La pietra del paragone
2007-10-02 | 161 minutes
Plot Summary
LA PIETRA DEL PARAGONE (The Touchstone) concerns the Count Asdrubale who is wealthy and therefore of great interest to many women – notably Aspasia, Fulvia, and Clarice. Only Clarice, however, loves him for something other than his riches. There are also male hangers-on: the corrupt journalist Macrobio, the poetaster Pacuvio, and Giocondo, who is Asdrubale's true friend, but who has his own eyes on Clarice. To test his friends and would-be fiancées, Asdrubale pretends that he has been bankrupted. Sure enough, only Clarice and Giocondo stand by him, and when his fortune is "miraculously" saved, the three have the last laugh on everyone else... or do they? This production is set in what looks like the early 1960s. But the real innovation is the use of blue screen technology: using tiny cameras and sets, along gigantic screens hanging over the stage, a kind of video mixing makes the singers appear to inhabit any number of fanciful settings and perform a myriad of improbable actions.
Cast
Recommendations
-
Return to Rajapur
-
Kids Return
-
L.E.T.H.A.L. Ladies: Return to Savage Beach
-
Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1
-
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return
-
Road of No Return
-
The Return
-
Hi, Mom!
-
Return Return Return
-
River of No Return
-
Hello
-
The Return of Martin Guerre
-
Ultravox: Return to Eden - Live at The Roundhouse
-
Bob Trevino Likes It
-
Senso
-
No Deposit, No Return
-
Return of the Living Dead III
-
Return of the Tooth Fairy
-
Cocoon: The Return
Similar Movies
-
Verdi La Traviata
-
Gianni Schicchi
-
Live Nude Girls
-
Strauss: Elektra
-
Werther
-
Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie
-
La Rondine
-
Amadeus
-
A Cut Above
-
Angels with Broken Wings
-
Mozart: Così Fan Tutte (Zurich Opera House)
-
Cosi Fan Tutte
-
The Bartered Bride
-
Breakin' All the Rules
-
Giacomo Puccini: Turandot
-
Theodora
-
First Opera Film Festival
-
The Metropolitan Opera - Puccini: Manon Lescaut
-
Claude Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande
-
Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle