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- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanElmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sing, they dance, they eat the scenery.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancArthur Q. BryanBugs Bunny gives Elmer Fudd a close shave as they sing and act out Rossini's opera.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsMel BlancWhen Bugs attempts to perform Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, he is troubled by a mouse.
- DirectorChuck JonesStarsMel BlancNicolai ShutorevBugs Bunny retaliates against the pompous opera star who does him violence.
- DirectorRobert ClampettStarsArthur Q. BryanRobert ClampettBea BenaderetElmer Fudd introduces two pieces of classical music: "Tales of the Vienna Woods" and "The Blue Danube", and acted out by Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Laramore the Hound Dog, a family of swans, and a juvenile Daffy Duck.
- DirectorFriz FrelengStarsBea BenaderetSara BernerMel BlancThe story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf, this time performed as pantomime to the Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms.
- DirectorClyde GeronimiStarsSterling HollowayIvanMischaAnimated version of the fairy tale of the Russian boy Peter and his hunt for a raiding wolf, presented to the music of Sergei Prokofiev.
- DirectorSuzie TempletonAn animated retelling set to Prokofiev's suite.
- DirectorGeorge DaughertyJean FlynnStarsKirstie AlleyLloyd BridgesGeorge DaughertyAnimated adaptation of Prokofiev's musical score. Peter awakens to the first day of spring and the beautiful morning turns into an amazing adventure as Peter and his friends - a bird, a cat and deliriously dizzy duck - outwit a mighty wolf.
- DirectorSteve BendelackRoger LawChristopher SwannStarsClaudio AbbadoHenry FeaginsRoy HuddProkofiev's universally beloved "musical tale," brought to life by puppets and human actors in a fairy tale world. Sting lends his voice to a Sting puppet for the witty, enlightening commentary that guides the viewer through this charming tale. The Italian version has commentary by Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful), acted out by a Benigni puppet.
- DirectorDick FeldmanBurt SheveloveStarsArt CarneyThe Baird PuppetsBil BairdA human, played by Art Carney, makes friends with a forest full of talking animals (played by the Bil Baird Marionettes). Together, they must decide what to do about the troublemaking wolf. This leads to a marionette presentation of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf".
- DirectorRoss MacGibbonStarsDavid JohnsonLayla HarrisonKaran LinghamA ballet version of the famous classic, with narration by Anthony Dowell, who also dances the role of the Grandfather.
- DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenDiane KeatonGeorges AdetIn czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
- DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiClaudia CardinaleJosé LewgoyThe story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
- DirectorStanley KubrickStarsJack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny LloydA family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsF. Murray AbrahamTom HulceElizabeth BerridgeThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
- DirectorJames AlgarSamuel ArmstrongFord Beebe Jr.StarsLeopold StokowskiDeems TaylorThe Philadelphia OrchestraA series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsJared GilmanKara HaywardBruce WillisTwo 12-year-olds, who live on an island, fall in love with each other and elope into the wilderness. While people set out on a search mission, a violent storm approaching them catches their attention.
- DirectorTodd FieldStarsCate BlanchettNoémie MerlantNina HossSet in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and the very first female director of a major German orchestra.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsHelmut BergerRomy SchneiderTrevor HowardThe reign of the tormented Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from 1864 to 1886.
- DirectorBertrand BlierStarsGérard DepardieuCarole LaurePatrick DewaereA worried husband finds a lover for his depressed wife, but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby.
- DirectorBo WiderbergStarsPia DegermarkThommy BerggrenLennart MalmerThe Danish tightrope dancer Elvira Madigan meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away.
- DirectorKen RussellStarsRobert PowellGeorgina HaleLee MontagueComposer Gustav Mahler's (Robert Powell) life, told in a series of flashbacks as he and his wife (Georgina Hale) discuss their failing marriage during a train journey.