After the Viennese premiere, the Fledermaus (the bat) conquered the world. It is one of the few operettas that are regularly performed at the major...
Die Fledermaus
Gloriana, Op. 53, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten to an English libretto by William Plomer, based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth...
Gloriana
From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joyce's most famous work "Ulysses". It includes...
James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
European philosophers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre. The theme revolves heavily around the school of philosophical...
Human, All Too Human
This documentary examines Borges' extraordinary life and work, using dramatizations of his most memorable stories and rare interview footage with the...
Profile of a Writer: Borges
American dancer and choreographer Hermes Pan recalls his life and work as he relives the glorious history of the Hollywood musical.
Dance Crazy in Hollywood
Death in Venice was Britten's final opera--an extraordinarily atmospheric and haunting adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella, evoking the grandeur and...
Death in Venice
Dazzling, brash and dynamic, yet equally graceful and poetic. DIVINING was Judith Jamison's first major work as a choreographer for Ailey, evoking a...
An Evening with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
The last and arguably finest opera of Modest Mussorgsky is captured in one of its most powerful interpretations in this 1989 recording from the...
Khovanshchina
This luminous, visionary opera tells the story of how Mahatma Gandhi developed the philosophy of satyagraha, nonviolent active resistance, as a...
Philip Glass: Satyagraha
British series stressing the role of, and showing different kinds of, improvisation in music. Produced for UK's Channel Four. Written and narrated by...
On The Edge: Improvisation in Music
BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990. This documentary is one of the ten films of “The Modern World: Ten Great Writers...
Franz Kafka's 'The Trial'
The opening of the Picasso-National Museum in Paris granted a unique chance for Didier Baussy to document the precious collection in the museum in...
Picasso
A documentary featured on BBC's Arena series in 1983. The author discusses his life, his work and his thoughts and opinions.
Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes
The story of a little boy named Sam, who is exploited by two evil chimney sweeps to clean narrow chimneys.
Let's Make an Opera
Dame Janet Baker, in one of her greatest roles, leads a cast of some of Britain’s finest interpeters of baroque opera and their performance...
Julius Caesar
Giacomo Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the consumptive...
La Boheme
Idomeneo, King of Crete, has been away from home during the long years of the Trojan War. Idamante, his son, now regent of the island, waits for his...
From the Drottningholm Court Theatre: Idomeneo
A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television.
The Beggar's Opera
An exploration of composer Anton Bruckner's numeromania during a nervous breakdown and stay at a sanatorium.
The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner
