Movies & TV

For their 88th year the prestigious Arena di Verona Festival paid tribute to internationally acclaimed Italian stage director Franco Zeffirelli. Zeffirelli delivers an opulent staging of the fairy-tale story of the Chinese Princess Turandot, who will...

Large industrial complexes, built of solid brick tell the story of industrialization of 19th century Leipzig. Where spinning wheels once rattled, chimneys smoked and thousands of workers carried out their daily work, new life has moved in over the past...

Exactly 80 years before the Opening Concert of the 2019 Lucerne Festival, Sergei Rachmaninoff himself appeared for the first time on August 11, 1939 at the "International Music Festival Weeks". The roaring success of the performance stands in direct...

For many, the Christmas holiday season would be incomplete without the resounding drum roll and trumpet fanfare that opens Bach's "Oratorium auf die Heilige Weynacht" ("Oratorio for the holy Christmas"). Ever since it was first performed by the...

Mieczyslaw Weinberg's Trumpet Concerto op. 94 was composed in his most productive creative phase and premiered in Moscow on 6 January 1968. Shostakovich once described it as a "symphony for trumpet and orchestra" - no wonder, since it showcases the whole...

The fatefully shortened '20 MLB season came to a rousing end as Clayton Kershaw, Mookie Betts, Max Muncy, Series MVP Corey Seager, and the rest of the Los Angeles Dodgers ended the team's 32-year championship drought in six games, turning away Brandon...

All of the excitement, drama and life-changing moments from the 2021 World Series½ are here in the official 2021 World Series release from Shout! Factory and Major League Baseball. Only one team earns the right to call themselves winners, and the 2021...

The second volume in Bel Air Classique's collection "Great Ballets from the Bolshoi" is a four-ballet limited edition release, featuring the Bolshoi Ballet's most recent successes: La Bayadere, Marco Spada, Swan Lake, and The Golden Age. Marius Petipa's...

Bo is a gorgeous renegade. An irresistible beauty. And a deadly succubus. For years, she had no idea what she was or why every new lover died in the throes of passion. She fled one corpse after another until a chance encounter with the puckish thief...

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Placido Domingo, Monica Bacelli, Ingela Bohlin, Sara Mingardo, Jennifer Holloway, and Luigi de Donato star in this Teatro Real production of the Handel opera conducted by Paul McCreesh and directed by Graham Vick on 2 discs.

Hot on the heels of last year's summer blockbuster, Dragon Ball Z is back in theaters. Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F' is the second film personally supervised by the series creator Akira Toriyama, following Battle of Gods. The new movie showcases the...