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  1. Iguana (1988 Film)

    Director
    Monte Hellman
    Producer
    Franco di Nunzio

    Feature film described by some as a cross between The Tempest and The Phantom of the Opera. A grotesquely disfigured harpooner named Iguana is severely mistreated by his fellow sailors on a whaling ship in...

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  2. Opera (1987 Film)

    aka: Terror at the Opera

    Director
    Dario Argento
    Producer
    Dario Argento

    Feature film. In this giallo a young opera singer, Betty (Marsillach) gets her big chance to sing Lady Macbeth when the previous star of an avant garde production of Verdi’s Macbeth breaks her leg....

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  3. Sogno di Amleto (1987 Television)

    Italian television documentary about the involvement of teachers and pupils in the experimental staging of Hamlet in a high school in Rome.

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  4. Otello (1986 Film)

    Director
    Franco Zeffirelli
    Producer
    Menahem Golan; Yoram Globus

    Filmed version of Verdi’s opera directed by Franco Zeffirelli. The Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan are conducted by Lorin Maazel who also directed and produced the music. Placido...

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  5. Sogno di una Notte d’Estate (1983 Film)

    aka: Midsummer Night’s Dream, A

    Director
    Gabriel Salvatores

    A rock musical version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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  6. Once Upon a Time in America (1983 Film)

    aka: C’Era una Volta in America

    Director
    Sergio Leone
    Producer
    Arnon Milchan

    Feature film epic telling the story of a group of Jewish gangsters from their youth in New York’s Lower East side through Prohibition to their reunion in the 1960s. Antony and Cleopatra is referenced...

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  7. Romeo and Juliet (1983 Television)

    Series
    Dance International
    Director
    Patricia Foy; Rudolf Nureyev
    Producer
    Patricia Foy

    John Drummond introduces Rudolf Nureyev’s production of Romeo and Juliet from the Palazzo dello Sport, Milan. The ballet premiered in London in 1977 and was staged at La Scala, Milan in 1980. Nureyev and...

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  8. Otello (1982 Video)

    Series
    Nvc Arts
    Director
    Preben Montell
    Producer
    Gianfranco De Bosio

    A performance of the Verdi opera with Vladimir Atlantov as Otello, Kiri Te Kanawa as Desdemona and Piero Cappucilli as Iago. The orchestra and chorus of the Arena di Verona are conducted by Zoltan Pesko....

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  9. Macbeth (1982 Video)

    Director
    A. Muschietti; Carmelo Bene

    Documentary on rehearsals for Carmelo Bene’s production of Macbeth, including the first part of the dress rehearsal. Recorded 22 October-23 November 1982. This may be the rehearsal for MACBETH HORROR SUITE...

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  10. Tempesta, La (1981 Television, Video)

    aka: Tempest, The

    Director
    Giorgio Strehler; Carlo Battistoni

    Televised version of the play by Giorgio Strehler directed for television by Carlo Battistoni.

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