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Carmen ***½ (1984, Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi) – Classic Movie Review 9835
The tremendous, starry cast means the singing and acting are thoroughly rousing in director Francesco Rosi’s 1984 film of the Georges Bizet opera Carmen, but it is less thrilling and imaginative as cinema than the […]
The Pirates of Penzance **** (1983, Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Linda Ronstadt) – Classic Movie Review 9131
Director Wilford Leach’s 1983 comedy musical The Pirates of Penzance is the welcome, ultra-cheerful, uber-energetic film version of the bright, vivacious Broadway and London revival (by producer Joseph Papp) of a souped -up version of […]
La Traviata **** (1982, Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil) – Classic Movie Review 8822
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s sumptuous, thrilling 1982 Italian film version of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata, based on Alexandre Dumas Fils’s The Lady of the Camelias [La dame aux camélias], is a glossy paean to the […]
Otello **** (1986, Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Díaz) – Classic Movie Review 7245
Plácido Domingo is in great, wonderful voice as Otello the Moor in director Franco Zeffirelli’s Otello (1986), an imaginative, lavish and splendid looking film of the marvellous Giuseppe Verdi opera, based on Shakespeare’s tragedy play, […]
Rigoletto **** (1946, Tito Gobbi, Marcella Govoni, Mario Filippeschi, Giulio Neri, Lina Pagliughi) – Classic Movie Review 2545
Beautifully shot (in black and white by Anchise Brizzi), set and costumed (by Bruno Nofri), director Carmine Gallone’s 1946 film version of the Giuseppe Verdi opera favourite is extra fine. Tito Gobbi (1913-84) is extraordinary […]
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