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El ascenso y la caída de un artista ciego que tiene el extraordinario don de hacer retratos realistas con solo escuchar voces humanas y que acaba convirtiéndose en una estrella de la tele basura.
Art Designer
Against the fascinating backdrop of an ever marvellous Havana, Vittorio Arditi De Bellis, an aging Italian orchestra conductor once celebrated for specialising in Rossini's compositions, has fallen on hard times. However, some remember he delivered some of the best renditions of the Rossini-Kyrie, and he soon finds himself reluctantly on the way to Havana, Cuba, to conduct the Children's Cuban National Choir. Starting on the wrong foot he quickly finds himself on the verge of losing everything. Rossini's Cuban style and the choir's children are also protagonists in this heart-warming and nostalgic tale of living, loving, growing old and being unexpectedly surprised when he meets the Son he never knew he fathered years ago - Vittorio's past adds new purpose to his present, allowing an otherwise quirky old man to feel his passion and taste the 'spice of life' once again.
Director
Aida (2009) Metropolitan Opera. Verdi / Italian. Live from the Met 2009.
Production Design
Loose adaptation of Italy's national epic, Alessandro Manzoni's “The Betrothed”. In war-torn 17th century Italy, shady feudal lord Don Rodrigo eyes young and beautiful Lucia, who loves—and is reciprocated by—commoner Renzo. The two lovers plan to marry in secret, but Rodrigo discovers it and they are forced to flee their village, becoming separated and each facing many dangers, includine the Plague.
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An American diplomat's wife meets an Italian vintner at an embassy soirée. He sees her as more than just her "husband's hostess". Her husband has been so focused on advancing his career that he has forgotten how to see her as a woman, which the Italian reminds her that she is.
Set Designer
Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one.
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Five soldiers and their punishment.
Production Design
Relato de la vida de Carlo Broschi, célebre castrado que triunfó en la ópera en el XVIII. Con 32 años y en la cumbre del éxito, Farinelli, artista que en el siglo XVIII ennobleció el arte del canto, se retira misteriosamente para dedicar en exclusividad al rey Felipe V de España su prodigiosa voz. Doce años antes, Farinelli y un virtuoso trompetista miden su destreza musical en una plaza repleta de curiosos. El joven cantante impone con facilidad su voz pura y perfecta. El público, entusiasmado, le aclama. Haendel, el compositor oficial de la corte de Inglaterra, que ha asistido a la representación oculto en su carroza, propone a Farinelli que vaya a Londres. Este encuentro supone el inicio de una relación marcada por el odio y la admiración mutua.
Production Design
Una pareja inglesa que pasa por un momento de tedio en su matrimonio decide ir de viaje a Venecia.
Set Designer
AIDA, an Ethiopian princess, is captured and brought into slavery in Egypt. A military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for her and his loyalty to the Pharaoh. To complicate the story further, Radamès is loved by the Pharaoh's daughter Amneris, although he does not return her feelings. Sonja Frisell’s production captures all the grandeur and excitement of Verdi’s monumental opera, particularly the great triumphal scene where the Egyptian army, led by Radamès (Plácido Domingo), returns victorious from war. Aprile Millo is Aida, the slave girl whose love for Radamès has her squaring off with Amneris (Dolora Zajick), the Egyptian princess who also loves him. Sherrill Milnes is Amonasro, and James Levine leads The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus, and Ballet.
Art Designer
Live from La Scala Wednesday 14 December 1988.
Production Design
Father Joseph Mohr, a newly appointed priest in the town of Oberndorf (near Salzburg), meets the beautiful prostitute Magdalene. He struggles to change her situation and make a new life for her, and while doing so, they fall in love. Mohr struggles with his feelings for her, versus his commitment to God. Meanwhile, the Prior, Mohr's superior, whose corrupt dealings with the Baron von Seidl are threatened by Mohr's integrity and honesty, works (unsuccessfully) to falsely accuse Mohr of sexual misconduct with Magdalene, and thereby remove him from office. Meanwhile, Mohr and local schoolteacher Franz Gruber compose the hymn "Silent Night".
