Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli

Рождение : 1923-02-12, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Смерть : 2019-06-15

История

Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli KBE, Grande Ufficiale OMRI (12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019), commonly known as Franco Zeffirelli (Italian pronunciation: [ˈfraŋko dzeffiˈrɛlli]), was an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television. He was also a senator from 1994 until 2001 for the Italian centre-right Forza Italia party. Some of his operatic designs and productions have become worldwide classics. He was also known for several of the movies he directed, especially the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. His 1967 version of The Taming of the Shrew with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton remains the best-known film adaptation of that play as well. His miniseries Jesus of Nazareth (1977) won both national and international acclaim and is still frequently shown on Christmas and Easter in many countries. A Grande Ufficiale OMRI of the Italian Republic since 1977, Zeffirelli also received an honorary British knighthood in 2004 when he was created a KBE. He was awarded the Premio Colosseo in 2009 by the city of Rome.

Профиль

Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli

Фильмы

Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist
Self
The documentary relates the decisive moments, the turning points and the rollercoaster ride of a brilliant, eventful international career and the extraordinary life of a great Italian artist. From his origins as an illegitimate child with no name to the attainment of great international fame as a film director, art director, painter and stager of theatrical and operatic productions. Through original and archive interviews with some of the most acclaimed stars who have known, admired and loved him and with his closest relatives, friends and collaborators, this gripping account paints a picture of the person and the artist—and not just “the master”—Franco Zeffirelli in all his many and even conflicting facets.
Carmen aus der Arena von Verona
Director
The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot
Director
Superstar Anna Netrebko makes her long-awaited Met role debut as Puccini’s icy princess—seen live in cinemas on May 7. Tenor Yonghoon Lee is the bold prince determined to win Turandot’s love, alongside soprano Ermonela Jaho as the devoted servant Liù legendary bass Ferruccio Furlanetto as the blind king Timur. Marco Armiliato conducts Puccini’s stirring score. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.
Arena di Verona: Il Trovatore
Director
It's an event that draws many thousands of music lovers to one of the most beautiful cities in the world every summer: the opera season at the ancient Arena di Verona. The 2,000-year-old roman amphiteatre with its gigantic stage dimensions is one of the largest and best preserved Roman construction of its kind, and with over 22,000 seats it is undoubtedly one of the most spectacular open-air venues of the world! The revered master of opera Franco Zeffirelli, who died shortly before the premiere of Il Trovatore, created a legendary scenery with groups of giant sized armoured knights, a fortress turning into a luminous cathedral, an enormous choir, horses, breathtaking fights: “his perhaps best arena production” (Opernglas). It brings Anna Netrebko to the Arena of Verona where she is giving her much-anticipated debut in one of Giuseppe Verdi’s most popular operas.
Maria Callas sings Tosca, Act II
Lighting Supervisor
At the beginning of 1964, the music world experiences something completely unexpected. Maria Callas returns to the opera stage as the prima donna. Her "Tosca" at the Royal Opera House becomes a sensation. Maria Callas wants to show everyone once again that she deserves the title of "prima donna assoluta." On the condition that star director Franco Zeffirelli take over the direction, the exceptional singer agrees to sing the role of Tosca. The BBC recorded the 2nd act of the opera for television. It is one of the most dramatic acts in opera history: in order to free the painter Cavaradossi from the hands of torturers, Tosca ends up murdering the police chief Scarpia. The film footage is one of the rare opportunities to see Maria Callas in an opera performance and to experience her highly emotional performance art and vocal abilities.
Maria Callas sings Tosca, Act II
Director
At the beginning of 1964, the music world experiences something completely unexpected. Maria Callas returns to the opera stage as the prima donna. Her "Tosca" at the Royal Opera House becomes a sensation. Maria Callas wants to show everyone once again that she deserves the title of "prima donna assoluta." On the condition that star director Franco Zeffirelli take over the direction, the exceptional singer agrees to sing the role of Tosca. The BBC recorded the 2nd act of the opera for television. It is one of the most dramatic acts in opera history: in order to free the painter Cavaradossi from the hands of torturers, Tosca ends up murdering the police chief Scarpia. The film footage is one of the rare opportunities to see Maria Callas in an opera performance and to experience her highly emotional performance art and vocal abilities.
The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot
Production Design
Christine Goerke has wowed audiences as Turandot, the icy princess at the heart of Puccini’s grand final masterpiece. In this performance from the 2019–20 Live in HD season, Goerke stars alongside tenor Yusif Eyvazov (as Calàf) and soprano Eleonora Buratto (as Liù) in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic staging, which dazzles with its opulent visions of mythic China. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin is on the podium, drawing a vivid array of musical colors from the incomparable Met Orchestra and Chorus.
