Italian Videos and DVDs
8 1/2 / di Federico Fellini. MPI Home Video, c1988. 1 videocassette (138 min.) Italian
with English subtitles. Videocassette release of the 1980 re- release by Corinth Films of the 1963 motion picture by
Embassy Pictures. VHS format.
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film. Much of the story is told in flashback sequences.
JOU PN1997 .E28 1988 VIDEOTAPE
MIC PN1997 .E28 1988 VIDEOTAPE
Aida / music by Giuseppe Verdi ; libretto by Antoni Ghislanzoni. 1 videocassette (158
min.) + 1 program note. Sung in Italian with English subtitles. Segement from the television
program: Live from the Met. VHS format.
An Egyptian soldier falls in love with his Ethiopian captive.
MUS M1500.V4 A5 1991 VIDEOTAPE
Amarcord = I Remember / une co-produzione italo-francese, F.C. Produzioni (Rome),
P.E.C.F. (Paris). 1 videodisc (127 min.) Originally released as motion picture in 1973. In
Italian with optional English subtitles. DVD format.
In this carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Fellini
satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of adolescent desires, male fantasies,
rituals, sensations, and emotions.
JOU PN1995.9.F67 A43 1998 DVD
L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad = Last Year at Marienbad / Pierre Courau et Raymond
Froment prsentent. 1 videodisc (94 min.) DVD format. French and Italian dialogue with English
subtitles. Videodisc release of the 1961 motion picture.
Un Ballo in Maschera / Giuseppe Verdi; libretto by Antonio Somma. 1 videocassette
(150 min.) + 1 program note. VHS format. In Italian with English subtitles. A videorecording of
the performance of the Metropolitan Opera on February 16, 1980.
The Barber of Seville / by Gioacchino Rossini; libretto, Cesare Sterbini; production,
George Van Breeman; director, Hans Hulscher; co-production, NOS/RM Arts/DNO. 1 videodisc (153
min) Sung in Italian with English subtitles. Based on Le Barbier de Seville by De Beaumarchais.
Recorded live in May 1992. DVD format.
Il Barbiere di Siviglia / by Gioacchino Rossini; a TVS production by arragement with
Glyndebourne in association with NVC Arts. 1 videocassette (155 min.) Sung in Italian with
English subtitles. Taped at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, England. Based on Beaumarchais'
comedy, The Barber of Seville. VHS format.
Before the Revolution = Prima della rivoluzione / una produzione Iride Cinematografica;
soggetto e sceneggiatura di Bernardo Bertolucci; regia, Bernardo Bertolucci. 1 videocassette
(110 min.) In Italian with enhanced English subtitles. Originally produced as an Italian motion
picture in 1962. VHS format.
La Boheme / Giacomo Puccini; production, Franco Zeffirelli; producer, Clemente
D'Alessio; directed by Kirk Browning. Behind the scences of La Boheme with Franco Zeffirelli /
Equinox Films, Inc.; a film by Gene Searchinger. 1 videocassette (141 min.) 1 booklet. First
work sung in Italian with English subtitles; second work is in English. Videorecording of the
performance taped on January 16, 1982, at the Metropolitan Opera. VHS format.
Caro Michele: un film / di Mario Monicelli; con Mariangela Melato, Delphine
Seyrig, Lou Castel. 1 videocassette (104 min.) Based on the novel by Natalia Ginzburg
(1916-1991). Originally released as motion picture in 1976. VHS format.
Cavalleria Rusticana / Pietro Mascagni; a film by Franco Zeffirelli; libretto by Giovanni
Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci after Giovanni Verga; produced by Horant H. Hohlfed. 1
videocassette (71 min.) VHS format. Subtitled in English, sung in Italian.
Program notes and synopsis of the opera by Julian Budden translated into English and French in
container. Performance of the one-act opera by Pietro Mascagni.
La Cenerentola = Cinderella / music by Gioachino Rossini; libretto by
Jacopo Ferretti; critical edition by Alberto Zedda. 1 videocassette (152 min.) Accompanied by
libretto VHS format. Produced by BBC Television by arrangement with Glyndebourne in association
with RM Arts.
C'eravamo Tanto Amati = We All Loved Each Other So Much / Deantir; story and
screenplay by Age-Scarpelli-Scola; produced by Pio Angeletti and Adriano de Micheli; directed by
Ettore Scola. 1 videocassette (124 min.)
