Rare recording of the 1979 San Francisco performance of La Gioconda by Ponchielli

Lucia Mazzaria and Metropolitan Opera star Marcello Giordani lead the cast in this live 2006 performance. Also featured are Alberto Mastromarino & Julia Gertseva. The orchestra and chorus of the Teatro Massimo "V. Bellini" di Catania are conducted by Donato Renzetti.

With “La Gioconda,” Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886) composed a magnificent romantic melodrama that blends French opera and Verdi-esque drama. Fifty years after its last performance, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples is staging “La Gioconda” with Anna Netrebko in the title role, alongside Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier.

Recorded live at the Vienna State Opera, Placido Domingo and Eva Marton star in a sumptuous recording of Ponchielli's famed four-act melodrama, a story of tyranny and intrigue set in semi-historical and ever-romantic Venice. The action is projected by strong characters whose fundamentally sound instincts become distorted by raw passion. The performance draws upon both human and technical resources including a large ballet and varies in mood from the happy carnival to scenes of the darkest gloom and horror.

Live from the Arena di Verona 2005

The Mona Lisa loses her famous smile, and so does the rest of the world.

A miniseries in three parts about the theft of Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" in 1911.

When the silent cinema learned to speak, the audience was surprised not only by the voices of the actors and the sound effects, but also by a new element, the music, which, combined with the dance and an unprejudiced imagination, gave rise to a new genre, as important to Hollywood cinema as the western was: the musical. A journey through the history of this genre, from its beginnings to the present day.

Tre McCree and his brother have their friend document their lives as they move from Texas to Hollywood to become big stars together. On their way there, they pick up a hitchhiker who happens to be a witch.

Series based on the short French farces written by Georges Feydeau, Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel and Sacha Guitry. All of them include mistaken identities and impeccable timing.