The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot
Set Designer
Christine Goerke has wowed audiences as Turandot, the icy princess at the heart of Puccini’s grand final masterpiece. In this performance from the 2019–20 Live in HD season, Goerke stars alongside tenor Yusif Eyvazov (as Calàf) and soprano Eleonora Buratto (as Liù) in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic staging, which dazzles with its opulent visions of mythic China. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin is on the podium, drawing a vivid array of musical colors from the incomparable Met Orchestra and Chorus.
La Traviata - Arena di Verona
Director
Arena di Verona Opera Festival 2019 starts with La Traviata in the new stage design signed by Franco Zeffirelli, the last great Master of Italian direction. The new production takes the form of the ultimate synthesis of his aesthetic thoughts on Traviata.
The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème
Set Designer
Puccini’s timeless love story, which includes some of its composer’s most beloved music, has moved generations of opera lovers since its 1896 world premiere. It has also proved incredibly popular with the Met’s global HD audiences and has been featured in three live high-definition transmissions since 2008. The most recent, presented during the 2017–18 season, includes a cast of celebrated young artists. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva is the fragile seamstress Mimì, who instantly falls in love with the passionate poet Rodolfo, sung by tenor Michael Fabiano. Soprano Susanna Phillips and baritone Lucas Meachem trade both spars and kisses as the on-again-off-again lovers Musetta and Marcello, with bass Matthew Rose and baritone Alexey Lavrov rounding out the rambunctious gang of bohemian friends. Maestro Marco Armiliato takes the podium to lead Franco Zeffirelli’s picturesque staging.
The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème
Production Design
Puccini’s timeless love story, which includes some of its composer’s most beloved music, has moved generations of opera lovers since its 1896 world premiere. It has also proved incredibly popular with the Met’s global HD audiences and has been featured in three live high-definition transmissions since 2008. The most recent, presented during the 2017–18 season, includes a cast of celebrated young artists. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva is the fragile seamstress Mimì, who instantly falls in love with the passionate poet Rodolfo, sung by tenor Michael Fabiano. Soprano Susanna Phillips and baritone Lucas Meachem trade both spars and kisses as the on-again-off-again lovers Musetta and Marcello, with bass Matthew Rose and baritone Alexey Lavrov rounding out the rambunctious gang of bohemian friends. Maestro Marco Armiliato takes the podium to lead Franco Zeffirelli’s picturesque staging.
The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème
Director
Puccini’s timeless love story, which includes some of its composer’s most beloved music, has moved generations of opera lovers since its 1896 world premiere. It has also proved incredibly popular with the Met’s global HD audiences and has been featured in three live high-definition transmissions since 2008. The most recent, presented during the 2017–18 season, includes a cast of celebrated young artists. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva is the fragile seamstress Mimì, who instantly falls in love with the passionate poet Rodolfo, sung by tenor Michael Fabiano. Soprano Susanna Phillips and baritone Lucas Meachem trade both spars and kisses as the on-again-off-again lovers Musetta and Marcello, with bass Matthew Rose and baritone Alexey Lavrov rounding out the rambunctious gang of bohemian friends. Maestro Marco Armiliato takes the podium to lead Franco Zeffirelli’s picturesque staging.
The Opera House
Self
In this documentary, award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke explores the creation of the Metropolitan Opera’s storied home of the last five decades. Drawing on rarely seen archival footage, stills, and recent interviews, The Opera House looks at an important period of the Met’s history and delves into some of the untold stories of the artists, architects, and politicians who shaped the cultural life of New York City in the ’50s and ’60s. Among the notable figures in the film are famed soprano Leontyne Price, who opened the new Met in 1966 in Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra; Rudolf Bing, the Met’s imperious General Manager who engineered the move from the old house to the new one; Robert Moses, the unstoppable city planner who bulldozed an entire neighborhood to make room for Lincoln Center; and Wallace Harrison, whose quest for architectural glory was never fully realized.
Zeffirelli's Inferno
Writer
A film adaptation of Dante's Inferno that was never realized. Depicts the entry of the Great Poet in the dark forest, the meeting with Virgilio, access to the Inferno and the journey through the circles to the exit with the return to the surface world.
Zeffirelli's Inferno
Director
A film adaptation of Dante's Inferno that was never realized. Depicts the entry of the Great Poet in the dark forest, the meeting with Virgilio, access to the Inferno and the journey through the circles to the exit with the return to the surface world.
The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films
Self
Cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus relive the creation, rise and fall of their independent film company, Cannon Films. This documentary recounts their many successes and discusses their eventual downfall.