In Italian, with English subtitles. Released as a motion picture in 1969. VHS format.
Cinema Paradiso / Cristaldifilm, Rai/Tre, Forum(Rome), Les Films Ariane, T.F.1 Film
Productions(Paris). 1 videocassette (121 min.) VHS format. Videocassette release of the 1990
motion picture. Italian with English subtitles.
Cosi Fan Tutte / music, W.A. Mozart; libretto, L. da Ponte; director, Willy Decker;
produced and directed by Thomas Olofsson. 1 videocassette (141 min.) Sung in
Italian with English subtitles. Performed at Drottningholm Theatre, Sweden.
La Dolce Vita / a Riama Film Roma and Cinecitta Production. 2 videocassettes (174 min.)
In Italian with English subtitles. Originally released in 1960 by Riama Film Roma and Cinecitta.
VHS format.
Don Carlo: opera in quattro atti / Giuseppe Verdi; a co-production with ORF, ZDF, and
Telemondial. 2 videodiscs (180 min.) Sung iin Italian; without subtitles. Recorded
at the Salzburger Osterfestspiele, 1986.
Don Giovanni: dramma giocoso in two acts / a co-production of ORF, ZDF and Telemondia
l. 2 videodiscs (194 min.) Sung in Italian; without subtitles.
Recorded live at the Salzburger Festspiele, 1987. LaserDisc
Don Giovanni / a co-production of ORF, ZDF and Telemondial. 1 videodisc (192 min.,
40 sec.) Sung in Italian with English, German, and French subtitles. Recorded July 18-31, 1987
in Salzburg, Austria. DVD format.
Don Giovanni / music by W. A. Mozart; produced by Peter Hall. New York:
Video Arts International, c1985. 2 videocassettes (VHS) (173 min.) Sung in
Italian, English subtitles. VHS format. Videocassette release of the performance at the
Glyndebourne Festival in 1977. VAI-OP-7.
Don Pasquale / Gaetano Donizetti. New York, NY: Bel Canto, c1996. 1
videocassette (107 min.) VHS.
Enrico IV = Henry IV / una produzione RAI - Radiotelevisione Rete 2 TV
Odyssia; prodotto da Enzo Porcelli; regia di Mario Belloccio. 1 videocassette (95 min.) Italian
with English subtitles. Based on the play by Luigi Pirandello. Originally released in 1984. VHS
format.
Falstaff / music by Giuseppe Verdi; libretto by Arrigo Boito; directed for television
by Brian Large. 1 videocassette (141 min.) + 1 guide. VHS format. Sung in Italian. Videocassette
release of the performance at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden July 16, 1982.
La Fanciulla del West = The Girl of the Golden West / produced by BBC TV in
association with Covent Garden Video Productions; music by Giacomo Puccini; text by Guelfo
Civinini and Carlo Zangarini after the play by David Belasco; directed for television by John
Vernon; produced by Piero Faggioni. 1 videocassette (139 min.) Opera in 3 acts. Sung in Italian.
La Forza del Destino / Giuseppe Verdi. New York, NY: Bel Canto, c1994. 1
videocassette (157 min.) Opera in 3 acts. VHS.
Frederico Fellini's Intervista / written and directed by Frederico Fellini;
Aljosha Productions S.R.I. 1 videocassette (108 min.
) English subtitles. VHS format. Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita / a coproduction [of] Riama Film Roma, Cinecitta,
[and] Societe Nouvelle Pathe Cinema-Grey Film Paris.; 2 videocassettes (ca. 178 min.) VHS format.
Italian dialogue with English subtitles. Originally released by Cineriz in 1960.
La Forza del Destino / Giuseppe Verdi. 2 videocassettes (179 min.) VHS. Sung in
Italian; subtitles in English. Recorded live on Mar. 24, 1984 at the Metropolitan Opera House,
New York.
La Forza del Destino / music by Giuseppe Verdi; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave;
Mariinsky Theatre; an RM Associates Production in association with ABC Australia ... [et al.] 1
videodisc (167 min) Sung in Italian; English subtitles. Recorded live at the Mariinsky Theatre
in St. Petersburg. DVD format.
La Gazza Ladra = The thieving magpie./ Gioacchino Rossini. 2 videodiscs (180 min.)Title from container.
Sung in Italian with English subtitles. Libretto by Giovanni
Gherardini. Synopsis by Geoffrey Crankshaw ([2] p.) on insert.
