Film Giuseppe

La Traviata, one of the world's best-loved romantic operas is performed under the stars on a floating, mirrored stage in Sydney Harbor, with the city, Opera House and Harbor Bridge acting as a stunning backdrop. Giuseppe Verdi's captivating music is performed with the orchestra concealed in a studio beneath the stage to ensure the finest amplified sound combines with the superlative singing of the cast.

"Of all the female interpreters I know, Maria Callas was the one who, in her expressive power, could let time stand so long until all fear disappeared, including that of death itself, and reached a state similar to what should be called happiness has been. Just as a blind person develops his sense of hearing and touch better than a sighted person, Maria Callas was proof that one could work out of oneself without following stupid rules in a restricted system - she was too short-sighted to ever take the baton from the stage to be able to see the conductor - can turn weaknesses into one's own creativity without looking." - Werner Schroeter

A early sound short where Giuseppe De Luca sings 'Largo al factotum'.

A performance of the Verdi opera recorded in 2003 at the Gran Teatre Del Liceu. Leading Role Miguel Angel Gomez Martinez, Daniela Dessi, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Fabio Armiliato, Elisabetta Fiorillo, Stefano Palatchi This unique production of Giuseppi Verdi's opera AIDA was filmed at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu in 2003. Miguel Angel Gomez Martinez conducts an all star cast (including Fabio Armilato, Juan Pons, Roberto Scandiuzzi, Elisabetta Fiorello, Sefano Palatchi and Daniela Dessi) against a backdrop of historic sets preserved from the Catalan school of scenography. The paper trompe-l'oeil sets were painted by Josep Mestres Cabanes in 1936-45. Aida (Italian [aˈiːda]) is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni. Set in the Old Kingdom of Egypt, it was commissioned by Cairo's Khedivial Opera House and had its première there on 24 December 1871, in a performance conducted by Giovanni Bottesini.

Violetta Valéry, a famed courtesan, throws a lavish party at her Paris salon to celebrate her recovery from an illness. Gastone, a viscount, has brought with him a friend, Alfredo Germont, a young bourgeois from a provincial family who has long adored Violetta from afar. While walking to the salon, Gastone tells Violetta that Alfredo loves her, and that while she was ill, he came to her house every day. Alfredo joins them, admitting the truth of Gastone's remarks. Baron Douphol, Violetta's current lover, waits nearby to escort her to the salon; once there, the Baron is asked to give a toast, but refuses, and the crowd turns to Alfredo, who agrees to sing a brindisi – a drinking song (Alfredo, Violetta, chorus: Libiamo ne' lieti calici – "Let's drink from the joyful cups")...

Soprano Ermonela Jaho stars as Violetta Valéry, with Charles Castronovo as her lover Alfredo and Plácido Domingo as Alfredo’s stern father Giorgio Germont, in The Royal Opera’s much-loved production of Verdi’s La traviata. One of the greatest of all operas, La traviata is based on the novel and play La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, inspired in turn by the life and death of the real Parisian courtesan, Marie Duplessis. The opera tells the profoundly moving story of a courtesan prepared to sacrifice everything for love, and contains some of Verdi’s most beautiful arias and duets.

The warrior Macbeth fights on the side of the King of Scotland – but when a coven of witches prophesy that he shall become king himself, a ruthless ambition drives Macbeth and his wife to horrific acts. Murder makes Macbeth king, and intrigue and butchery are the hallmarks of his brief, doomed reign. The witches make another prediction, which also comes true: Macbeth and his lady lose their lives, and justice is restored.

Giuseppe is stuck in a world of hell and bullying until a surrealistic twist changes him to the man he was meant to be.

Filmed live at the Wexford Festival Opera, this superb version of Giuseppe Gazzaniga's celebrated opera buffa "Don Giovanni Tenorio" tells the Don Juan story and stars Miroslav Kopp as the notorious rogue famous for seducing women. Some of his conquests include Donna Elvira (Andrea Bolton), Donna Anna (Malmfrid Sand), Donna Ximena (Joan Davies) and Maturina (Alison Browner). A bonus documentary on the Wexford Festival is included.

Giuseppe is a small black Chihuahua. This is his life as told by him.

Falstaff Gabriel Bacquier · Karan Armstrong Richard Stilwell · Max-René Cosotti · John Lanigan Wiener Philharmoniker Georg Solti Directed by Götz Friedrich

A brief tribute to the great director, spanning through some insights about his character, his works, his life, through the words of critics, relatives, colleagues, with a collage technique of interviews, archive footage, and brief excerpts and pictures from some of his works.