Электрическое Бугало: Дикая, нерассказанная история Cannon Films
Self - Director
Документальный фильм о Менахеме Голане и Йораме Глобусе — два одержимых кинематографом кузена, чья страсть к кино изменила подход к созданию и продаже фильмов. В фильме рассказывается о том, как их одержимость в конечном итоге привела к гибели компании, которую они построили вместе.
Carmen
Director
High Definition recording June 2014, Arena di Verona. This opulent production was directed by Franco Zeffirelli and sung by an international cast of excellent singers: Russian mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk, soprano Irina Lungu, tenor Carlo Ventre and Carlos Alvarez. The famous opera is staged as a colourful feast for the eyes, true to its source and convincingly acted by soloists, chorus and ballet alike. Conducted by Henrik Nánási it is a gloriously sung musical experience.
Богема
Production Design
Исполняемая в Мет чаще любой другой оперы классическая постановка Франко Дзеффирелли, которую разыгрывают молодые артисты.
The Mystery of Dante
Self
A journey in the footsteps of the most famous initiate of Italian Trecento, the author of the celebrated "Divine Comedy". A poet who has inspired some of the most outstanding minds in History.
Discovering Hamlet
Self
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Zeffirelli, Philip Saville, and others explore the enduring appeal of the Prince of Denmark more than 400 years after his stage debut.
Turandot - Puccini - Live from Verona
Stage Director
The Arena di Verona Festival honors Italian stage director Franco Zeffirelli, and his legendary production of Turandot. Interpreted within the sumptuous surroundings of Verona Arena, this Puccini's masterpiece tells the story of a princess whose beauty was only comparable to her cruelty. She will only marry a prince capable of solving her riddles, but if he fails, he will be beheaded... For this edition, the lyrical festival invites the russian soprano Maria Guleghina who proved a brilliant Turandot. She took to the stage with Salvatore Licitra's trump card is his imposingly radiant tenor voice of wich he remains in sovereign control, and the soprano Tamar Iveri is a beautiful and sensitive Liù.
Carmen
Director
Live performance from the Vienna State Opera, 6 May 2010.
Puccini: Turandot
Production Design
Franco Zeffirelli's magnificient staging of Puccini's final opera - a fairy tale set in a mythical China - is one of the most popular in the Met repertory. In this Live in HD production, Maria Guleghina takes on the title role and Marcello Giordani is Calaf, the unknown prince. Marina Poplavskaya and Samuel Ramey co-star, and Andris Nelsons conducts in his Met debut.
Luchino Visconti: Life as in a Novel
Interviewee
A documentary about film director Luchino Visconti
Puccini: La Bohème
Director
Puccini’s evergreen paean to young love and the bohemian life has captivated generations of Met-goers through Franco Zeffirelli’s iconic production. Movie theater audiences for the high-definition transmission of this staging got to see it with fresh eyes in a touching performance starring Angela Gheorghiu and Ramón Vargas as the frail seamstress and her poetic lover.
Callas Assoluta
Self (archive footage)
This revealing documentary from director Philippe Kohly examines the storied life of renowned soprano Maria Callas, from her troubled childhood in New York City to her scandal-laden but triumphant international career in opera. Featuring archival interviews with Callas herself and footage of contemporaries such as her lover Aristotle Onassis, this celebration of "La Divina" pays tribute to her enduring legacy some three decades after her death.
Аида
Director
«Аида» (итал. Aida) — опера Джузеппе Верди, либретто Антонио Гисланцони по сценарию О. Ф. Мариетта. Действие происходит в Мемфисе и Фивах во времена владычества фараонов. В опере повествуется о несчастной любви предводителя египетских войск Радамеса и эфиопской рабыни Аиды — дочери эфиопского царя, с войсками которого сражаются египтяне. Опера «Аида» впервые поставлена 24 декабря 1871 (Каир). Одна из последних великих опер Верди, «Аида», была ему заказана, дабы отметить открытие Суэцкого канала. По некоторым данным, когда организаторы празднества обратились к Верди в первый раз, он отказался от заказа. Организаторы предупредили композитора, что обратятся к Шарлю Гуно с тем же предложением. Верди выразил надежду, что Гуно согласится написать оперу. И лишь когда организаторы пригрозили, что заказ получит Рихард Вагнер, Верди согласился ознакомиться с условиями контракта.
La Boheme
Director
Bruno Bartoletti conducts the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro alla Scala in this production of Puccini's opera from 2003. The performers include Cristina Gallardo-Domas, Hei-Kyung Hong, Marcelo Alvarez and Roberto Servile.