Ginger & Fred / Produzioni Europee Associate S.R.L.; produced by Alberto Grimaldi;
directed by Federico Fellini. 1 videocassette (128 min.) VHS format. In Italian with English
subtitles. Videocassette release of the 1986 motion picture.
Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata: [a Franco Zeffirelli film] 1 videodisc (105 min.) DVD.
Sung in Italian. English captions. French subtitles. Videodisc release of the 1982 Accent Films
B.V. motion picture.
Identificazione di una Donna / un film di Michelangelo Antonioni; soggetto di
Michelangelo Antonioni; sceneggiatura di Michelangelo Antonioni e Gerard Brach, con la
collaborazione di Tonino Guerra; regia ... Michelangelo Antonioni; prodotto da Giorgio Nocella
e Antonio Macri. 1 videocassette (125 min.) VHS. In Italian with English subtitles. Originally
released as a motion picture in 1982.
Idomeneo / Mozart; directed by John Cox. 1 videocassette (128 min.) Sung in Italian
with English subtitles.
L'Incoronazione di Poppea / music by Claudio Monteverdi. 1 videocassette (148 min.)
Opera in two acts. Sung in Italian, with English subtitles. Performed at the fiftieth Anniversary
Year of Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 1984. VHS format.
Italia Contemporanea: Conversations with Native Speakers / Ceil Lucas, producer. 1
videocassette (90 min.) + 1 workbook. VHS format.
Juliet of the Spirits / a film by Federico Fellini. 1 videocassette (140 min.) In Italian with English
subtitles. Incorrect running time (115 min.) listed on box. From an idea by Federico Fellini
and Tullio Pinelli. Originally released in 1965 as a motion picture. VHS format. Ladri di Biciclette = The Bicycle Thief / un film P.D.S. "produzioni De Sica - S.A.";
soggetto Di Cesare Zavattini, tratto dall'omonimo romanzo di Luigi Bartolini; sceneggiato da
Oreste Biancoli ... [et al.] ; regia, Vittorio
De Sica. 1 videodisc (90 min.) DVD format. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1949.
Italian dialogue, dubbed English dialogue, English subtitles.
Ladri di Saponette = The Icicle Thief / Bambu Productions, Aries Film Releasing L.P.
1 videocassette (84 min.) VHS format. Videocassette release of the 1989 motion picture. Italian
with English subtitles.
Love and Anarchy = Film d'Amore e d'Anarchia / Euro International and Labrador;
written and directed by Lina Wertmuller. 1 videocassette (129 min.) VHS format. In Italian with
yellow English subtitles. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1973.
The Love of Three Oranges = Liubov k Trem Apelsinam / by Serge Prokofiev. Long Beach,
Calif. 1 videodisc (105 min.) Libretto by the composer and Vera Janacopoulos (after Gozzi).
Lucia di Lammermoor / The Metropolitan Opera; director, Kirk Browning. 1 videocassette
(128 min.) + 1 booklet. Sung in Italian with English subtitles.
Taped during the November 13, 1982 performance at the Metropolitan Opera House. VHS format.
Lucia di Lammermoor / Gaetano Donizetti; libretto by Salvadore Cammarano.
1 videocassette (108 min.) VHS format. Sung in Italian, with English subtitles. Videorecording
of a 1971 production.
Madama Butterfly / by Giacomo Puccini; produced by National Video
Corporation [and] Radiotelevisione Italiana in association with RTSI. 1 videocassette (150 min.)
VHS format. Opera in 3 acts. Sung
in Italian. Malena / Miramax Films and Medusa Film present a Medusa Film/Miramax Films production,
a film by Giuseppe Tornatore; producers, Harvey Weinstein, Carlo Bernasconi; screenplay writer
and director, Giuseppe Tornatore. 1 videocassette (92 min.) In Italian with yellow English
subtitles. Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Based on the story by Luciano Vincenzoni.
VHS format.
Manon Lescaut / produced by BBC TV in association with Covent Garden Video
Productions; [music] by Giacomo Puccini; directed by Humphrey Burton; producer, Gotz Friedrich.
1 videocassette (130 min.)
Accompanied by libretto (38 p.; 17 cm.). VHS format. A videorecording of the performance at the
Royal Opera House on May 17, 1983.
