Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "opera"

Check out all of the posts tagged with "opera".

Enter Madame ** (1935, Elissa Landi, Cary Grant, Lynne Overman) – Classic Movie Review 7338

‘They say there are great, pitch black spaces between the stars. I think they are between people too.’ – Lisa Della Robbia. Director Elliott Nugent’s 1935 Paramount black and white romantic comedy Enter Madame stars […]

Jul, 25

Otello **** (1986, Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Justino Díaz) – Classic Movie Review 7245

Plácido Domingo is in great, wonderful voice as Otello the Moor in director Franco Zeffirelli’s Otello (1986), an imaginative, lavish and splendid looking film of the marvellous Giuseppe Verdi opera, based on Shakespeare’s tragedy play, […]

Jul, 03

One Night of Love **** (1934, Grace Moore, Tullio Carminati, Lyle Talbot) – Classic Movie Review 7206

Director Victor Schertzinger’s 1934 Columbia Pictures studio’s Thirties hit classical musical One Night of Love stars opera star Grace Moore as opera star Mary Bennett, who is taken under the wing of famous operatic maestro […]

Jun, 22

When You’re in Love *** (1937, Grace Moore, Cary Grant, Aline MacMahon) – Classic Movie Review 7182

Writer-director Robert Riskin’s 1937 black and white romance When You’re In Love stars opera star Grace Moore as Louise Fuller, an Australian diva who weds artist Jimmy Hudson (Cary Grant) for her American visa when they […]

Jun, 17

Don Giovanni **** (1979, Ruggero Raimondi, John Macurdy, Edda Moser, Kiri Te Kanawa) – Classic Movie Review 6429

Director Joseph Losey brings Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s magnificent opera masterpiece to the screen as a marvellous 1979 film of fire and water, lit like a golden Canaletto but lapped by the rancid waters of Venice’s murkier […]

Dec, 19

The Glass Mountain **** (1949, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Valentina Cortese, Tito Gobbi, Sebastian Shaw) – Classic Movie Review 6275

Director Henry Cass’s poignant popular 1949 love story romantic drama stars Michael Denison as the married English composer Richard Wilder, who is moved to write an opera by two of Italy’s greatest delights – the […]

Nov, 20

To Rome with Love *** (2012, Woody Allen, Penélope Cruz, Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Page, Roberto Benigni, Alec Baldwin, Greta Gerwig, Judy Davis) – Classic Movie Review 5791

Writer-director Woody Allen’s trip to Rome produces a very odd and very silly, though weirdly likeable and sometimes very amusing, multi-stranded romantic comedy. It gives the impression of being dashed off in a hurry to […]

Jul, 19

Navigation

Please use the navigation to move within this section.