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Film of Umberto Giordano's opera.

The 12th century medieval music-drama, Ordo virtutum (The ritual of the virtues) is arguably the oldest surviving 'opera'. Sung throughout to music which combines the meditational qualities of Gregorian chant with lyrical emotional expression.

• Cosi fan tutte. Aura amorosa / Mozart (3:58)
• Soirees musicales. Promessa (3:42) ; Danza (3:32) / Rossini
• Dolente immagine di fille mia (3:30) ; Malinconia, ninfa gentile (1:56) ; Vanne, o rosa fortunata (2:31) ; Bella Nice che d'amore (2:59) ; Ma rendi pur contento (2:35) / Bellini
• Lombardi all prima crociata. Mia letizia infondere / Verdi (2:49)
• Werther. Pourquoi me reveiller? / Massenet (3:00)
• Nevicata (2:34) ; Pioggia (2:47) ; Nebbie (2:53) / Respighi.

• Martha. M'appari' tutt' amor / Von Flotow (3:21)
• Serenata (3:42) / Mascagni
• Girometta (2:24) / Sibella
• occhi di fata (3:43) / Denza
• Tosca. Recondita armonia (2:51) / Puccini
• 'A vucchella (2:37) / D'Annunzio/Tosti
• Marechiare (3:31) / Tosti
• Manon Lescaut. Donna non vidi mai (2:26) / Puccini
• O sole mio (3:08) / Di Capua/Capurro
• Elisir d'amore. Furtiva lagrima (4:38) / Donizetti.

Focusing on composer Edvard Grieg's early life, the story traces his struggle for recognition and his rise to triumph as one of Europe's most popular musical talents.

• Aïda
• Carmen
• Trovatore
• Cavalleria
• Turandot
• Requiem (Verdi)
• "Granada"
• Gioconda.

• Tickle toe
• Indiana
• Moten swing
• Solitude
• Blues in the dark
• Harvard blues
• Lafayette
• Lullaby of the leaves
• Piano boogie
• Pagin' the devil
• Froggy Bottom
• King Porter stomp
• Prince of wails
• Queer notions
• Yeah man.

Contemporary jazz musicians recreate an all-night jam session as it might have happened in a 1930's Kansas City club.

• Gianni Schicchi. O mio babbino caro / Puccini (1:57)
• L'ultima canzone / Tosti (4:16)
• Le Maschere. Overture / Mascagni (6:20)
• La regata veneziana / Rossini (9:43)
• Il tabarro. Nulla! Silenzio / Puccini (5:31)
• Tosca. Act II Finale / Puccini (19:08).

In 1965, Renata Tebaldi, joined by baritone Louis Quilico, made a rare appearance on Canadian television in an evening of music by Puccini, Rossini and others.

Explains the historical background of the 13th-century musical drama and presents a fully-staged recreation of The play of Daniel.

• Devil got my woman ; I'm so glad ; Worried blues / Skip James
• Baby you're killing me ; Old lady blues ; Please don't put your daddy outdoors ; 100th man / Bukka White
• Forever on my mind / Howlin' Wolf
• Meet me in the bottom ; How many more years ; Dust my broom / Rev. Pearly Brown
• Keep your lamp trimmed and burning ; Pure religion ; It's a mean old world / Pearly Brown.

Original footage produced and directed by Alan Lomax. Recorded at the Newport Folk Festival in 1966.

• I Puritani. Qui la voce-- Vien, diletto / Bellini
• Semiramide. Bel raggio-- Dolce pensiero / Rossini
• Don Pasquale. Com'è gentil-- Tornami a dir / Donizetti
• La sonnambula. Prendi, l'anel ti dono / Bellini
• The gypsy and the bird / Benedict
• Crispino e la comare. Io non sono più l'Annetta / Ricci
• La traviata. Ah, fors'è lui-- Sempre libera / Verdi.

Historical survey of the bel canto era and a tribute to the divas of the time.

A danced performance of the Baroque opera Dido and Aeneas. Dido, the noble queen of Carthage, has fallen in love with the Trojan Prince Aeneas. While the court celebrates the imminent union of the two monarchs, the evil sorceress with her coven of witches plots their downfall. Romance leads to hearbreak and tragedy.

• Norm's Norm (4:26)
• Lorraine (3:42)
• Blues after dark (7:08)
• Tocatta [sic] from Gillespiana (4:58).

• Tosca. Vissi d'arte / Giacomo Puccini (Leontyne Price)
• Barber of Seville. Una voce poco fa / Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (Roberta Peters)
• Barber of Seville. Largo al factotum / Rossini (Robert Merrill)
• Linda di Chamounix. O luce di quest'anima / Gaetano Donizetti (Beverly Sills)
• Daughter of the regiment. Lo dice ognum / Donizetti (Anna Moffo)
• I pagliacci. Vesti la giubba / Ruggiero Leoncavallo (Richard Tucker)
• La forza del destino. Pace, pace / Giuseppe Verdi (Birgit Nilsson)
• La forza del destino. Duetto finale / Verdi (Jan Peerce, Robert Merrill)
• Tosca. Vissi d'arte / Puccini (Maria Callas)
• Norma. Mira, o Norma / Vincenzo Bellini (Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne)
• La traviata. Dite alla giovine / Verdi (Roberta Peters, Robert Merrill)
• La traviata. Sempre libera / Verdi (Joan Sutherland)
• Mingon [i.e. Mignon]. Je suis Titania / Ambroise Thomas (Lily Pons)
• Andrea Chénier. Finale / Umberto Giordano (Renata Tebaldi, Franco Corelli)
• Madama Butterfly. Un bel dì / Puccini (Eileen Farrell)
• La Bohème. O soave fanciulla / Puccini (Franco Corelli, Dorothy Kirsten)
• Lucia de [i.e. di] Lammermoor. Mad scene / Donizetti (Joan Sutherland)
• La forza del destino. Pace, pace / Verdi (Eileen Farrell)
• Medley : Aïda, La traviata, Carmen (Robert Merrill, Judith De Paul, Lilian Sukis, Nedda Casei).

18 of the greatest names in the opera world sing the arias that made them famous. This collection is in color.

• La molinara. Nel cor più non mi sento / Giovanni Paisiello
• Il barcaiolo / Gaetano Donizetti
• Rossini chorale
• Pagliacci. O colombina / Ruggero Leoncavallo
• La giana
• O del mio amato bien / Stephen Donaudy
• Sole e amore / Giacomo Puccini
• Non t'amo più / Francesco Paolo Tosti.

Filmed in his home town of Modena, Luciano Pavarotti reveals the heritage of Italian tenors who have directly influenced him and performs six songs himself. The narrative includes rarely seen footage of his early appearances and interviews with his accompanist and his teacher, as well as archival film excerpts of Caruso, Schipa, Gigli, and Di Stefano.

Rigoletto, the court jester, plans revenge against his daughter's seducer, the Duke.

Agustín Castellón Campos, "Sabicas", pioneered the use of the flamenco guitar as a solo instrument. The film features solos and other works.

• Maestro di musica (Pergolesi)
• Zauberflöte, Entführung, Barbiere (4 excerpts 1 with Hermann Prey, 1 with Erika Köth and Prey)
• Omegin (2 excerpts, 1 with Prey), song.

This video features Fritz Wunderlich in some rare kinescopes and films. It includes three sets of highlights from actual stage performances.

"This vibrant new opera by American composer Robert Greenleaf is a coming-of-age story set on the banks of the Chattahoochee River in 1943. The plot turns on the romance of two young lovers, Hallelujah Jernigan and her distant cousin, Robert Patterson Lee."--Container.