Madama Butterfly
Director
Japan, early twentieth century. U.S. Navy Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton inspects the house he has leased from a marriage broker. The broker, Goro, has procured him three servants and a geisha wife, Cio-Cio-San, known as Madama Butterfly. He is enchanted with the fragile Cio-Cio-San. Cio-Cio-San is heard in the distance joyously singing of her wedding. In a quiet moment, Cio-Cio-San shows her bridegroom her few earthly treasures and tells him of her intention to embrace his Christian faith. The Imperial Commissioner performs the wedding ceremony, and the guests toast the couple. The celebration is interrupted by Cio-Cio-San's uncle, a Buddhist priest, who bursts in, cursing the girl for having renounced her ancestors' religion. Alone with Cio-Cio-San in the moonlit garden, her husband dries her tears, and she joins him in singing of their love.
Bizet: Carmen
Stage Director
This 2003 performance of Georges Bizet's 19th century opera Carmen was produced and directed by filmmaker and stage director Franco Zeffirelli, best known to many for the Academy Award-winning big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Shot at the Arena di Verona, the production features Marina Domashenko in the title role and music by the Orchestra of the Arena di Verona under conductor Alain Lombard.
Каллас навсегда
Original Story
A fictionalized account of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas.
Каллас навсегда
Screenplay
A fictionalized account of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas.
Каллас навсегда
Director
A fictionalized account of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas.
La Traviata
Director
Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society, organizes a grand party that is attended, amongst others, by the young Alfredo Germont. He confesses his feelings to Violetta, who is already suffering from consumption. She vacillates between genuine affection and a realistic assessment of her situation as a "fallen woman", which precludes any lasting relationship with a man. The Franco Zeffirelli production of LA TRAVIATA, recorded live at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, Februari 2002.
Aida
Director
Verdi’s grand opera “Aida” is given an intimate treatment in Busetto, Italy, in 2001, in a staging with young singers, all coached by the legendary tenor Carlo Bergonzi and staged by Franco Zeffirelli. The result is an astonishing musical and dramatic piece of theater, proving that with the right mix of ingredients, an opera can be staged in a small theater and still achieve a thrilling and moving effect.
Don Giovanni
Director
Live performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 2000.
Luchino Visconti
Self
A chronological look at the creative life of Luchino Visconti (1906-1976). It examines his theatricality, role in the neorealist movement, use of melodrama, and relation to decadence. It touches on the impact of a fabulously wealthy childhood, his writing for "Cinema," his politics, his work with Renoir, his appreciation of Thomas Mann, and his deep knowledge of literature and the arts. Visconti moves constantly between film and the theater, staging plays provocatively, working with Maria Callas at La Scala, and shooting films in theaters. Clips from his films and interviews with actors, crew members, and critics provide details for this portrait of creativity.
Чай с Муссолини
Novel
Флоренция, 1934 год. Зловещий диктатор Муссолини и его соратники прибирают власть в Италии к своим рукам. Но в залитой солнцем, сонной Флоренции все идет по-старому. Здесь ведет сытое, размеренное и умеренное существование пестрая компания пожилых леди из Америки и Британии, прозванных местными остряками "Скорпионшами". Дамы проводят дни в светских разговорах, неторопливых чаепитиях и обсуждениях бесспорных достоинств своего неподражаемого кумира — Муссолини. Но никто из "скорпионш" еще не подозревает, что очень скоро кумир сделает их жизнь в Италии невыносимой, объявит женщин опасными и вышлет из страны…
Чай с Муссолини
Director
Флоренция, 1934 год. Зловещий диктатор Муссолини и его соратники прибирают власть в Италии к своим рукам. Но в залитой солнцем, сонной Флоренции все идет по-старому. Здесь ведет сытое, размеренное и умеренное существование пестрая компания пожилых леди из Америки и Британии, прозванных местными остряками "Скорпионшами". Дамы проводят дни в светских разговорах, неторопливых чаепитиях и обсуждениях бесспорных достоинств своего неподражаемого кумира — Муссолини. Но никто из "скорпионш" еще не подозревает, что очень скоро кумир сделает их жизнь в Италии невыносимой, объявит женщин опасными и вышлет из страны…
Carmen
Director
Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, 25 March 1997.
Джейн Эйр
Screenplay
Пятая по счету экранизация классического романа Шарлотты Бронтэ осуществлена известным итальянским режиссером Франко Дзеффирелли, который до этого уже не раз переносил на большой экран знаменитые произведения мировой литературы. История любви осиротевшей девушки Джейн Эйр к своему хозяину Эдвару Рочестеру, которую она пронесла сквозь многочисленные невзгоды и испытания, не оставит вас равнодушными.