The Marriage of Figaro: a comic opera in 4 acts / by W.A. Mozart; text by
da Ponte; produced by Peter Hall; television production, Humphrey Burton; television direction,
Dave Heather; [stage director, Peter Hall]. 2
videocassettes (168 min.)Sung in Italian, English subtitles. VHS format.
Opera based on Beaumarchais' sequel to his Barber of Seville.
Il Meglio di Mistero Buffo / [written by] Dario Fo; con la partecipazione di Franca
Rame. 1 videocassette (110 min.) A presentation of satirical monologues on politics and religion
delivered by Dario Fo. VHS format.
Nabucco / music by Giuseppe Verdi; libretto by Temistocle Solera; A RAI-RTSI-Polivideo
SA coproduction in association with NVC Arts. 1 videocassette (135 min.) Sung in Italian with
English subtitles. VHS format.
Norma / opera by Vincenzo Bellini; libretto in Italian by Felice Romani; based on a
French play by Alexandre Soumet; a production of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; directed
by Lotfi Mansouri; produced and directed for television by Norman Campbell. 1 videodisc (ca.
150 min.) Sung in Italian with English subtitles. Live performance, 1981.
Norma / productor, F. Perez de Munoz; realizador, Ramon Diez. 1 videocassette (171
min.) Sung in Italian, titles in Spanish. Performed live in 1978. VHS format.
Nostalghia / una produzione della RETE 2 TV RAI in collaborazione con la Sovin Film,
URSS; un film di Andrey Tarkovsky. 1 videodisc (120 min.) Italian with English subtitles. DVD
release of the 1983 motion picture.
Le Nozze di Figaro / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; libretto, Lorenzo da Ponte. 1 videodisc
(193 min.) Originally released in 1994. Based on Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais' Le
mariage de Figaro. Sung in Italian with English subtitles.
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso / a Miramax Film; an Italian-French coproduction Cristaldifilm
Rai/Tre Forum (Rome)/ Les Films Ariane TF1 Films Production (Paris). 1 videodisc (ca. 174 min.)
In Italian and French with English subtitles. DVD format.
Orfeo ed Euridice / music by Christoph Willibald Gluck; critical edition by
Ludwig Finscher; libretto by Pierre-Louis Moline after Raniero de Calzabigi. 1 videodisc (80
min.) Opera in three acts. Sung in Italian; subtitles in English.
Otello / music by Giuseppe Verdi; libretto by Arrigo Boito. 2 videodiscs (141 min.)
Deutsche Grammophon. In Italian; English subtitles by
Gillian Widdicombe.
Pagliacci / Gobbi. 1 videocassette (approx. 95 min.) Italian with English subtitles
and narration. Includes a 1948 performance of Pagliacci, preceded by highlights of a 1947
performance of Guglielmo Tell. Pagliacci from the opera of Leoncavallo. VHS format.
Il Pastor Fido / by George Frideric Handel; libretto by Giacomo Rossi; original
choreography by Julie Andrijeski; original poetic narration by Lawrence Rosenwald; executive
producer, Ross W. Duffin. 1 videocassette (104 min.) VHS. Arias sung in Italian, narration in
English. Recorded at Case Western Reserve University, May 1996.
The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland = Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria/ Monteverdi;
libretto, Giacomo. Sung in Italian, English subtitles. VHS format. Videocassette release of the
performance at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1973.
Rigoletto: Opera in Three Acts / by Francesco Maria Piave after Victor Hugo;
music by Giuseppe Verdi; a Unitel production; staged and directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle.
1 videocassette (116 min.) In Italian, with
English subtitles. Program notes and synopsis by Avril Bardoni
in booklet (8 p.).
Roma / [directed by] Federico Fellini; original story and screenplay by Federico
Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi; produced by Turi Vasile for Ultra Film. 1 videocassette (129 min.)
Italian and English dialogue, English subtitles. Originally produced as motion picture in Rome
by Ultra Film in 1972. VHS format.
Simon Boccanegra Long Beach, Calif.: Pioneer Classics, c2000. 1 videodisc (150 min.)
Sung in Italian with optional English subtitles. Taped at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City,
Dec. 29, 1984.
Soldat / music by Igor Stravinsky; choreography by Ashley Page. Pulcinella
/ music by Igor Stravinsky; choreography by Richard Alston.
1 videodisc (66 min.) Ballets. Program notes in English ([5] p.)
inserted in container.
