Franco Zeffirelli: La Traviata
Дзеффирелли: Травиата
The poignant story of the "woman gone astray" in a sumptuous production by Franco Zeffirelli.
Acclaimed film and stage director Franco Zeffirelli spared no costs to reproduce the opulent settings of Violetta Valéry's happiness and downfall. The unparalleled musical quality of the production is guaranteed by some of the world's foremost musicians: New York's Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, conductor James Levine and singers Teresa Stratas and Placido Domingo. As Violetta, Teresa Stratas strikes the right balance between emotional grandeur and physical weakness. And with his meltingly lyrical voice and magnetic stage presence, Placido Domingo embodies Alfredo Germont with a rarely seen passion.
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"Music and story are vital but we also have the good fortune of having two of the best opera performers in the film. Placido Domingo is as talented an actor as he is a tenor and Teresa Stratas, in the Camille role, has a virtual consensus as the most electric actress and soprano in lyric entertainment. It takes all of these elements to fill cinemas in the US, and we have them all." (Zeffirelli in einem Interview mit Variety)
"If anyone can make opera accessible, it is Franco Zeffirelli. If it will bring my parents to see 'La Traviata' and other operas they have never seen before, it is worth everything I have given to this performance." (Teresa Stratas in einem Interview mit Variety)
"As could be expected, Franzo Zeffirelli's film production of 'La Traviata' is a surpassingly voluptuous affair, a spinning wheel of colors and textures. [...] Stratas strikes just the right balance between emotional grandeur and physical weekness... Domingo offers an Alfredo of experienced sophistication, a man who, having sampled everything, recognizes his perfect love match when he sees it." (Variety, 15.12.1982)\
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- Academy Awards, USA, Nominee - Oscar (Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design)
- BAFTA Awards - Best Production Design/Art Direction, Best Costume Design
- Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists - Silver Ribbon (Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design)
- Nominee Golden Globe - Best Foreign Film
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