La pietra del paragone
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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.
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Sonia Prina
La marquesa Clarice
Also in
Rodelinda
Rinaldo
Jennifer Holloway
La baronessa Aspasia
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Rienzi - Bayreuther Festspiele
Falstaff
Laura Giordano
Donna Fulvia
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Il figlio sospeso
Puccini: La bohème
François Lis
Il conte Asdrubale
Also in
Le Roi Arthus - Bastille
Les Contes d'Hoffman
José Manuel Zapata
Il cavalier Giocondo
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Cosi fan tutte: O, la escuela de los amantes
Boris Godunov
Joan Martín-Royo
Macrobio
Also in
Rigoletto
Turandot
Christian Senn
Pacuvio
Also in
L'Isola Disabitata - Teatro Alighieri di Ravenna / Opéra de Dijon
Don Giovanni
Filippo Polinelli
Fabrizio
Also in
Verdi: La forza del destino
Jean-Christophe Spinosi
Self - Conductor
Also in
Mozart: Great Mass in C minor Chapel of the Trinity, Lyon.
Gioachino Rossini
Self - Composer
Also in
A Real Nave Itália no Rio Grande do Sul
William's Cake
Philippe Béziat Director · Luigi Romanelli Writer Gioachino Rossini Composer
First release October 2, 2007 · Produced in France · Production Les Films du Point du Jour, Unitel Classics
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Naive Film
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Les Films du Point du Jour
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Unitel Classics
Production
France
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Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
France · October 2, 2007
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No release date listed for United States.
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