Melodia Interrompida (1955)
The greatest musical drama since "The Great Caruso."
Gênero : Drama, Música
Runtime : 1H 46M
Director : Curtis Bernhardt
Sinopse
Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. She’s a foremost Wagnerian, equal to the vocal and physical demands of the composer’s oeuvre. And she’s a beacon of triumph to anyone who fights back when personal tragedy strikes.
After the destruction of Troy, the Trojan warrior Énée sets out on a journey to found a new dynasty. He meets Didon, Queen of Carthage, and falls in love. But will Énée's love for Didon prove stronger than his sense of duty? LES TROYENS ('The Trojans') is a tour de force of music that ranges from fiery military marches to intense choruses, passionate soliloquies – such as those of the prophetess Cassandre – and the lyrical love duets of Didon and Énée. It is Hector Berlioz's largest work and he wrote the libretto himself, drawing upon his intimate knowledge of Virgil's Aeneid. To the composer's disappointment, LES TROYENS was only performed once in full during his lifetime and was often presented in shortened form during the 20th century. The Royal Opera's production provides a rare chance to see this epic work in its entirety. David McVicar's staging is on an enormous scale, assembling one of the largest casts ever seen at Covent Garden.
Focuses on the intense life of the French painter Raymond Monvosin and his relationship with his devoted assistant Clara Filleul, and his associations with political and high-society figures of the mid-nineteenth century.
Legendary western swing band leader Bob Wills rose up in the Great Depression to fame in Oklahoma and Texas that soon swept the entire nation. The documentary FIDDLIN MAN offers a full biography of Wills, using a vast array of on camera interviews with his friends, family, and fellow musicians. The film also draws on a wealth of rare archival footage.
"Bartoli remains at her peak. Not only is her coloratura flawless, and her voice as colorful and ravishingly beautiful as ever, but her ability to use her incomparable technique at the service of expression has also deepened with age. As a seductress, Bartoli was irresistible. Teasing out her incomparably agile coloratura runs, she softened high notes to tickle the senses with a mixture of sweetness and delight. When, in the second act, she mounted a missile and diagonally ascended into the heavens, it felt as though she were riding the ultimate pink Cadillac off to her honeymoon rendezvous. And in her final aria, "Da tempeste il legno infranto" when she danced around the stage and adorned herself with strings of lights while flashing the trademark Bartoli smile, it was all one could do to resist running onstage and give her a huge hug."
Um filme biográfico baseado nos crimes ao redor de Madalyn Murray O'Hair, fundadora da organização "Ateístas da América" e pioneira em polêmicas nacionais. "A Mulher Mais Odiada dos Estados Unidos" mostra a ascensão, desaparecimento e queda de uma figura complexa que foi vilã para alguns e heroína para outros.
Passando por problemas financeiros, a jornalista Lee Israel decide forjar e vender cartas de personalidades já falecidas, um negócio criminoso que dá muito certo. Quando as primeiras suspeitas começam, para não parar de lucrar, ela modifica o esquema e passa a roubar os textos originais de arquivos e bibliotecas. Baseado em uma história real.
"This is Vienna State Opera live at home". April 2015.
Carl Maria von Webers dark Romantic era tale of love, faith, and temptation is grippingly performed by the Dresden Staatskapelle led by conductor, Christian Thielemann in this live performance from early 2015. With highly acclaimed staging by Axel Köhler, the singers in leading roles add to the luster of the production with the tenor Michael Königs performance of the anti-hero Max displaying a gloriously free upper register bringing heroic weight to his role and Sara Jakubiak sweet toned and melancholic Agathe.
A não-convencional vida de Wiliam Marston, psicólogo e inventor de Harvard que ajudou a tornar real o Detector de Mentiras e que também criou a Mulher-Maravilha, personagem dos quadrinhos, em 1941. Marston mantinha uma relação polígama envolvendo sua esposa Elizabeth Marston, psicóloga e inventora, e Olive Byrne, uma ex-aluna que virou acadêmica. Essa relação e os ideais feministas das duas mulheres foram essenciais para a criação da personagem.
A história de um dos maiores artistas homossexuais do século XX, Touko Laaksonen, mais conhecido como Tom da Finlândia. Ele não conseguia viver em paz dentro de sua casa, tendo que esconder seus segredos pessoais, mesmo depois do trauma de ter ido para a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Touko dcide então se expressar na arte.
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.
Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find that his younger brother, Joaquín, towers over him in height. Convinced that everyone will want to pay to see the tallest man on Earth, the siblings set out on a long trip all over Europe, during which ambition, money and fame will forever change the family’s fate. A story based on true events.
The opera: Nina, o sia La Pazza Per Amore itself, is an extra-ordinary sad and touching story, and seems very difficult to be performed if the singer has no acting talents. Therefore we adore Cecilia Bartoli for the magnificent performance as the crazy Nina who lost her mind totally. Her magnificent singing, we don't doubt at all, but her acting is amazingly such that it expressed a real situation of a girl becoming crazy and losing her mind caused by painful incidents in her love life. It is also supported by the other singers who are singing matching as perfectly and splendidly as the diva Cecilia Bartoli, especially the baritone Laszlo Polgar with his deep rich voice as the cruel father who has remorse and came back to see his daughter Nina and the young tenor Jonas Kauffmann with his clear light voice, resulting in a surprisingly beautifully performed opera.
The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.
This is the continuation of Saloma (Part1). Part 2 depicts Saloma's love for P. Ramlee and also her life after his death.
Singer Irene is in Reno for a divorce, though her friend Bob tries to convince her it's all a mistake. Then husband Cliff shows up.