No one has mentioned films about singers, so I'll take a brief stab. Perhaps this will spark some more hits from other listers. Karen must be taking a nap...;0
Meeting Venus - Glenn Close dubbed by Kiri Te Kanawa in a romantic drama set in a German opera house during a production of Tannhauser
Interrupted Melody - Eleanor Parker dubbed by Eileen Farrell (what a mix!) in a bio-pic of the soprano Marjorie Lawrence and her battle with polio
The Music Teacher - Jose van Dam as a singing teacher
Serenade - a good place to start in the Mario Lanza oeuvre where he plays (you guessed it) an opera singer with many romantic intrigues (The Great Caruso is a good place to start as well)
Farinelli - loosely based on the life of the castrato
So This Is Love - Kathryn Grayson plays opera star Grace Moore
Hear My Song - Ned Beatty plays Irish tenor Josef Locke
Diva - loosely based on events in the life of Jessye Norman, it stars Wilhemina Fernandez-Wiggins
The Accompanist - pianist falls in love with the singer he accompanies (she's an art song singer - what was he thinking!)
Farewell, My Concubine - love story involving Chinese opera singers, both male, one playing traditional male roles, the other transvestite roles (won the Cannes film festival one year!)
Aria - a collection of 'music videos' based on a number of operatic selections
Cosi - an hilarious comedy about a production of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte in an asylum
A Night at the Opera - quintessential Marx Brothers
Yes, Giorgio (double eek!) - Mr. P in his film debut - it you rent it, don't forget to stop by the liquor store on the way home - you'll need it...
Best to all,
Mark
"Sing on the interest, not on the principal" - Florence Page Kimball, to her student Leontyne Price "The voice is not a fist." - Fritz Wunderlich "I sing with a slim voice." - Birgit Nilsson
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