Opera prima donna leaves the Metropolitan to form her own company with Tibbett as leading man. She leaves this company too which means Tibbett and company must carry on without her.

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Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

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Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

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Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.

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Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

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Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft.

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Isaac Albéniz was a child prodigy, and the victim of a tyrannical father. He flees from his house, to America.

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Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.

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Biopic about Ludwig van Beethoven.

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Legendary trumpeter Art Hazzard teaches young Rick Martin everything he knows about playing, so Rick becomes a star musician, but a troubled marriage and the desire to play pure jazz instead of commercial swing songs cause him problems.

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Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons.

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Film biography of Eileen Joyce, the celebrated Australian pianist, concentrating on her childhood in the Tasmanian bush and the Kalgoorlie goldfields.

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This music filled biopic follows the life of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso from childhood poverty in Naples to the beginning of his rise to fame.

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Young Frederic Chopin comes of age during a tumultous time in Polish history.

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Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot.

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Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.

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Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.

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The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century.

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