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IL TROVATORE 1957 RAI / PREVITALI
CASTELLO DI GRESSAN, AOSTA
Una storia della musica by Lorenzo Arruga for T.S.I.
External filming of Il Trovatore by Verdi Recitative and aria D’amor dull’ali rosee and Miserere
Director: Lorenzo Arruga
Costume: Pier Luigi Pizzi (Teatro alla Scala)
Costume: Pier Luigi Pizzi (Teatro alla Scala)
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D'Amor sull'ali rosee... Miserere Act IV "Il supplizio" Scene I
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LA VITA DE GIUSEPPE VERDI
1982
A BIOGRAPHIC TELEVISION MINI-SERIE
Screenwriters: Renato Castellani, Leonardo Benevenuti, Piero de Bernardi, Gene Luotto
Filmed on-location, the series also provides stellar interpretations of Verdi's work by Maria Callas, Leyla Gencer, Birgit Nillson Renata Tebaldi, Luciano Pavarotti et all.
Gencer as soprano Barbieri-Ninni who sung Lady Macbeth in the premier of Macbeth |
Ronald Pickup, Carla Fracci, Giampiero Albertini, Omero Antonutti, Lino Capolicchio, Enzo Cerusico, Eva Christian, Nino Dal Fabbro, Adriana Innocenti, Agla Marsili, Daria Nicolodi, Jan Niklas, Renzo Palmer, Raimondo Penne, Tito Schipa Jr., Nanni Svampa, Giorgio Trestini, Leopoldo Trieste, Milena Vukotic, Burt Lancaster, Carlo Colombo, Geoffrey Copleston, William Berger, Anna Orso, Clara Colosimo, Marne Maitland, Paolo Gozlino, Edmund Purdom, Fernando Cerulli.
Movie Excerpt
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Leyla Gencer as Marianna Barbieri-Nini
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1982
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1983 June
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Riprese MAURIZIO CALVESI / GIANCARLO BATTAGLIA
Montaggio GIULIANA NARDELLI
Regia ALESSANDRO SCALCO
Con i ragazzi del Coro di Voci Bianche dell'Arcum di Paolo Lucci e con la partecipazione del soprano Leyla Gencer
With the boys of the Children's Choir of Paolo Lucci's Arcum and with the participation of the soprano Leyla Gencer
Complete Programme
1983
00:40:42 –
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Fatal mia donna! Un murmure Macbeth Giuseppe Verdi
(An Excerpt
from the biographic television mini-series La Vita di
Giuseppe Verdi Leyla
Gencer Lady Macbeth / Luigi Risani Macbeth)
(Rai Tv Recording
1982)
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Interview
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E chè! Non ami chè ad insolita gioia Maria Stuarda Gaetano Donizetti
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– 00:55.08
D’amour sull’ali rosee Il Trovatore Giuseppe Verdi
(RAI Tv
Recording, unknown date)
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“Un Teatro, Un Direttore, La Primadonna”
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CARROLL COUNTY TIMES
1983.10.21
VERDI
FLORANCE MORNING NEWS
1983.10.22
VERDI
THE POST-STAR
1983.10.22
VERDI
This production, first planned in 1974, was made for Italy's RAI television organization. It is, as the credits specifically state, ''a film by Renato Castellani,'' the director-writer whose past work includes ''The Life of Leonardo,'' first seen here years ago on NBC. Giuseppe Verdi was born in 1813 and lived until 1901, his life nearly spanning a century of political turmoil and considerable personal tragedy. Mr. Castellani has stated that he is merely attempting to ''narrate this complicated existence - the story sticks to the facts and lets the dramatic truth speak for itself.''
As is usual with Italian epics, whether made for television or the movie screen, the production is sumptuous, no doubt going way over budget and bringing looks of pain but familiar shrugs of understanding to RAI executives. The usual extraordinary statistics are bandied about: 100 actors, 18,000 extras, 4,000 costumes, filming on locations ranging from Milan and Venice to Leningrad and London. Scenes at La Scala, as it was in the 19th century, are positively magnificent.
But, as is also usual with Italian and all other non-English speaking productions, there is the problem of what to do about language. Will the American market go for subtitles or dubbing? ''The Life of Verdi'' has opted for dubbing, a device that is not readily accepted in this country. Not too long ago, poor dubbing reduced a television version of Stendahl's ''The Charterhouse at Parma'' to a lifeless monotone. While not completely successful, the dubbing for ''The Life of Verdi'' achieves far more rewarding results.
Clearly, Mr. Castellani has taken pains to keep direct, close-up dialogue to a minimum. Frequently the speaking characters are seen at a distance or with their backs to the camera, thus reducing the hazards of achieving perfect lip synchronization. Then, of course, the series is filled with music, extended excerpts from the composer's work, sung in the original Italian and taken from past recordings featuring such artists as Renata Tebaldi, Maria Callas, Luchiano Pavarotti and Birgit Nilsson. And finally, there is a good deal of voice-over narration, providing the viewer with background information essential to understanding the Verdi story. This is delivered by Burt Lancaster, who, seen in various Italian locations, also introduces the programs.
The overall result is still not perfect. The dubbed-in voices can sound somewhat flat and distant at times. But this is about as satisfactory as the craft of dubbing can get at present, and the production itself more than makes up for its occasional failings.
On the not entirely dismissible theory that European miniseries tend to get off to overly sluggish starts, tonight's premiere, running for two hours, has condensed the original material somewhat to satisfy American demands for getting more rapidly to the heart of the story matter. Verdi is followed from his birth and childhood in the Po Valley's Roncole di Busseto through his early manhood in Milan, where his career will be established in earnest with the first performance of ''Nabucco'' at La Scala in 1842. Meanwhile, he will be helped by generous patrons, become enmeshed in the absurd politics of his home town and get married. His wife and two children, however, will die within the space of two years.
The story has its complications, not the least of which is that Verdi was a dour and somewhat taciturn man, not given publicly to the grand displays of passion that would distinguish his operas. Most of his early work does not survive, probably having been destroyed by the composer himself. There are areas of his life that probably will always remain secret.
Mr. Castellani can get a touch hokey, as when we are shown books magically opening and closing by themselves while the narrator gives us another dollop of biography. But, in general, he has done a masterly job in finding connections between Verdi's life and his work. And he has assembled an unusual and interesting cast. Verdi is played superbly by Ronald Pickup, a fine British actor. And Giuseppina Strepponi, the singer who will become his companion and eventually his wife for five decades, is portrayed by Carla Fracci, the ballerina making her acting debut with lovely distinction. These are only a couple of the many special surprises to be found in this splendid production.
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