Tosca / Giacomo Puccini; directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. 1 videodisc (115 min.)
Laserdisc release of the 1992 film adaptation of Puccini's opera. Sung in Italian with English
subtitles.
Tosca / Giacomo Puccini; production by Franco Zeffirelli. 1 videocassette (127 min.)
Sung in Italian with subtitles in English. Performed Mar. 20 and 27, 1985, at the Metropolitan
Opera. VHS format.
Tosca / by Giacomo Pucchini; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppi Giacosa; produced for
television, in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, by the Australian Opera
1 videodisc (123 min.) Sung in Italian, with English subtitles. Based on a play by Sardou. Recorded
live in 1986 at the Sydney Opera House.
La Traviata / Accent Films/Universal Pictures through Producers Sales Organization;
written, designed and directed by Franco Zeffirelli; [produced by] Tarak Ben Ammar. (105 min.)
Release of the 1982 motion picture. In Italian with English subtitles.
Il Trittico : La Scala, Milan: [three one-act operas] / Giacomo Puccini. 1 videocassette
(160 min.) VHS. Sung in Italian with English subtitles. Live recording from Teatro alla Scala,
Milan.
Les Troyens / Hector Berlioz; libretto by the composer, after Virgil; the Metropolitan
Opera. 2 videocassettes (253 min.) VHS format. In Italian with English subtitles. Recorded
during the Oct. 8, 1983 performance at the Met.
Il Trovatore: An Opera in Four Acts / by Giuseppe Verdi. 1 videocassette (138 min.)
VHS format. Sung in Italian; English subtitles. Videocassette release of a performance given at the
Sydney Opera House. Turandot: at the forbidden city of Beijing / Giacomo Puccini's opera on the original
site, completed by Franco Alfano; libretto, Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni; a production of
Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; stage director, Zhang Yimou. 1 videodisc
(126 min.) Videodisc release of the 1998 production recorded live in the Forbidden City, Beijing.
DVD. Sung in Italian, synopsis in English.
Turandot / Giacomo Puccini; RM Arts/San Francisco Opera Association. 1 videocassette
(123 min.) In Italian with English subtitles. VHS format.
Turandot / Giacomo Puccini. Hamburg: Deutsche Grammophon ; New York:
Manufactured and marketed by Polygram Records, p1989. 2 videodiscs (134 min.)
Opera in three acts. Digital recording. Synopsis in English & French in container.
La Vita e Bella = Life is Beautiful / Miramax Films; Cecchi Gori Group; Mario e Vittorio Cecchi Gori presentano una produzione Melampo Cinematografica; soggetto e sceneggiatura di Vincenzo Cerami e Roberto Benigni; prodotto da Elda Ferri e Gianluigi Braschi; regia di Roberto Benigni. 1 videocassette (116 min.) In Italian with English subtitles. Originally released as motion picture in 1997.
Volere volare / Penta Film; Mario e Vittorio Cecchi Gori & Silvio Berlusconi
Communications. 1 videocassette (ca. 92 min.) VHS format. Videocassette release of the 1993
motion picture.
We the Living / A Duncan Scott Production in association with Henry Mark
Holzer and Erika Holzer. 2
videocassettes (174 min.) Italian with English subtitles. Originally issued
as 2 motion pictures, Noi Vivi and Addio Kira, in Italy in 1942. VHS format.
Wedding Cantata / an Oklahoma State University Educational Television
Production; producer-director, William Crane; script, Eugene Enrico, Susan Caldwell, Daniele
McDowell. 1 videocassette (29 min.)
Music sung in Italian; commentary in English. VHS. Features a performance of Marc -
Antoine Charpentier's Epithalamio in lode dell'Altezza Serenissima Elettorale di Massimiliano
Emanuel Duca di Baviera, interspersed with commentary by John Casey, acting in the role of the
composer.
MUS M1500.V4 B34 1989 VIDEOTAPE
For his first opera production, Dario Fo, the theater director known for his brilliant wit,
chose to stage Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia for the Netherlands Opera. First mounted in
1987, it was a huge success, and a live recording of its revival has been made.
MUS M1500.R68 B3 1999 DVD
Figaro, the title character, is a matchmaker and man about town as well as a barber. He
devises a way to get Rosina to marry Almaviva instead of her guardian, to whom she is already
engaged.
