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1. Concierto de Aranjuez (1993 Video)
21 min | Short, Music
Director: Larry Weinstein | Stars: Victoria Kahmi, Neville Marriner, Joaquín Rodrigo, Pepe Romero
Votes: 7
2.
Slings and Arrows (2003–2006)
Episode:
Playing the Swan
(2003)
TV-MA | 47 min | Comedy
It's opening night for Hamlet and though Jack has shown promise, insidious words from Richard send him running. Ellen and Geoffrey finally talk about the breakdown and the events leading up... See full summary »
Director: Peter Wellington | Stars: Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette, Martha Burns, Rachel McAdams
Votes: 100
3. Solidarity Song: The Hanns Eisler Story (1995 TV Movie)
89 min | Documentary, Music
Documentary portrait of composer Hanns Eisler. Features interviews with friends and relatives and newly recorded performances of his music.
Directors: Larry Weinstein, Thomas Wallner | Stars: Hanns Eisler, Benjamin Wilchfort
Votes: 18
4. Concerto (1993)
Documentary, Music
Stars: Dudley Moore, Michael Tilson Thomas, James Galway, Richard Stoltzman
Votes: 11
5. The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Not Rated | 128 min | Musical
Live performances of operas from New York's Metropolitan Opera.
Stars: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Renée Fleming
Votes: 172
6.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
Long Day's Journey Into Night
(1995)
TV-G | 173 min | Music, Musical
The Great American Family at its worst. James Tyrone is an aging actor and skinflint whose miserliness has been the ruin of his family. His wife, Mary, has been a morphine addict since the ... See full summary »
Directors: David Wellington, Diana Leblanc | Stars: William Hutt, Martha Henry, Tom McCamus, Peter Donaldson
Votes: 132
7.
Slings and Arrows (2003–2006)
Episode:
Mirror up to Nature
(2003)
TV-MA | 45 min | Comedy
Geoffrey assumes the direction of Hamlet and Richard and Holly assume that a disaster is just around the corner. Oliver's ghost frees Ellen's pet chameleon and viola Ophelia is recast.
Director: Peter Wellington | Stars: Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette, Martha Burns, Rachel McAdams
Votes: 87
8. Slings and Arrows (2003–2006)
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy
In the fictional town of New Burbage, legendary theatrical madman Geoffrey Tennant returns to the New Burbage Theatre Festival, the site of his greatest triumph and most humiliating failure... See full summary »
Stars: Paul Gross, Martha Burns, Stephen Ouimette, Susan Coyne
Votes: 2,889
9.
Slings and Arrows (2003–2006)
Episode:
Madness in Great Ones
(2003)
TV-MA | 45 min | Comedy
The new interim artistic director, Geoffrey, walks around with Oliver's skull. Oliver's ghost talks to Geoffrey after he rejects to direct Hamlet.
Director: Peter Wellington | Stars: Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette, Martha Burns, Rachel McAdams
Votes: 93
10.
Slings and Arrows (2003–2006)
Episode:
Outrageous Fortune
(2003)
TV-MA | 45 min | Comedy
Geoffrey is in jail after c/trashing Ellen's party. Oliver's ghost shares the cell. Kate and Jack grow closer. Ellen's young boyfriend wants revenge.
Director: Peter Wellington | Stars: Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette, Martha Burns, Rachel McAdams
Votes: 77
11.
Slings and Arrows (2003–2006)
Episode:
Rarer Monsters
(2005)
TV-MA | 47 min | Comedy
The curse of Macbeth kicks in when the director of Romeo and Juliet breaks her neck, forcing Geoffrey to invite show-dog Darren Nichols back from Berlin to fill in. Juliet meets her Romeo ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Wellington | Stars: Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette, Martha Burns, Geraint Wyn Davies
Votes: 62
12.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
The Enchanted Island, a Baroque pastiche
(2012)
Not Rated | Musical
A loose adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest and Twelfth Night with some of the most beautiful pieces by baroque composers such as Haendel and Vivaldi.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: William Christie, Deborah Voigt, David Daniels, Danielle de Niese
Votes: 27
13.
