Richard Attenborough's film version of the smash Broadway musical, in which dancers audition for an important new show in front of hard-bitten director Zach (Michael Douglas). The number of hopefuls is reduced to just sixteen and Zach asks each one to step into the spotlight to reveal their hopes and fears. Meanwhile, he has to contend with his own past when his ex-girlfriend turns up looking for a part in the show. Musical numbers include 'Dance Ten, Looks Three' and 'What I Did for Love'.

Musical film starring Annabel Scholey, Hannah Arterton and Leona Lewis. After a whirlwind romance while on holiday in Spain, Maddie (Scholey) accepts the proposal from Italian hunk Raf (Giulio Berruti) and starts planning a wedding in the sun. When her sister Taylor (Arterton) flies over to be with her she is shocked to discover that Maddie's husband-to-be was also her holiday fling. As Taylor tries to ignore the feelings she still holds for Raf, Maddie's ex Doug (Greg Wise) shows up in an attempt to win her back. The soundtrack features music from the 1980s including 'Holiday' by Madonna, 'How Will I Know' by Whitney Houston and the film's title track by Katrina and the Waves.

A double bill of films detailing the life of musical comedienne Fanny Brice. In 'Funny Girl', Fanny (Barbra Streisand) is an aspiring star living in New York in the early 1900s. She has the chance to realize her ambition when she meets playboy Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif), who introduces her to Florenz Ziegfeld (Walter Pidgeon). When Ziegfeld puts Fanny in his Follies, she becomes an instant hit. However, marriage to Nick is not a bed of roses. In the sequel, 'Funny Lady', it is the 1930s, and Fanny is now over Nick. She is due to wed impresario Billy Rose (James Caan), but the union proves to be a tempestuous one. Although Billy provides Fanny with several hit songs, she soon tires of his womanising.

Verdi veteran Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for this production of 'Otello' at the 2008 Salzburg Festival. Stage direction is by Stephen Langridge; soloists include Aleksandrs Antonenko, Marina Poplavskaya and Stephen Costello.

Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic as they perform a selection of favourites at a summer picnic concert at the Berlin Waldbuhne in 2009.

Mean-spirited and stingy, Ebeneezer Scrooge has a sour face and "humbug" for anyone who crosses his path.

But on this Christmas Eve, he will learn the horrible fate that awaits him if he continues his miserly ways.

One by one, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future take the startled Ebeneezer on an incredible journey through time - showing him in one magical night what takes most people a lifetime to learn.

Double Oscar-winning musical drama following the meteoric rise of a 1960s all-girl vocal group. Based on the 1981 Broadway hit musical, the film follows full-figured belter, Effie White (Jennifer Hudson), and her school friends, Deena Jones (Beyonce Knowles) and Lorrell Robinson (Anika Noni Rose), aka The Dreamettes. They're a Chicago amateur vocal group who enter the famous amateur night at the legendary Harlem Apollo in New York singing a song by Effie's brother, CC (Keith Robinson), and come out on top. The four girls meet sweet-talking Curtis Taylor Jr. (Jamie Foxx), a promoter and manager who in no time gets the star-struck gang the gig as back up vocalists for the famous Jimmy 'Thunder' Early (Eddie Murphy). The match is perfect and their combined career takes off. Soon things get complicated when Lorrell begins dating married man Jimmy, and Effie starts getting busy with Curtis. When the two acts part ways, The Dreamettes become the Dreams and consequently famous in their own right, while Jimmy's career tanks in a mire of smooth-pop balladry. Infighting between Effie and Deena over lead privileges, as well as offstage rivalry in love, makes for a lot of tears and heartache for all concerned.

Elvis Presley's seventh film was the first of his "Hawaii trilogy" (including Girls! Girls! Girls! and Paradise, Hawaiian Style). While its story is daft--the King has just been released from his Army posting in Italy and returned to the islands, where he's trying to avoid working in his father's fruit business--the music is not: "Blue Hawaii," "Almost Always True," and the beautiful "Can't Help Falling in Love." Angela Lansbury plays Elvis's mother, who can't seem to get through to him. Directed by the star's frequent collaborator, Norman Taurog (G.I. Blues). --Tom Keogh

From the smash hit stage show comes this larger than life musical epic. Bringing you an all star cast, the songs of ABBA and an extravaganza of dancing and laughter, Mamma Mia! The Movie is the feel good film of the year.

Bride to be Sophie is on a quest to find her father before her big day. There is just one problem... she's just not sure who it is. After secretly reading her mother Donna's (Meryl Streep) old diaries, she discovers he is one of three past loves. Knowing her mother would not approve, she invites them all.

Sophie desperately tries to keep their presence hidden but it's not long before the secret is out and the fun begins.

The film, loosely based on the 1968 Broadway musical Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, centres on two men, Claude (John Savage, The Deer Hunter, a naïve young man from America's 'Bible Belt' and Berger (Treat Williams), the leader of a hippie tribe in New York. Drafted into the army and soon to ship out to Vietnam, Claude spends his last time as a civilian with Berger, learning for the first time about race and class issues in 60s America. He soon meets and falls for Shelia, a rich debutante with a rebellious soul. Welcome to the Age of Aquarius.

