Mirella Freni Movies

  • 1988
    La Boheme

    La Boheme

    La Boheme

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    Giacomo Puccini's bittersweet opera of high-spirited bohemians and the doomed love between Rodolfo, the idealistic poet and Mimi, the consumptive flow...

    La Boheme
  • 1965
    La Bohème

    La Bohème

    La Bohème

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    In the early 1960s two artistic giants, conductor Herbert von Karajan and director Franco Zeffirelli, joined forces to create this milestone productio...

    La Bohème
  • 1975
    The Marriage of Figaro

    The Marriage of Figaro

    The Marriage of Figaro

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    Mozart's Marriage of Figaro is a comedy whose dark undertones explore the blurred boundaries between dying feudalism and emerging Enlightenment. Herm...

    The Marriage of Figaro
  • 1967
    Bizet Carmen

    Bizet Carmen

    Bizet Carmen

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    This spectacular opera film was taped in 1967 and is based on the 1966 Salzburg Festival production directed by Herbert von Karajan himself, who also...

    Bizet Carmen
  • 1974
    Madama Butterfly

    Madama Butterfly

    Madama Butterfly

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    Mirella Freni, Placido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, and Robert Kerns star in this Jean-Pierre Ponnelle-directed version of the Puccini opera, with Herbert...

    Madama Butterfly
  • 1976
    Verdi: Otello

    Verdi: Otello

    Verdi: Otello

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    The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio...

    Verdi: Otello
  • 1997
    Fedora

    Fedora

    Fedora

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    Princess Fedora, who is to marry the Count the following day, arrives and sings of her love for him, unaware that the dissolute Count has betrayed her...

    Fedora
  • 1989
    Adriana Lecouvreur

    Adriana Lecouvreur

    Adriana Lecouvreur

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    Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur concerns a doomed love based on a real story about an actress involved in a famous love triangle. Mirella Freni s...

    Adriana Lecouvreur
  • 1983
    Don Carlo

    Don Carlo

    Don Carlo

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    Ghiaurov, Freni, and Bumbry were great voices in their time, and they are still effective here -- good enough musicians to put over the quite heavy vo...

    Don Carlo
  • 1982
    Verdi Ernani

    Verdi Ernani

    Verdi Ernani

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    It truly is an historic performance. Domingo looking and singing like a god pouring out golden tones; Renato Bruson sounds, like the sublime Verdian B...

    Verdi Ernani
  • 1993
    Falstaff

    Falstaff

    Falstaff

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    It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great comed...

    Falstaff
  • 1978
    Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

    Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

    Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

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    Abbado wholly vindicates Verdi’s intentions through his feeling for the shape of a whole scene, for the inherent subtleties of Verdi’s scoring and for...

    Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
  • 2008
    Karajan: Beauty As I See It

    Karajan: Beauty As I See It

    Karajan: Beauty As I See It

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    With a career that includes a 35-year tenure as composer of the Berlin Philharmonic and record sales topping 200 million, Herbert von Karajan is one o...

    Karajan: Beauty As I See It
  • 1983
    The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala

    The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala

    The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala

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    In celebration of its 100th anniversary in 1983, the Metropolitan Opera hosts a four-hour performance uniting some of the world's most spellbinding op...

    The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
  • 1973
    Otello

    Otello

    Otello

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    Herbert von Karajan directed this film of Verdi’s Shakespearan masterpiece as well as conducting the Berlin Philharmonic. As the tragic Moor of Venice...

    Otello
  • 1992
    A Christmas Celebration: Send Round the Song

    A Christmas Celebration: Send Round the Song

    A Christmas Celebration: Send Round the Song

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    Tony Randall and some children, filmed in Connecticut, provide the framework of the history of some of the carols sung by opera stars.

    A Christmas Celebration: Send Round the Song
  • 1998
    The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998

    The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998

    The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998

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    The annual New Year’s Eve Concert is one of the highlights in the calendar of every classical music fan in Berlin and beyond. On New Year‘s Eve, the B...

    The Berliner Philharmoniker’s New Year’s Eve Concert: 1998