With little dialog and no narration. A compilation of ten short filmed opera arias, each with a different director, different actors, and different vocalists.

Publisher: New York, NY : Lightyear Entertainment : distr. by WarnerVision, c1996.

Format: VHS, Hi-fi, stereo. : 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.

Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1987.
Rated R.

Languages:

Contents: Un ballo in maschera / written and directed by Nicolas Roeg ; music by Giuseppe Verdi -- La virgine degli angeli / written and directed by Charles Sturridge ; music by Giuseppe Verdi -- Armide / images, Jean-Luc Godard musique, Jean-Baptise Lully -- Rigoletto / written and directed by Julien Temple ; music by Giuseppe Verdi -- Die tote Stadt / written and directed by Bruce Beresford ; music by Erich Korngold -- Les boreades / written and directed by Robert Altman ; music by Jean-Philippe Rameau -- Liebestod / written and directed by Franc Roddam ; music by Richard Wagner -- Nessun dorma / written and directed by Ken Russell ; music, Giacomo Puccini -- Depuis le jour / written and directed by Derek Jarman ; music by Gustave Charpentier -- I pagliacci / directed by Bill Bryden ; written by Bill Bryden and Don Boyd ; music by Ruggiero Leoncavallo.

Cast: Leontyne Price, Zeger Vandersteene, Robert Merrill, Carol Neblett, Jennifer Smith, Jussi Bjorling, Enrico Caruso ... [et al.]

Crew: Supervising co-ordinating editor, Marie Thérèse Boiché.

Contributors: Bill Bryden (Director), Bruce Beresford (Director), Carol Neblett (Performer), Charles Sturridge (Director), Derek Jarman (Director), Don Boyd (Producer), Enrico Caruso (Performer), Erich Wolfgang Korngold (Composer), Franc Roddam (Director), Giacomo Puccini (), Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Gustave Charpentier (Composer), Jean Baptiste Lully (Composer), Jean Luc Godard (Director), Jean Philippe Rameau (Composer), Jennifer Smith (Performer), Julien Temple (Director), Jussi Björling (Performer), Ken Russell (Director), Leontyne Price (Performer), Nicolas Roeg (Director), Richard Wagner (Composer), Robert Altman (Director), Robert Merrill (Performer), Ruggiero Leoncavallo (Composer), Zeger Bandersteene (Performer)

Subject(s):	Operas -- Excerpts.
	Feature films.