MUS M1500.R68 B3 1997 VIDEOTAPE
The plot, based loosely on Stendhal's "The charterhouse of Parma," concerns a young man who
flirts intellectually with communism and incestuously with his young aunt. He finally realizes
that for him life will always be "before the revolution."
JOU PN1995.9.F67 B355 1989 VIDEOTAPE
The relationships of two Bohemians and their sweethearts develop stormily until both couples
separate. While the two men are lamenting their loneliness in their Paris attic, one of the
girl friends comes for help for the other who has and wants to be taken to her lover to die.
The opera is followed by a special program showing behind the scenes preparation for the
production.
MUS M1500.P8 B63 1988 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.P8 B63 1985 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.P8 B63 1998 DVD
MUS M1500.P8 B63 1999 DVD
MUS M1500.P8 B63 2000 DVD
Michele, a typical example of a rebellious generation, reveals the crisis
of the bourgeois world in conflict with the inevitable changes of the times.
MIC PN1997 .C29 1995 VIDEOTAPE
MIC PN1997 .C29 1998 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.M375 C33 1985 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.R68 C4 1986 VIDEOTAPE
Sensitive comedy about the friendship of three men and the one woman each has loved.
JOU PN1997 .C37 1989 VIDEOTAPE
A young boy in a small Italian village is befriended by the projectionist at the movie
theater, the Cinema Paradiso. As the boy grows up, he learns to love films, and is encouraged
by his good friend to pursue his dream of one day making movies.
JOU PN1997 .C5167 1990 VIDEOTAPE
MIC PN1997 .C5167 1990 VIDEOTAPE
Comic opera, in which two friends disguise themselves and seduce each other's sweethearts
for the sake of a bet.
MUS M1500.M6 C6 1984 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.M6 C6 1998 DVD
FIN M1500.M6 C6 1996 VIDEOTAPE
A journalist ventures into the decadent society of modern Rome and finds that his values
are being destroyed, leaving him totally disillusioned.
MIC PN1997 .D645 1987 VIDEOTAPE
MIC PN1997.D645 D6 1985 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.V4 D6 1991 VIDEODISC
MUS M1500.V4 D6 1983 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.M6 D6 1991 VIDEODISC
The story of Don Giovanni centers around a young nobleman who is obsessed with amorous
conquests and his encounters with Donna Anna, the woman who plots to destroy him.
MUS M1500.M6 D6 2000 DVD
MUS M1500.M6 D6 1985 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.D66 D6 1996 VIDEOTAPE
Thrown from a horse, a modern aristocrat proclaims he is the 11th century king of the Holy
Roman Empire. For 20 years he lives out this delusion until his former love visits with a plan
to shock the madman back to reality.
MIC PQ4835.I7 E51 1987 Videotape
MUS M1500.V4 F3 1983 VIDEOTAPE
Minnie, owner of a saloon in a mining camp in
California, falls in love with Dick Johnson who is in reality the bandit Ramerrez. Sheriff Jack
Rance is also in love with Minnie and they play poker to determine the bandit's fate. Minnie
cheats and wins his freedom, but he is caught. About to be hanged, Johnson/Ramerrez is saved
when Minnie pleads for his life.
MUS M1500.P8 F3 1983 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.P8 F3 1998 DVD
MUS M1500.V4 F6 1994 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.V4 F6 1988 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.V4 F6 2001 DVD
The
setting is Cinecitta, the legendary film city in Rome where Fellini has made all his films. A
Japanese television crew appears on the set, intent on interviewing the maestro by following
him on the job.
JOU PN1997 .I48 1993 VIDEOTAPE
A journalist ventures into the decadent society of modern Rome and finds that his values
are being destroyed, leaving him totally disillusioned.
MIC PN1997 .D645 1999 VIDEOTAPE
JOU PN1997 .D645 1999 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.V4 F6 1988 VIDEOTAPE
The story of two lovers who are separated, then pursued by her brother who is convinced that
they are responsible for her father's death. The story is based on the premise that fate is
inexorable, that there is no free choice.
MUS M1500.V4 F6 2001 DVD
MUS M1500.R835 G3 VIDEODISC
Forty years ago, ex-dancers Ginger and Fred made their living imitating the incomparably
graceful Rogers and Astaire in Italian dance halls. Now thirty years later, they are reunited
for a nostalgic TV variety show.
JOU PN1997 .G49 1987 VIDEOTAPE
The story of a beautiful courtesan dying of consumption and her love for a poor nobleman.