Slings and Arrows (2003–2006)
Episode:
Fallow Time
(2005)
TV-MA | 45 min | Comedy
Christmas comes to New Burbage and so do the interns, who are part of the new austerity program. Richard raises begging to new heights and hires Sanjay Ranier of the hip and edgy marketing firm Frog Hammer.
Director: Peter Wellington | Stars: Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette, Martha Burns, Geraint Wyn Davies
Votes: 69
14.
Slings and Arrows (2003–2006)
Episode:
Season's End
(2005)
TV-MA | 47 min | Comedy
Richard's looking for new sponsors. Jack's leaving the theater for a movie shoot in Hawaii. It's last night with Hamlet. Is Macbeth next?
Director: Peter Wellington | Stars: Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette, Martha Burns, Luke Kirby
Votes: 83
15.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
(2011)
Not Rated | 180 min | Musical
A reprise of 2009's production with cast changes, including Natalie Dessay and Joseph Calleja. The famous Mad Scene is orchestrated with a glass harmonica per Donizetti's original score, and not a flute, which is more commonly used today.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Patrick Summers, Renée Fleming, Mary Jo Heath, Philip Webb
Votes: 31
16.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Rossini: La Cenerentola
(2014)
Not Rated | Musical
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Joyce DiDonato, Fabio Luisi, Deborah Voigt, Rachelle Durkin
Votes: 30
17.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Mozart: Idomeneo
(2017)
Not Rated | Musical
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: James Levine, Eric Owens, Nadine Sierra, Alice Coote
Votes: 19
18. Billy Bishop Goes to War (2010 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, History, Musical
Pajama-clad and elderly, WWI Flying Ace Billy Bishop wanders around his relic-filled attic reminiscing about his battle years.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: John Gray, Eric Peterson
Votes: 40
19.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Verdi: Il Trovatore
(2011)
Not Rated | 143 min | Musical
The gypsy Azucena has harbored a grudge for thirty years, but she is about to have revenge at last. Meanwhile, her son Manrico is in love with Leonora, but so is his arch-enemy, the Count Di Luna. A pot-boiler, where every tune is a hit.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Marcelo Álvarez, Sondra Radvanovsky, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Dolora Zajick
Votes: 34
20.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
(2012)
Not Rated | 186 min | Musical
An old-fashioned opera even in Mozart's day, but one that pleased the aristocrats. A plot to murder Roman Emperor Tito nearly succeeds, the Capitol burns, the traitors are caught, Tito forgives all. Give Mozart a break, he needed the cash.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Harry Bicket, Susan Graham, Barbara Frittoli, Elina Garanca
Votes: 25
21.
Slings and Arrows (2003–2006)
Episode:
Geoffrey Returns
(2003)
TV-MA | 45 min | Comedy
After Oliver's death, arrangements are made incl. funeral. Who'll be the new artistic director at the Festival?
Director: Peter Wellington | Stars: Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette, Martha Burns, Rachel McAdams
Votes: 89
22.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Bellini: La sonnambula
(2009)
Not Rated | 148 min | Musical
Amina sleep-walks her way into the bedroom of a nobleman who is staying at the village inn. Enraged and humiliated, her fiancé breaks the engagement. The nobleman attests to her innocence, and Amina offers a demonstration of sleep-walking.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Evelino Pidò, Deborah Voigt, Jennifer Black, Jeremy Galyon
Votes: 26
23.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Berlioz: La damnation de Faust
(2008)
Not Rated | Musical
French composer Hector Berlioz puts a unique spin on the familiar tale of Faust, the scholar/scientist who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for love and knowledge. The story is told in 8 episodic scenes, in Cirque Du Soleil style.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: James Levine, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson, Marcello Giordani
Votes: 25
24. The Young Romantic (2008)
88 min | Documentary
A documentary portrait of Chinese pianist Yundi Li that captures the poetic intensity of this young virtuoso as he works with the great Maestro Seiji Ozawa to prepare for his debut with the... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Yundi Li, Seiji Ozawa, Peter Oundjian, Jay Chou
Votes: 29
25.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Mozart: Don Giovanni
(2011)
Not Rated | Musical
The nobleman Don Giovanni has apparently lost all his manners: not only does he rape the Commander's daughter and murder the old man; later on he invites his statue to dinner. It's completely inappropriate, and there will be Hell to pay.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Fabio Luisi, Renée Fleming, Luca Pisaroni, Marina Rebeka
Votes: 28
26.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Dvorák: Rusalka
(2014)
Not Rated | Musical
The original story of the little mermaid. She is in love with a human and makes a deal with a witch to be able to be human. The deal is she has to convince him that she is his love but she has to give up Her voice to become human.
