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Publisher
Universal Classics Group
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
Italiano
Description
The pathos of this heart-rending story about a sweet-natured Japanese girl and the caddish American naval lieutenant who marries then deserts her has seldom been conveyed with such emotional directness. In his sumptuous filming of Puccini's opera, director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle uses an array of cinematic effects to evoke the protagonists' irreconcilably separate lives and worlds. As Butterfly, Mirella Freni is unbearably moving in one of the finest...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A New York scandal, a riot on a ship, and an evening of insanity in a concert hall are some of the problems resulting from Groucho's outrageous business schemes. The goal, to bring Milan's finest opera stars to Manhattan.
Language
English
Description
Deep in the passageways below the Paris Opera lives a lonely, talented, horribly disfigured man who revels in terrorizing the theater's employees as THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. But when the masked Phantom sees young Christine Daaé, his heart melts. He secretly trains her, transforms her into a star ... and loves her. But when she cannot return his affection, as her heart already belongs to another, all the pain that the Phantom has held within is revealed...
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Legendary detective Charlie Chan investigates murder most foul at an opera house haunted by a madman who's giving a performance that's to die for! Terror waits in the wings! For seven years, opera star Gravelle has been locked in an insane asylum, his identity a mystery even to himself. But when his memory unexpectedly returns, he begins to recall that his wife and her lover tried to murder him and now he2s determined to make them face the music!
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, based on the story of a disfigured musical genius who lives under the Paris Opera House and uses music to win the love of a beautiful opera singer, Cameron Mackintosh produced a spectacular staging of the musical on a scale which had never been seen before. Inspired by the original staging by Hal Prince and Gillian Lynne, this lavish, fully-staged production...
Author
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Italiano
Description
"An American lieutenant marries a beautiful young geisha, to the dismay of her family. Shortly after the wedding the lieutenant departs for America, and his wife bears him a child, alone. Three years later she excitedly awaits his return, only to find to her shock and despair, that he is returning with an American wife."--Container.
14) Wagner & me
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Actor Stephen Fry visits the Wagner festival at Bayreuth in an exploration of Wagner's life, music and drama, his music's association with Hitler and Nazi Germany, and Fry's own efforts to reconcile his passion for Wagner's music with the music's "stained legacy."
16) La bohème
Publisher
Deutsche Grammophon
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Italiano
Description
A four-act opera set in 19th-century Paris about a poor poet and his love for a beautiful girl who dies of tuberculosis.
18) Andrea Chénier
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Italiano
Description
Set before and during the French Revolution, Andrea Chénier is an idealistic poet, caught in the political violence, and Maddalena is the woman he loves.
19) The magic flute
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Swedish
Description
A scintillating screen version of Mozart's beloved opera showcases Ingmar Bergman's deep knowledge of music and gift for expressing it cinematically. Casting some of Europe's finest soloists, the director lovingly recreated the baroque theater of Sweden's Drottningholm Palace to stage the story of the prince Tamino and his zestful sidekick Papageno, who are sent on a mission to save a beautiful princess from the clutches of evil.
20) Ernani
Author
Publisher
Pioneer Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
Italiano
Description
Ernani, the dashing outlaw, wins the hand of Elvira over two other suiters.
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