Overview
The Lighthouse is a chamber opera with words and music by Peter Maxwell Davies. The scenario was inspired by a true story. In December 1900 a lighthouse supply ship called the Hesperus, based in Stromness, Orkney, went on its routine tour of duty to the Flannan Isles in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. The lighthouse was empty - all three beds and the table looked as if they had been left in a hurry and the lamp, throughout, was in perfect working order, but the men had disappeared into thin air.
Director and cast
More films
Gran Casino (1947)
Drama · Music · N/A
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared...
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Director
- Luis Buñuel
- Cast
- Jorge Negrete, Libertad Lamarque, Meche Barba
Die Fledermaus (1984)
Comedy · Music · N/A
Most opera houses ring in the New Year with Johann Strauss Jr.'s most popular operetta--the festiveness of which is appropriate for the occasion--and this December 31, 1983, Covent Garden performance follows suit. An exceptional cast--led by Hermann Prey and Kiri Te Kanawa as the couple whose marriage survives the comic indiscretions o...
- Runtime
- 2h 57m
- Director
- Humphrey Burton
- Cast
- Kiri Te Kanawa, Hermann Prey, Dennis O'Neill
La traviata (1982)
Drama · Music · G
Violetta meets Alfredo and quickly falls for him. After the lovers run away together, they live in bliss for a short time. However, Alfredo's father, Giorgio, starts to interfere, concerned that Violetta's bad reputation will affect the marriage prospects of Alfredo's sister. Violetta reluctantly leaves Alfredo, but his love is so stro...
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Director
- Franco Zeffirelli
- Cast
- Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1979)
Comedy · Drama · Music · N/A
John Dexter’s brilliant production, James Levine’s masterful conducting of the eclectic score, and a sensational cast come together to make this Kurt Weill–Bertolt Brecht masterpiece a riveting evening of music theater. At the center of the action is Jimmy Mahoney (Richard Cassilly), a logger who stumbles onto the city of Mahagonny, wh...
- Runtime
- 2h 27m
- Director
- Brian Large
- Cast
- Richard Cassilly, Teresa Stratas, Cornell MacNeil
Evensong (1934)
Drama · Music · Romance · War · N/A
Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Director
- Victor Saville
- Cast
- Evelyn Laye, Fritz Kortner, Emlyn Williams
Comments
Talk about the film with other members