Джейн Эйр
Director
Пятая по счету экранизация классического романа Шарлотты Бронтэ осуществлена известным итальянским режиссером Франко Дзеффирелли, который до этого уже не раз переносил на большой экран знаменитые произведения мировой литературы. История любви осиротевшей девушки Джейн Эйр к своему хозяину Эдвару Рочестеру, которую она пронесла сквозь многочисленные невзгоды и испытания, не оставит вас равнодушными.
A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota
Self
The artistic evolution of the great composer, whose work left an indelible mark in the history of Italian cinema. In this documentary Nino Rota's extraordinary musical production relives in the words of his friends and colleagues. His collaboration with Visconti and Fellini are truly memorable. His movie score and sequences of his performances in theaters all over the world hand us down a full and evocative outline of this outstanding artist.
Воробей
Screenplay
1854 год. На Сицилии свирепствует эпидемия холеры. Смерть собирает кровавую дань. А там где смерть - там и любовь, там и кипящие страсти, верность и предательство. В центре этой мелодрамы - романтическая история молодой монахини, впервые переживающей настоящую любовь. Она одновременно страшится этой любви и не может противостоять ей, несмотря на постоянные упреки мачехи и сводных сестер, лелеющих свои планы в отношении молодого человека.
Воробей
Director
1854 год. На Сицилии свирепствует эпидемия холеры. Смерть собирает кровавую дань. А там где смерть - там и любовь, там и кипящие страсти, верность и предательство. В центре этой мелодрамы - романтическая история молодой монахини, впервые переживающей настоящую любовь. Она одновременно страшится этой любви и не может противостоять ей, несмотря на постоянные упреки мачехи и сводных сестер, лелеющих свои планы в отношении молодого человека.
Falstaff
Set Designer
It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great comedy fighting to get out that we owe this absolute miracle of an opera. Produced in 1893 as Verdi turned 80 there is much in this masterpiece that can be identified as a modernist neoclassical work. The use of short motifs instead of long arioso melodic lines, the spry and reduced orchestral textures and the lack of a single 'stand and deliver' dramatic declamatory aria all serve to make this more of a 20th century work than an example of 19th century late-Romanticism.
Falstaff
Production Design
It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great comedy fighting to get out that we owe this absolute miracle of an opera. Produced in 1893 as Verdi turned 80 there is much in this masterpiece that can be identified as a modernist neoclassical work. The use of short motifs instead of long arioso melodic lines, the spry and reduced orchestral textures and the lack of a single 'stand and deliver' dramatic declamatory aria all serve to make this more of a 20th century work than an example of 19th century late-Romanticism.
Falstaff
Director
It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great comedy fighting to get out that we owe this absolute miracle of an opera. Produced in 1893 as Verdi turned 80 there is much in this masterpiece that can be identified as a modernist neoclassical work. The use of short motifs instead of long arioso melodic lines, the spry and reduced orchestral textures and the lack of a single 'stand and deliver' dramatic declamatory aria all serve to make this more of a 20th century work than an example of 19th century late-Romanticism.
Don Carlo
Director
This opera was filmed live at La Scala in 1992. The all-star cast includes Luciano Pavarotti, Samuel Ramey, aolo Coni, Daniela Dessi, Luciana d'Intio, and Alexander Anismov. Riccardo Muti conducts.
Король рекламы
Director
Коллекция рекламных роликов, снятых известными режиссерами со всего мира.
Гамлет
Screenplay
Итальянский режиссер, непревзойденный мастер классических экранизаций пьес Уильяма Шекспира, обладатель двух номинаций на премию «Оскар» Франко Дзеффирелли представляет свою версию бессмертного «Гамлета», жестокой саги о любви, предательстве и смерти.
Гамлет
Director
Итальянский режиссер, непревзойденный мастер классических экранизаций пьес Уильяма Шекспира, обладатель двух номинаций на премию «Оскар» Франко Дзеффирелли представляет свою версию бессмертного «Гамлета», жестокой саги о любви, предательстве и смерти.
Don Giovanni
Production Design
Every woman wants him, every man wants to be him: Mozart’s version of the irresistible rogue who brings excitement with him and leaves destruction it his wake has always attracted top singing actors, as in this performance brilliantly led by James Levine. Samuel Ramey is Don Giovanni, pursued by the incandescent Karita Mattila (Donna Elvira) in her Met debut season and role, and by the white-hot avenging fury of Carol Vaness (Donna Anna.) Ferruccio Furlanetto delivers a masterful comic turn as the Don’s servant, Leporello.
12 Directors for 12 Cities
Director
Promotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities.
Молодой Тосканини
Original Story
Рио-де-Жанейро, 1886 год, гастроли итальянской труппы. 18-летнему Артуро Тосканини поручают репетиции с идолом его детства — оперной примадоной Надиной, которая прервала свою актерскую карьеру ради своего возлюбленного — бразильского императора Педро II. Тосканини удается помочь ей преодолеть депрессию и с триумфом вернуться на сцену.