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Andreas es un vagabundo más de los muchos que viven bajo los puentes de París. Cuando recibe de un desconocido la suma de doscientos francos, con la única condición de devolverlos como ofrenda a la imagen de una santa, emprende un peregrinaje de carácter fundamentalmente espiritual para ser digno del favor recibido.
Production Design
Hay un nuevo museo en la ciudad, un museo de cera. El propietario, tratándose de algo novedoso en el lugar, invita a varios grupos de adolescentes para que entren a las sesiones de horas más intempestivas, eso sí, sin pagar. En el interior, las figuras de cera reproducen macabras escenas de crímenes y los más terroríficos personajes de terror. ¿Pero son simplemente seres inertes? La respuesta es no, ya que cobran vida y nutrirán su hambre de matar con los inocentes visitantes, que se convertirán en inesperados personajes de las historias que allí se representan.
Production Design
A successful aging dancer takes a young female protegee.
Art Direction
Based on Shakespeare's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the fast-rising Cassio over himself, Iago plots to destroy both Cassio and Otello. Iago convinces the jealous Otello that his beautiful wife Desdemona is unfaithful, and that Cassio is her lover. Jealousy is followed by tragedy, then retribution, "Has Heaven no more thunderbolts?"
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Lucy Honey Church una joven inglesa de buena familia, se encuentra de viaje en Florencia, acompañada por su prima y dama de compañía Charlotte Bartlett. En la pensión donde se hospedan conocen al excéntrico señor Emerson y a su hijo George, que, amablemente, les ceden sus habitaciones para que las damas disfruten de una ventana con vistas a la ciudad.
Art Direction
Una crisis de la mediana edad alimenta insatisfacción en Philip Dimitrius, en la medida en que el arquitecto de éxito cambia su matrimonio y su carrera por un exilio espiritual en una remota isla griega donde espera evocar el sentido a su vida, tratando la paciencia de su nueva novia y su angustiada hija adolescente. (FILMAFFINITY)
Production Design
Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and he's rather unattractive, but he's good at his job of humiliating the courtiers for the amusement of the Duke. The courtiers, of course, are not amused. The Duke is a ladies man who feels his life would be meaningless if he couldn't chase every skirt he sees. In fact, we learn as the opera begins that he's recently been noticing a young lady every Sunday on her way to church, and he's vowed to have his way with her. What nobody realizes is that the girl is the jester's beloved daughter, Gilda, and that Gilda has seen the Duke every Sunday and is smitten with him. Suddenly Count Monterone appears at court, furious that the Duke has seduced his daughter. Rigoletto ridicules Monterone, the Duke laughs, and Monterone casts an awful curse on both of them. Later, the courtiers discover that Rigoletto is secretly living with Gilda...
Art Direction
Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori (Haji Baba) goes to Washington D.C. as the first Iranian (Persian) ambassador to the United States of America. After he opens the embassy, he is unable to invite statesmen to visit him. Haji fires the embassy staff due to the inability of the Persian government to meet the embassy's needs. One night he is visited by President Grover Cleveland.
Art Direction
Una dramática reconstrucción del arresto, juicio y crucifixión de Jesús en una Jerusalén ocupada por los romanos.
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Una dramática reconstrucción del arresto, juicio y crucifixión de Jesús en una Jerusalén ocupada por los romanos.
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Un grupo de inmigrantes italianos del sur de Italia viven en comunidad en un suburbio de Milán. No sólo comparten la casa, sino también las esperanzas y problemas de la sociedad italiana. Retrato sobre cómo la pobre Italia del sur viajó a las industrializadas y prósperas zonas del norte.
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A pesar de ser hijo de unos ricos mercaderes, Francisco de Asís renuncia a todas sus posesiones y a su acomodada vida para dedicarla al servicio de Dios y de los más pobres.
