Leo Nucci Movies

This Zurich Opera House production of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto stars Leo Nucci, Elena Mosuc and Piotr Beczala in the principal roles. The Chorus and Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House provide musical accompaniment, under the baton of Nello Santi; Gilbert Deflo directs for the stage. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

Guiseppe Verdi's four-act drama comes to the stage of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in this April of 2005 performance featuring conductor Carlo Rizzi as he leads the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna. Leo Nucci, Dimitra Theodossiou, and Mariana Pentcheva star and libretto is provided by Antonio García Gutiérrez. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

In lieu of offering a straightforward presentation of the seminal Verdi opera La Traviata, this documentary cross-sections that epic to analyze the content, background, history, and cultural significance of the work. The program begins with the dramatic basis for the opera - Alexandre Dumas's 1848 novel La dame aux camélias -and discusses how Verdi's creation, like the Dumas work that inspired and defined it, made history with its scandalous tale of a courtesan who broke the rules of bourgeois society in order to achieve lasting happiness and personal fulfillment. The program then touches on the opera's (related) status as the first operatic work in history to be based on a drama of morals, before moving into a discussion of the composer's intentions and the musical content of the opus. The documentary features clips from productions of La Traviata by such notables as Peter Hall and Francesca Zambello, with arias performed by luminaries including Angela Gheorghiu, Carla Basto and Marie McLaughlin. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide

This performance of Puccini's opera, Tosca features the vocal talents of Maria Guleghina and Salvatore Licitra. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide

Featuring the debut of soprano Angela Gheorghiu, this release from Universal Classics presents a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's beloved opera La Traviata. Also starring Frank Lopardo and Leo Nucci, the production includes music provided by the Royal Opera House Orchestra under renowned conductor Sir Georg Solti. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide

Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera is performed before a live audience in this 1990 production captured live at the Grobes Festspielhaus in Salzberg, Germany and starring Placido Domingo, Leo Nucci, and Josephine Barstow. The Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor performs under chorus master Helmuth Froschauer, and Sir Georg Solti conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

This production of Giuseppi Verdi's opera based on Macbeth, the famed play by William Shakespeare, is a musical succès d'estime but falls short in the cinematic arena. Shirley Verrett stars as the murderous and ambitious Lady Macbeth, Leo Nucci co-stars as her similarly ambitious but slightly more scrupulous husband, who has the good grace to feel some horror at his deeds before he does them. The entire opera was filmed inside a Belgian castle, and some of the smaller parts are obviously lip-synched to pre-recorded music. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

This presentation of Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff (the final opera of his impressive career) features bass baritone Jose van Dam as the title character. The storyline is an amalgam of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windser and Henry IV. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide