Don Basilio
Cinematic version of Rossini's opera in which Count Almaviva wins the heart of beautiful Rosina with the help of Figaro, the barber of Seville.
Cantante
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Ramfis (singing voice)
Adaptación cinematográfica de la ópera de Verdi. Voces de Renata Tebaldi para Aida (Sophia Loren), Ebe Stignani para Amneris (Lois Maxwell), Giuseppe Campora para Ramadès (Luciano Della Marra), Gino Bechi para Amonasro (Afro Poli) y Giulio Neri para Ramfis (Antonio Cassinelli).
Giacomo Puccini, el hijo de un organista de la Toscana, logra el reconocimiento mundial como compositor de óperas y muere de cáncer de garganta en medio de una crisis artística, a la edad de sólo sesenta y seis.
Padre Guardiano
Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.
An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.
Sparafucile
This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to the curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter had been seduced by the Duke with Rigoletto's encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda likewise falls in love with the Duke and eventually sacrifices her life to save him from the assassins hired by her father.