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A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.

A chronicle of the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early twentieth century.

A biopic exploring Beethoven's tumultuous life, focusing on his romantic pursuits. The film investigates the identity of the mysterious woman to whom the composer penned a passionate love letter, delving into his complex relationships.

Four people meet on New Year's Eve, and form a surrogate family to help one another with the difficulties of their lives.

A movie with no spoken dialogue, it is set against the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" which includes poetry by World War I soldier Wilfred Owen reflecting the horrors of war. There is no linear story or dialogue. It's imagery reflects Owen's story, that of other soldiers, and a nurse during World War I. It also includes actual footage of contemporary wars, including World War II, Vietnam, and Angola.

Famous opera singer Giorgio Fini loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to female throat specialist Pamela Taylor and falls in love with her.

Abandoned by her lover, the aristocratic Madame Lubov Ranevskaya returns to Russia, only to see her fragrant cherry orchard in full bloom: a painful reminder of her dire economic state and the imminent foreclosure of the enviable property.

Onegin visits a friend, his fiancee and her sister Tatiana, who believes Onegin is her fated love. She writes a note telling him so, but he rejects her. Years later he returns, finding her married, but now he's smitten with her.

A tramcar in the suburbs of Paris, a woman commenting on its passengers who are as different as a young man with flowers, a whimsical old lady, a man who doesn't want to be just a customer. But as soon as they all get off, everything seems to go tragically wrong.

Followup Los Angeles concert to Carreras Domingo Pavarotti in Concert (1990). Several songs are sung in English, and celebrity attendees include the (then former) 41st US President and the (then future) 38th governor of the state of California.

Courtesan falls in love, lives with her man, but his father convinces her to give him up. Some time after they parted, they have an ugly public confrontation. Ultimately, consumption decides her fate, and her lover regrets his actions.

Carole Farley stars in two one-act operas about telephones, Menotti's comedy, The Telephone, or L'Amour à Trois, and Poulenc's drama, La Voix Humaine.

The Verdi opera, based on Shakespeare's play.

The story behind "Requiem" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Concert of the 'Requiem', marking the 200th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, record live at St. Stephens Cathedral, Vienna, Austria.

The figure of a black saxophone player with a Star of David represents the survival of music. This character was created by the Nazis as a portrayal of everything Degenerate Music represented. It is a grotesque exaggeration of the original poster for the work "Jonny spielt auf", an opera by Ernst Krenek that reflected the new modern age musically as well as with scenery and in subject matter. The saxophone player with a Star of David carnation was used as the face for all the art not officially approved by the Nazi regime: the entire group of painters, sculptors, writers and composers whose body of work became known as "Entartete Kunst" or "Degenerate Art".