This lavish, 10-hour European miniseries plots the life and times of the famous composer Giuseppe Verdi. Filmed on-location, the series also provides stellar interpretations of Verdi's work by Maria Callas and Luciano Pavarotti. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide
The deeper, broader issues behind the rise and fall of one of the world's greatest ballet dancers and choreographers, Vaslav Nijinksy (1888-1950), is not at the fulcrum of this two-hour British biographical drama. Director Herbert Ross and screenwriter Hugh Wheeler base the film on Nijinsky's diaries and his wife's book Nijinsky but what they ...
The French-born music critic and composer Adolphe Adam authored the ballet Giselle, mounted in 1969 by the American Ballet Theater. German filmmaker Hugo Niebling shot this filmed version based on the '69 stage production, adapting it slightly for the screen; he kept the two leads, acclaimed dance partners Carla Fracci (as Giselle) and Erik Bruhn ...
This compilation brings into a single release the most compelling clips of ballet dancers from the classical music television program The Voice of Firestone, which ran on NBC from September 1949 through June 1954, and ABC (intermittently) from June 1954 through June 1963. Highlights include the American broadcast debut of Rudolf Nureyev; a pas-de ...
In this 1973 performance-themed documentary, originally screened on the RAI television network in Italy, Carla Fracci - one of the preeminent ballet dancers at La Scala - performs excerpts from such productions as Profokiev's Romeo & Juliet, Offenbach's Cancan and Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. Numerous additional ballet dancers turn up to lend ...
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