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After the great success that Il Trovatore received in Paris, Verdi was proposed to compose a French version of the opera to suit the tastes of the local public. The original work, based on the Spanish play El trovador by Antonio Garc?a Guti?rrez, had a...

Claudio Monteverdi was a pioneer in the origins and development of opera, taking vocal music beyond Renaissance polyphony and entering a modern era in which genuine feelings and emotions are expressed through a wide variety of characters. Part of a late...

Jean-Baptiste Lully's Atys, a trag?die en musique, became known as the 'king's opera' due to Louis XIV's fondness for it. The work stands as a testament to the Sun King's courtly refinement, as well as his moves to make France the center of European...

Charles Gounod was enchanted by the young Proven?al-born Fr?d?ric Mistral's epic love poem Mir?io, and enlisted the distinguished Michel Carr? to fashion a libretto. Against the grain of prevailing operatic practice in the 1860s, and it's promotion of...

The three-act romantic operetta Das Land des Lachelns (The Land of Smiles) by Franz Lehar was one of Lehar's later works, and was wildly popular in Vienna and Germany upon it's 1929 debut. The title refers to the supposed Chinese custom of smiling,...

Spun out of "Titans," this DC Universe series adapted the adventures of the DCU's perennial fan-favorite team of outcast superheroes. Paraplegic genius Niles "the Chief" Caulder (Timothy Dalton) recruited individuals granted strange abilities by cruel...

Blu-Ray/Digital. The good. The evil. The beginning. When rookie Gotham City detective James Gordon, dedicated to restoring his crime-ridden metropolis back to it's decent and illustrious past, catches the case of a murdered socialite couple, he promises...

Charles Gounod was enchanted by the young Proven?al-born Fr?d?ric Mistral's epic love poem Mir?io, and enlisted the distinguished Michel Carr? to fashion a libretto. Against the grain of prevailing operatic practice in the 1860s, and it's promotion of...

HBO's acclaimed 1999-2007 Mafia saga follows North Jersey mob capo Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) as he deals with the members of his two families-one at home, the other on the "job"-while breaking one of the organization's cardinal rules by sharing his...

When a young boy's corpse was found in the woods, investigator Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn) booked teacher Terry Maitland (Jason Bateman) on the basis of DNA and eyewitness evidence. However, witnesses and video placed Maitland in another city at the...

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