Молодой Тосканини
Director
Рио-де-Жанейро, 1886 год, гастроли итальянской труппы. 18-летнему Артуро Тосканини поручают репетиции с идолом его детства — оперной примадоной Надиной, которая прервала свою актерскую карьеру ради своего возлюбленного — бразильского императора Педро II. Тосканини удается помочь ей преодолеть депрессию и с триумфом вернуться на сцену.
Pagliacci
Director
The story is set in southern Italy and recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown (or pagliaccio in Italian) in a commedia dell'arte troupe, his wife Nedda, and her lover, Silvio. When Nedda spurns the advances of Tonio, another player in the troupe, he tells Canio about Nedda's betrayal. In a jealous rage Canio murders both Nedda and Silvio. Although Leoncavallo's opera was originally set in the late 1860's, Zeffirelli's production is updated to the period between World War I and World War II.
Turandot
Director
The Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's "Turandot", recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera in April, 1987. Éva Marton stars as Turandot, with Plácido Domingo as Calaf, Leona Mitchell as Liù, Paul Plishka as Timur, and Hugues Cuenod as L'Imperatore Altoum. James Levine conducts.
Turandot
Production Design
The Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's "Turandot", recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera in April, 1987. Éva Marton stars as Turandot, with Plácido Domingo as Calaf, Leona Mitchell as Liù, Paul Plishka as Timur, and Hugues Cuenod as L'Imperatore Altoum. James Levine conducts.
Отелло
Production Design
Постановка Франко Дзеффирелли. «Отелло» — музыкальная трагедия, поражающая правдивостью и глубиной воплощения человеческих характеров. Необычайной рельефностью и драматической силой отмечены музыкальные портреты Отелло — героя и воина, страстного любящего супруга, человека доверчивого и одновременно неистового в своей ярости, кроткой и чистой Дездемоны, коварного Яго, попирающего все нравственные законы. Хоровые эпизоды дополняют образы главных персонажей, выражая отношение к ним народа. Важную роль в опере играет оркестр, передающий эмоциональную, атмосферу событий, исключительное богатство психологических оттенков.
Отелло
Adaptation
Постановка Франко Дзеффирелли. «Отелло» — музыкальная трагедия, поражающая правдивостью и глубиной воплощения человеческих характеров. Необычайной рельефностью и драматической силой отмечены музыкальные портреты Отелло — героя и воина, страстного любящего супруга, человека доверчивого и одновременно неистового в своей ярости, кроткой и чистой Дездемоны, коварного Яго, попирающего все нравственные законы. Хоровые эпизоды дополняют образы главных персонажей, выражая отношение к ним народа. Важную роль в опере играет оркестр, передающий эмоциональную, атмосферу событий, исключительное богатство психологических оттенков.
Отелло
Director
Постановка Франко Дзеффирелли. «Отелло» — музыкальная трагедия, поражающая правдивостью и глубиной воплощения человеческих характеров. Необычайной рельефностью и драматической силой отмечены музыкальные портреты Отелло — героя и воина, страстного любящего супруга, человека доверчивого и одновременно неистового в своей ярости, кроткой и чистой Дездемоны, коварного Яго, попирающего все нравственные законы. Хоровые эпизоды дополняют образы главных персонажей, выражая отношение к ним народа. Важную роль в опере играет оркестр, передающий эмоциональную, атмосферу событий, исключительное богатство психологических оттенков.
Tosca
Director
Live Metropolitan Opera performance March, 1985.
Tosca
Set Designer
Live Metropolitan Opera performance March, 1985.
Травиата
Production Design
Октябрь, середина XIX века, Париж. Куртизанка Виолетта Валери устраивает один из вечеров в своём салоне. Ей представляют молодого человека, недавно приехавшего в Париж из провинции, Альфреда Жермона, который производит впечатление более внимательного и чуткого мужчины, чем её спутник барон Дуфоль.
Травиата
Adaptation
Октябрь, середина XIX века, Париж. Куртизанка Виолетта Валери устраивает один из вечеров в своём салоне. Ей представляют молодого человека, недавно приехавшего в Париж из провинции, Альфреда Жермона, который производит впечатление более внимательного и чуткого мужчины, чем её спутник барон Дуфоль.
Травиата
Director
Октябрь, середина XIX века, Париж. Куртизанка Виолетта Валери устраивает один из вечеров в своём салоне. Ей представляют молодого человека, недавно приехавшего в Париж из провинции, Альфреда Жермона, который производит впечатление более внимательного и чуткого мужчины, чем её спутник барон Дуфоль.
