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Alice Cooper once again takes control of Halloween this year, bringing all the thrills, blood spills, guts and gore we can take as Alice Cooper’s Halloween Night Of Fear hits the UK. Alice Cooper's special Halloween show at Alexander Palace, London, UK / 29th Oct 2011.
At the helm of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, French conductor Marie Jacquot leads a rich program, with the participation of cellist Victor Julien-Laferrière.
Set around a classic case of broken vows – the defendant having literally left the claimant at the altar – the trial bubbles over with emotion, humour, and downright chaos, leaving the jury divided.
Elton John on his extraordinary career and his songwriting partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin.
A London radio DJ receives news of his brother's suicide and travels west to Bristol to find out more.
Full of Fire is a modern musical about Moas artistic longing to create and her search to belong.
The Nation’s Favourite Beatles Number One tells the stories behind some of the greatest Beatles songs ever. With interviews from Beatles’ insiders including musicians, friends, fellow performers and celebrity fans, we’ll hear about the stories behind the Fab Four’s best-loved hits
Carmen is a French-Italian musical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Viviane Romance, Jean Marais, and Lucien Coëdel. It is a version of the famous opera. It was filmed in two versions, French and Italian, with the same screen cast but some different crew, and with Italian voices dubbed in on the Italian version, which have been munged together at IMDb. A third version, with English dubbed under the direction of British actor Noel Howlett, was made subsequently using one of the two (French or Italian) originals for the visual source.
On 10th December 2007, Led Zeppelin took the stage at London's O2 Arena to headline a tribute concert for dear friend and Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun. Founding members John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were joined by Jason Bonham, the son of their late drummer John Bonham, to perform 16 songs from their celebrated catalog.
The Snow Queen is Hans Abrahamsen's first opera, composed to a self-penned libretto, based on Hans Christian Andersen's eponymous fairy tale. Following an in-depth study of the topic of snow and a life-long obsession with Andersen's fairy tales, Abrahamsen composed the opera between 2014 and 2018. Hans Abrahamsen's music, with it's smooth transitions and subtly modified repeats, lends the lyrics both depth and lightness. He is keen to point out the range of avenues for interpretation available. " It's possible to read the fairy tale in a variety of ways. It contains many mysteries which are open to numerous interpretations." Accompanying Barbara Hannigan is a top-class ensemble of singers, including Peter Rose, Katarinya Dalayman and Rachael Wilson. Cornelius Meister is the musical director, currently general music director at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.
This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten years of the Trojan War. Cassandra tries to warn of the terrible fate to come, but fate is set and Troy falls. The first two acts cover this tragic end, then the flight of survivors to Carthage and events at Carthage continue in acts 3 - 5, culminating in the further voyage for Italy and Rome. This is Virgil's classic epic, in operatic form, in about a three and a half hour performance from French Opera.
Pina Bausch created and performed Café Müller for her dance company Tanztheater Wuppertal. The dance was inspired by and based on her childhood memories of watching her father work at his café in Germany during and immediately following World War II. In this silent style featurette, Bausch shows a restaurant after closing, in which the ghosts of the departed customers stumble blindly into walls and onto chairs but fail to find one another.
This beautiful film showcases Emeli Sandé’s incredible voice in front of a captivated crowd at London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall. The multi-camera live concert spectacular, directed by Paul Dugdale - whose previous work include Coldplay Live 2012 and The Prodigy’s World on Fire - includes guest performances from Labrinth and Professor Green as well as the stunning tracks Next To Me, My Kind of Love and Heaven. A bonus CD of the live audio from the concert is also included.
Souad Massi is one of Algeria’s leading vocalists. For her second appearance on the Concerts Volants stage, the musician will perform songs from her album *Zagate*.
Former drug addict and Grimme Award winner $ick has recruited four young German rap talents for their collaborative project Hood Stories. He invites them into his mobile studio and works with them to create a song alongside scene heavyweights like producer Haszcara. The stories and lyrics by UCEF, Ghetto B., Felix, and Roccy 069 shed light on life in troubled neighborhoods and send a clear message: Believe in yourself and make the most of it!
After suffering a stroke during a performance, cabaret artist Rainald Grebe faces up to his illness. A touching documentary about his return to the stage.
The Berlin State Opera is back at its place of origin: Unter den Linden! After extensive renovations, it was reopened with Schumann's scenes from Goethe's Faust under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. Staged by Jürgen Flimm and with the stage design by the renowned German artist Markus Lüpertz
Elton John's career has spanned decades, but his legacy is more than just his music. Reginald Dwight's early debut was in the band Bluesology - there he would meet lyricist Bernie Taupin whom he would go on to write over 30 albums with. After parting ways with the band and his birth name, the Rocketman was born.
Documentary chronicling the life and times of rock icon Arthur Lee and his seminal rock band Love. The film follows the various incarnations of the band from its debut as one of the more influential groups of the 1960's to the ever changing lineup of the 1970's and the sporadic appearances of the 1980s. The group would be reformed once again in the 1990's and early 2000's having a successful European tour until Arthur fell ill with cancer.
This is the definitive documentary of grillz (gold teeth) as told through the life and times of the artforms creator Famous Eddie Plein - one of the most inventive fashion icon you’ve never heard of, an entrepreneur who changed the face of hip-hop, one gold tooth at a time. Simultaneously developing the aesthetic of grillz as the sound of hip-hop evolved across the country giving each city their moment in the spotlight. The story of a man who found him self at the epicentre of the hip-hop, Miami bass, Southern Rap and Chopped and Screwed music scenes. A natural born hustler whose customer base comprised of rap superstars, millionaire drug dealers, gangsters and fashion focused teenagers. An icon that built and then lost an empire after the world went digital and moved on-line without him.
