Giuseppe Verdi: The Pursuit of Success & The Burden of Success (2007)
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Mark Elder, longtime music director of the English National Opera, hosts the documentary Giuseppe Verdi: The Pursuit of Success and the Burden of Success. The program - one of the first feature length English-language documentaries to explore Verdi's life and career - couples on-location footage of the milieux that Verdi frequented with reflections from the composer's memoirs and excerpts from Verdi's Italian-language operas. The extracts in question were culled from productions mounted for this film by David Alden and starring such luminaries as Willard White and Josephine Barstow; they feature musical accompaniment by the Chorus and Symphony of the English National Opera. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 118 mins
Complete Cast:
- Mark Elder
- Juliet Stevenson - Giuseppina Strepponi (Voice)
- Josephine Barstow - Singer
- Edward Byles - Singer
- Angela Hickey - Singer
- Dennis O'Neill - Singer
- Peter Sidhom - Singer
- Richard van Allan - Singer
- Willard White - Singer
- Bob Peck - Giuseppe Verdi (Voice)
- Edmund Barham - Singer
- Sally Burgess - Singer
- Janice Cairns - Singer
- Paul Nilon - Singer
- Tim Robinson - Singer
- Jonathan Summers - Singer
- Susannah Waters - Singer
- Director(s):
- Barrie Gavin
- Producer(s):
- Maureen Murray
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