Cavalleria rusticana
Director
Puccini: La Boheme
Set Designer
"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performed opera at New York's Metropolitan Opera. This production, directed by the legendary Franco Zeffirelli, features José Carreras, Teresa Stratas, Renata Scotto and Richard Stilwell. The opera is replete with extraordinary visual beauty as it presents the tragic story of young bohemians struggling to make it in the world.
Puccini: La Boheme
Production Design
"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performed opera at New York's Metropolitan Opera. This production, directed by the legendary Franco Zeffirelli, features José Carreras, Teresa Stratas, Renata Scotto and Richard Stilwell. The opera is replete with extraordinary visual beauty as it presents the tragic story of young bohemians struggling to make it in the world.
Puccini: La Boheme
Director
"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performed opera at New York's Metropolitan Opera. This production, directed by the legendary Franco Zeffirelli, features José Carreras, Teresa Stratas, Renata Scotto and Richard Stilwell. The opera is replete with extraordinary visual beauty as it presents the tragic story of young bohemians struggling to make it in the world.
Бесконечная любовь
Director
Это история о власти любви, о власти столь сильного, столь всепоглощающего чувства, что оно оказывает мощное влияние на всех, кто попадает в его орбиту.
My Name Is Anna Magnani
Self
Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documentary portrait also gives the floor to his friends and relatives, from Roberto Rossellini to Marcello Mastroianni, through Federico Fellini.
Чемпион
Director
Истории любви между отцом и сыном, и о женщине, пытающейся их разлучить. Бывший чемпион по боксу Билли Флинн еле зарабатывает на пропитание себе и своему сыну, когда возвращается его бывшая жена Энни. Она вышла замуж и стала успешной, а теперь хочет вернуть сына. Чтобы оставить себе обожающего сына, Флинну придется тренироваться, сражаться и найти способ снова стать чемпионом.
Carmen
Director
CARMEN is the classic tale of forbidden passion between a young man and a spoken-for woman, Carmen. From ORF and TDK Music, this release features a live performance of Georges Bizet's 19th century operatic masterwork Carmen. Directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli, the production was shot on December 9, 1978, at the Wiener Straatsoper. Starring Elena Obraztsova in the titular role, the orchestra is conducted by Carlos Kleiber.
Callas: A Documentary
Narrator
Narrated by cinema legend Franco Zeffirelli, this intimate made-for-television documentary traces the life and times of the mercurial Maria Callas, one of the most renowned and respected operatic divas of the mid-20th century. Rare authentic footage, candid interviews and breathtaking performances help paint a portrait of an artist remembered as much for her quick and explosive temper as she is for her immeasurable talent.
Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
Director
Plácido Domingo accomplishes the rare feat of singing both leads on the same night at the Met in 1978 on opera's most popular double-bill.
Брат Солнце, сестра Луна
Screenplay
биографический художественный фильм совместного производства Италии и Великобритании режиссёра Франко Дзеффирелли, повествующий о жизни одного из самых почитаемых католических святых — Святого Франциска.
Брат Солнце, сестра Луна
Director
биографический художественный фильм совместного производства Италии и Великобритании режиссёра Франко Дзеффирелли, повествующий о жизни одного из самых почитаемых католических святых — Святого Франциска.
Ромео и Джульетта
Screenplay
На балу во дворце Капулетти зарождается любовь двух юных существ, судьбою обреченных на ненависть. Ромео Монтекки и Джульетта Капулетти полюбили друг друга на свою беду, ведь их семьи ведут смертельную вражду уже многие, многие годы… Но их любовь сильнее родовой вражды, сильнее предрассудков и непреодолимых препятствий. Великая сила этой любви побеждает все, даже смерть…
Ромео и Джульетта
Director
На балу во дворце Капулетти зарождается любовь двух юных существ, судьбою обреченных на ненависть. Ромео Монтекки и Джульетта Капулетти полюбили друг друга на свою беду, ведь их семьи ведут смертельную вражду уже многие, многие годы… Но их любовь сильнее родовой вражды, сильнее предрассудков и непреодолимых препятствий. Великая сила этой любви побеждает все, даже смерть…
Our World
Self
Various international presentions are featured through satellite uplink.
Укрощение строптивой
Director
Италия, XVI век. У богатого торговца две дочери на выданье. За младшей дочерью многие ухаживают, но по традиции ее не могут выдать замуж вперед старшей сестры. Охотников жениться на своенравной Катарине не находится. И вот в город приезжает незнакомец по имени Петруччио и решает во что бы то ни стало укротить строптивую девицу.
