Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Filmography

Magic Flute Diaries

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Actors: Warren Christie, Mireille Asselin, Olivier Laquerre, Erin Windle, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: Rutger Hauer and Warren Christie co-star in this innovative film opera from Anne of Green Gables helmer Kevin Sullivan, which represents a very loose reinterpretation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's seminal 1791 singspiel Die Zauberflote. Christie stars as Tom Henderson, an operatic chanteur Read More

The Magic Flute

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Actors: Joseph Kaiser, Amy Carson, Benjamin Jay Davis, Silvia Moi, Rene Pape

Synopsis: Acclaimed director Kenneth Branagh skillfully lifts one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's most beloved works from it's original, fairytale setting and places it against the backdrop of the First World War with this impassioned, English-language adaptation staged to coincide with the 250th anniversary Read More

David Hockney: The Colors of Music

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Actors: David Hockney, Max Charruyer, John Cox, Ken Silvers, Gwyneth Jones

Synopsis: One of the best-respected artists of his generation, David Hockney is well known for his paintings, prints, and portraits, but he's also developed a reputation as a set designer for some of the world's leading opera companies. A passionate enthusiast of classical vocal music, Hockney's interest in Read More

Don Giovanni [Teatro Real Madrid]

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Mozart: Jupiter & Linz Symphonies

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Synopsis: In this performance recorded live at Vienna's Gross Galerie Schloss Schönbrunn in 1991, Jeffrey Tate and The English Chamber Orchestra perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Symphony C Major "Jupiter" K 551" and "Symphony C Major "Linz" K 425". ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Highlights of Vienna Symphonies, Vol. 1

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Actors: Heinz Wallberg, Tamara Lund, Nicolai Gedda, Hans Graf

Synopsis: In this concert performance, the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra performs works by Mozart, Strauss, Schubert, Chopin, Lehar, and Ziehrer. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

McDull, Prince de la Bun

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Actors: Andy Lau, Anthony Wong, Sandra Ng, Jan Lamb, Tse Yut-mei

H6: Diary of a Serial Killer

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Actors: Fernando Acaso, Maria Jose Bausa, Martin Garrido, Raquel Arenas, Sonia Moreno

Synopsis: A friendly face masks the mind of a twisted serial killer in Spanish painter-turned-filmmaker Martin Garrido Barón's disturbing tale of a man who has finally succumbed to his most violent and murderous impulses. Antonio Frau (Fernando Acaso) has just been released from prison after serving 25 Read More

Die Zauberflöte

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Actors: Simon Keenlyside, Dorothea Röschmann, Will Hartmann, Diana Damrau, Franz-Josef Selig

Synopsis: From BBC and Opus Arte comes this production of one of the final works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Magic Flute. Directed by David McVicar, Die Zauberflöte comes from a 2003 performance of the opera at Covent Garden. The orchestra of the Royal Opera House provides the music under conductor Colin Davis Read More

Pupendo

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Actors: Boleslav Polívka, Jaroslav Dusek, Eva Holubova, Vilma Cibulkova, Jiri Pecha

Synopsis: Jan Hrebejk's Pupendo shows the difficulty of life in Czechoslovakia during the 1980s. Artist Baedrich Mara (Bolek Polivka) is unable to find much secure work due to his public antagonism toward the ruling Communist Party. He has a wife and two children. Life begins to change when art historian Read More

Classic Archive: Teresa Berganza

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Actors: Teresa Berganza

Synopsis: Classic Archive: Teresa Berganza features the renowned soprano performing pieces by a variety of composers including Mozart, Rossini, Schubert, and Donizetti. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Die Entfuhrung Aus dem Serail

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Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Piotr Beczala, Malin Hartelius, Patricia Petibon, Alfred Muff, Boguslaw Bidzinski

Cosi Fan Tutte (Staatsoper Berlin)

