Type: Interview - Comedy
Cast: Jonny & The Baptists, Four Screws Loose, Marcel Lucont, and Sarah-Louise Young
Location: Edinburgh Festival, Scotland
Year: 2014

At the 2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, this Comedy Hour featured performances by Jonny & The Baptists, Four Screws Loose, Marcel Lucont,...

Title: Light Orchestral, World Music
Director: Bobby McFerrin
Soloist: Nigel Kennedy
World Music Performers: Sibylla Rubens, Kroke Quartet, Kuumba Singers, Mari Boine, Bulgarian Voices Angelite, Vocal Sampling, Ensemble Al‑Kindi
Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Venue: Leipzig Market Square...

Type: Classical Orchestral
Orchestra: The New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Lorin Maazel
Location: East Pyongyang Grand Theatre, North Korea
Year: 2008

This iconic performance was a rare act of cultural diplomacy during a brief diplomatic opening. North Korea invited the orchestra, and ...

Type: Arthouse Movie
Location: Sardinia, Italy
Narrator: Jarvis Cocker
Director: Mark Cousins
Year: 2014

This arthouse movie remains an iconic meditative, journey that retraces D.H. Lawrence’s 1921 travels through Sardinia. Narrated by British singer Jarvis Cocker and infused with striking image...

Type: Book reading
Location: London, England
Performed by: Rupert Everett
Reading from: Graham Greene, "Travels with My Aunt"
Year: 2011

Acclaimed actor/writer Rupert Everett brings wit and warmth to this live reading from Graham Greene’s classic novel "Travels with My Aunt". With his signature ...

Type: Play
Location: Summerhall, Edinburgh Festival, Scotland
Director: Josh Azouz
Written by: David Watson
Starring: Tonderai Munyevu, Danielle Vitalis,
Year: 2012

Based on writings by anthropologist Andrew Irving, this festival biopic shares the true story of a Ugandan man whose repeated attem...

Trio Zadig performs this tango-jazz-classical hybrid bursting with energy. The arrangement is intentionally dissonant and discordant moving away from pretty dance tango, into tango nuevo with harsh syncopations, clustered chords and off-balance rhythms. Piazzolla’s music enjoys scratchy bowing an...

Type: Book Reading
Event: World Book Fair, England
Author: John Le Carre
Venue: Trafalgar Square, London
Book: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
Year: 2011

John le Carre doesn't regularly give public readings, so this is something unique. Published in 1963 his classic book remains one of the mos...

Type: Flamenco
Conductor and Lead: Rafael Riqueni
Flamenco Dancer: Maria Moreno
Location: Chaillot, National Theater of Dance, Paris
Year: 2022

Flamenco is one of Spain’s most profound cultural languages with the raw expressive power of the guitar. Master guitarist and composer Rafael Riqueni b...

Type: Documentary
Director: Heather Konkoli
Year: 2017

This documentary is a captivating travelogue hosted by Carly Steel and explores the historical and cultural wonders of Versailles, including the iconic Palace of Versailles and gardens. The film delves into local delights including cheese an...

Type: Opera
Composer: Henry Purcell
Location: Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain
Orchestra: MusicAeterna Orchestra of the Perm Opera
Choir: Choir of the Perm Opera
Soloists: Julia Bullock, Christophe Dumaux, Noah Stewart
Conductor: Teodor Currentzis
Director: Peter Sellars
Co-production: Perm Opera and B...

Type: Orchestra
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle
Location: Hungary
Year: 2005

The Europakonzert from Budapest, The Spirit of Budapest, was named in celebration of the rich cultural and musical heritage of Hungary’s capital city, Budapest, while showcasing the city’s...

Type: Fashion
Cast: Alison Jackson and Philip Colbert
Location: London
Year: 2012

During London Fashion Week 2012, artist Alison Jackson and designer Philip Colbert staged photographs featuring celebrity lookalikes and orchestrated a faux-royal scene by employing lookalikes of Catherine, Duchess...

500 Years of Music at Chambord Castle is a celebration of the château’s rich heritage. Spanning Renaissance to Romantic repertoire, the program features works by Handel, Debussy, and Rossini. With ensembles by Christophe Rousset, and a cast of renowned soloists, the concert offers a luminous trib...

Type: Chamber Ensemble
Location: The Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Performed by: Le Concert de la Loge
Soloists: Marina Viotti (mezzo‑soprano), Amihai Grosz (viola).
Conductor: Julien Chauvin
Year: 2015

This exquisite concert was performed in the luminous Cour Marly of the Musée du Louvre. The p...

Type: Classical Concert
Location: Chambord Castle, France
Performed by: Le Concert Spirituel
Conductor: Christophe Rousset
Year: 2016

Enjoy this visually and musically stunning open-air concert filmed at France’s Château de Chambord. The program features Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks an...

Type: Baroque concert
Location: Chateau de Fontainebleau, France
Orchestra: Le Concert de la Loge
Conductor: Julien Chauvin
Soprano: Emoke Barath
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Year: 2021

The setting of the historic Château de Fontainebleau enhances Vivaldi's baroque music. The program alternates Viv...

Type: Orchestra
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Violinist: Gil Shaham
Location: Teatro Massimo, Sicily
Year: 2002

Watching this concert from opera house Teatro Massimo in Sicily is a musical feast where Beethoven, Brahms, and Dvořák are the chefs, and Claudio Abbado ...

Type: Classical Concert
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Soloists: Herbert von Karajan, Anne-Sophie Mutter.
Performed by: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Location: Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorialin, Spain
Year: 1992

The Europakonzert at El Escorial near Madrid was a grand celebration of c...

Type: Opera
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle
Artist: Daneil Barenboim
Location: Herodes Atticus Odeon, Athens
Year: 2004

Held at the ancient Herodes Atticus Odeon in Athens, Greece, an amphitheater with a rich history, this open-air concert took place beneath the i...

Type: Arthouse Movie
Cast: Mirjam Mesak, Ursina Lardi, Heiko Pinkowski
Director: Alex Ranisch
Location Filmed: Estonia, Germany
Year: 2022

The story of a gifted young singer whose life is ordinary yet heightened by the world of music, desire, and myth. Inspired by the Orpheus legend, the film bl...