MUS M1500.V4 T72 1999 DVD
Niccolo is a middle-aged film director who gets involved with Mavi, an upper class woman.
He receives anonymous threats to terminate the relationship, which he ignores. Before long,
Mavi moves away without telling Niccolo. He then becomes involved with avant-garde stage
actress Ida, but after she informs him that she is pregnant by another man, the relationship
comes to a halt.
MUS On Order
Returning home from the Trojan Wars during a storm, Idomeneo, the king of Crete, vows to
sacrifice to Neptune in return for his own safety the first living creature he meets ashore.
This turns out to be his own son Idamante, and Idomeneo attempts to escape from fulfilling his
vow.
MUS M1500.M6 I33 1985 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.M6 I33 2000 DVD
The Coronation of Poppea (L'Incoronazione di Poppea) was Monteverdi's last opera, written
when he was 75, and first performed in Venice in 1642. The opera tells the amoral story of the
Roman Emperor Nero's love affair with the scheming and seductive Poppea, with evil triumphing
over good, while the allegorical figures from the Prologue - Fortune, Virtue and Love look on.
MUS M1500.M58 I6 1984 VIDEOTAPE
MIC PC1129.E5 L83 2001 VIDEOTAPE
A fantasy of
dreams about a bored housewife who can conjure up sensual spirits.
MIC PN1997 .J8237 1988 VIDEOTAPE
JOU PN1997 .J8237 1996 VIDEOTAPE
Story of an unemployed man and his son in war devastated Rome. The father finds a job
pasting up posters, work requiring a bicycle to get around. The bicycle is stolen; panic
stricken at being unable to recover his bicycle and at the prospect of losing his job, the
father is compelled to steal a bicycle, only to be caught and humiliated in front of his son.
JOU PN1997 .L28 1998 DVD
Satiric fantasy that blasts television by mingling the hyper reality of commercials with a
bleak vintage drama.
JOU PN1997 .L282 1991 VIDEOTAPE
Tells the story of a shy country peasant who goes to the city with a plan to assassinate
Benito Mussolini. Shows how his underground contact in the network of anarchists offers him a
hideout in her brothel where he meets a young prostitute and falls in love.
MIC PN1997 .L764 1997 VIDEOTAPE
MIC PN1997 .L764 1986 VIDEOTAPE
LOCATION = mus. M1500.P76 L6 VIDEODISC
Enrico tries to force his sister to wed Arturo in order to save a family fortune.
MUS M1500.D66 L8 1989 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.D66 L8 1984 VIDEOTAPE
An American naval officer falls in love with a Japanese geisha girl
known as Butterfly and goes through a ceremony of marriage with her. He then goes back to
America while Butterfly waits for his return with their child. Pinkerton returns with his new
American wife and learns that he has a son. The grief-stricken Butterfly kills herself.
MUS M1500.P8 M3 1983 VIDEOTAPE
Set in a small Sicilian town during WWII, the story centers on Renato, a 13-year-old boy
with a coming of age fantasy life who falls hard for the town's ultra-beautiful twentysomething,
Malena.
MIC PN1997 .M32534 2001 VIDEOTAPE
The Chevalier des Grieux meets and seduces the
young Manon when she is being escorted by her brother to a convent. Manon lives with des Grieux
in Paris, but leaves him for a rich admirer. She is later arrested, charged with prostitution,
and deported to Louisiana. Des Grieux accompanies her and during an escape attempt she dies in
his arms.
MUS M1500.P8 M36 1983 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.M6 N6 1985 VIDEOTAPE
MIC PQ4866.O2 M5 1995 VIDEOTAPE
MIC PQ4866.O2 M5 1999 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.V4 N3 1997 VIDEOTAPE
Norma, a Druid priestess, has broken her vow of chastity with an enemy of her people, the
Roman Proconsul, who has now turned to another lover. Norma must choose between taking
vengeance against her lover or atoning for her sins.
MUS M1500.B44 N67 2001 DVD
Norma, a Druid priestess, has broken her vow of chastity with an enemy of her people, the
Roman Proconsul, who has now turned to another lover. Norma must choose between taking vengeance
against her lover or atoning for her sins.
MUS M1500.B44 N67 1998 VIDEOTAPE
A homesick Russian poet, Gorchakov, researching in Italy with the aid of a beautiful
interpreter, Eugenia, arrives at a Tuscan spa, while there he encounters the local mystic, who
sets him on a challenging task.
