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From:  thomas mark montgomery <thomas8@t...>
Date:  Sat Jun 8, 2002  1:48 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] documentary or movie about singers?


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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