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  1. Te con Mussolini, Un (1998 Film)

    aka: Tea with Mussolini

    Director
    Franco Zeffirelli
    Producer
    Riccardo Tozzi; Giovannella Zannoni; Clive Parsons

    Feature film comedy drama, based on Zeffirelli’s autobiography, concerning a group of elderly expatriate English women living in Florence in 1934. One of the group (Mary), who are known as the...

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  2. Falstaff (1995 Television, Video)

    Director
    Brian Large; Franco Zeffirelli; Paul Mills
    Producer
    Daniel Anker; Louisa Briccetti

    Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Falstaff performed by the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra conducted by James Levine with Paul Plishka as Falstaff. The production was directed for stage by Paul Mills and...

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  3. Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991: 25th Anniversary at Lincoln Center (1991 Video)

    Director
    Brian Large; Fabrizio Melano

    Excerpts from operas to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera House directed for video by Brian Large. The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus, and Ballet are conducted by James Levine....

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  4. Hamlet (1990 Film)

    Director
    Franco Zeffirelli
    Producer
    Dyson Lovell

    Feature film version of the play. A naturalistic and literal reading with few interpretative touches. Gibson’s Hamlet is a man of action and with the text heavily cut (over 80%) he dominates the majority...

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  5. Laurence Olivier 1907-1989: A Tribute (1989 Television)

    Series
    Omnibus

    Television arts programme. A tribute to Laurence Olivier, broadcast on the day of his funeral. A somewhat hastily assembled miscellany of clips and critical assessments. The deepest insight comes in part...

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  6. 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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  7. Zeffirelli’s ‘Otello’, From Stage to Screen (1986 Television)

    Producer
    David Sweetman

    Television documentary on the making of Zeffirelli’s OTELLO and the problems of adapting Verdi’s opera for the cinema. There is comment from Zeffirelli and others involved in the film.

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  8. Otello (1979 Television)

    Series
    Live from the Met
    Director
    Kirk Browning
    Producer
    Christopher Sarson

    Live recording of Zeffirelli’s production of Verdi’s Otello. Placido Domingo is Othello and Sherrill Milnes is Iago. The stage production was directed by Fabrizio Melano; Kirk Browning directs for...

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  9. Otello (1978 Television)

    Series
    Live from the Met
    Director
    Kirk Browning; Fabrizio Melano
    Producer
    Franco Zeffirelli; Christopher Sarson

    Live recording of Verdi’s opera staged at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York hosted by Francis Robinson. Jon Vickers sings the title role. The New York Metropolitan Opera and Chorus is conducted by...

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  10. Otello (1976 Television)

    Franco Zeffirelli’s 1975 production of Verdi’s opera recorded live at La Scala, Milan with Carlos Kleiber conducting the Teatro all Scala Orchestra and Chorus. Placido Domingo is Otello - the first time...

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