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Filmed during Cash's concert tour of the US in the late Sixties, this film offers a carefully airbrushed account of the star's life on and off stage. While attracting huge audiences wherever he goes, as well as winning awards, he remains eminently normal, the kind of man who willingly signs autographs, listens to pieces of doggerel composed by adoring fans, and poses for innumerable photos
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Francesco Cavalli succeeded Monteverdi as the most influential composer of the new genre of opera that emerged in mid-17th-century Venice. Il Xerse is a fictitious dramma per musica that tells of Persian King Xerxes' love for Romilda, who in turn is in love with his brother Arsamene. The plot is an entertaining and extremely intricate human comedy of crossed loves, court intrigues and disguises - the work's popularity saw it staged in Paris at the...
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Claudio Monteverdi developed the principles of opera with L'Orfeo in the first decade of the 17th-century. At the very end of his life he wrote L'incoronazione di Poppea. The opera marked a decisive move from allegorical and mythic elements towards a historical subject - the love affair between the Roman Emperor Nero and his mistress Poppea. His final masterpiece, where the beauty of the arias vanquished the decadence of the storyline, was first performed...
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Described as 'a joyous romp' (Opera News), Donizetti's dramma giocoso shows us what can go wrong when the egos of the actors get in the way of putting on a good show. From the prima donna and the sub-par lead tenor to the seconda donna's boisterous mother (played by a bass singer) and all the characters in between, everyone is playing the diva whilst the director pulls his hair out in frustration, and questions of who will fund the production are...
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Adina's Deck volume 2
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English
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Michael, an 8th grader approaches Adina's Deck with a big problem. His friend Ally has been talking to a guy online for over two months and it seems too good to be true- except the guy is 20! The club takes the case to track down Ally's mysterious crush.
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Claudio Monteverdi was a pioneer in the origins and development of opera, taking vocal music beyond Renaissance polyphony and entering a modern era in which genuine feelings and emotions are expressed through a wide variety of characters. Part of a late flowering in Monteverdi's illustrious career, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria is considered the most tender and moving of his three surviving operas. It takes its narrative from the second half of Homer's...
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Un mari à la porte ( A Husband at the Door) is a one-act operetta which was recorded at the Teatro del Maggio in occasion of the 200th anniversary of Offenbach's birth. Premiered in 1859, this rarely performed work is a most amusing comedy of errors, which is the typical frameset that the composer used to represent and mock the quirks and vices of the French society of his times.
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Deutsch
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Der fliegende Holländer was one of the operas that allowed Wagner to assert his place as the foremost German operatic composer of the time and to develop the foundations of his visionary mature works. Premiered in Dresden in 1843 its story is of the Flying Dutchman - the ghostly sea captain doomed to wander the seas eternally unless redeemed by love. This new staging was praised by seenandheard-international.com and for being 'a triumph in faithfully...
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World premiered with a great success at the Vienna State Opera in 2019, Persinette retells the famous Rapunzel fairy tale. To the late-romantic music of Albin Fries, children's opera specialist Matthias von Stegmann takes us into the world rich in images, allowing us to sympathise and feel the excitement. Will Persinette escape her imprisonment in the high tower?
11) Battle of Midway
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Filmed as it happened; On June 4-6, 1942, a large Japanese force attempted to capture Midway Island in the Pacific but was defeated by U.S. forces with a loss ratio of 4:1. On hand was a crew of naval photographers; their documentary footage was edited together with narration by actors. The film covers the attack on Midway, aerial footage, the search for survivors, and aftermath of the battle.
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A wonderful retelling of the Nativity story in both song and words from the point of view of the Innkeeper's wife, her husband and their servants. General Electric Theater released a new story with different actors and actresses each week. Hosted by Ronald Reagan, the series was sponsored by General Electrics Department of Public Relations. Ronald Reagan appears with his family at Christmas.
13) Miracle Maker
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Woodhaven, a tiny town on the edge of the American frontier, needs a Christmas miracle and it may have arrived in the form of a ragged traveler.
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Adina's Deck volume 3
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An 8th grader in Mr. B's class plagiarized their paper! Adina's Deck takes the case. In this who-done-it, there are four main suspects, and the club needs to investigate each of their alibis to help Dave get the grade he deserves. Who did it and why?
15) Lourdes
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Christine has been confined to a wheelchair for most of her life. In order to escape her isolation, she makes a journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees mountains. She wakes up one day seemingly cured by a miracle.
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Adina's Deck volume 1
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English
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When Skye is cyber-bullied, her best friend Melody approaches tech-genius Adina for help. Who would do this to Skye? And why? At this Silicon Valley school, texting is more than meets the eye. Adina, Skye, Clara, and Melody form a club and take the case.
17) Mozart: Idomeneo
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Mozart's third venture into 'opera seria', demolished the genre's traditional boundaries and paved the way for lyric drama. Blending youthful earnestness with mature mastery, Mozart uses - while profoundly changing - the elements of a genre based on arias that come one after another with no real concern for dramatic progression. The importance and expressive power of the choruses, influenced by the operatic reforms of Gluck, foreshadows The Magic...
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Typical Amos 'n Andy storyline has the boys trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party. All the regular characters are here (or mentioned), including the famous Mystic Knights of the Sea. The only film appearance of radio's long-running characters.
20) Fluke
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Matthew Modine, Nancy Travis and Eric Stoltz come together in a romantic and remarkable tale about a man who must begin his life over ...as a dog!
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