Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir.
Goethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust to disaster along the paths of pleasure. Marguerite falls in love with Faust, and suffers as a consequence.
Кинематографическое переложение оперы Гаэтано Доницетти. Молодой крестьянин влюблен в девушку, более богатую, чем он, и, чтобы завоевать её, он обращается к странствующему лекарю и чародею Дулькамаре, который дает ему эликсир любви. Молодой человек, уверенный в том, что эликсир подействует (хотя Дулькамара его обманул и вместо чудодейственного зелья налил ему простого вина), меняет свое отношение и становится смелым и уверенным. Это, в сочетании с внезапным наследством, действительно заставляет красотку капитулировать.
Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.
