Renzo Rossellini News
Italian composer (1908-1982)
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- Italy, Kingdom of Italy
- composer, screenwriter, conductor, film score composer, director, critic
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2020-12-12 09:20:26
Flexibility is her mantra: I chat to soprano Claire Booth about her recent film of Francis Poulenc's opera 'La voix humaine'
[…] video screens. Poulenc's opera (written in 1958) is based on a play by Jean Cocteau (which premiered in 1930), featuring a single protagonist, Elle, struggling both with her doomed relationship with her unseen lover and with a faulty telephone as the only medium in which to communicate with him. Though Claire has never seen the play live she has enjoyed many filmed performances, as a vehicle for incredible actresses such as Ingrid Bergman and Isabella Rossellini, and she is waiting with bated breath for the new film of the play directed by Pedro Almodovar with Tilda Swinton. Cocteau's play gives the actor the extraordinary ability to use time as you see fit, whilst in the opera, Poulenc effectively directs this with the way he sets the words. So, when performing the opera you have to deal with whether to go with Poulenc or not. But Claire sees him as a […]
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2020-10-15 14:35:47
‘Sex And Consequences’, Isabella Rossellini’s New Streaming Theatre Piece For Farm Animals
Laura Collins-Hughes visits Rossellini’s Long Island farmstead to watch her and her co-stars — two dogs, six sheep, and however many chickens will cooperate — rehearse her new show, a sort of sequel to her famous Green Porno series, directed (over Zoom from California) by a Flying Karamazov Brother. – The New York Times
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-01-03 23:04:24
Biographer And Estate Go To War Over Richard Avedon Bio
The feud has cast a pall over what was billed as an intimate and revelatory tell-all. Ms. Stevens drew on her own conversations with Avedon over the decades, and interviewed many of his prominent friends and collaborators, including Calvin Klein, David Remnick, Twyla Tharp, Donatella Versace, Jann Wenner and Isabella Rossellini. Some of Ms. Stevens’s […]
2017-02-14 20:24:10
A chivalrous old knight, a beautiful albeit shallow young woman and a quest filled with potential danger have all the makings of the latest TV drama or feature film but this particular story traces its origins long before film came into being. Miguel de Cervantes wrote the mesmerizing novel "Don Quixote" in the early 1600s, which became an opera by Wilhelm Kienzl, a popular stage musical and even a film starring John Lithgow, Bob Hoskins and Isabella Rossellini.
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