The film marked Milos Forman's return to directing after winning an Oscar® for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest in 1975 and was nominated for two Golden Globes in 1980.

Made-for-TV musical adaptation of Elmer Rice's classic play. Broadcast in June 1956, Doretta Morrow plays Nell Valentine, a young schoolteacher who sets off on an adventure to Europe. While on her trip, she meets fellow American Ray Binton (Keith Andes) and the pair quickly fall in love. However, as the couple continue on their journey together, secrets from Ray's past begin to emerge which could put their romance in jeopardy.

Collection of British musicals from the 1930s. In 'Facing the Music' (1933), directed by Harry Hughes, Stanley Lupino stars as Jack who has fallen head over heels in love with Nina (Nancy Burne). In his pursuit of her, Jack discovers that she is the niece of an opera singer looking to bolster her fame. When Jack proposes a fake jewel robbery to Nina during one of her aunt's shows she agrees, but when the jewels really do go missing Jack must recover them before the end of the performance. Thomas Bentley directs 'Sleepless Nights' (1932) in which Lupino stars as Guy Raynor, a reporter in Nice who pretends to be the wealthy husband of Marjorie Drew (Polly Walker) to stop her from running away with a crook. Paul Merzbach directs 'A Star Fell from Heaven' (1936) in which a musical film star suddenly loses his voice. An aspiring singer dubs over his performances and becomes unexpectedly famous in the process. In 'The Student's Romance' (1935), directed by Otto Kanturek, young student Max (Patric Knowles) and Princess Helene (Grete Natzler) fall in love, but must overcome the barrier of her royal status if they are to be together.

Documentary focusing on the jam band music scene. The feature follows musicians Umphrey's McGee, Keller Williams, The Disco Biscuits and Particle as they perform at the first annual Jam in the Dam festival in March 2005. Filmed in Amsterdam's Melkweg, the feature includes interviews with the various artists and fans taking part in addition to the group's live performances.

Stage musical based on the 2000 film of the same name which is set in County Durham during the 1984 miners' strike. Young Billy Elliot (Matteo Zecca/Mitchell Tobin/Bradley Perret/Elliott Hanna) becomes fascinated with the ballet lessons which are being held in the same hall as his boxing class. The ballet teacher, Mrs Wilkinson (Ruthie Henshall), recognises his potential and encourages him to join her class. As his talent gradually reveals itself, it becomes clear that Billy should be attending the Royal Ballet School in London, but with his father (Deka Walmsley)'s opposition and the extreme poverty which descends on the area during the strike, Billy's future is far from certain.

Rita Hayworth stars in this 1940s musical directed by Victor Saville. Set in Britain during World War II, the film follows a theatre group who never fail to put on a show despite the ongoing Blitz, much to the delight of their audience. Meanwhile behind the scenes, one of the performers, American Rosalind Bruce (Hayworth), falls for RAF pilot Paul Lundy (Lee Bowman).

A live TV performance from 1955 of the Rogers and Hart musical, featuring Anne Jeffreys, Robert Sterling and Cornelia Otis Skinner.

Two classic operas --Pietro Mascagni's CAVALLERIA RUSICANA and Ruggero Leoncavallo's PAGLIACCI-- are performed in this vibrant 2009 production directed by Grischa Asagaroff. The 2 operas, which have been traditionally performed together since the late 19th century, star Jose Cura, Paoletta Marrocu and Lilianna Nikiteanu, accompanied by the Orchestra and Chorus of the Zurich Opera House.

Christian Thielemann conducts the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra in these performances of Bruckner's symphonies No. 4 and 7.

Recorded live at the Waldbuhne in Berlin in June 2002, this selection of favourites is performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

Famed conductor James Levine leads the Ensemble Wien-Berlin in interpretations of several key works by grand masters Mozart and Beethoven in this classical performance release. Selections include: Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Wind Instruments in E Flat Major, K. 452, Beethoven's Quintet für Klavier mit Blasinstrumenten Es-Dur, and Beethoven's Quintet for Piano and Wind Instruments in E Flat Major, op. 16.

Kevin Tancharoen directs this updated version of Alan Parker's phenomenally successful 1980 musical. The story centres on a group of highly talented students at the New York Academy of Performing Arts as they prepare for professional careers in dance, music and drama, while also undergoing a full programme of academic learning and dealing with the ups and downs of life and love. As each student strives for his or her moment in the spotlight, they will discover who among them has what it takes to succeed and finally achieve the fame they crave.

Orange County ska-punk outift Reel Big Fish perform to a home crowd at the Grove of Anaheim in Southern California, offering up an energetic 20-song set including 'Sell Out', 'She Has a Girlfriend Now' and a cover of A-ha's 'Take On Me'.

Invited to conduct a performance to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall, Leonard Bernstein leads a multi-national orchestra in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, recorded live at the Schauspielhaus on Christmas Day 1989.

Set high atop the Swiss Alps, Verbier offers a splendid destination for classical-music lovers during its annual summer festival. This compilation presents the 2008 Verbier Festival's best moments, including performances by cellist Mischa Maisky and pianists Yuja Wang, Martha Argerich, and Nikolai Lugansky.