- published: 24 May 2013
- views: 742305
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoaˈkiːno anˈtɔːnjo rosˈsiːni] (Giovacchino Antonio Rossini in the baptismal certificate) (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. His best-known operas include the Italian comedies Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and La Cenerentola and the French-language epics Moïse et Pharaon and Guillaume Tell (William Tell). A tendency for inspired, song-like melodies is evident throughout his scores, which led to the nickname "The Italian Mozart". Until his retirement in 1829, Rossini had been the most popular opera composer in history.
Gioachino Antonio Rossini was born into a family of musicians in Pesaro, a town on the Adriatic coast of Italy which was then part of the Papal States. His father, Giuseppe, was a horn player and inspector of slaughterhouses. His mother, Anna, was a singer and a baker's daughter. Rossini's parents began his musical training early, and by the age of six he was playing the triangle in his father's musical group.
Actors: Ryan Rapsys (composer), Paul Cram (actor), Tony D. Czech (actor), Tony Papenfuss (actor), Kareem Wazwaz (actor), Masha Petrenko (actress), Steve Erik Larson (director), Daniel Jay Salmen (actor), Steve Erik Larson (writer), Brent Doyle (actor), Michael Tezla (actor), Daniel J. Geiger (editor), Nathan Christopher (actor), Julie Kaupa (producer), Dan Hopman (actor),
Plot: Drama based upon events that took place on a desolate Navy radio base on Kodiak Island, Alaska in 1962. It recounts the terror faced by young sailors at the hand of a fellow sailor and psychopath - framed against a backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Keywords: bare-chested-male, cuban-missile-crisis, man-wearing-towel, year-1962Actors: Paul Cram (actor), Tony D. Czech (actor), Paul Hartwig (composer), Tony Papenfuss (actor), Kareem Wazwaz (actor), Molly Worre (miscellaneous crew), Daniel Jay Salmen (actor), Steve Erik Larson (writer), Steve Erik Larson (director), Brent Doyle (actor), Nick Lauren (actor), Michael Tezla (actor), Nathan Christopher (actor), Julie Kaupa (producer), Ted Hall (actor),
Plot: "Holiday Beach" is a feature film inspired by true events that took place on a desolate Navy radio base on Kodiak Island, Alaska in 1962. It recounts the terror faced by young sailors at the hand of a fellow sailor and psychopath - framed against a backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Genres: History,Actors: Antonio Abujamra (actor), Kika Lopes (costume designer), Leonardo Vieira (actor), Araci Esteves (actress), Roberto Birindelli (actor), Sirmar Antunes (actor), Miguel Ramos (actor), Samara Felippo (actress), Alexandre Paternost (actor), Henrique de Freitas Lima (director), Mariangela Grando (producer), Luiz Antônio de Assis Brasil (writer), Naiara Harri (actress), Fernando Mattos (composer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Nicola Piovani (composer), François Cluzet (actor), Pierfrancesco Favino (actor), Giancarlo Giannini (actor), Margherita Buy (actress), Christian Gasc (costume designer), Isabella Ferrari (actress), Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre (producer), Teresa Saponangelo (actress), Maryline Monthieux (editor), Juliette Caron (miscellaneous crew), Nae Caranfil (writer), Nae Caranfil (director), Rosanna Seregni (producer), Gianni Fantoni (actor),
Plot: This movie depicts the two years that young Stendhal spent in Italy. Stendhal, that time still known simply as Henri Beyle, is living the life of a wanderer, looking for a direction in his life, meeting famous Rossini and falling in love with young widow Giuseppina. A story of love, betrayal and an analysis of women and men's minds and souls.
Keywords: based-on-bookActors: Kenneth Colley (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Ken Russell (writer), Ken Russell (director), Ringo Starr (actor), Ann Skinner (miscellaneous crew), David Puttnam (producer), Murray Melvin (actor), Rick Wakeman (actor), Rick Wakeman (composer), Roger Daltrey (actor), Oliver Reed (actor), Stuart Baird (editor), Andrew Faulds (actor), Paul Nicholas (actor),
Plot: A send-up of the bawdy life of Romantic composer/piano virtuoso Franz Liszt, with ubiquitous phallic imagery and a good portion of the film devoted to Liszt's "friendship" with fellow composer Richard Wagner. The film begins during the time when Franz would give piano performance to a crowd of shrieking teenage fans while maintaining affairs with his (multiple!) mistresses. He eventually seeks Princess Carolyne of St. Petersburg (at her invitation), elopes, and, after their marriage is forbidden by the Pope, he embraces the monastic life as an abbé.
Keywords: absurdism, anachronism, art-vs-politics, belch, blessing, bondage, candle, cape, castle, castrationActors: Ciro Berardi (actor), Mario Camerini (writer), Vittorio Nino Novarese (writer), Ivo Perilli (writer), Ivo Perilli (writer), Turi Vasile (writer), Alessandro Cicognini (composer), Mario Camerini (director), Andrea Checchi (actor), Vittorio Duse (actor), Enrico Luzi (actor), Carlo Ninchi (actor), Piero Pastore (actor), Otello Toso (actor), Clara Calamai (actress),
Genres: Drama, War,Actors: Marcel Lévesque (actor), Jean Cocteau (actor), Mona Goya (actress), Jacques Castelot (actor), Suzy Prim (actress), Sacha Guitry (writer), Jeanne Fusier-Gir (actress), André Carnège (actor), Jean Debucourt (actor), Robert Favart (actor), Jacques Varennes (actor), Sacha Guitry (actor), Henry Houry (actor), Sacha Guitry (director), Louis Beydts (composer),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Musical,Actors: Irving Asher (producer), Jack Lambert (actor), Brock Williams (writer), Amy Veness (actress), Gordon McLeod (actor), Bruce Lester (actor), J.O.C. Orton (writer), Athole Stewart (actor), Arthur B. Woods (director), Sharon Lynn (actress), Ian McLean (actor), Vera Bogetti (actress), John Meehan Jr. (writer), Kenneth Leslie-Smith (composer), Keith Falkner (actor),
Genres: Musical, Romance,Actors: Felix Aylmer (actor), Edmund Breon (actor), Donald Calthrop (actor), Edward Chapman (actor), Peter Gawthorne (actor), Phillips Holmes (actor), Arnold Pressburger (producer), Walter Reisch (writer), Emlyn Williams (writer), Gerdago (costume designer), Carmine Gallone (director), Fernando Tropea (editor), Benita Hume (actress), Mártha Eggerth (actress), Basil Gill (actor),
Genres: Musical,Actors: Frederic Zelnik (director), Lya Mara (actress), Dagny Servaes (actress), Fanny Carlsen (writer), Willy Schmidt-Gentner (composer), Alfred Abel (actor), Eugen Burg (actor), Wilhelm Diegelmann (actor), Karl Etlinger (actor), Rudolf Klein-Rogge (actor), Eugen Klöpfer (actor), Harry Liedtke (actor), Hermann Picha (actor), Karl Platen (actor), Ernö Verebes (actor),
Genres: ,I got a girl she likes classical
She likes Beethoven and don't we all
I've tried to tell her to teach her
to turn her on to Rossini
With a bang and a boom
and catchy little tune by Rossini
We're music lovers well that's what they say
But we're different in many ways
Now there's Nigel, he likes classical
He plays the fiddle and don't we all
I've tried to tell him to teach him
to turn him on to Rossini