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  1. Falstaff (1949 Radio)

    Series
    Opera Half-Hour, The

    Radio transmission of part of Act III of Verdi’s opera taken from a gramophone recording of the complete performance at La Scala, Milan. Lorenzo Molajoli conducts the Milan Teatro Orchestra and Chorus....

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  2. Macbeth (1949 Radio)

    Scenes from Verdi’s opera (Act I ii; Act II, Scenes i-iii) performed in Italian. Mario Rossi conducts the Chorus and the Symphony Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Turin. Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.

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  3. Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet (1948 Film)

    Series
    Musical Masterpieces
    Director
    George Freedland
    Producer
    George Richfield

    Fernando Previtali conducts the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Italy in a performance of Tchaikovsky’s overture-fantasy Romeo and Juliet.

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  4. Dente per Dente (1942 Film)

    aka: Measure for Measure

    Director
    Marco Elter

    Feature film version of Measure for Measure. Lavish sets, lush costumes and hundreds of extras fail to redeem the film. Variety, reviewing the US release, notes bad lighting, poor sound and unhelpful English...

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  5. Bisbetica Domata, La (1942 Film)

    aka: Taming of the Shrew, The

    Director
    Ferdinando Maria Poggioli
    Producer
    Angelo Mosco; Nicola Naracci

    Feature film. A loose re-working of The Taming of the Shrew directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli with Amedeo Nazzari as Petruchio and Lila Silvi as Katherine.

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  6. Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream - Nocturne, Scherzo, Wedding March (1940 Film)

    Series
    Musical Masterpieces
    Director
    George Freedland
    Producer
    George Richfield

    Franco Ferrara conducts the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of Italy in Mendelssohn’s Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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  7. Amleto e il Suo Clown (1920 Film)

    aka: On with the Motley

    Director
    Carmino Gallone

    Melodrama. Alexandra Tranda awaits her father’s return. When the carriage comes up the drive she discovers his dead body hanging over the splashboard: he has been shot. Later her mother marries John...

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  8. Otello (1920 Film)

    aka: Othello

    Director
    Camillo de Riso

    A burlesgue. No further details known (7/2008).

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  9. Amleto (1917 Film)

    aka: Hamlet

    Director
    Eleuterio Rodolfi

    Feature film with Ruggero Ruggeri as Hamlet.`...Rodolfi finds an intriquing halfway style between film and theatre, eschewing a more conventional cutting scheme. Key thoughts are shown in close-up, there are...

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  10. Cajus Julius Caesar (1914 Film)

    aka: Julius Caesar Caio Guilio Cesare

    Director
    Enrico Guazzoni

    Feature film. The story of Julius Caesar with just occasional borrowings from Shakespeare’s play. Filmed in the traditional Italian spectacular tradition the plot covers a good deal of Caesar’s life and...

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