JOU PN1997 .N67567 1998 DVD
Mozart's comic opera about the Count and Countess Almaviva, their relationship with each
other, and their servants, Figaro and Susanna.
MUS M1500.M6 N6 2001 DVD
MUS M1500.M6 N6 1999 DVD
MUS M1500.M6 N6 1985 VIDEOTAPE
A young boy in a small Italian village is befriended by the projectionist at the movie
theater, the Cinema Paradiso. As the boy grows up, he learns to love films, and is encouraged
by his good friend to pursue his dream of one day making movies.
JOU PN1997 .C5167 2003 DVD
MUS M1500.G57 O7 VIDEODISC
MUS M1500.G57 O7 1987 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.V4 O8 VIDEODISC
MUS M1500.V4 O8 VIDEOTAPE
In Pagliacci, the clown, Signor Canio, with the painted smile and broken heart, realizing
his wife has left him for a younger man, sings operas most famous aria.
MUS M1500.L576 P34 1999 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.H36 P37 1996 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.M58 R5 1985 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.V484 R5 1990 VIDEOTAPE
A film adaptation of Federico Fellini's reminiscences of Rome before World War II, as
compared to the present as it was when the film was originally produced.
MIC PN1997 .R636 1991 VIDEOTAPE
JOU PN1997 .R636 1991 VIDEOTAPE
Simon Boccanegra, Doge of Genoa, is one of Verdi's most profound characters, a complex man
ruled by love of family and devotion to country. The compelling, richly colored music of Simon
Boccanegra vividly embodies the tangled personal passions and political rivalries of Renaissance Italy.
MUS M1500.V4 S55 2000 DVD
MUS M1500.V4 S55 1988 VIDEOTAPE
MUS GV1790.S9 H5 VIDEODISC
MUS M1500.P8 T6 1993 VIDEODISC
An opera in three acts about an escaped political prisoner, a beautiful singer and her lover,
and the chief of the secret police.
MUS M1500.P8 T6 1986 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.P8 T6 1985 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.P8 T6 1998 DVD
MUS M1500.P8 T6 1990 DVD
The story of a beautiful courtesan dying of consumption and her love for a poor nobleman.
Based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera.
MUS M1500.V4 T72 1984 VIDEODISC
MUS M1500.V4 T72 1985 VIDEOTAPE
MUS Multimedia Stacks M1500.P8 T74 1983 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.B476 T74 1986 VIDEOTAPE
The plot revolves around its two female characters. Acuzena is the daughter
of a gypsy who, fifteen years before, was burned as a witch for cursing the young son of a
nobleman. In revenge, Acuzena abducted the son to throw into the embers of the same fire, but,
in her distress, threw in her own son. She has brought up the other child as her own. Leonora
(Sutherland) is a lady-in-waiting at court who is loved by two men, the Count di Luna, who is
the older son of the nobleman who had Acuzena's mother burned, and Manrico, the troubadour, and
leader of the rebel forces engaged in civil war against the count. Tragedy results when the
four come together.
MUS M1500.V4 T76 1985 VIDEOTAPE
Set in Peking, Princess Turandot will become the bride of the royal suitor who can
successfully answer three riddles. Unsuccessful suitors lose not only the hand of the princess,
but their heads as well.
MUS M1500.P8 T8 1999 DVD
"Turandot's eternal theme of transfigured love triumphant over barbaric cruelty, combined
with the opulent beauty of Puccini's music, make the composer's final masterpiece one of the
best-loved works in the operatic repertoire"--Container.
MUS M1500.P8 T8 1994 VIDEOTAPE
MUS M1500.P8 T8 1989 VIDEOTAPE
A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II.
MIC PN1997 .V568 1999 VIDEOTAPE
JDC PN1997 .V568 1999 DVD
"There's nothing Maurizio
loves more than cartoons until he bumps into Martina, a beautiful woman who makes her living
acting out bizarre sexual fantasies for off-beat clients. But when Maurizio and Martina get
together, something magical happens. Romance slowly turns this shy, loving man into a cartoon
character"--Slipcase.
JOU PN1995.9.C55 V64 1993b Videotape
The story of young
idealism crushed by the realities and social upheaval in Russia during the 1920s.
MIC PN1997 .W422 1994 Videotape
MUS M1530.3.C43 W4 1982 VIDEOTAPE