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Synopsis: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte gets a modern makeover in this stage version featuring Dorothea Röschmann, Katharina Kammerloher, and Hanno Müller-Brachmann in the leads, and directed for the stage by Doris Dörrie. Conductor Daniel Barenboim leads the Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin Read More

Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge: Ave Verum - Popular Choral Classics

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Actors: Christopher Robinson, Peter Davis, Alison Atkinson, Namoi Rudoe

Synopsis: Several religious songs are performed by the renowned Choir of St. John's College in this concert release from Alpha Centauri Entertainment. Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge: Ave Verum - Popular Choral Classics includes renditions of Haydn's "Insanae et vanae curae," Rachmaninov's "Hymn of Read More

Ton Koopman: Mozart and Cimaro

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Actors: Luba Orgonásová, Maurizio Muraro, Ton Koopman

Synopsis: Famed Dutch-born conductor Ton Koopman headlines this classical performance release that finds him leading the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg in interpretations of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Domenico Cimarosa. Selections include: Mozart's Symphony No. 34 in C Major and Symphony No. Read More

Die Entfuhrung Aus dem Serail

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Don Giovanni [Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona]

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Synopsis: Experience a whole new side of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's enduring opera as Calixto Bieito transplants the tale to the late 20t Century in a controversial 2002 production featuring Wojtek Drabowicz in the title role. Bertrand de Billy conducts the Orchestra Academy of the Gran Teatre del Liceu. Read More

Die Entfuhrung Aus dem Serail

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Actors: Markus John, Eva Mei, Patrizia Ciofi, Ranier Trost, Merzad Montazeri, Kurt Rydl

Synopsis: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's classic singspiel Abduction from the Seraglio is performed at Florence's Teatro Della Pergola in this release from TDK Mediactive. Vocalists include Markus John, Eva Mei, and Patrizia Ciofi, and music is provided by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra and Chorus Read More

Don Giovanni [Opernhaus Zurich]

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Actors: Rodney Gilfry

Synopsis: Recorded at the Opernhaus Zurich in 2001, this release from Arthaus Musik features a live performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni. Along with Rodney Gilfry in the title role, the cast includes Laszlo Polgar as Leporello and Isabel Rey as Donna Anna. The Orchestra of the Opernhaus Read More

Cosi Fan Tutte

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Don Giovanni

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Actors: Renato Bruson

Synopsis: Enrico Castiglione directs this 2001 production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's seminal two-act 1787 dramma giocoso Don Giovanni, an opera mounted at Teatro Argentina in Rome, with musical accompaniment by the Rome Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Michael Halaz. The production includes arias Read More

Don Giovanni: Highlights

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Don Giovanni [Metropolitan Opera]

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Synopsis: This performance of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni features the vocal talents of Bryn Terfel in the title role. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

Cosi Fan Tutte (Opernhaus Zurich)

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Synopsis: One of the superstars of the world of classical music, Cecilia Bartoli, stars in this production of one of Mozart's best-known operas, in which two military officers, at the behest of an old friend, become caught up in an elaborate ruse to find out if their fiancées would remain faithful to them Read More

The Magic Flute

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Synopsis: Conducted by Franz Welser-Most, this stage production of Mozart's classic The Magic Flute was filmed in Switzerland. The classic story of good and evil follows the romance of Tamino and Pamina, and features Matti Salminen, Anton Scharinger, Julia Newman, and Elena Mosuc. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Read More

Le Parc

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Actors: Isabelle Guerin, Laurent Hilaire

Synopsis: The Paris Opera Ballet mounted this 1999 production of Angelin Preljocaj's ballet Le Parc, set to numerous adagios by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Laurent Hilaire and Isabelle Guérin co-star; The Paris Opera Orchestra, under the direction of Stéphane Denève, provides musical accompaniment. ~ Nathan Read More

Le Nozze di Figaro

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Actors: Rene Pape

Synopsis: This production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's four-act opera Le Nozze di Figaro stars Rene Pape in the title role. Performed at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Daniel Barenboim leads the orchestra. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Don Giovanni [Wiener Staatsoper]