Directors: Barbara Willis Sweete, Otto Schenk | Stars: Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Susan Graham, Dísella Lárusdóttir, Renée Tatum
Votes: 40
27.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Rossini: Semiramide
(2018)
Not Rated | Musical
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Maurizio Benini, Christopher Maltman, Ryan Speedo Green, Javier Camarena
Votes: 23
28.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Puccini: La Fanciulla del West
(2011)
Not Rated | Musical
Minnie, the titular "Girl of the Golden West" is saloon-keeper, nurse, and Bible school teacher to a camp of miners during the California Gold Rush. When the mysterious Mr. Johnson arrives,... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Deborah Voigt, Marcello Giordani, Lucio Gallo, Michael Forest
Votes: 28
29.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Verdi: Nabucco
(2017)
Not Rated | Musical
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: James Levine, Eric Owens, Dmitry Belosselskiy, Russell Thomas
Votes: 27
30.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
(2010)
Not Rated | Musical
The aristocratic Marschallin is increasingly aware of things: middle-age is approaching, her beauty is fading, and her young lover Octavian has fallen in love with someone younger and prettier than she. She knew this would happen one day.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Edo de Waart, Plácido Domingo, Mary Jo Heath, Susan Graham
Votes: 24
31.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
(2011)
Not Rated | Musical
Iphigenie, banished daughter of Klytemnaestra, is now high priestess to Diana. Two strangers from Greece wash up on shore; when Iphigenie recognizes one as her brother, Orestes, she is ... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Susan Graham, Natalie Dessay, Plácido Domingo, Paul Groves
Votes: 17
32. Great Performances (1971– )
TV-G | 180 min | Music, Musical
Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.
Stars: Julie Andrews, Scott Yoo, Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo
Votes: 893
33.
Slings and Arrows (2003–2006)
Episode:
Oliver's Dream
(2003)
TV-MA | 45 min | Comedy
Geoffrey is ready with a new play but they're two months behind with rent and the landlord wants them out. Meanwhile, the more flexible Oliver is ready with a corporate sponsored A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Director: Peter Wellington | Stars: Paul Gross, Stephen Ouimette, Martha Burns, Rachel McAdams
Votes: 117
34.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
(2010)
Not Rated | Musical
Verdi's opera tells the story of Simon Boccanegra (literally: Simon the Black-Mouth), a reformed pirate who becomes chief magistrate of Genoa. Infants swapped at birth, estranged families, ... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: James Levine, Renée Fleming, Stephen Gaertner, Richard Bernstein
Votes: 15
35.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Verdi: Otello
(2012)
Not Rated | Musical
The villain Iago plots to ruin the Moorish general Otello. Verdi had to be coaxed out of retirement by his publisher for a new opera; Verdi agreed after meeting librettist Boito, and the two of them settled on Shakespeare for their subject.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Semyon Bychkov, Sondra Radvanovsky, Stephen Gaertner, Michael Fabiano
Votes: 24
36.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Berlioz: Les Troyens
(2013)
Not Rated | Musical
Berlioz' last large-scale work was an attempt to rise above what he viewed as shallow, crowd pleasing "grand" operas in vogue at the time. This is his retelling of nothing less than the Trojan Wars of antiquity; the style hints at Wagner.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Fabio Luisi, Joyce DiDonato, Richard Bernstein, Deborah Voigt
Votes: 17
37. Elizabeth Rex (2004 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Diane D'Aquila, Brent Carver, Peter Hutt, Scott Wentworth
Votes: 36
