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- Adventurer sets out to save princess' father's kingdom.
- The life and passionate love of famous opera singer Maria Callas and Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis.
- An funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the famed italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, here portrayed in a wonderful way by famed actor and later director Sergio Castellitto.
- A TV socioplay with the advice of Malcolm Andrews (director of the Dickens Fellowship) that proposes to participants a multimedia play where the languages of theater, cinema, and video-jockey intertwine puppets and lyric music.
- Massimo is a young actor who is a spellbinding livewire on stage. A theatre director is moved by his talent and wants to do a play about him, to turn him into a great role to be interpreted by Massimo himself. But the actor's father informs the director of his son's strange decision to renounce conventional language in everyday life, and offers a possible explanation: a disillusionment in love. The mother agrees to compose the script, perhaps to bring her son back to an equality characterised by a verbal language that is understandable to all.
- The classic opera about falling into and out of love, friendship, and loss. Mimi and the poet Rudolfo, the painter Marcello and Musetta are the lovers; the musician Schaunard and philosopher Colline round out the set of friends living life rather close to the edge in Paris' Left Bank. The classic mix of comedy and tragedy has enchanted audiences ever since its premiere in 1896. Act I Christmas Eve finds the poet and painter freezing in their squalid attic apartment overlooking the rooftops of the Latin Quarter. They try keeping warm by burning the poet's unsold play manuscript. Colline, the philosopher enters, announcing that the apocalypse is on them because the pawn shops are closed. Just as the flames from the burning manuscript die completely, the musician Schaunard enters, bringing food, fuel for the fire, wine, and money for everybody -- he had a lucrative music lesson that apparently paid well. They resolve to drink at home, but eat out among the cafes and excitement of the Latin Quarter, when they are interrupted by a visit from the landlord. They manage to dodge paying the rent via a clever ruse, and then go down, leaving Rudolfo behind to finish up an article he's been writing. Enter Mimi, a neighbor from the floor below, who needs her candle relit. She seems ill and faints. Rudolfo falls in love with her right away, and the act ends with the two new lovers going to meet Rudolfo's friends. Act II at the Cafe Momus -- the friends reunite, and right away a second girlfriend (an ex girlfriend) enters with her new sugar daddy in tow. It's Musetta, Marcello's old flame, and there is a hilarious interplay as she insists that he can't live without her. She dumps the sugar daddy, adds the friends' cafe tab to her own for the old man to pay, and exits joyously with Marcello. Act III is maybe a month or two later. It's snowing at the gates of the city where there is an inn/alehouse off to one side. Mimi enters, coughing, obviously ill, looking for Marcello, who - with Musetta - is living at the inn. Mimi asks Marcello to help her -- Rudolfo has told her that he was finished with her -- she thinks he loves her, but he keeps pushing her away. He's actually inside the inn, and when he wakes up and looks for Marcello, Mimi hides and listens as Rudolfo confesses that yes, he loves Mimi, but is terribly afraid because he knows that she is sick and dying. Eventually, after he's spilled the whole thing unwittingly, he spots her and tries to comfort her while Marcello, hearing Musetta laughing, goes off in a jealous rage. Eventually, Mimi and Rudolfo patch things up temporarily, and Marcello and Musetta have a knock down dragout. Act IV back at the same squalid apartment. Rudolfo and Marcello are missing their girls, but perk up a bit when the other guys come back and begin some very funny horseplay. Right at the most riotous part, Musetta enters and tells them that Mimi is downstairs, barely able to walk. She's left her other boyfriend and want to return to Rudolfo, whom she truly loves. He gathers her up and comforts her -- Musetta and Marcello leave to get medicine and to sell some earrings to pay for a doctor, and Mimi tells Rudolfo, for the last time, that she will always love him. At the last, all the friends are there. Rudolfo gets up from Mimi's bedside to speak to Musetta and, while his back is turned, Mimi quietly dies. Schaunard notices it first, then later the rest of them. Rudolfo is the last to know. Heartbroken, he calls her name twice, and the curtain goes down on him weeping with her in his arms.
- A love story of a courtesan Violetta and a nobleman Alfredo.
- The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
- A journey into the Italian cultural heritage that starts from the compositional power of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca to get to the urban marginality of Pier Paolo Pasolini through a story that winds without a solution of continuity between quotes of toxic love of Claudio Caligari, Rome Momiticia of frontal assaults, Ariodante of Händel, up to the history of the demolition of Spina di Borgo recalled by the Street Art of Tor Marancia or even the affair of the redevelopment of the area of the ex Snia Sandro Pertini lake. In the background some of the most beautiful UNESCO heritage sites of Lazio, with Villa Adriana and Villa d'Este in Tivoli and the historic center of Rome, from the archaeological area of the Imperial Forums, to the Colosseum, Piazza Navona and Castel Sant'Angelo. "With Dreamland we started from Tosca by Giacomo Puccini - writes Gianluigi Toccafondo - a strong and intense work that tells the loves and pains of a woman. We tried to investigate the deepest meaning and we have caught a universal transformation message, redemption and Rinascita. A job was born that made us discover Rome, the scenario where our protagonist travels the streets of the past to re -emerge and walk towards the future: a city that expands in its suburbs with new inhabitants who retrace the same ancient dreams ".
- Tchaikovsky's classic ballet "The Nutcracker" is reinterpreted by Italian choreographer Giuliano Peparini, who combines the original darker E.T.A. Hoffman's story with a sweeter narrative of Dumas' novel.
- The Four Creative Geniuses of 'Parade' - Picasso, Cocteau, Massine and Satie - were the ideal team for bringing new vitality and authenticity to the world of ballet. The solo dancers and the Corps de Ballet of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma now revive the magic of the two ballets 'Parade' and 'Pulcinella'.
- Director, screenwriter and producer Sofia Coppola discusses how growing up on set and an early love of fashion influenced her award-winning films.