Steve Trovato teaches the style of Eric Clapton favorite Albert Lee in this instructional program for guitar players.

In this celebrated 1976 production of Verdi’s SIMON BOCCANEGRA, Piero Cappuccilli sings the title role alongside Katia Ricciarelli and Giorgio Merighi, with Japan’s NHK Symphony Orchestra.

Pianist Michael Gees and tenor Christoph Prégardien perform Schubert's famed song cycle, based on the poems of Wilhelm Müller.

David Letterman's Late Night drummer offers instruction and tips to beginning drummers.

Ellen Gould writes and performs this uplifting New York-based one-woman musical, based around the stories her two immigrant grandmothers ('Bubbes') told her as she was growing up. Songs include 'You're Dancing Inside Me', 'The Bridge Song (The Bubbe Rag)', 'Chocolate Covered Cherries' and 'Take More Out of Life'.

Keane plays host to a killer line-up of fellow British musicians in this concert film, a benefit for the aid organization War Child. The piano band performs their own radio hits (including a crowd-slaying cover of Bowie's "Under Pressure"), plays back-up to Brendan Benson and Lily Allen, and introduces the Pet Shop Boys, the Magic Numbers, and Guillemots for a full night of charitable rock.

Tim Burton's film version of the Stephen Sondheim musical starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Based on a 'penny dreadful' tale (which later became an urban myth) from the mid-19th Century, this musical tells the tale of Benjamin Barker (Depp), a barber who returns to London after spending years in exile for a crime he didn't commit. He soon discovers from pie-maker Mrs Lovett (Bonham Carter) that, in his absence, his wife has taken her own life and his daughter is now in the care of the man who had him sent away - the dastardly Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman). Seeking revenge and filled with a murderous rage, Barker sets up a barber's shop above Mrs Lovett's premises. Now calling himself Sweeney Todd, Barker kills off all his customers with a razor to the throat and sends their cadavers to the shop below to be used as a tasty new filling for Mrs Lovett's meat pies. What was once the worst pie shop in London quickly becomes one of the city's most popular eateries, but Barker won't be satisfied until he can lure Judge Turpin into the barber's chair...

Uncover the rich past of one of metalcore's hottest bands with this phenomenal career retrospective. Old and new meet in this program that combines Unearth's devastating 2007 live show with a documentary on their humble beginnings in Massachusetts. Exclusive interviews, music videos, and a photo slideshow help fill out this story of a struggling metal band, their early days on the road, and explosive rise to the top. Performed in Pomona, California, the concert includes the songs "Giles," "Sanctity Of Brothers" "Zombie Autopilot," and many others.

Australian band the Drones perform live in Madrid at the Gruta 77 club on this release. The show was captured on camera in 2007 and features songs such as "Dog Eared," and "Jezebel."

Rescued from the CBC television archives, this comic take on opera features the irrepressible Anna Russell delivering laughs along with horrible renditions of her favorite arias. Here, she is featured in three live performances and three interviews on which she puts her distinctive satirical spin.

The third volume of this series showcases more of the best performances of opera great over a span of ten years. During live performances of the Bell Telephone Hour, stars such as Victoria De Los Angeles, Brian Sullivan, Phyllis Curtin, Regine Crespin, Jan Peerce, Brigit Nilsson, Charles Anthony, Richard Tucker, and Anna Moffo lend their vocals to masterworks like RIGOLETTO, HANDEL'S MESSIAH, LA BOHEME, TOSCA, and FAUST along with the Donald Voorhees and the Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra and Chorus.

Eileen Farrell had a number of dimensions as a singer. Unlike most opera singers, Farrell often sang pop songs and in concert freely mixed Gershwin in with Puccini. Here, in a concert with the Orchestra of Radio-Canada, she does the same, torching "But Not for Me" after a concert of arias.

