Richard Wagner Season at BFI Southbank

Having accompanied the UK premiere screening of "The Life and Works of Richard Wagner" (1913) in October 2002 at the Barbican Centre's Cinema 1, it was my great privilege to repeat the experience five years later - in October 2007 - at BFI Southbank. Once again, I weaved my own piano improvisation around extracts from Wagner's music, which I played as the appropriate scenes from his music dramas were being depicted in the film.
Also in October 2007, I accompanied two parts of "Die Nibelungen" - "Siegfried" and "Kriemhild's Revenge" - as filmed brilliantly by the great Fritz Lang in 1924, providing my own piano improvisation. The films were two-and-a-half and three hours long respectively, and I was called upon to perform them together with a short break in between!