Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in Poulenc’s monologue, the director Krzysztof Warlikowski perceives a shared dramatic thread, a shared feminine consciousness and a shared sense of imprisonment and suffocation: for the woman who penetrates the confines of Bluebeard’s castle and Elle, the woman who clings to a telephone conversation with a man as the only thing worth living for, are condemned to share the same fate. And this man she speaks to, does he really exist? Unless the director has interpreted Cocteau’s words to the letter and the telephone has become a “terrifying weapon that leaves no trace, makes no noise”…
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make...
37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts...
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The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
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Based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci. The film recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clo...
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Take a perfect cast, a great conductor and a groundbreaking staging in-out makes a 'Tristan' for ete...
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