Country: IT
Technical: col 109m
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Cast: Placido Domingo, Teresa Stratas
Synopsis:
A demi-mondaine falls in love with a young man of property, but his father forbids it and she dies of consumption.
Review:
Verdi's Dame aux Camélias is ideal for cinema adaptation, guaranteed a sympathetic response from modern audiences, and offering Zeffirelli the opportunity to create a world of colour schemes with costume and decor, lending each Act its particular mood. Domingo sings superbly, Stratas less well but more than makes up for it in delicate appearance.
Country: IT
Technical: col 109m
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Cast: Placido Domingo, Teresa Stratas
Synopsis:
A demi-mondaine falls in love with a young man of property, but his father forbids it and she dies of consumption.
Review:
Verdi's Dame aux Camélias is ideal for cinema adaptation, guaranteed a sympathetic response from modern audiences, and offering Zeffirelli the opportunity to create a world of colour schemes with costume and decor, lending each Act its particular mood. Domingo sings superbly, Stratas less well but more than makes up for it in delicate appearance.
