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- This 1955 musical production of the classic children's tale made history as the first Broadway musical adapted to TV with the entire cast and crew intact. Join Peter and his friends in their adventures in Neverland, against the evil pirate Captain Hook.
- In Spain, in the sixteenth century, an elderly gentleman named Don Quixote has gone mad from reading too many books on chivalry. Proclaiming himself a knight, he sets out with his squire, Sancho Panza, to reform the world and revive the age of chivalry, choosing a slut to be his noble lady Dulcinea. He mistakes inns for castles, a play about chivalry for the real thing, flocks of sheep for armies, convicts for wronged prisoners, and windmills for giants. While he and Sancho are off on their adventures, his niece, her fiancee, and the local priest think up a strategy to get him back home.
- A young girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and finds herself in Wonderland, a fantasy land of strange characters and ideas.
- Madame Flora is terrified when she perceives a supernatural presence during one of her fraudulent séances. Menotti's first international success, "The Medium" is a tragedy in two acts for five singers, a dance-mime role, and a chamber opera for thirteen instruments and fourteen players: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, percussion, piano (4 hands), and string quintet. The music is dissonant, eerie, and morbid and includes melodies such as 'O, black swan.'
- In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a strolling minstrel who loves the beautiful Yum-Yum. But Yum-Yum is also loved by Ko-Ko, and Nanki-Poo, seeing no hope for his love, considers suicide. Ko-Ko offers to solve both their problems by executing Nanki-Poo, and an agreement is reached whereby Ko-Ko will allow Nanki-Poo to marry Yum-Yum for one month, at the end of which Nanki-Poo will be executed, in time for the arrival of the Mikado. But what Ko-Ko doesn't know is that Nanki-Poo is the son of the Mikado and has run away to avoid a betrothal to an old harridan named Katisha. The arrival of the Mikado brings all the threads of the tale together.
- The French version of G.W.Pabst's monumental three-language (English, French and German - separate versions each) filming of Cervantes' classic novel. The German version seems to be lost, but it is spoken of in three books, "The Film Till Now", and two of Pauline Kael's books of movie criticism.
- The long-running television version of the long-running NBC radio series devoted to classical music as well as Broadway composers.
- Most of the shows featured grand opera but on occasion, ballet dancers and popular singers were also guests.
- Anna Moffo in Verdi's La traviata. Mario Lanfranchi's film version of this beloved opera classic is faithful to the Dumas story, bringing to life the tragic story of Camille (here called Violetta) with gripping drama and sumptuous sets and costumes.
- An ex-husband and wife team star in a musical version of 'The Taming of the Shrew'; off-stage, the production is troublesome with ex-lovers' quarrels and a gangster looking for some money owed to them.
- King Henry VIII (Enrico VIII) of 16th century England falls in love with his queen's lady-in-waiting, Jane Seymour (Giovanna Seymour). The queen, Anne Boleyn (Anna Bolena) has a former lover, Lord Percy, whom Heny recalls from exile in order to tempt the queen into a compromising situation. When Anne rebuffs Lord Percy because she is married, Percy threatens to kill himself. However, Henry rushes into the room with an entourage and claims the couple has betrayed him. Henry sends Percy and Anne to jail and eventually to their death.
- The black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the American Revolutionary War.
- Johann Strauss, Jr., a would-be composer of waltzes in mid-19th Century Vienna, attempts to thwart his father's efforts to prevent his success when the older man becomes jealous of his melodic skill.
- Paul Czinner filmed, using multiple camera techniques, the performance of prima ballerina Galina Ulanova of the Russian Bolshoi, performing "Giselle" while the troupe was on tour in England in 1956.
- A live television presentation of Rodgers and Hart's 1927 stage musical.
- Winner of the 2015 ASCAP Television Broadcast Award, this one-hour documentary portrait of multiple GRAMMY-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin shows us a trailblazing performer and teacher who over the course of her career has broken through numerous barriers to rise to the top of a traditionally male-dominated field. The film explores what it takes to nurture a dream against all odds to become a world class musician. Performances are showcased from international concert stages, the GRAMMY Awards and the White House. Guests and interviews include Joan Baez, Martina Navratilova, First Lady Michelle Obama, Garrison Keillor and David Hyde Pierce; rock legends Steve Vai, Janis Ian and Leslie Gore; composers Tan Dun, John Corigliano, Christopher Rouse and Joan Tower; jazz greats Stanley Jordan and Paul Winter; fiddler Mark O'Connor; and many others. Narrated by NPR's Susan Stamberg, the film combines performance and documentary focusing on Sharon Isbin's unusual and inspiring journey which has expanded and transformed the landscape of the instrument. In addition, the film explores her role as teacher of a new generation of guitarists at both The Juilliard School, where she created the first guitar department, and the Aspen Music Festival. The documentary explores how Isbin's career has intersected with many different aspects of today's musical world beyond the realm of classical music. This includes television, film music, NASA, and collaborations with other contemporary musicians from the rock, pop, folk, jazz and Latin genres.