38.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Wagner: Parsifal
(2013)
Not Rated | Musical
Many arguments have been made about Wagner's last opera: claims of racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny. The story is simple, really: the Knights who were supposed to guard the Holy Relics managed to lose one; now God wants it back, or else.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Daniele Gatti, Eric Owens, René Pape, Ryan Speedo Green
Votes: 38
39.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Puccini: La bohème
(2014)
Not Rated | Musical
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Stefano Ranzani, Joyce DiDonato, Massimo Cavalletti, Vittorio Grigòlo
Votes: 19
40.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Rossini: La donna del lago
(2015)
Not Rated | 201 min | Musical
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Michele Mariotti, Patricia Racette, Joyce DiDonato, Juan Diego Flórez
Votes: 26
41. The Planets (1994 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama, Music
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Paul Duchesnay, Isabelle Duchesnay, Brian Orser, Sonia Rodriguez
Votes: 25
42.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
(2009)
Not Rated | Musical
Gluck's first "reform" opera, meaning the music of the baroque era with its embellishments and improvisations is replaced with a simpler and more direct vocal style. This production is ... See full summary »
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: James Levine, Joyce DiDonato, Stephanie Blythe, Heidi Grant Murphy
Votes: 26
43.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Philip Glass: Satyagraha
(2011)
Not Rated | 232 min | Musical
Based on the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Dante Anzolini, Eric Owens, Richard Croft, Bradley Garvin
Votes: 52
44.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Verdi: Ernani
(2012)
Not Rated | 229 min | Musical
The opera that pushed Verdi onto the world stage. Ernani, outlawed nobleman, heads a resistance effort against Don Carlo, who killed Ernani's father. He also plans to elope with Elvira. Unfortunately, Don Carlo also is in love with Elvira.
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Marco Armiliato, Joyce DiDonato, Marcello Giordani, Angela Meade
Votes: 21
45.
The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006– )
Episode:
Wagner: Tannhäuser
(2015)
Not Rated | Musical
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: James Levine, Susan Graham, Michelle DeYoung, Johan Botha
Votes: 23
46. Inside Hana's Suitcase (2009)
93 min | Documentary
INSIDE HANA'S SUITCASE A Theatrical Documentary Synopsis "Inside Hana's Suitcase", is the poignant story of two young children who grew up in pre-WWII Czechoslovakia and the terrible events... See full summary »
Director: Larry Weinstein | Stars: Jindriska Hanusová, Linda Drexlerova, Daniel Hajek, Karim Tarakji
Votes: 155
47. My War Years: Arnold Schoenberg (1992 TV Movie)
83 min | Music
Director: Larry Weinstein
Votes: 18
48.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
Don Giovanni Unmasked
(2001)
TV-G | Music, Musical
Director: Barbara Willis Sweete | Stars: Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Gary Relyea, Alain Coulombe, Michael Colvin
Votes: 38
49. The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin (1997)
77 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Documentary on how composer Dmitri Shostakovich used his Fourth to Ninth Symphony as a silent protest against the crimes of Stalin.
Director: Larry Weinstein | Stars: Valery Gergiev, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Flora Litvinova, Graham Haley
Votes: 133
50. The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia (2002)
75 min | Documentary
The meaning of art itself comes into question in this documentary about Shelby Lee Adams' controversial photos of families in Appalachia.
Director: Jennifer Baichwal | Stars: Shelby Lee Adams, Chad Baker, Donnie Benton, Burley Childers
Votes: 237