Movies

La Cenerentola is Gioachino Rossini's version of the popular Cinderella story, an exciting mixture of comedy, pathos, coloratura fireworks and...

A minor distraction by a public official results in the death penalty for someone convicted of a minor crime.

A gang of criminals takes advantage of a dog's intelligence to commit their misdeeds.

La cambiale di matrimonio, farsa comica in two acts to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi, was first produced at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice, on 3...

Story set at the Chaco war between Bolivia and Paraguay.

The story is set in southern Italy and recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown (or pagliaccio in Italian) in a commedia dell'arte troupe, his...

The repentance of a jailed man and the teachings to his son.

In an institution for the blind, a man rails against his misfortune, his energy and thinking distorted by a need to fight his blindness. Unhappy and...

The story of two men and a mysterious family, who repeat the same day forever in order to save the life of one of its daughters.

Two boys who love basketball come into the confrontation, already big, for the love of a woman.

A famous football player faces retirement, but his son is still his most faithful fan.

Il signor Bruschino is the last of the five one-act operas - farsa giocosa - in which the young Rossini first demonstrated his operatic genius. The...

A man pretends to be dead and his dying wish causes his wife to marry a drifter and lose her inheritance.

This beautiful production by renowned opera director Michael Hampe was recorded at the exquisite Rococo Theatre in Schwetzingen Palace in May 1990....