Movies and TvShows featuring "baroque-music" theme.

The Mouth of the Wolf is a semi-documentary drama set in Genoa, Italy. It follows the story of a transgender woman and her relationship with a criminal. The film explores themes of memory, jealousy, and poverty while also delving into the city's working-class and shipbuilding industries. The documentary-style approach adds a realistic touch to the story, which is further enriched by the use of archive footage and a voice-over narration. The film also touches upon subjects such as prostitution, heroin addiction, and the baroque music scene.

The Bridge of Arts is a drama film set in 1970s Paris. It follows the story of a student of baroque music who falls in love with another student. As their romance blossoms, they navigate the challenges of their artistic pursuits, dealing with themes of tragedy and the complexities of relationships. The film explores the vibrant music scene in Paris during the era and delves into the personal struggles and sacrifices made by the characters in their pursuit of their passion.

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (2005) is a comedy TV movie that follows the story of a bourgeois man named Monsieur Jourdain. He dreams of becoming a member of the aristocracy and hires various tutors to teach him music, dance, and philosophy. Unbeknownst to him, these tutors are actually con artists who trick him into spending vast amounts of money. As the story unfolds, Monsieur Jourdain's illusions are shattered, and he learns valuable lessons about society and his place in it. With its witty dialogue and hilarious situations, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (2005) is a delightful comedy that satirizes the pretensions of the upper class.

Stéphane Lissner, director of the Paris Opera, entrusts the staging of the opera-ballet Les Indes galantes to the visual artist Clément Cogitore. Based on the experience of his short film Les Indes galantes, the artist updates Jean-Philippe Rameau's baroque masterpiece (1735) by bringing together lyric song and urban dance. The choreography is entrusted to Bintou Dembélé who supervises dancers from krump, popping, voguing or even experimental hip hop. From rehearsals to the Premiere, Philippe Béziat films the meeting of urban dancers with the lyric institution and invites the spectator to share a human and artistic experience.

British biopic of composer George Frideric Handel

A staging of Pierre Corneille's play "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme" by Denis Podalydès.

LA Opera proudly presents The Anonymous Lover (L'Amant Anonyme), an unjustly neglected 1780 chamber opera by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a pioneering Black composer who was a contemporary of Mozart. The comic romance tells the story of Léontine, a beautiful young widow who has become disillusioned with love. Much to her surprise, she receives a steady stream of letters and gifts from an unknown man professing his undying passion. This amuses her friend Valcour, who also claims to have no interest in romance. But now, after hiding his true feelings for years, Valcour works up the courage to reveal that he himself is the devoted secret admirer. Will his (inevitably awkward) confession sway a woman sworn to resist all affairs of the heart?

'Live to be a hundred' gives us an unique inside view of the various activities that the multi-talented Ton Koopman carries out in the course of one year. We follow the famous Baroque musician on tour with his Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir and see him at work as a guest conductor in Madrid and as a Musicology professor in Leiden. Moreover, we witness the preparations to a concert in France, have an up-close view of the virtuoso harpsichordist at work during a master class at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and follow him as he organizes the recording of the Haydn Organ Concertos in a church in Haarlem.

In this unique documentary, French filmmaker Benoit Jacquot interviews Alfred Deller, the internationally celebrated contemporary countertenor who focused his talent on showcasing Renaissance and Baroque music to modern audiences. One of the few films on Deller, it includes footage of him performing selections from Campion, Rosseter, Morley and Purcell. Deller toured the globe with his group, the Deller Consort, from the 1950s through the '70s.

A memorable intellectual journey to rediscover Baroque music, from the handmade fabrication of a harpsichord by master luthier Titus Crijnen to the interpretation of several scores by Bach and other Baroque composers by the Spanish ensemble La Reverencia.

Serge Kakudji is a twenty-year-old Congolese counter tenor who fell in love with opera as a young boy, listening to audiotapes of opera recordings in his room in Lubumbashi. Later he traveled to Europe to achieve his dream of becoming a top opera singer. Although Serge's artistic ambitions are pure and uncomplicated, the reactions among his environment and audiences are often ambiguous and divided. While some people respect and acknowledge his artistic vocation, others see him as an exotic oddity, or complain that that his African timbre jars with classical opera. Serge refuses to be discouraged by any of this. On the contrary, he wants to hold up a mirror to Western culture and confront it with its underlying beliefs. He also wants to use his story and experiences in the west to bring opera to Congo. Together with his countrymen and women, he wants to found a Congolese opera tradition based on African stories that will inspire people to follow their dreams.