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Synopsis: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni is performed live at the Theater an der Wien in this 1999 production starring Carlos Alvarez in the title role and featuring the music of the Choir and Orchester der Weiner Staatsoper performing under the guiding wand of conductor Riccardo Muti. ~ Jason Read More

Classical Music Videoclips, Vol. 3: Mozart

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Synopsis: In this group of four programs, viewers will be introduced to popular selections from classical music, illustrated with computer graphics that enrich the listening experience. They are designed to stimulate interest in some of the top composers of the past. In Classical Music Videoclips, Vol. 3 Read More

Die Entfuhrung Aus dem Serail

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Actors: Alexander Heidenreich, Johannes Terne, Catherine Naglestad, Roland Bracht, Heinz Göhrig, Kate Ladner, Matthias Klink, Emanuela Von Frankenberg, Carola Freiwald, Alexander Bogner, Andreas Grotzinger

Synopsis: Mozart's witty opera of romance, melodrama and misunderstanding, gets an unusual staging in this production, as director Hans Neuenfels casts two performers in each leading role -- an actor and a vocalist, who not only split the onstage duties but interact with one another through the performance. Read More

Tukrozodesek

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Actors: Teo Fabricius, Agens, Laszlo Hasko, Gabor Altorjay, Melinda Farago

Synopsis: Avant-garde filmmakers Gyorgyi Szalai and Istvan Darday made this 143-minute excursion into fringe borderlands of the mind, depicting the death in Venice of a hospitalized astrologer, while a famous female vocalist loses her child in an automobile accident. Shot in video with a transfer to film Read More

Don Giovanni

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Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail

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Synopsis: Mozart authored his singspiel (or comic opera) Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) around 1782. The libretto weaves the tale of Belmonte, who schemes -- with the loyal assistance of servant Pedrillo -- to wheedle his love, Constanze, out of the clutches of Pasha Read More

Don Giovanni [Glyndebourne Festival Opera]

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Synopsis: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's two act opera gets a modern makeover in this stage performance starring Gilles Cachemaille in the role of Don Giovanni and featuring Yakov Kreizberg conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail [Salzburg Marionette Theatre]

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Actors: Peter Ustinov

Mozart: The Requiem From Sarajevo

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Actors: José Carreras, Ruggero Raimondi, Zubin Mehta

Synopsis: In 1994, Jose Carreras, Ruggero Raimondi and Zubin Mehta joined forces for a special performance of Mozart's Requiem to honor the many people who lost their lives in the tragic and bloody war in Sarajevo. Performed amidst the ruins of Sarajevo's National Library, this deeply moving concert also Read More

The Magic Flute Story: An Opera Fantasy

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Synopsis: In Mozart's comic opera The Magic Flute, young Prince Tamino and Princess Pamina are lovers who discover that a flute with magic powers will help them fight evil forces that might break them apart. Mozart's The Magic Flute Story: An Opera Fantasy (part of the Children's Cultural Collection series) Read More

Le Nozze di Figaro

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Synopsis: This performance of Mozart's opera, Le Nozze di Figaro features the vocal talents of Gerald Finley in the title role. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

Le Nozze di Figaro

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Synopsis: Mozart's comic opera of love, lies, betrayal, and various degrees of underhanded behavior is captured in both sound and image in this home video release. Starring Alison Hagley, Bryn Terfel, and Rodney Gilfry, Le Nozze Di Figaro features the English Baroque Soloists under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner Read More

Riccardo Muti Conducts Mozart: Divertimento in D, Symphonies No. 40 & 41 "Jupiter"

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A Musical Journey: Austria - A Musical Tour of the Country's Past and Present

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Synopsis: The country of Austria simultaneously claims some of the world's most breathtaking scenery and some of history's most legendary composers, including, of course, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Those two elements come together in this ambience-themed release, which provides an on-camera tour of locales Read More

