L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI
Gioachino Rossini
Gran Teatre del Liceu,
Barcelona
Opera Film
March 30th
7:00pm
Tickets are $20
L’italiana in Algeri espouses the cause of women's rights through the resourceful way its protagonist, Isabella, deals with the coarse Mustafà. Rossini was only 21 when he triumphed with this two-act farce, which consolidated his personal style and his status as the rightful heir of 18th-century opera buffa.
Conductor:
Ricardo Frizza
Director:
Vittorio Borrelli
Starring:
Luca Pisaroni,
Varduhi Abrahamyan,
Sara Blanch,
Lidia Vinyes-Curtis
Running Time: 180 Minutes
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DON GIOVANNI
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Teatro La Fenice,
Venice
Opera Film
April 20th
7:00pm
Tickets are $20
Don Giovanni is based on the legends of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on 29 October 1787.
Conductor:
Stefano Montanari
Director:
Damiano Michieletto
Starring:
LAlessandro Luongo,
Attila Jun,
Antonio Poli,
Francesca Dotto
Running Time: 170 Minutes
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WOMAN AT WAR
Foreign Film
April 27th
4pm and 7pm
Tickets are $10
Halla is a fifty-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Known to others only by her alias “The Woman of the Mountain,” Halla secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminum industry.
Directed by
Benedikt Erlingsson
Screened in partnership with
International Film Showcase
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A KID
Foreign Film
May 11th
4pm and 7pm
Tickets are $10
Matthieu, a 33 year old Parisian finds out that the father he never knew has died and decides to go to his funeral in order to meet his two siblings in Quebec. But once in Montréal, he realizes that nobody is aware of his existence or even interested in it. He is alone, in hostile territory…Filled with secrets.
Directed by
Philippe Lioret
Screened in partnership with
Alliance Française Napa Valley
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