Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Frederick Ashton, Beryl Grey; Sadler's Wells Ballet (Royal Ballet). Choreography by Petipa. Music by Tchaikovsky. Conducted by Robert Irving from a TV Broadcast of... more

Maria Plisetskaya, Nikolai Fadeyechev, Sergei Radchenko, Bolshoi Ballet. Choregraphy by Alberto Alonso. Music by Bizet adapted by Rodion Schedrin. Bonuses of Plisetskaya in performance - "Dying... more

This TV special has been seen on HBO, PBS, CBC and the Family Channel and is based in part on historical fact and features more than 25 beautifully performed excerpts of Beethoven's best-loved works.

Moscow Chamber Orchestra & Various choirs/Constantine Orbelian are featured.

With Montreal Symphony Orchestra/Charles Dutoit. Mussourgsky: "Songs and Dances of Death", arias by Verdi, Rossini. 1998 concert.

Prokofiev's great ballet features Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Frederick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillian, Sadler's Wells Ballet (Royal Ballet). Choreography by Frederick Ashton. Conducted by Robert... more

Rounding out this trio of November releases is the famed 1977 Grigorovich setting of Spartacus starring Vladimir Vasiliev as the heroic slave who leads the unsuccessful revolt against the Romans.... more

A fascinating documentary about the life and art of the woman who single-handedly revived interest in the harpsichord. Bonus features include the complete extant video footage of Landowska playing... more

Two of the most important dancers of the 20th Century, featured here in this compilation of TV performances.

In this 1975 production from the Wolf Trap Festival, Beverly Sills is joined by John Alexander, Susanne Marsee, and Richard Fredericks in a stunning live performance.

Mario Del Monaco, Gabriella Tucci, and Tito Gobbi, star in the Verdi opera with Alberto Erde conducting the NHK Symphony Orchestra, live Feb. 4, 1959.

Nadezhda Pavlova, Vyacheslav Gordeev, Bolshoi Ballet perform the Minkus ballet in 1978. Bonus: Don Quixote (scenes) with Maya Plisetskaya, Maris Liepa, Bolshoi Ballet, 1964.

Franco Corelli, Lucille Udovich, Renata Mattioli, Plinio Clabassi star in this production with RAI Orchestra & Chorus, Fernando Previtali conducting.

Starring Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra, Birgit Nilsson, Brian Sullivan.

Wilhelm Kempff performs Beethoven's Piano Sonata #29, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier", along with Beethoven's Rondo in G major. Black & white.

One Man's Triumph, a documentary about George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra, from the Bell Telephone Hour, features the final movement from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

This 1954 feature film used stop-animation and hand-sculpted dolls to create a fantasy land of unearthly beauty. Set to Englbert Humperdinck's classic 1892 opera, ung by some of the most acclaimed... more

Fiorenza Cossotto, Alfredo Kraus, Sesto Bruscantini, and Ruggero Raimondi star in the Donizetti opera with Oliviero de Fabritiis conducting the NHK Symphony Orchestra live September 13, 1971.

Gabriella Tucci, Mario del Monaco, Giulietta Simionato, and Aldo Protti star in this 1961 NHK production of the Verdi opera with Franco Capuana conducting.

Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev with the Bolshoi Ballet in this 1982 Gavrilin ballet performance.

With Placido Domingo, Julia Migenes-Johnson, Mirella Freni, Peter Schreier, Burt Lancaster, London Symphony Orchestra.

Karen Kain and Frank Augystyn are the featured dancers with the National Ballet of Canada in Adam's reknown ballet.

Rudolph Nureyev and Veronica Tennant are the feature dancers with the National Ballet of Canada in Tchaikovsky's immortal ballet.

Taped live in St. Petersburg during Rosalyn Tureck's historic 1995 tour to Russia. Because of the connection between St. Petersburg and the teachers who guided her musical development, Tureck... more

Tallchief made five guest appearances on the Bell Telephone Hour. Her partners included an appropriately starry assemblage of leading male dancers.