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Posts Tagged "opera"
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Maytime **** (1937, Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, John Barrymore) – Classic Movie Review 9452
Director Robert Z Leonard’s pretty 1937 MGM musical Maytime tells the cute and eventful story of true love versus opera’s bright lights, with some splendid singing from Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, and a score […]
Pavarotti **** (2019, Luciano Pavarotti) – Movie Review
Oscar-winning director Ron Howard’s painstaking 2019 labour-of-love documentary Pavarotti about the life and work of opera legend Luciano Pavarotti is two hours of vintage opera bliss. Notable among the interviewees are Nicoletta Mantovani, Bono, Angela Gheorghiu, […]
La Traviata **** (1982, Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil) – Classic Movie Review 8822
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s sumptuous, thrilling 1982 Italian film version of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata, based on Alexandre Dumas Fils’s The Lady of the Camelias [La dame aux camélias], is a glossy paean to the […]
Blossom Time [April Blossoms] *** (1934, Richard Tauber, Jane Baxter, Carl Esmond, Athene Seyler,Paul Graetz) – Classic Movie Review 8125
Famous singing star Richard Tauber adds his special lustre to director Paul L Stein’s fairly well polished 1934 British romantic musical Blossom Time [April Blossoms], set in old Vienna, where the composer Franz Schubert (Tauber) […]
Metropolitan *** (1935, Lawrence Tibbett, Alice Brady, Virginia Bruce, Cesar Romero) – Classic Movie Review 7468
Director Richard Boleslawski’s enjoyable 1935 musical romantic drama Metropolitan is mainly memorable for the marvellous baritone singing of Lawrence Tibbett, who plays a young singer desperate for his big break. Although Tibbett shows that he […]
Goin’ to Town **** (1935, Mae West, Paul Cavanagh, Gilbert Emery, Marjorie Gateson, Ivan Lebedeff) – Classic Movie Review 7450
Director Alexander Hall’s 1935 comedy Western Goin’ to Town stars Mae West in a typical role as Cleo Borden, a former saloon dance hall gal who is left a ranch when her fiancé Buck Gonzales (Fred Kohler) is […]
And the Ship Sails On [E La Nave Va] *** (1983, Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Peter Cellier, Janet Suzman) – Classic Movie Review 7375
A luxury liner sails from Naples in 1914 with a boatload of friends and colleagues aboard to scatter the ashes of a great soprano, Edmea Tetua (Janet Suzman), in co-writer/ director Federico Fellini’s stylised 1983 theatrical […]