Movies

With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life...

Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while...

In fall 2018, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal created the chamber opera Chaakapesh, a lighthearted story of the hero who founded the...

Headlined by Dawn Upshaw, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Willard White and orchestrated by the Berlin German Symphony Orchestra, this Nativity oratorio...

Performance of opera by Franz Schreker from the Salzburger Festpiele. Recorded live at the Felsenreitschule, 26 July 2005

Several pieces of Frank Zappa's music are set against clay animation by Bruce Bickford.

The first ever staging of Jörg Widmann's opera Babylon. Presented by the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, directed by Carlus Padrissa (La Fura...

Directed by Andy Sommer. Starring Heike Grötzinger, Gerhard Siegel, Alexander Tsymbalyuk. Bavarian State Opera, Munich, February 2013

With this wonderful production, Mozart’s “Munich” opera returns to the place where it was first performed in 1781, the lovingly...

The document explores Leonard Bernstein's various facets as a conductor, a composer, a pianist and most of all a teacher and how he influenced so...

A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa's bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private footage from Frank's personal archives plus...

The Rake's Progress is an English-language opera from 1951 in three acts and an epilogue by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, written by W. H. Auden and...

The Montreal Symphonic Orchestra (MSO) and Kent Nagano share the stage with Fred Pellerin, a colorful character whose imagination seduces as much as...

The first ever performances in Munich, this production was entrusted to Dmitri Tcherniakov, whose worldwide reputation is underpinned by productions...

Underestimated by his contemporaries, but today acclaimed as one of the greatest and imaginative composers of his time. Anton Bruckner was a genius...

A live recording of the premier of Korean composer Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland opera at National Theater Munich in June 2007. It is a modern...

An adaptation of Leos Janacek's opera Prihody Lisky Bystrousky (1925), based on the novel Liska Bystrouska by Rudolf Tesnohlidek. It follows the life...

A filmed performance of the January 2016 world premiere production of Toshio Hosokawa's opera dedicated to the victims of the 2011 earthquake and...