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The 51st Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago opened with a new production of an opera that is perhaps the composer‘s most underestimated work: “La Fanciulla del West” – often dismissed as a mere „western opera“. The musical director was Alberto Veronesi, artistic director of the festival. Ivan Stefanutti was the stage director, with spectacular sets by American painter Nall and an all-star cast including Daniela Dessì and Fabio Armiliato (the singers are regarded as two of the leading interpreters of Italian soprano and tenor roles) and the baritone Lucio Gallo.

Lineup: Avishai Cohen Trio Avishai Cohen, bass; Shai Maestro, piano Mark Guiliana, drums Bohuslän Big Band Tracklist: Madrid (A Cohen/J Borgström) Shuffle (A Cohen/S Maestro) Song For My Brother (A Cohen/C Olofsson) Handsonit (A Cohen/N Rydh) To the Bird (A Cohen), text Chaim Bialik Shalom (A Cohen) Remembering (A Cohen)

A Donatello award nominated short film about how being at the birth of a child decreases physical desire afterwards.

Eight hundred and fifty images from the film Accattone by Pier Paolo Pasolini, repainted and redrawn, the requiem of Pasolini's film which ends up coinciding with the ninth movement of Mozart's Requiem

Marseille, boulevard d'Athènes, 26 April 2006. Lisbon, S.Mamede, 19 October 2007. Madrid, calle de Atocha, 13 May 2008. Three glances from hotel room windows, three days of unknown passers-by: the street and the bars, meetings and loneliness, loves and missed appointments.

After twenty years in exile, poet Mimmo returns to his hometown Palermo, Sicily.

L'amore e basta looks at the relationships of nine gay and lesbian couples. How can one love, today? The answers given by Stefano Consiglio and the couples he met in four European countries are scandalously normal, simple like the feelings of a group of children who open this story of many voices. Can homosexual love be lived in the harmony, clarity, contradictions, passions and duration that have always been common models in speaking of feelings? The incredible naturalness of the subjects in the film is powerful and destined to leave an impression on our reflections. As are the shame of marginalization, fear and diffidence of which Aldo Nove speaks in the brief novella that precedes the life stories that weave the plot, in between the explosions of color of Ursula Ferrara’s animated designs.

They are the only two survivors of an plane crash; two more different people you couldn’t imagine; an Italian Frenchman who’s always rushing about, always angry and who’s made a lot of money in his life and left his ideals by the wayside, together with a Japanese cook, who’s calm, relaxed and an aesthete. They find themselves abandoned in a desolate land and without help and so they’re forced to live together and confront, but above all battle with hunger which brings them face to face with extreme situations. And it’s from this experience that their lives radically change, especially the man who was frenetic and angry.

Alan Curtis and his renowned Il Complesso Barocco ensemble present Vivaldi's groundbreaking opera about the mythical hero Hercules and his quest to retrieve the sword of Antiope, queen of the Amazons. Mary-Ellen Nesi stars as the ferocious warrior queen, and Zachary Stains is the beleaguered Hercules, trying to appease the gods for killing his own children in a fit of rage. Laura Cherici, Luca Dordolo and Randall Scotting co-star.

In Rigoletto, the deformed figure of the hunchbacked jester at the Mantuan court acts as a foil to his cynical and powerful master, an unscrupulous philanderer contrasted with his cruel and unforgiving fool. Rigoletto encourages and welcomes the Duke's conquests, pitilessly mocking his victims until he discovers that the Duke has abducted the one person he genuinely loves, his own daughter. As a result, the character of the court jester is transformed into a tragic figure who, in spite of his evident immorality and malice, allows us to sense the devotion he feels for his daughter and his horror at being destroyed by the same despotic world as that which he himself has helped to create.

La cambiale di matrimonio (The Bill of Marriage or The Marriage Contract) is a one-act operatic farsa comica by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. The libretto was based on the play by Camillo Federici (1791) and a previous libretto by Giuseppe Checcherini for Carlo Coccia's 1807 opera, Il matrimonio per lettera di cambio. The opera debuted on 3 November 1810 at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice Composed in a few days when he was 18 years old, La cambiale di matrimonio was Rossini's first professional opera. The overture, written when he was a student at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna, is an important part of the modern concert repertoire. As was to become typical of his later career, the duet "Dunque io son" was later reused, to greater effect, in act 1 of The Barber of Seville

Live performance at Opernhaus Zürich in 2006. Nello Santi conducting Orchester der Oper Zürich and Chor der Oper Zürich. Directed for the stage by Gilbert Deflo.

In Genoa, Anna Merisi, the wife of the unconventional professor of the local university Paolo Merisi, decides to hire a babysitter for their son because she wants to work again to help to pay for their bills. Meanwhile, the deranged Caterina, who has just left a clinic, gets the Merisi family address and lies telling that she was sent by the agency. When Paolo sees her, he recalls that Caterina was his former student and they had an affair two years ago, but his wife is very connected to Caterina and he has no chance to fire her. When Caterina jeopardizes his marriage and his family, Paolo discloses his past to Anna. But Caterina does not want to give up on Paolo.

