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Uses material from various performances of the stage version of Ashley’s ‘made for television’ opera ‘Perfect Lives (Private Parts)'. The stage version was a collaboration between Ashley, the...
Opera, ballet and pantomime are incorporated into this adaptation which is derived from a Lindsay Kemp stage production at Sadler’s Wells. Titania (The Incredible Orlando) is a drag queen; the Indian boy...
With Fitzcarraldo, one of his most renowned films, acclaimed German director Werner Herzog emulates Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ in this mammoth epic set in the heart of the Amazon rainforest....
The evolution of modern theatrical production based on Wagner’s ideal of the ‘total work of art’. Starting with Wagner’s reform of opera, it details the ideas of Adolphe Appia, who first formulated a...
Infamous womanizer Don Giovanni makes conquest after conquest, leaving seduced and abandoned women in his wake. When the ghost of the Commendatore he has killed appears, he is given a final chance to change...
In 1978 Jonathan Miller produced the Mozart opera ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ for the English National Opera Company at the Coliseum in London. The film records Miller at work and in interview he discusses...
A short opera by Reginald Barrett-Ayres, in which Septimus Brope, an ecclesiologist, is overheard at an Edwardian party professing love for a maid named Florrie. Eventually it turns out that he is composing...
The theatre and its decor, unchanged throughout the last two centuries. The original groove and shutter machinery is shown in action during a performance of ‘Iphigenia in Aulis’ by Gluck.
A short film about the character of Sir John Falstaff with performances of scenes from Verdi’s Falstaff with Geraint Evans and Regina Resnik, in the roles of Falstaff and Mistress Quickly, at the New York...
Feature film. Damon Vincente (Lanza), a farmhand with a beautiful singing voice, becomes a singer in a restaurant where he is discovered by a musical promoter (Price) and a rich heiress (Fontaine). Vincente...
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