, and “Come saprei” with Giorgia.

A famous tenor has a car accident and asks the owner of a pharmacy for hospitality. The pharmacist’s wife is fascinated by the singer and follows him to Rome. Hovewer, she is sent back home.

The documentary follows Mauro Pagani as he temporarily loses his memory and reconstructs his identity by weaving together memories, music, and encounters with friends and colleagues.

Little Tony wasn’t just the guy with the wild quiff who brought rock ’n’ roll into Italian homes: he was an artist capable of uniting generations, a performer who knew how to blend the infectious rhythm of American music with Italian melodic sensibility, becoming one of the most beloved icons of our popular culture.

First performed in Paris in 1843, at the turning point of several eras, Don Pasquale, a composite and varied work, is the apotheosis of opera buffa. Performed for the first time at the Paris Opera, the production has been entrusted to the Italian director, Damiano Michieletto, who transports us directly to the sincerity and dramatic splendour at the heart of an apparently light‑hearted work.

Imagine travelling from New Orleans to Seville, throughout the English countryside to the Jazz clubs of Europe and America, and all in an hour and a half within your own living room. See before you on this DVD a stunning line-up of some of the World’s greatest acoustic guitarists playing together for the first time. Each one a virtuoso in his own right and together offering a taster of paradise. Presenting together on stage : MARTIN CARTHY England’s finest exponent of traditional folk music, with his unique style of playing which has gained him recognition the world over; JUAN MARTÍN named "Dr Flamenco" by The Times, he has been named as one of the world’s finest guitar players; MARTIN SIMPSON quoted by Guitar Player magazine as "One of the finest finger pickers and slide players of our time"; MARTIN TAYLOR who Acoustic Guitar call "THE acoustic guitarist of his generation" and JazzTimes "Europe’s finest guitarist".

A picaresque journey through the bold and experimental world of the 19'40" (anti)classical music series.

The Youth Orchestra - Luigi Cherubini conducted by Maestro Riccardo Muti performs the Symphony from “I vespri siciliani” by Giuseppe Verdi the “Symphony No. 4” in A major ‘Italiana’ op. 90 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the “Symphony No. 5” in C minor op. 67 by Ludwig van Beethoven.

From Lucca, the Orchestra of the Carlo Felice Theater in Genoa, conducted by Maestro Beatrice Venezi, alternates symphonic pieces with the most famous operatic pages written by the composer.

It is a short film created to teach constitutional values ​​in an Italian middle school / 1st grade (11-14 years old). Singing the articles of the Constitution is a political, artistic and highly cultural action, which gives a poetic aspect to a legal text par excellence.

A man escapes from prison but he is seriously wounded and eventually becomes paralyzed. He receives help from a fisherman and his family.

Rai Radio3 celebrates Giacomo Puccini with some of the most beautiful arias from his entire operatic oeuvre, performed by leading figures from the international opera scene, alongside the top vocalists from the third edition of the Voci in Barcaccia competition.

Demetrio Stratos from pop charts to extreme radical voice experiments.

Warehouse employee by day, Elvis impersonator by night, Sandro's performance at a nightclub makes such a big impression, that an unlikely manager offers him a tour of China. Torn between the dream of a lifetime and his emasculating Neapolitan mother, Sandro will have to face the most difficult thing for him: making a choice.

From the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Maestro Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Hector Berlioz’s *Grande Messe des Morts*, composed in 1837.

Michele is a fourteen year old boy with a dream. He wants to dance like his idol Michael Jackson. Unluckily the same day he has his audition there is also a demonstration against his father's factory shut down. Michele has got an idea...

Steve Jansen's live performance in Tokyo Feb 29th 2008 - filmed in high definition.

The next release in the ongoing SDE Surround Series of blu-ray audios is Elton John’s Diamonds: The Ultimate Greatest Hits Collection. This best-selling, career-spanning compilation was released back in 2017, to mark 50 years of Elton’s phenomenal songwriting partnership with Bernie Taupin. Kicking off with ‘Your Song’, this definitive collection brings together all the landmark hits of one of the greatest songbooks of all time, including ‘Tiny Dancer’, ‘Rocket Man (I Think It’s Going To Be A Long, Long Time)’, ‘Crocodile Rock’, ‘Daniel’, ‘Candle In The Wind’, ‘Bennie And The Jets’, ‘Don’t Go Breaking My Heart’, ‘I’m Still Standing’, ‘Sacrifice’, ‘Can You Feel The Love Tonight’ and many more. The Diamonds blu-ray contains 51 tracks in hi-res stereo (the same track listing as on the deluxe 3CD set) with 48 of those songs mixed in immersive Dolby Atmos by Greg Penny.

A short celebratory film, the only moving images that have ever portrayed the celebrated composer. Giacomo Puccini enjoys his residence in Torre del Lago: he walks in the garden, pinning a fresh rose in his buttonhole. He plays the piano and composes, whizzes by in a motorboat, receives the mail and chats with the villagers, and finally goes duck hunting.

Riccardo Muti conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra's traditional ‘Concert for Europe’, this year at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Italy. The programme includes excerpts from works by Rossini, Verdi and Brahms.

“Foolish indeed is he who marries in old age.” Thus ends Don Pasquale: with a wise dictum not lacking in irony that sums up the disappointments of its hero, a rich bachelor keen to marry who is deceived by his nephew Ernesto and his young bride-to-be Norina. First performed in Paris in 1843, at the turning point of several eras, Don Pasquale, a composite and varied work, is the apotheosis of opera buffa. Performed for the first time at the Paris Opera, the production has been entrusted to the Italian director, Damiano Michieletto, who transports us directly to the sincerity and dramatic splendour at the heart of an apparently light‑hearted work.

Riccardo Chailly inaugurates the 2024-2025 Opera Season with a new production of La forza del destino, conducting his ninth Verdi title at La Scala. Leo Muscato will direct yet another cast of extraordinary prestige. A complex opera in terms of dramaturgy, first performed in St. Petersburg in 1862 and debuting in its final form at La Scala in 1869 with the creation of the famous overture, La forza del destino offers some of the most memorable Verdi melodies. It has been absent from the programme since the Verdi centennial in 2001, when it was brought to La Scala by the artists of the Mariinsky Theatre of St. Petersburg; the La Scala Orchestra and Choir have not performed it since 1999.

"L'impresario delle Canarie" is a satirical opera intermezzo libretto attributed to Pietro Metastasio, written in 1724 to be performed between the acts of his opera seria "Didone abbandonata". Dorina, an opera singer, waits impatiently for the visit of a foreign impresario, Nibbio.

Live from La Scala Friday 22 December 1989

On March 28, 2026, at the Cinema La Compagnia in Florence, his music will come to life in concert thanks to a collaboration with the Florence Pops Orchestra: a musical journey spanning over twenty years of his career, featuring iconic film scores and melodies that have moved audiences around the world.

A mockumentary on the life of the Argentine singer, Tony Vilar, who came from Southern Italy to Argentina as a child and became one of the most successful South American singers of the 1960s.