- A young girl becomes lost in a department store during the Christmas shopping rush. The frightened child is comforted by a department store Santa Claus who tells her a tale of storybook characters brought to life - of Tommy Tucker's love for the lovely Jane Piper and the cold-hearted villainy of evil Silas Barnaby. Through the girl's dreams, the viewer is transported to Toyland.
- A special, live, television adaptation of Victor Herbert's operetta.
- The ICA Classics Legacy series presents a collection of historic performances by some of the world's greatest artists. This video features some of the earliest televised concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and their Music Director, Charles Munch. Celebrated for his performances of French music, Munch was an authority on the works featured on this video, all of which were composed during his lifetime. More than fifty years later, his recordings of French music remain a permanent standard of reference.
- A superb rendition of the iintriger along with an awesome inspiring Del Monaco
- Aram Khachaturyan's ballet about a love story on a kolkhoz (collective farm) in Soviet Armenia.
- A fascinating production of La Traviata formed this year's opera highlight at one of Europe's most important open-air festivals: the Opera Festival St. Margarethen. The dazzling production, set in a rustically romantic Roman quarry, already boasts 100,000 visitors this season. Recorded live in July 2008, this video captures the beauty of the open-air production. Stage designer Manfred Waba sets the tragic story about the demi-mondaine Violetta Valéry and her admirer Alfredo Germont in an evocative replica of the Parisian Opéra Garnier. His and Robert Herzl's unique interpretation is intelligent and effective. In the lead roles, Austria's promising opera talent Kristiane Kaiser and Jean-François Borras, a young French tenor, provide for a musically and visually attractive viewing.
- Beverly Sills stars in this production of Verdi's famous opera, recorded live at the Wolf Trap Festival in 1976.
- Mozart's classic opera about Prince Tamino and Papageno's quest and trials, staged by Otto Schenck for the 1964 Salzburg Festival and filmed live.
- Internationally acclaimed virtuoso violinist Aaron Rosand in a rare filmed recital program in the style of virtuoso violinists of the Golden Era - with piano accompanist Robert Koenig. This award winning film by Lauren Speeth, features works by Bach, Tschaikovsky, Sarasate, Chopin, Brahms, LeClair, Franck, and others.
- The Marquise of Berkenfield is traveling in the Tyrols Fighting is raging, but Sergeant Sulpice of the Twenty-First Regiment says the regiment will restore order. Marie, the Regiment 'mascot,' enters and Sulpice questions her about a young man she has been seen with. She names Tonio, a Tyrolean, when Tonio is brought in as a prisoner.Marie sings the regimental song. Sulpice leads the soldiers off, taking Tonio with them, but Tonio runs back. She says she cannot marry without the approval of her 'fathers,' the soldiers of the regiment. The Marquise arrives and asks for an escort to her castle, Birkenfeld. Sulpice recognizes the name from a letter found with Marie as an infant. The Marquise recognizes Marie as her long-lost niece. Marie says farewell to the regiment. Tonio enters and announces he has enlisted to be near her. (Aria: Ah! mes amis, quel jour de fête / After a few months in the castle, the Marquise describes how she has tried to turn Marie into a lady of fashion, suitable for her to be married to the Duke of Crakentorp. The Regiment arrives with Tonio, now an officer. Tonio asks for Marie's hand. Marquise confesses the truth to Sulpice that Marie is actually her own illegitimate daughter. The Duchess of Crakentorp and her nephew arrive and learn that Marie was raised by soldiers. The Duchess leaves, The Marquise admits she is Marie's mother, and gives her consent for Marie and Tonio to be married.
- This Tv staging is closer to the original 1910 operetta than the famous 1935 film was: An American comes to New Orleans to get the help of a governor in catching a pirate, though the pirate in question is actually the governor himself.