Nikolaus Harnoncourt: Mozart and Schubert Symphonies

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Cosi Fan Tutte (Theatre du Chatelet)

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Actors: Amanda Roocroft, Rosa Mannion, Rodney Gilfry, Ranier Trost, Eirian James, Claudio Nicolai

Synopsis: This performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's opera, Cosi Fan Tutte features the vocal talents of Amanda Roocroft. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

New Year's Concert 1991 (Abbado, Wiener Philharmoniker)

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Actors: Claudio Abbado

Synopsis: The classical music performance film New Year's Concert 1991 (Abbado, Wiener Philharmoniker) finds celebrated maestro Claudio Abbado - a longtime fixture of the Wiener Philharmoniker symphony in Vienna - returning to conduct that orchestra for a special New Year's Eve performance on New Year's Read More

Mozart: Requiem

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Actors: Arlene Auger, Cecilia Bartoli, Vinson Cole, Rene Pape

Synopsis: This performance of Mozart's Requiem took place on December 5, 1991 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his death. Sir Georg Solti conducts this performance at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, where the Mozart's original funeral rites were read, in the style of a funeral mass in remembrance Read More

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra: Gala Concert - Dvorak/Mozart

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Actors: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Solti: Orchestra!

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Actors: Dudley Moore, Sir Georg Solti

Die Zauberflöte

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Synopsis: Kathleen Battle, Francisco Araiza, and Kurt Moll star in this production of one of Mozart's best-loved operas, staged by the Metropolitan Opera of New York with sets designed by David Hockney. In Mozart's witty and whimsical story, the wise but wily Sarastro (Kurt Moll) kidnaps the beautiful but Read More

Don Giovanni [Gurzenich Orchester Cologne]

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Synopsis: This production of Mozart's Don Giovanni features soloist Thomas Allen, as well as Ferruccio Furlantetto, Carol Vaness, Andrea Rost, and Matthias Holle. The Gurzenich Orchestra provides the instrumentals with the help of conductor James Conlon. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide Read More

Don Giovanni [Prague National Theater]

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La Clemenza di Tito

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Synopsis: This musical performance video brings an international cast as they do Mozart's last opera at the Glyndbourne Festival in Great Britain. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Abduction from the Seraglio

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Actors: Carolyn Smith-Meyer, Barbara Sternberger, Rolf Tomaszewski, Armin Uhde, Werner Haseleu, Uwe Peper

Synopsis: This video is from a production of the Mozart opera Abduction from the Seraglio, performed in German. The story of a young Spanish nobleman who seeks to rescue his lover from her imprisonment by a royal villain has passion and pathos, beautiful music, and social commentary, set amidst lavish Read More

Pacific Heights

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Actors: Michael Keaton, Melanie Griffith, Matthew Modine, Mako, Nobu McCarthy, Dorian Harewood

Synopsis: John Schlesinger directed this upscale horror film about a landlord with the ultimate problem tenant. Patty Palmer (Melanie Griffith) and Drake Goodman (Matthew Modine) are a middle class couple who lie on their financial statement in order to buy an old Victorian house in San Francisco, planning Read More

Don Giovanni [Wiener Symphoniker]

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Synopsis: Directed by the unpredictable Peter Sellars, this version of Mozart's opera is in present-day Harlem. Featuring the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra and the Arnold Schonberg Choir, this is in Italian with English subtitles. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Die Entfuhrung Aus dem Serail

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Actors: Emmerich Schaffer, Aga Winska, Elisabeth Hellstrom, Richard Croft, Bengt-Ola Morgny, Tamas Szule

Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail

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The Music Teacher

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Actors: Jose van Dam, Anne Roussel, Philippe Volter, Sylvie Fennec, Johan Leysen

