Movies & TV

Francesco Cavalli, a natural successor to Monteverdi, was the most famous and influential Italian opera composer during the mid-17th century. Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister to the king, commissioned Cavalli to create a Parisian spectacle to celebrate...

Symphonies 1-3 Blu-Ray

Jean-Baptiste Lully's Atys, a trag?die en musique, became known as the 'king's opera' due to Louis XIV's fondness for it. The work stands as a testament to the Sun King's courtly refinement, as well as his moves to make France the center of European...

The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace by Welsh composer Sir Karl Jenkins is the most performed work by any living composer. This performance is the largest ever staged and was uniquely performed in synchronisation with a specially commissioned war-archive film...

Many tales have been told of Africa but this is the intimate story of the animal families who live there. Told from inside their world. A drama where the characters' lives are as entwined as their stones and it all plays out across the Serengeti's...

Gon's search for his father takes him and Killua down a dangerous path toward an enemy that's unlike anything they've faced a terrifying new world and a new species called Chimera Ants with strange powers strong enough to rattle the Hunter Association!

Before starting to work at Nabucodonosor, which will later become his iconic Nabucco, Giuseppe Verdi was on the verge of abandoning music, discouraged as he was by the flop of his second opera. He then received a libretto by Temistocle Solera almost by...

Pietro il Grande, kzar delle Russie - composed when Donizetti was 22 years old - was the first of the composer's operas to receive more than one production. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the work's premi?re in 2019, the Fondazione Teatro...

Pietro il Grande, kzar delle Russie - composed when Donizetti was 22 years old - was the first of the composer's operas to receive more than one production. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the work's premi?re in 2019, the Fondazione Teatro...

Opera legend Pl?cido Domingo returns to the spectacular Arena di Verona, where he more than 50 years ago made his debut. Pl?cido Domingo and Saioa Hern?ndez perform a programme dedicated to the great Italian composers Verdi and Giordano. Jordi Bern?cer...

Bayreuth is not only the city of Richard Wagner, but also of his father-in-law Franz Liszt. Described by the New York Times as a "brilliant pianist" who combines "musical maturity and youthful daring in his exceptional playing", Kit Armstrong performed...

In the 13th century, the rich merchants of Novgorod mock the dreams of far-away journeys and of commercial conquests brought forth by Sadko, a musician and singer. But Volkhova, the Sea King's daughter, is enchanted by Sadko's voice, and promises to help...