Vanessa - Samuel Barber
| 126 minutes
Plot Summary
This work won Samuel Barber his first Pulitzer Prize for music: the Glyndebourne Festival presents Vanessa, a masterpiece premiered in 1958 based on a libretto by the composer's close friend, Bian Carlo Menotti. Set to one of the most beautiful scores of the 20th Century, Vanessa tells the haunting story of a woman who, once abandoned by her lover Anatol, retreats from the world to await his return, living in isolation with her mother and niece. Two decades later, a man arrives who shatters the delicate balance of their home… Olivier Award-winning stage director Keith Warner is joined by a brilliant cast and the London Philharmonic under Kevin Lin for this musical and dramatic masterpiece of Hitchcockian psychological twists!
Cast
Recommendations
Similar Movies
-
Verdi: Macbeth
-
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
-
Die Walküre
-
Siegfried
-
Bluebeard
-
Pavarotti, Birth of a Pop Star
-
The Phantom of the Opera
-
The Metropolitan Opera: Nabucco
-
The Metropolitan Opera: Carmen
-
The Metropolitan Opera: The Tempest
-
Carmen
-
La Traviata
-
Operette
-
Così fan tutte
-
Car Men
-
Der Rosenkavalier
-
Cavalleria rusticana
-
Puccini: Turandot
-
Maria Callas Sings Tosca, Act II
-
Farinelli