As mounted at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Italy, this 2011 New Year's classical concert offers a program of operatic...
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2011
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This elaborate and ambitious classical concert was mounted at Venice's prestigious Teatro La Fenice to commemorate the New...
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2010
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This performance of Giuseppe Verde's tragic opera Faust by the Opera Royal de Wallonie was recorded at the Opera de Liege in...
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2009
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Legendary French conductor Georges Pretre leads this classical concert, mounted on New Year's 2009, with orchestral music by...
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2009
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This release captures a live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's politically charged epic opera Don Carlo, recorded at the Royal...
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2009
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Liège, Belgium's Opéra Royal de Wallonie mounted this 2009 stage production of Giuseppe Verdi's three-act 1853 opera La...
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2009
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This production of Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata stars Kristiane Kaiser, Magdalena Anna Hofmann, and Stefanie Kopinits. Ernst...
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2008
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This release captures a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's beloved opera Rigoletto, recorded at the Sachsische Staatsoper...
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2008
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Giuseppi Verdi's 1859 opera Un ballo in maschera weaves the thematic threads of political conspiracy, loyalty and passion...
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2008
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The Teatro Alla Scalla mounted this 2008 production of Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera Traviata, directed by the eminent Liliana...
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2008
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In the classical performance release New Year's Concert in St Petersburg - shot on New Year's Day 2007 at St. Petersburg's...
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2007
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2007
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Recalling the accusations of malfeasance that plagued the late 2000 U.S. presidential election - only with a heightened...
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2007
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2007
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2007
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This evening of opera music features the great tenor Placido Domingo, soprano Anna Netrebko, and tenor Rolando Villazon...
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2006
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The Los Angeles Opera mounted this stage version of Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera La Traviata, starring the incomparable Renée...
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2006
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The release La Traviata brings to at-home audiences the Salzburg Festival's 2005 production of Giuseppe Verdi's titular...
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2006
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Pier Luigi Pizzi mounted Giuseppe Verdi's seminal 1853 opera La Traviata at the Teatro Real in 2006, with a cast that...
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2006
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2005
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2005
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This lavish production of Giuseppe Verdi's classic opera stars Roberto Servile as Rigoleto, a royal jester. Despite his...
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2005
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Giuseppi Verdi co-wrote his operatic interpretation of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth - with its text of lust, greed,...
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2005
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Eva Mei, Piotr Beczala, and Thomas Hampson star in a faithful staging of Giuseppe Verdi's three-act opera La Traviata,...
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2005
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Guiseppe Verdi's four-act drama comes to the stage of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in this April of 2005 performance...
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2005
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2005
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Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo arrives on stage in suitably majestic fashion in this release of the lavish production starring...
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2004
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The Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona mounted this 2004 production of Giuseppe Verdi's three-act 1851 opera Rigoletto, with...
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2004
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The Wiener Staatsoper mounted and produced this rendition of Giuseppe Verdi's 1867 opera Don Carlos, starring Ramón Vargas,...
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2004
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Robert Carsen directs this version of Guiseppe Verdi's La Traviata, based on the original stage version that premiered at...
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2004
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2003
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This performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Tancredi features the vocal talents of Daniela Barcellona in the title role. ~...
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2003
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Opus Arte presents this 2003 performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida by the Gran Teatre del Liceu. With a cast featuring...
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2003
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One of Giuseppe Verdi's most passionate and romantic operas has been given an opulent production in this staging by...
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2002
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Recorded live at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Italy, c. May 2002, this EuroArts release features orchestral...
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2002
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2002
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As mounted by the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Busseto, Parma, and helmed by stage and film director Franco Zeffirelli (Endless...
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2002
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Giuseppe Verdi's one prologue, three act opera featuring libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Arrigo Boito is performed...
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2002
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Ambrogio Maestri stars in one of William Shakespeare's greatest comic roles as Falstaff in this operatic adaptation of the...
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2001
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2001
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2001
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Giuseppi Verdi's operatic adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy is captured live at the Staatsoper Berlin in a 2001...
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2001
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Based on a character from William Shakespeare's Henry IV, Falstaff is one of the most notable operas by 19th century Italian...
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2001
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Experience Guiseppe Verdi's I Due Foscari firsthand in this performance captured live at the Teatro Di San Carlo in Napoli....
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2000
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2000
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Guiseppe Verdi's lavish Shakespearian epic opens London's newly-restored Royal Opera House in this performance originally...
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1999
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1998
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The tragic tale of love between Egyptian leader Radames and radiant Ethiopian princess Aida makes the trip from the stage to...
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1998
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Elena Prokina and Giancarlo Pasquetto star in this stage production of Giuseppe Verdi's Simon Boccanegra, directed by Peter...
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1998
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Nabucco (also known as Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Baal-worshipping Assyrians, has attacked and overwhelmed Jerusalem....
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1998
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Guiseppe Verdi's four act opera arrives on home video in this performance captured live at St Petersburg's Mariinski...
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1998
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This 1997 staging of Verdi's classic opera Aida, directed for the stage by Martin Dubowitz, features Pauletta de Vaughn in...
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1997
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Outwardly Janos and Erno Witman seem like typical middle class teens, but beneath their facades of normalcy, the two are...
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1997
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The majesty of Antonio Salieri's Falstaff comes home as cameras roll to capture a live 1995 performance of the acclaimed...
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1996
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This rendition of Verdi's classic -- the title character is a complex figure whose love of both country and family prove a...
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1995
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Racial conflicts provide the impetus for this heavy, socially conscious British drama. The film begins in North Carolina,...
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1995
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Originally filmed at the Covent Garden, this Royal Opera production features noted soprano Cheryl Studer in the title role,...
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1994
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Featuring the debut of soprano Angela Gheorghiu, this release from Universal Classics presents a performance of...
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1994
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This performance of Verdi's opera La Traviata was recorded in Venice's 18th century opera house, La Fenice before it was...
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1992
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1992
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1992
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1992
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The Arena di Verona mounted this 1992 stage production of Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco; it stars Nunzio Todisco, Roberto...
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1992
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Opus Arte and the BBC present Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Vespri Siciliani, performed at the Teatro Alla Scala under conductor...
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1991
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Alexandre Agache, Kiri Te Kanawa, Roberto Scandiuzzi and Michael Sylvester are among the soloists in this version of Verdi's...
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1991
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Self-involved corporate raider Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) has recently split up with his girlfriend. Seeking directions to...
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1990
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Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera is performed before a live audience in this 1990 production captured live at the...
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1990
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1990
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This elaborate performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem Mass was mounted and delivered at the Arena di Verona in 1990, and...
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1990
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This music performance video is a Verdi opera conducted by James Levine and performed by the Metropolitan Opera and Chorus...
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1990
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One of the first films by Polish director Agnieszka Holland to gain international acclaim, this drama is a joint...
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1989
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The title character in the Belgian-French The Music Teacher is a retired opera star, played by Jose Van Dam. The teacher's...
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1989
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1989
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1989
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1988
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An international collection of well-known directors contributed to this compilation film, each fashioning a short film...
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1988
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French director Roger Vadim pillages his own grave in this nominal re-make of his 1956 creamy sensation And God Created Woman...
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1988
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This Swedish version of Giuseppe Verdi's late 19th-century tragic opera tells the story of an Ethiopian princess who is...
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1988
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1988
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La Forza del Destino is an important opera by Giuseppe Verdi which, in this documentary, is being produced by the Canadian...
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1988
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The treachery of 15th Century Venice comes to the stage of the Teatro Alla Scala in a filmed performance of Guiseppe Verdi's...
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1988
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Featuring world-renowned tenor Luciano Pavarotti, this release from Universal Classics presents a 1988 performance of Il...
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1988
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Acclaimed soprano Marie McLaughlin headlines this performance of Guiseppe Verdi's heartbreaking tale of ill-fated love...
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1988
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In this arthouse satirical interpretation of the famous Shakespeare play, a thug named Macbeth starts a gang war at the...
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1987
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1987
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This production of Giuseppi Verdi's opera based on Macbeth, the famed play by William Shakespeare, is a musical succès...
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1987
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Giuseppe Verdi's opera version of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth is performed by the Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper...
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1987
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The Opera Australia mounted this production of Giuseppe Verdi's iconic La Traviata in 1987, with the eminent Joan Carden as...
