“I wanted to do something big and wild and different. Something with water!” said choreographer Alexander Ekman and filled the Main Stage at the Oslo Opera House with 5,000 litres of water. In "A Swan Lake", his new full-length work created for the…

The film tells the story of classical black singing set against the background of black emancipation in politics and society. We hear the great Afro-American singers talk about their views. Historical and contemporary film extracts.

One of the greatest romantic ballets of all time, Giselle is the first full length ballet choreographed by Akram Khan . The classic story of love, betrayal and redemption has been reimagined in this stunning new version, with sets and costumes by…

The man who “made” Brazilian music - Meet Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Marisa Monte, Chico Buarque, Jorge Ben Jor and of course the man himself: André Midani! Based on his autobiography „MUSIC, IDOLS AND POWER - VINYL TO DOWNLOAD“ this unique…

In this interpretation, Sleeping Beauty lives isolated in a world shaped by hedonism, created as a social panorama in a kind of chamber play. Only after a major drop from this fake world, she lands on the ground of facts. She falls into a deep sleep…

Ten years of hard work have made the Arod Quartet one of the most brilliant of its generation. For it takes years to blend together four individual talents into one. Resolving conflicts, working together, travelling and touring without neglecting…

A retrospective view of twenty years in the life of this Soviet-born master pianist who has lived in the West since 1963. We have been producing films and television programmes with Vladimir Ashkenazy since 1966 and this one spans the entire period…

A documentary with extraordinary and previously unpublished material about the “world‘s foremost composer of tango music” – Astor Piazzolla. The Argentine bandoneon player and composer Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) revolutionized the tango. His tango…

“Swan Lake” by Peter I. Tchaikovsky is the most famous ballet of all time. Since its world premiere in 1877 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow there have been countless interpretations of this romantic dance fairy tale. The epitome of these remains…

Musical encounters with Barbara Hendricks on tour in Eastern Europe with several Eastern European vocal masterworks in her musical repertoire. Our film documents this encounter between Western artists and Eastern Europe, both in the concert hall and…