BLOOD & DIRT offers a career retrospective of the defunct San Francisco thrash metal band Vio-Lence. Directed by TALES FROM THE PIT filmmaker Jerry Allen, the documentary traces Vio-Lence's history through behind-the-scenes home-video footage; live concert clips culled from performances at Slim's and the Thrash of the Titans festival; and interviews with band members, fans, rock journalists, and thrash cohorts Exodus, Testament, Forbidden, and Death Angel.

Recorded for Czechoslovak Television in1955, Antonin Dvorak's sparkling Slavonic Dances are here presented by the influential conductor Vaclav Talich, who helped to guide the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra for decades during his lifetime. Also included is Martin Suchanek's documentary on Talich's personal and artistic life, entitled SELF-CONFIDENCE AND HUMILITY. The title is taken from one of Talich's quotes describing the role of the conductor, who must have self confidence in directing the orchestra, but humility in the face of the composer whose work he is interpreting.

A visually spectacular interpretation of Wagner's opera, staged by the Catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus, in Valencia's Palau de les Arts. Zubin Mehta conducts the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana, with performances by Juha Uusitalo, Anna Larsson, Franz-Josef Kapelmann, and John Daszak.

Dancer Bob Fosse directed this stylised, semi-autobiographical musical about a brilliant stage musical director (Roy Scheider) who drives himself to exhaustion. With Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking and Ben Vereen. Winner of four Oscars.

FALSTAFF was Verdi's last opera, written six years after OTHELLO, and is featured on DVD in this production from 2001, the 100th anniversary of Verdi's death. As staged by Herbert Wernicke at the Festival de Musique d'Aix-en-Provence, this was one his last production before his untimely death in 2002. The Orchestre de Paris was conducted by Enrique Mazzola.

Nick Nolan presents the ideas and concepts needed to develop really driving rhythm guitar parts that lock in with the bass and drums. Nick also shows a variety of chord voicing and techniques designed to add personality to any rhythm part. Includes: power chords, full chord voicing, common 'color' tones, mixing bass bass lines and power chords, and rock, funk and ballad styles.

Flamboyant rock musical marking the film debut for maverick pop singer Prince. Prince stars as The Kid, an ambitious and talented young musician from a harsh, poverty-stricken background struggling to win love and musical recognition in Minneapolis. When he meets fellow aspiring singer Appollonia (Appollonia Kitero), he is completely smitten - but when he replicates the abusive behaviour of his father (Clarence Williams III), he looks set to lose her forever. Can he win her back from his arch enemy, lead singer of rival group 'The Time' Morris Day? Essentially a vehicle for the tracks from his album of the same name, the film is loosely based on events in Prince's early career.

Rob Marshall directs this big-budget musical based on the classic Fellini film 8 1/2. Set in early 1960s Venice, the film follows famous film director Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis) as he struggles to complete his latest project on the eve of his 40th birthday. Meanwhile, he must also juggle the various colourful women in his life: his wife Luisa (Marion Cotillard), his mistress Carla (Penelope Cruz), his muse Claudia (Nicole Kidman), his producer Liliane (Judi Dench), his mother (Sophia Loren) and even a prostitute who resurfaces from the depths of his past (Stacy Ferguson). Kate Hudson co-stars as the American journalist who interviews him about his life and work.

Stuffy parents in Victorian London are looking for a nanny, but the children write their own ad which is torn up and thrown into the fire. Miraculously, the paper reassembles and floats up the chimney flue, and along comes Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) on her umbrella/parachute. She brings fun and magic to the children's lives, as well as a guiding hand. The film won Oscars for Best Actress, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Song and Best Visual Effects.

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.

Feature musical starring Cher, Kristen Bell and Christina Aguilera. Small-town dreamer Ali Rose (Aguilera) leaves behind her home in rural Iowa and strikes out for Los Angeles in the hope of advancing her showbiz career. There she eventually finds work as a waitress in the faded but majestic Burlesque Lounge owned by retired dancer Tess (Cher), and quickly falls in love with the glitz and glamour of burlesque.

Before long she takes to the stage as a singer and dancer, much to the consternation of envious fellow employee Nikki (Bell) - but will her talents be enough to revive the ailing venue?