Pier Luigi Pizzi Movies

In 17th-century Rome, a young man in a choir of castrati falls for the beautiful wife of a powerful aristocrat.

Bob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is taking on him!

Documentary

The story of Cio-Cio-San, called Butterfly, a young Nagasaki geisha who, abandoned by her American lover after giving birth to their son, ultimately...

Two surreal/satirical comedy episodes.

A staging of Britten's opera filmed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in June 2008.

Puccini’s heartbreaking story of young love in the garrets of Belle Epoque Paris has attracted many famous singers through the years. But with...

Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship.

Maometto II (or Maometto secondo) is an 1820 opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Cesare della Valle. Set in the 1470s...

For those with any interest in Vivaldi's operas Orlando Furioso is essential viewing, being a 1989 San Francisco Opera revival by Pier Luigi Pizzi of...

"Die tote Stadt" is a psychologically layered drama with Hitchcock-like features, about Paul who, after the loss of his beloved Marie, slowly but...

Meyerbeer opera with Emmanuel Villaume conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro La Fenice di Venezia directed by Pier Lui.

Discover this rare Verdian jewel! Aroldo—one of the composer’s least performed works—premiered in 1857 in Rimini, Italy. The work...

At death’s door, a beloved king is doomed unless someone takes his place. So then his wife resolves to sacrifice herself to save him. ...

Among the greatest operas in Richard Strauss's oeuvre, "Der Rosenkavalier (The Cavalier of the Rose)" spins the tale of the Marschallin (Elizabeth...

American soprano Deborah Voigt takes the lead role in this production of Ponchielli's opera recorded live at Barcelona's Gran Teatre Del Liceu in...

Seeking revenge for her sister’s suicide, Violanta vows to have her seducer killed. As hatred turns to love, can they still escape the deadly...

Carl Maria von Weber's romantic opera staged at Teatro Lirico di Cagliari in 2002. Gérard Korsten leads the Orchestra and Chorus, with...