Wolfgang Niedecken's BAP is the soundtrack for millions who want to hear stories of love, resistance, and the harsh realities of life sung in the Rhineland dialect. For over four decades, the Cologne singer-songwriter has sung with a smoky voice, straight from the heart, about what matters to him and his generation. On July 31st 2025 Niedecken brought that same energy to the Wacken stage. Setlist: Drei Wünsch frei, Nemm mich met, Ne schöne Jrooß, Hurricane / Stell dir vüür, Wahnsinn, Waschsalon, Kristallnaach, Alexandra, nit nur do, Verdamp lang her, Frau, ich freu mich, Encore: Jraaduss
Foo Fighters captured over their two sold-out nights at Wembley on 6th and 7th June, 2008.
Over 25 years and 10 studio albums—using powerful sonic force mixed with subtlety and grace—Mogwai have defined their own musical genre and built a cult following. The film takes us on a journey from their very beginnings, in the mid 1990s, to creating their tenth studio album in their hometown of Glasgow in 2020. While at first seemingly impossible to make, they ultimately made history with it.
Boyzone frontman Ronan Keating goes solo for this live show recorded at the Royal Albert Hall. Includes performances of 'Rollercoaster', 'The Way You Make Me Feel' and 'When You Say Nothing At All', along with a behind-the-scenes documentary and the promo videos for Ronan's first three singles.
Official music video for "Rock with You" by French rapper Ateyaba (formerly known as Joke). Directed by Nathalie Canguilhem, the video features a futuristic and avant-garde aesthetic, showcasing Ateyaba's unique visual style and artistic vision within the French hip-hop scene.
Film about the flamenco singer Dolores Parrales Moreno "La Parrala".
Paul Czinner recorded, using a multiple cameras technique, the performance of prima ballerina Galina Ulanova of the Russian Bolshoi, doing "Giselle, " while the troupe was on tour in England in 1956.
When the British Amnesty shows finally resumed in 1987 after a six-year hiatus, the show format was retooled in an effort to take advantage of the growing number of rock musicians supporting Amnesty. Instead of the live show being primarily a comedy show with a few musical cameos, the event made a point of giving equal emphasis to the comedy and the music.
In the early 20th century, Countess Carmen Díaz de Mendoza Aguado, inspired yet frustrated by Mozart’s Don Giovanni, sets out to write her own version but struggles with doubt, societal pressures, and a haunting inner voice, leading to her play’s failure. Decades later, fragments of her life and work resurface through obituaries and fading memories. In 2024, a modern composer seeks to rediscover and reinvent her lost opera, conversing with the echoes of the past to reclaim the Countess’s silenced voice and vision.
During his military service, the young singer Gianni Traimonti falls in love with Carla, the marshal's daughter.
Part of BBC Four's Black Music Legends of the 1980s, this documentary explores how Prince - showman, artist, enigma - revolutionized the perception of black music in the 1980s with worldwide hits such as "1999," "Kiss," "Raspberry Beret" and "Alphabet Street." He became a global sensation with the release of the Oscar-winning, semi-autobiographical movie "Purple Rain" in 1984, embarking on an incredible journey of musical self-discovery that continues to this day.
To mark the 2026 edition of the Thuringian Bach Weeks, the orchestra and choir of the Junges Stuttgarter Bach-Ensemble, conducted by Hans-Christoph Rademann, will present a selection of excerpts from the short masses.
The Athens Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Yiannis Hadjiloizou, performs Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. The choice of Cyprus is a call for reconciliation and coincides with Cyprus’s presidency of the Council of the EU
Showcasing a live performance at Earth Theatre, London in 2021 and interviews with the artists he has collaborated with from over 35 years of scoring horror, fantasy and genre films, TRIPPING THE DARK FANTASTIC is a stunning record of musician Simon Boswell’s career. An exciting trip through such classics as PHENOMENA, DEMONS 2, STAGE FRIGHT, SANTA SANGRE, PERDITA DURANGO, LORD OF ILLUSIONS, SHALLOW GRAVE, HARDWARE and many others, peppered with appearances by the likes of directors Dario Argento, Alejandro Jodorowsky, the concert features Simon with his 12 piece band, Caduta Massi, filmed by acclaimed DOP Vince Knight.
How does a working class autodidact, with no visible means of support, maintain his role as the leader of a cult British underground band into its fifth decade? Comedian and writer Stewart Lee, director Michael Cumming and James Nicholls investigate the mysterious existence of Robert Lloyd, Britain’s ultimate post-punk survivor. Robert Lloyd’s Prefects played with The Clash on the White Riot tour in 1977, and their ongoing incarnation, as Birmingham’s Captain Beefheart suffused post-punk poets The Nightingales, recorded more John Peel sessions than any other band. Ever. But what were the social, cultural and economic circumstances that enabled and sustained such outsider artists in the punk and post-punk eras, and how has the world changed to the point where such figures are unlikely to flourish in the same way today? Lloyd’s own odyssey echoes how abstract notions of social mobility, of the value of culture and music, have changed in the last five decades.
Filmed on the road during his 2022 Greatest Hit Tour, director Chris Atkins followed James Blunt across Europe and delves into James Blunt's unique backstory. From witnessing the Kosovo War, recording the biggest selling album of the '00s, enduring the backlash that followed his success, and then tweeting his way back to becoming a national treasure, this is an intimate portrait of James Blunt as never seen before – a brutally honest story of a painfully self-aware, endlessly touring musician, for whom persistence eventually prevails.
In the magnificent rooms of the Galleria Borghese in Rome, John Eliot Gardiner and his ensembles The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists bring together the music of Claudio Monteverdi and the paintings of Caravaggio. The encounter of two works whose creators revolutionised their disciplines.
