A nasty Rome police chief circa 1800 forces the lover of a painter, suspected of harboring a political prisoner, to reveal the hiding place and to yield to his power and lust.
This vintage stage production of Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca was originally mounted and filmed in Milan on September 24, 1955; it stars Renata Heredia Capnist as the title character, Franco Corelli as Mario Cavaradossi, Carlo Tagliabue as Baron Scarpia and Antonio Sacchetti as Cesare Angelotti....
Franco Corelli is featured in this 1954 filmed version of Leoncavallo's opera, along with Tito Gobbi. The film also features opera arias from "The Rose of Stambul," "Aida," "Cavalleria Rusticana," "Igemisco" and "Il Trovatore." 104 minuts, black & white.
France, 1792. Chenier is an idealistic poet, in love with the aristocratic Maddalena. While Chenier supports such notions as "liberte, fraternite egalite," his sympathies do not extend to the current Reign of Terror. Likewise, the Revolutionary Tribunal has no need for poets or their...