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1987
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In this melodrama, Marten, Ursula and Harri have gotten themselves into a life of drug-peddling, but now they want to get...
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1987
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This presentation of Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff (the final opera of his impressive career) features bass baritone...
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1987
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Manon of the Spring (Manon des Sources) has also been released as Jean de Florette II in the US, as it is a sequel to...
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1986
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1986
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Set during the French occupation of Sicily, this performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Vespri Siciliani features the vocal...
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1986
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This is a well-executed psychological drama with exceptionally good acting. Fernanda Torres stars as a newly separated woman...
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1986
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A hooker tries to overcome her fate by marrying out of her profession in this conventional drama by Jean-Claude Guiguet....
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1986
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This musical performance features the classic Verdi opera and was taped at Italy's Arena di Verona with English subtitles. ~...
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1985
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This avant-garde fantasy is about an "Alice in Wonderland" type of existence in which the same show plays eternally on the...
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1985
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1985
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Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this well-executed drama about...
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1985
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Before he died in 1902, Giuseppe Verdi inaugurated a home for retired artists in Milan, a project he had worked on for some...
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1984
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This video captures the performance of this tragic Verdi opera as it is performed by the...
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1984
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This release captures a performance of the Verdi opera Don Carlo recorded at the Theatre Antique d'Orange in Orange, France...
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1984
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1984
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Director Claude D'Anna has tried for epic proportions in this less-than-epic film about incest, murder, suicide, and insanity...
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1983
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Nostalghia is Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's enigmatic work about a writer (Oleg Yankovsky) who, trapped by his fame and...
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1983
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1983
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The complications and excesses in the highly melodramatic story of Rigoletto almost define the word "opera" for many people,...
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1983
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Loosely based on the colorful, combustible life and career of German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder, A Man Like Eva (Ein...
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1983
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El Norte is a realistic picture of both the Guatemalan government's oppression of the Quiche Indians and the hard life of...
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1983
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Luciano Pavarotti takes the title role in this production of Verdi's operatic tragedy, in which a man falls for a woman who...
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1983
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This performance of the beloved Giuseppe Verdi opera Falstaff at the Royal Opera House features the conduction of Carlo...
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1983
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A gay couple living in Berlin has a fairly bourgeois lifestyle: one is a high school teacher who defends the "squatters" in...
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1983
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This video presents the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus in a sumptuous production of Verdi's classic opera Don...
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1983
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A filmed version of the Verdi opera, Ernani is set in 1519 and concerns Ernani, an outlawed nobleman who is heading a...
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1982
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This performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Otello, based on the play by Shakespeare, features the vocal talents of Vladimir...
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1982
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1982
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This production of Giuseppe Verdi's enduringly popular opera Aida features Margaret Price as the title character, and...
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1981
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This performance of Verdi's opera Nabucco, tells the story of an oppressed people yearning for elusive freedom through the...
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1981
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Luciano Pavarotti stars as Riccardo in this production of Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera", staged by New York City's...
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1980
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Based on an autobiography by Vergilio Ferreira that was banned during Salazar's dictatorship in Portugal (1945-1968), this...
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1980
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Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial drama explores the troubled life of a young man and his troubling relationship with his...
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1979
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Romantic love between two socially disparate people binds and separates a young man and young woman in this traged based on...
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1979
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Verdi's comic masterpiece comes to life in filmmaker Götz Friedrich's 1979 cinematic adaptation featuring the music of the...
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1979
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This performance of the Giuseppe Verde opera Forza del Destino, sung in original Italian, was recorded live at the Teatro...
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1978
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A live performance of composer Giuseppe Verdi's Il Trovatore is presented in this release from ORF. Recorded at Germany's...
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1978
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This release offers a collection of best loved performances by legendary tenor and opera star Lucian Pavarotti, including...
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1977
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The NHK Hall in Tokyo, Japan mounted this September 1976 production of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Simon Boccanegra, with Piero...
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1976
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Opera great Beverly Sills performs as Violetta in the popular opera La Traviata. ~ Rovi...
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1976
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Based on the character of Sir John Falstaff from Shakespeare's Henry IV, the opera Falstaff was composed by the inimitable...
