There's an uncompromising clarity to Blu-ray audio and video that really does bring the splendour of grand opera right into the living room. So it's all the more frustrating to get a compromised production as the final product. Jules Massenet's 1894 tragedy about a sex goddess humbled by an...
In Bergamo Harlequin woos Annunziata and to get rid of her husband Ser Matteo invents an invasion of the city by disguising himself as a captain to enlist him. Colombina, Harlequin's neglected wife, yields to Leandro who woos her...
Pulcinella finds himself in New York and not Naples: from stockbroker to semi-naked banker in the midst of Wall Street. Actualization of Igor Stravinsky's ballet composed as a tribute to Italian music.
