This beautiful production by renowned opera director Michael Hampe was recorded at the exquisite Rococo Theatre in Schwetzingen Palace in May 1990. La scala di seta is one of the five one-act operas - farsa giocosa - in which the young Rossini first demonstrated his operatic genius. This sparkling production continues the Rossini one-act opera series emerging from the Schwetzingen Festival. The staging is perfectly suited to the screen and the cast of principals, led by David Griffith and Luciana Serra provide musical excellence together with the flexible Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.
Año 1183. El rey de Inglaterra Enrique II Plantagenet reúne a toda su familia para pasar las Navidades y decidir quién le sucederá en el trono. Manda llamar a su esposa, la maquiavélica Leonor de Aquitania, a quien mantiene encerrada en una torre después de haberla repudiado, y también a sus tres hijos: el taimado Geoffrey, el insignificante John (Juan sin Tierra) y el colérico Richard (Ricardo I Corazón de León). Conviene tener en cuenta que, algunos años antes (1173-1174), los tres, incitados por su ambiciosa madre, se habían sublevado contra su padre.
The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile starring Richard Attenborough as a scientist who can't live with himself after he accidently kills the brother of his fiancee.