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1976
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This performance of Un Ballo in Maschera, one Verdi's most popular operas, was originally recorded in 1975 at the famous...
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1975
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1974
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This 1973 production of Giuseppe Verdi's seminal opera Aida was mounted at the NHK Hall in Tokyo, and stars heavyweights...
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1973
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NHK Hall in Tokyo mounted this September 1973 production of Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata, starring José Carreras, Sesto...
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1973
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Originally produced for Italian television, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem (La Strategia del Ragno) can be...
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1972
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This performance of Guiseppe Verdi's opera Macbeth, based on the Shakespeare play of the same name, features the London...
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1972
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This tale of intermingled love and hate is directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and is the 13th of the 33 films he made in...
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1972
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In the final decades of his life, opera guru Walter Felseinstein (1901-75) built and sustained a reputation for restaging...
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1969
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In this 1968 filmed performance of Verdi's La Traviata, soprano Anna Moffo takes over the role of Violetta, backed by...
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1968
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This complex and witty crime drama is set aboard a Paris train bound for Antwerp. Aboard are a husband and wife. Also aboard,...
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1968
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1967
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Giuseppe Verdi's opera Un Ballo in Maschera receives an interpretation by the Nippon Hoso Kyokai in this production, mounted...
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1967
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This Brazilian example of cinema novo chronicles the struggle of a man deeply entangled within unstable and crooked...
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1966
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As directed by Otto Schenk, this most unusual version of Giuseppe Verdi's 1887 opera Othello (adapted from Shakespeare's...
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1965
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The low-budget horror film Rome Against Rome concerns the Roman military doing battle against an army of zombies who have...
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1964
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1963
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Though the operatic production in this release constitutes a version of Giuseppe Verdi's three-act commedia lirica Falstaff...
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1963
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1961
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The NHK Symphony mounted this classic production of Verdi's 1851 opera Rigoletto, performed on stage and filmed in 1961. In...
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1961
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This two-pack offers a pair of classic ballets by choreographer John Cranko, performed and filmed in 1959. First is The Lady...
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1959
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1959
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1958
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The Hardy Trading Company presents this 1957 production of Giuseppe Verdi's classic Il Trovatore. The opera stars Mario Del...
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1957
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In this release of a performance originally telecast on Radiotelevisione Italiana on May 9, 1956, Giuseppe Taddei, Scipione...
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1956
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Italian director Luchino Visconti dishes up his usual blend of elegance and decadence in Senso. The international cast...
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1954
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1954
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Sophia Loren, complete with blackface and an Afro, came to international acclaim in this fairly literal version of the...
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1953
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1950
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This music performance video is a production of Verdi's tragedy. The NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Toscanini, is...
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1949
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Herva Nelli headlines Giuseppe Verdi's four-act opera in this performance captured live in April of 1949 and featuring the...
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1949
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At the time of its release, this filmization of Verdi's opera Il Trovatore was praised for its "cinematic" qualities: that...
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1949
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The Lost One is the English-language title for the 1948 adaptation of Giueseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata. Departing somewhat...
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1948
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The King's Jester is a non-musical Italian film version of the tragic opera Rigoletto. While we hear no vocal renditions of...
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1947
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Sweet revenge turns horribly sour in Verdi's tragic opera Rigoletto. This Italian film version of the Verdi classic was...
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1947
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1946
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Billy Wilder's searing portrait of an alcoholic features an Oscar-winning performance by Ray Milland as Don Birnam, a writer...
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1945
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Moonlight Murder takes place virtually in its entirety at the Hollywood Bowl. Despite dire warnings by a sinister mystic...
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1936
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Mammy features Al Jolson as the star of a travelling minstrel show, appearing in a small Southern town. Jolson falls in love...
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1930
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The Ópera de Bilbao mounted this live rendition of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio in January 2007,...
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This performance of Verdi's opera, Attila features the vocal talents of Evgeny Nesterenko and Silvano Carroli. ~ Cammila...
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Luciano Pavarotti: Ernani features the celebrated tenor performing Verdi's classic opera. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi...
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Samuel Ramey gives a powerful performance as Attila in this thoughtful, handsomely mounted production of Verdi's classic...
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