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Wagner – Tony Palmer Films

This epic film – described by Richard Hornak in Opera News as “one of the most beautiful motion pictures in history” – was originally made during 1982/3 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Wagner’s death. It was always intended as one single film, not a ‘Television Mini-Series’, as it is so often (and mistakenly) described.… Continue reading Wagner – Tony Palmer Films

Carmen – Opera by Georges Bizet

Carmen is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée