Franco Corelli

Franco Corelli in a film.

Film adaptation of the Puccini opera.

France, 1792. Chenier is an idealistic poet, in love with the aristocratic Maddalena. While Chenier supports such notions as "liberte, fraternite egalite," his sympathies do not extend to the current Reign of Terror. Likewise, the Revolutionary Tribunal has no need for poets or their girlfriends, especially those judged to be an Enemy of the State. Heads will roll.

Verdi's opera performed in San Carlo 1958.

Franco Corelli is featured in this 1954 filmed version of Leoncavallo's opera, along with Tito Gobbi. The film also features opera arias from "The Rose of Stambul," "Aida," "Cavalleria Rusticana," "Igemisco" and "Il Trovatore." 104 minuts, black & white.

Imagine a window into the past. Imagine finally connecting singers' bodies to the voices you have always treasured on record, watching footage of performances from another era. All of singers featured here have something in common (with one exception, Sutherland): they sang and performed on stage before the advent of filmed opera. . And it shows, for the first time, a few tantalizing minutes of recently recovered footage from Callas' legendary Lisbon Traviata, featuring Addio dal Passato and Parigi oh cara with Alfredo Kraus. This DVD will leave you asking for more.

This vintage stage production of Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca was originally mounted and filmed in Milan on September 24, 1955; it stars Renata Heredia Capnist as the title character, Franco Corelli as Mario Cavaradossi, Carlo Tagliabue as Baron Scarpia and Antonio Sacchetti as Cesare Angelotti. Silverio Blasi directed; the Orchestra and Chorus of Radiotelevision Italiana - Milan provide musical accompaniment. ...Puccini: Tosca ( Tosca )

A nasty Rome police chief circa 1800 forces the lover of a painter, suspected of harboring a political prisoner, to reveal the hiding place and to yield to his power and lust.

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