Julia Migenes Movies

This performance of Julie Migenes' one-woman show, Diva on the Verge features a telling of the performer's career as an opera singer, punctuated with operatic vocal performances. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi

Peter Medak directed this fact-based drama, chronicling the lives of the infamous Kray Brothers, notorious celebrities in 60s London. The Krays were twin gangsters who ruled London's stylish East End club scene, staking out their territory by committing the most violent crimes imaginable, preferring to perform the most torturous acts themselves. The film stars Gary Kemp and Martin Kemp, founding members of the pop group Spandau Ballet, as Ronald and Reginald Kray. The film opens as their mother Violet Kray (Billie Whitelaw) recalls a dream in which she is a swan from which two beautiful babies have hatched. She can't tell if the swans are angels or demons, but the film soon answers that question for her. Brought up in London's East End in the 1930s, Ronald and Reginald Kray are raised in the resentful world of Violet, who is hateful of her lot in life and bitter at the control men have in running the world ("Housework is a lethal business," she says). The twins react to each other almost telepathically and they take out their anger by clogging the nose of their sleeping father (Alfred Lynch), pushing around fellow schoolboys, and even beating each other to pulp at a boxing match. When her mother chastises them for their fight in a fairground boxing ring ("You fight them up, but you don't fight each other"), the twins veer into the London underworld. In their self-contained world of Us-Against-Them, the Krays rapidly rise to the height of power, first taking over the territory of a petty mobster by violent means and then putting together an underworld empire of posh clubs, cars, and fancy suits. But at the height of their fame, the twins begin to break from each other. Reginald falls in love with Frances (Kate Hardie), while Ronald gets involved in a homosexual relationship with one of his underlings. Ronald, in a jealous rage over Frances stealing his brother away from him, becomes even more brutal in his crimes and while the brothers' backs are turned, a group of older mobsters challenge the Krays' authority, invoking a horrible bloodbath that effects not only the two brothers but Frances and Violet as well. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Lola (Julia Migenes) is an American singer in a Berlin nightclub who falls for the East German pianist David (Jose Coronado) in this romantic drama. Their love affair is interrupted by Professor Huessler (Keith Baxter), the dedicated orchestra conductor who sends David back East. Huessler and Lola become romantically involved after David's departure. He helps Lola find a job in an opera company when the club is shut down following the stabbing death of an American GI. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

Temporarily assuming Higgins' duties at Robin's Nest, the normally freewheeling Magnum (Tom Selleck) begins behaving in the strict, stuffy manner usually associated with Higgins (John Hillerman)--who, conversely, is comporting himself in the footloose "Magnum manner" while on vacation! The reason for Higgins' giddiness is a beautiful woman with whom he is carrying on a secret romance. Convinced that the woman is a nothing more than a golddigger, Magnum turns to a most unusual source to advise him how to rescue Higgins from the lady's clutches. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

In this collection of excerpts from seven theatrical masterworks featuring some of the greatest opera talents ever to grace the stage, Peter Schrier offers a stunning rendition of Cosí Fan Tutte's "Un'aura amorosa", Placido Domingo and Sherrill Milnes team to perform "Dio, che nell'alma infondere from Verdi's Don Carlo, and Milnes performs Brahms "O Tod, wie bitter bist du alongside pianist Jon Spong. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

This production of Alban Berg's opera Lulu stars Julia Migenes in the title role and was mounted for The Metropolitan Opera by John Dexter. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi