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
История семьи Рикорди, самого престижного музыкального издателя во всей Италии.
Ramfis (singing voice)
Фильм-опера. Аида, дочь эфиопского царя Амонасро, томится в рабстве во дворце фараонов в Мемфисе. Она сгорает от любви к молодому полководцу Радамесу, и он отвечает ей взаимностью. Дочь фараона Амнерис также влюблена в Радамеса… Во главе войск он отправляется на битву с Амонасро. Сердце Аиды разрывается между любовью к Радамесу и страхом за отца. Египетские войска возвращаются с победой, жрецы готовят свадьбу Радамеса и Амнерис. Из-за любви к Аиде Радемес невольно предает родину, в ужасе от содеянного он отдает себя в руки жрецов. Казнь неизбежна…
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.
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.