Укрощение строптивой
Producer
Италия, XVI век. У богатого торговца две дочери на выданье. За младшей дочерью многие ухаживают, но по традиции ее не могут выдать замуж вперед старшей сестры. Охотников жениться на своенравной Катарине не находится. И вот в город приезжает незнакомец по имени Петруччио и решает во что бы то ни стало укротить строптивую девицу.
Укрощение строптивой
Screenplay
Италия, XVI век. У богатого торговца две дочери на выданье. За младшей дочерью многие ухаживают, но по традиции ее не могут выдать замуж вперед старшей сестры. Охотников жениться на своенравной Катарине не находится. И вот в город приезжает незнакомец по имени Петруччио и решает во что бы то ни стало укротить строптивую девицу.
For Florence
Director
A dramatic, solemn and refined work, "Per Firenze" spread throughout the world the cry for help that was rising in those hours from the city of Dante and Brunelleschi, giving rise to one of the greatest phenomena of solidarity that has gone down in history under the name of the "mud angels."
La Bohème
Production Design
In the early 1960s two artistic giants, conductor Herbert von Karajan and director Franco Zeffirelli, joined forces to create this milestone production of Puccini’s masterpiece at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. Filmed in that legendary opera house in 1965, with Zeffireli himself directing for the cameras, this “Bohème” has been acclaimed universally for its unique theatrical impact and visual splendour. Starring the young Mirella Freni in her carreer-making performance. – For the first time the full dimension of opera on film.
La Bohème
Director
In the early 1960s two artistic giants, conductor Herbert von Karajan and director Franco Zeffirelli, joined forces to create this milestone production of Puccini’s masterpiece at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. Filmed in that legendary opera house in 1965, with Zeffireli himself directing for the cameras, this “Bohème” has been acclaimed universally for its unique theatrical impact and visual splendour. Starring the young Mirella Freni in her carreer-making performance. – For the first time the full dimension of opera on film.
Maria Callas: At Covent Garden, 1962 and 1964
Director
Maria Callas’ legendary live performances from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from 1962 and 1964 celebrate her triumphant return to the Covent Garden stage. Repertoire from these performances include Verdi: Tu che le vanità (Don Carlo), Bizet: Habanera & Séguedille (Carmen) and Puccini: Tosca (Act II complete). Her vivid portrayals of the tragic Elisabeth de Valois, the tantalising Carmen, and her vulnerable Tosca (directed by Franco Zeffirelli) captured the hearts of the London audiences. This is Maria Callas as the world remembers her. Renato Cioni, Tito Gobbi, Robert Bowman, Dennis Wicks Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden- Conducted by Georges Prêtre & Carlo Felice Cillario.
Кемпинг
Screenplay
Тео и Валерия собираются пожениться. Мать девушки не разрешает молодым людям вдвоем отправиться в путешествие на мотоцикле. Тео вынужден мириться с тем, что их будет сопровождать брат Валерии - не самый приятный пассажир, поминутно подающий голос из коляски. Но несмотря на все казусы, которые произойдут с компанией в дороге, поездка все равно окажется удачной, венцом чего станет милейший комедийный хэппи-энд.
Кемпинг
Director
Тео и Валерия собираются пожениться. Мать девушки не разрешает молодым людям вдвоем отправиться в путешествие на мотоцикле. Тео вынужден мириться с тем, что их будет сопровождать брат Валерии - не самый приятный пассажир, поминутно подающий голос из коляски. Но несмотря на все казусы, которые произойдут с компанией в дороге, поездка все равно окажется удачной, венцом чего станет милейший комедийный хэппи-энд.
The Bachelor
First Assistant Director
Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?
Чувство
First Assistant Director
Венеция, 1866 год, последние дни австро-венгерской оккупации. Партизаны готовят освобождение города. А в это время между австрийским красавцем-офицером и очаровательной венецианской графиней разгорается страстный любовный роман.
Empty Eyes
First Assistant Director
A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.
Самая красивая
First Assistant Director
Маддалена Чеккони, жена рабочего, узнав, что на киностудии объявлен конкурс среди девочек 6-8 лет на главную роль, приводит туда свою обожаемую дочь Марию и всеми правдами и неправдами добивается кинопробы…
Земля дрожит
First Assistant Director
Сицилия, середина 1940-х. Грабительские цены закупщиков рыбы держат за горло обитателей побережья. Одна из рыбацких семей пытается наладить собственный бизнес, но безуспешно. Кажется, что против не только жизненные обстоятельства, но сама судьба — жестокая, несправедливая, помогающая лишь тем, у кого уже все есть…
Angelina
Filippo Garrone
A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and leads a march to the capital. She returns to her village a winner, an honourable MP. Yet, she is still the same simple, fiery woman, able to get in a hair-pulling brawl with the local barmaid for the affection of her man.