Rome's Teatro Costanzi, the Eternal City's opera house, stages a production of Lucrezia Borgia, the historical opera written by Gaetano Donizetti. The great composer worked with Felice Romani, an ...

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Making his opera helming debut, Mike Figgis is clearly not short of ideas about "Lucrezia Borgia." Filled with lustful looks and heaving bosoms plus gratuitous nudity (female, of course), Figgis’ ...

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Eloise Lally straightforwardly tells this convoluted story of concealed identity ending in a mass poisoning Lucrezia Borgia has a bad reputation, and that holds whether you’re talking about the ...

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As the opera ends, Gennaro is dead and Lucrezia (soprano Renee Fleming) mourns with the moving aria "Era desso il figlio mio" -- "He was my son" -- leading directly to the bombastic finale. The ...

As the opera ends, Gennaro is dead and Lucrezia (soprano Renee Fleming) mourns with the moving aria "Era desso il figlio mio" -- "He was my son" -- leading directly to the bombastic finale. The ...

These two performances come across strongly on film but 3D screenings just aren't worth the expense. Rating: Carmen: * * * * ; Lucrezia Borgia: * * * * 3D isn't worth it: Lucrezia Borgia performed by ...

Notwithstanding its many faults, it felt like the silver screen's Ring cycle. Last night saw Figgis try his hand at a real Gesamtkunstwerk, Donizetti's rarely heard Lucrezia Borgia (1833). Could he ...