Synopsis: The title character in the Belgian-French The Music Teacher is a retired opera star, played by Jose Van Dam. The teacher's most gifted pupil is singer/musician Anne Roussel. Her love for her teacher is one of the motivating factors of the story, as is Roussel and Van Dam's relationship with Read More

The Magic Flute

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Don Giovanni

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Cosi Fan Tutte (Teatro alla Scalia)

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Synopsis: Mozart's tart comedy of manners is performed with all the skillful musicianship and sparkling wit one would expect from the internationally famous La Scala company in this production directed by Michael Hempe, with Riccardo Muti leading the orchestra. The cast includes Daniela Dessi, Delores Ziegler Read More

And God Created Woman

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Actors: Rebecca De Mornay, Vincent Spano, Frank Langella, Donovan Leitch, Judith Chapman

Synopsis: French director Roger Vadim pillages his own grave in this nominal re-make of his 1956 creamy sensation And God Created Woman -- the film that made Brigitte Bardot an international star. Unfortunately, he is unable to do the same thing for the cool and cryptic Rebecca DeMornay in this version. DeMornay Read More

Babette's Feast

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Actors: Stéphane Audran, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Gudmar Wivesson, Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel

Synopsis: The Danish/French Babette's Feast is based on a story by Isak Dinesen, also the source of the very different Out of Africa (1985). Stephane Audran plays Babette, a 19th century Parisian political refugee who seeks shelter in a rough Danish coastal town. Philippa (Bodil Kjer) and Martina (Birgitte Federspiel Read More

Travelling North

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Actors: Leo McKern, Julia Blake, Graham Kennedy, Henri Szeps, Michelle Fawdon

Synopsis: Director Carl Schultz and screenwriter David Williamson's character study of an aging Australian man's second marriage boasts a robust performance by Leo McKern. McKern plays Frank, a man in his seventies, who used to be something of a firecracker, but who now, his best days behind him, prefers to Read More

Mon Cher Sujet

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Actors: Gaële Le Roi, Anny Romand, Helene Roussel, Yves Neff, Bernard Woringer

Synopsis: Three generations of women discuss their inner emotions and their interaction with society in this drama from longtime Jean-Luc Godard protégé Anne-Marie Mieville. She uses the sudden editing stops seen in Godard's early work to tell the story of these noble women who live in a world dominated by Read More

Cosi Fan Tutte (Wiener Philharmoniker)

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Actors: Ferruccio Furlanetto, Paolo Montarsolo, Teresa Stratas, Edita Gruberova

Synopsis: Cosi fan tutte, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's bawdy 1790 dramma giocoso, recounts the randy tale of Ferrando and Guglielmo, two officers, stationed in Naples, who attempt to exchange fiancées in a wager. Fairly conventional for its time, Cosi failed to raise any eighteenth century eyebrows but (with Read More

Envoyez Les Violons

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Actors: Richard Anconina, Anémone, Michel Galabru, Martin Lamotte, Fabienne Perineau

Synopsis: Fred Segal (Richard Anconina) is a commercial director whose marriage is headed for disaster in this light romantic comedy drama. He decides he wants to play music and takes flute lessons from the beautiful Isabelle (Anemone). The experience wakens feelings of romance in Fred he thought were Read More

To Magiko Yiali

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Actors: Akis Sakellariou, Smaragda Diamantidou, Bonita Papastathi, Lelouda Petrou

Synopsis: In this light romantic comedy, a rarity of Greek cinema, Nikoletta has been away from her husband Markos for a brief vacation and is greeted on her return by an affectionate and enthusiastic husband. He has even prepared a "welcome back" meal for her which is both thoughtful and perfectly awful Read More

Don Giovanni [Teatro Alla Scala]

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Synopsis: One of Mozart's most popular operas receives a stellar production from the respected La Scalla company as preserved in this video, starring British baritone Thomas Allen in the title role. The supporting cast includes Edita Gruberova, Ann Murray and Francisco Araiza. Don Giovanni is performed in Read More