Verdi: Alzira

2012 1h 55m IT

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Synopsis

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Part of Tutto Verdi series - Alzira (2012) Dobbiaco. This is a concert performance. Alzira is an opera in a prologue and two acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on the play Alzire, ou les Américains by Voltaire. The first performance was at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, on 12 August 1845.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Francesco Facini
Alvaro
Thomas Gazheli
Gusmano
Joshua Lindsay
Ovando
Ferdinand von Bothmer
Zamoro
Junko Saito
Alzira
Anna Lucia Nardi
Zuma
Joe Tsuchizaki
Otumbo
Yasushi Hirano
Ataliba

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Tiziano Mancini
Writers: Voltaire, Salvadore Cammarano
Languages: Italian
Countries: Italy

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Released 14 years ago.

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CRAFT

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Part of the "Tutto Verdi (2018)" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Giuseppe Verdi. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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CAST

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Francesco Facini and Thomas Gazheli and Joshua Lindsay carry the top of the cast.

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IMDB entry: tt11132422 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Tiziano Mancini directs. Giuseppe Verdi scores. Produced in Italy. Dialogue in Italian.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released 14 years ago.
2Part of the "Tutto Verdi (2018)" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Original score by Giuseppe Verdi. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Francesco Facini and Thomas Gazheli and Joshua Lindsay carry the top of the cast.
6IMDB entry: tt11132422 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Original score: Giuseppe Verdi
Runtime: 115 min · 1h 55m
Status: Released
Original language: IT
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Verdi: Alzira (2012)

Part of

Tutto Verdi (2018)

In 2013, to mark the bicentenary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth, the Teatro Regio di Parma and Unitel Classica joined forces to bring a truly unique project to fruition. The composer’s 26 operas, as well as the [i]Requiem Mass[/i], which is closely linked to these operas, are all included. Most of them will be performed and recorded in audio-video in Parma and the surrounding area. A unique box set of 27 Blu-rays. For the very first time, and to mark this anniversary, the complete works of Verdi’s operas in high definition and surround sound, released on Blu-ray by C Major Entertainment.