Movies: Antonio Vivaldi

For those with any interest in Vivaldi's operas Orlando Furioso is essential viewing, being a 1989 San Francisco Opera revival by Pier Luigi Pizzi of his own 1979 production which was largely responsible for beginning modern interest in Vivaldi's sta...

To celebrate the tercentenary of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, five choreographers - Franck Chartier, Bobbi Jene Smith, Or Schraiber, Imre & Marne Van Opstal and Emilie Leriche - take inspiration from Max Richter's masterful recomposition of this great wor...

A young, idealistic poet, turns his back on civilization and goes to small, backwood village, rents a bed in the house of an old woman, and decides to make his living as a lumberjack. Soon he realizes that the world around him is far from perfect....

Lunardo is an old fashioned patriarch who strictly forbids his wife and daughter to leave his house. When he decides to marry off his daugther Lucietta without allowing her to meet the man first the women around him conspire to allow the young couple...

Set in 1960, the year of the Rome Olympics, a 13 year-old boy with aspirations to become an athlete befriends an ageing, disabled bus driver who understands his ambitions....

On the island of Crete, a day-dreamy boy named Icarus befriends a mysterious creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull named Asterion (aka the Minotaur). When the King asks Icarus’ father, a famous inventor, to work on a secret project, ...

The painter Honoré Fragonard lives in a sort of beehive surrounded by attractive female models, of which Marianne, his mistress and muse, is the queen. Around her, these young ladies are constantly arguing about which of them will be the next to pose...

The main character is a talented, but timid writer of the Filippok experiencing with his country the difficult years of revolution, devastation and war. Adversity helps him overcome the unrequited and faithful love for the widow of Commissioner Zinoc...

"I" is a cat without a name who lives with an English teacher, Mr. Kushami (Mr. Sneeze). "I" can't believe how stupid human beings are and chronicles some of their most incredible foibles. In particular, he is fascinated by Kushami's student Mizushim...

A short music film, a feature illustration of Vivaldi’s opera Stabat Mater performed by Jakub Józef Orliński and Capella Cracoviensis. The music here accompanies events in which the theme of the Sorrowful Mother is originally interpreted by the direc...

Celebrated violinist David Garrett gives an unforgettable concert at the ancient theatre in Taormina, Sicily with a selection of rearranged works by Dvorak, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, Vivaldi and Fritz Kreisler....

A biography of Antonio Vivaldi's early life, when the young priest became the music teacher at a school for the illegitimate daughters of Venice's courtesans....

Silence ('Csend') is an experimental short film by Károly Bárdos from 1968. A short film of associations of images and shapes, sound effects and wonderful compositions....

Documentary about a small town in Austria....

In 1976, Jack Unterweger was convicted for the murder of Margaret Schaefer and sentenced to life in prison. While imprisoned, he committed himself to reading and writing, eventually earning literary respect both inside and outside the penitentiary. I...

Choir director Sofi Jeannin invites cellist Ophélie Gaillard and her Ensemble Pulcinella to a concert featuring several works by Vivaldi, Laura Sirmen Lombardini's Violin Concerto and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Magnificat Quarti Toni....

"Concerto for Water, Sun and Wilderness was my BA thesis film in 1972. It was meant to be an exploration into some of the possible relationships and structures between pure cinema and music."...

Animation for adults, consisting of three short stories: "The Most Beautiful" - about the female beauty of the past and the present, "Sweet Life" - about the contradiction between reality and the dreams of women, "The Deck" - about which place occupi...

Aniceto is used to being lonely. When Francisca offers him her love, his personal limitations and little miseries arise....

In four corners of the globe, in each of the four seasons, four outstanding violinists guide us on an extraordinary journey through their four distinct homelands. From the springtime blossoms of Japan, into the blistering heat and thunderstorms of an...