Maria Stuarda

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Salzburger composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Runtime

2h 40m

Director

Miloš Forman

Cast

F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who bl...

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Norman Jewison

Cast

Cher, Nicolas Cage, Vincent Gardenia

This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Levine, who brings out all the surging emotion and gripping drama in Bizet’s score. At the center of the story is Agnes Baltsa, whose smoky mezzo is tailor-made for the gypsy Carmen, an independent woman who glories in obeying only her own ...

Runtime

2h 52m

Cast

Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras, Samuel Ramey

Visionary artist Matthew Barney returns to cinema with this 3-part epic, a radical reinvention of Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings. In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual st...

Runtime

6h 11m

Director

Matthew Barney

Cast

Chief Dave Beautiful Bald Eagle, Milford Graves, John Buffalo Mailer

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic opera manager end in abrupt firing in spite of a mutual attraction. He's quickly engaged by another theatre and becomes famous for his lavish stage productions and fine acting, which begins their golden age with Suppé and Strauss.

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Willi Forst

Cast

Maria Holst, Dora Komar, Paul Hörbiger