This musical release captures a live performance of Benjamin Britten's twentieth century opera Billy Budd, recorded at the...
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2010
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This production of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes, staged in Zurich, features Christopher Ventris in the title role....
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From Opera by
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2007
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This BBC film version of Benjamin Britten's darkly dramatic opera The Turn of the Screw (which was based on a novella by...
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From Opera by
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2004
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Paris has its share of homeless people, and some of them live in little communities near the oldest bridge in the city, the...
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Featured Music
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1991
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Adapted from the Thomas Mann novel, Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice follows Gustav von Aschenbach, a famous writer of a...
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From Opera by
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1990
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The first BBC television film to be given a British theatrical release, Derek Jarman's War Requiem is a cinematic...
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From Opera by
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1988
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Herman Melville's classic story of persecution and misplaced justice in the British navy is adapted for the operatic stage...
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From Opera by
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1988
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This video presents the comic opera Albert Herring, staged at Glyndebourne in 1985. Peter Hall directs the cast in the coming...
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From Opera by
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1985
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Gloriana was an original opera written by Benjamin Britten on the occasion of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953. The...
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From Opera by
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1984
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From Opera by
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1982
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Doktor Faustus was adapted from Thomas Mann's epic novel of the same name about a composer, Adrian Leverkuehn (Jon Finch),...
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1982
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In 1982, Ingmar Bergman emerged with one of his most singularly acclaimed films - a work that dramatically broke away from...
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Featured Music
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1982
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Though he made allusions to his own life in all of his films, Fanny and Alexander was the first overtly autobiographical film...
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Featured Music
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1982
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This video presents a performance of William Shakespeare's classic comedy, A Midsummer Night's Dream. The story of fairies...
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From Opera by, Libretto
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1981
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An apprentice dies in a small town. It does not sound like the stuff opera is made of, but Britten brings it operatic glory...
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From Opera by
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1981
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In this performance captured live at Maltings, Snape, Aldeburgh in November of 1977, pianist Clifford Curzon teams with...
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Featured Music
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1978
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As originally aired in 1969 on the BBC, this actually constitutes a filmed recording of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter...
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Conductor, From Opera by
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1969
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As a single installment in the Britten-Pears series of classical performance films, Idomeneo originally aired on the BBC in...
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Conductor, From Opera by
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1969
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This release constitutes a stage production of Benjamin Britten's celebrated 1951 opera Billy Budd, which Britten, in turn,...
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From Opera by
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1966
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As originally produced in 1964 under the title "Celebrity Recital," this black-and-white performance film consists of...
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Featured Music
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1964
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Featured Music
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1963
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This stage performance of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears' 1948 adaptation of composer John Gay's seminal three-act ballad...
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1963
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1962
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1936
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Staged, shot and released to commemorate Dutch choreographer Hans Van Manen's 75th birthday, the performance release Hans...
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