A nightmare. The blood. The awakening. Giona does not know who is the mysterious masked figure who seems to know each corner of his personality. Why are his friends dying one by one?

The protagonist is immersed in reading Alice in Wonderland when suddenly a girl "from the eyes of dreams and illusion" appears at the window asking for help.

The cities of the magic triangle, Turin, Prague and Lyon, are the backdrop to this work dedicated to the mysterious figure of the Golem. The mythical statue-automaton, animated by the power of the magic words of Rabbi Judah Loew, wanders through the night in search of its creator.

In 1955 Buenos Aires, a broke theater troupe turns to scamming funerals for survival. Their big break comes with a wealthy embalmer's inheritance, but the lead actor's immersion in a female role triggers an unexpected identity crisis.

Every day 500 high-tech fishing boats enter Senegalese waters and catch whatever they can find. Every day 15,000 Senegalese wooden pirogues go out to sea and search for what is left to feed 600,000 people. All this is done under agreements between the European Union and the countries West Africa.

Documentary about the making of the European version of George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead".

The story of Cheyenne Daprà, a shepherdess, and her daily work over four days, one for each season.

Four friends play soccer on the street. Suddenly the ball falls inside "Evil Grandma's" house.

Buenos Aires. When Monica and Mirna meet by chance, nothing will ever be the same again. However, their relationship is hindered by the fact that Mirna has to leave, to follow a deep calling to a lost place in her past. To the Andes.

A family of cowboys, holding out in a hut under siege by the Sheriff's men, must face the assault of a mysterious presence during the night.

Between 1983 and 1987, Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso and the home city of FESPACO, one of the most important Pan-African film festivals in the world, was the scene of an exciting cinema utopia. With the support of the young president Thomas Sankara, the festival became a symbol of the cultural renaissance of a whole continent. The assassination of Sankara stifled the hopes of millions of young Africans, but the dynamism of FESPACO and African cinema did not stop.

Recording of the Italian opera "Le Nozze di Figaro" ("The Weddings of Figaro") with José Fardilha as Figaro, Rossana Potenza as Sussana and Madelyn Renée Monti as La Contessa di Almaviva, among others. Performed in Rome in 2002 with the direction of Enrico Castiglioni and conducted by Maurizio Picconi.

The film tells the true story of a poor peasant woman in the 1600s who lived in an isolated cave in the Val di Non. Accused of witchcraft by the townspeople, the woman is taken to Palazzo Nero, where under torture she admits her guilt and implicates her accusers in revenge for their wickedness. Condemned to death, she refuses to repent, and for this reason is burnt at the stake in the town’s square.

Since the fearful King Richard left his kingdom in the lurch and fled, the gloomy Zabu master Magnus and the evil witch Grimmalda have been the new rulers of Funny Castle. But it cannot stay that way: a new, brave king must be found! The most daring knights prepare with their squires for the great adventure in Funny Castle - the crown will belong to the most daring. But before the new lord of the castle can move in, all the residents of Funny Castle have to endure many exciting adventures.

The actors of Avanzi reunite after 15 years in Su Pallosu, a small village in Sardinia. They have decided to put together a show to support the cause of the local fishermen who are having great difficulty because of fish depopulation.

Delirium is the first movie of the "Delirium Cycle". One of the most popular movie by FS. Obsessions, delusions, hate, hopelessness, humiliation and death in an experimental film signed FS. Reviewed in the Italian journal's cult 'Nocturno'. The location (Torre di Cerrano, near Pescara, Italy) is the same of 'Nelle Pieghe Della Carne' (aka 'In the folds of the flesh', 1970) cult movie by Sergio Bergonzelli.

The psychiatrist Laura Correnti collaborates with the police. At the center of the meticulous investigations are heinous crimes and brutal serial killers. The protagonist will find herself facing danger multiple times, putting her own life and the lives of those around her at risk

Seen from the outside, it’s an old arch-windowed house overlooking a field isolated from the center of the village. But the rooms of this dark haven of demons hide unimaginable secrets. It was within those very four walls that an artist ordained to Lucifer killed himself with a razor blade in the winter of 1931. Many occultists maintain that his ghost still wanders like a shadowy agent of evil, desecrating the bodies of those who come too close to his hypnotic, diabolical allure...

This Italian documentary, produced by satellite TV Jimmy and filmed in New York City in 2000, explores the story of Troma Film, the oldest independent production house still in existence. Inspired by Lloyd Kaufman’s book “All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger,” the documentary features Kaufman narrating the origins and future of his sexy/horror/exploitation films with surreal humour. It delves into the unique genesis and production methods of Troma’s movies, showcasing the vibrant world of Tromettes, eccentric actors, fan enthusiasm, and the distinctive Troma style.

On the occasion of the Neapolitan exhibition dedicated this year to Luca Giordano, a great painter active in the '600 in Naples, the short film alternates the details of the many paintings exhibited at Castel Sant'elmo with some fragments of the contemporary city: from the Cathedral to the convent of San Gregorio Armeno, from the churches of Santa Brigida, Dell'ascissione, Santa Maria alla Sanit`, Santa Teresa a Chiaia up to the Pio Monte della Misericordia and the Fontanelle cemetery.