Classical Music Movies

Letters, Riddles and Writs is a one act opera for television by Michael Nyman broadcast in 1991.

Woody Woodpecker is a piano tuner forced to play after a bank robber hides out in the piano and points a gun at him.

Join the Muppets' best sidekick, Beaker as he spreads his passion for the classics with his rendition of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy."

The Vrijthof concerts have been going for ten years and this anniversary was all the excuse André Rieu needed to make things extra festive and...

A man heading through the countryside is drawn to a strange castle, which is reputed by the locals to be haunted. There he meets a beguiling young...

Two friends from university, Henry May and Henry Long, have not had contact in quite some time. They meet by chance and attempt to re-kindle their...

Bolero is played every 15 minutes in the world. This film tries to answer how this famous melody inspired and influenced the world pop-culture? It...

Two apartment house dwellers, although unrelated, share the same name. One is an older man with an appreciation for and love of classical music,...

This feature length documentary tells the story of Mahani Teave who grew up on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and left at age 9 to pursue her dream of...

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

A history of the work of Merce Cunningham.

Ballerina Polina Semionova performs the mythic parts of Odette and Odile (white swan and black swan) with her great partner Stanislav Jermakov. The...

When army of Gigans tries to invade and destroy the Earth, the only one who can stop them is Godzilla.

Live performance of Verdi's Missa da Requiem at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982. An all-star quartet of soloists under the baton of Claudio Abbado,...

A humorous documentary about the search for a great composer who managed to overcome his depression by spelling his own name wrong.

The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a...

The renowned orchestra presents the world's biggest annual classical open air concert live from their hometown Vienna, Austria on Thursday, May 29th,...

Although he is unanimously credited with having democratised opera, making it accessible to the greatest number, focus is rarely put on the strategy...

At the age of 71, a highly regarded writer, José Cardoso Pires, suffers a major stroke and loses his memory and the ability to relate to the...