Valery Gergiev

After twenty years in power, Vladimir Putin continues to implement his geopolitical strategy with Russia’s comeback on the big stage of world ...

Music is not “just” music. It can have immense power in good or evil. This documentary by Maria Stodtmeier and Isa Willinger ...

Aleksey Temnikov is a renowned ballet dancer and an acknowledged genius whose career was abruptly cut short after sustaining an injury in the ...

The Italian Character: a film within music and about music. The Italian character is the story of one of the most renowned orchestras in the ...

Valery Gergiev is widely recognised as the greatest modern interpreter of Tchaikovsky’s music and the Mariinsky holds a peerless reputation in ...

Russian Lessons sees its two filmmaker-protagonists, Olga Konskaya and Andrei Nekrasov, report from different posts on the frontline of the 2008 ...

Ballerina is a 2006 documentary film that follows the training sessions, rehearsals, and everyday lives of five Russian ballerinas at different ...

In September 2002 the famous Russian conductor Valery Gergiev gave some master classes in Rotterdam to three young, and talented, but just ...

1997 documentary film about Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It focuses on the period between 1936 and 1945, during which Shostakovich ...

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka’s magical masterpiece in its entirety, inspired by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin’s poem of a Russian tale. ...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s dazzling opera by-line in seven tableaux. The epic journey of Sadko a sea-faring minstrel from Novgorod, his wife ...

This is the Andrei Tarkovsky production of the famous Pushkin/Mussorgsky opera, performed in 1990. Modest Mussorgsky’s opera in prologue ...