''Rossini'' is a 1942 Italian
musical
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Musical may also refer to:
* Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance
* Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narr ...
drama film
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directed by
Mario Bonnard
Mario Bonnard (24 December 1889 – 22 March 1965) was an Italian actor and film director.
Bonnard was born and died in Rome. He began his cinematic career as an actor becoming a popular romantic lead in numerous silent films made before World ...
and starring
Nino Besozzi
Nino Besozzi (6 February 1901 – 2 February 1971) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1931 and 1970. He was born in and died in Milan, Italy.
Partial filmography
* ''The Private Secretary'' (1931) - Il ban ...
,
Paola Barbara
Paola Barbara (22 July 1912 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1935 and 1978. She was sometimes credited as Pauline Baards.
Life and career
Born in Rome as Paola Proto, after her fi ...
,
Camillo Pilotto
Camillo Pilotto (6 February 1888 Birth name: Camillo Raul Vittorio Pilotto. – 27 May 1963) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 101 films between 1916 and 1963. He was born and died in Rome, Italy.
Selected filmography
* ''The Song ...
,
Armando Falconi and
Greta Gonda
Greta Gonda (1917–1974) was an Austrian stage and film actress who emigrated to Italy where she worked as a leading lady.Gundle p. 267 She was born in Margarethe Tomicek Mondschein in Vienna, but left for Italy in the mid-1930s. In later life G ...
. It depicts adult life events of Italian composer
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards f ...
.
It was shot at the
Pisorno Studios The Tirrenia Studios (also known at one point as the Pisorno Studios) are a film studio complex located in the Italian coastal town of Tirrenia in Tuscany. The studios were constructed between 1933-1934 and intended, along with the Fert Studios in T ...
in
Tirrenia
Tirrenia is a frazione (parish) of Pisa, Italy with a population of 3,112 inhabitants. Immersed in the pine forest of the "Litorale Pisano" and in the coast of Ligurian Sea (even if the name of the village refers to Tyrrhenian Sea, in Italian ''M ...
. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
Piero Filippone
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Selected filmography
* '' Three Cornered H ...
.
Plot
Cast
*
Nino Besozzi
Nino Besozzi (6 February 1901 – 2 February 1971) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1931 and 1970. He was born in and died in Milan, Italy.
Partial filmography
* ''The Private Secretary'' (1931) - Il ban ...
as
Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards f ...
*
Paola Barbara
Paola Barbara (22 July 1912 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1935 and 1978. She was sometimes credited as Pauline Baards.
Life and career
Born in Rome as Paola Proto, after her fi ...
as
Isabella Colbran
Isabella Angela Colbran (2 February 1785 – 7 October 1845) was a Spanish opera soprano and composer. She was known as the muse and first wife of composer Gioachino Rossini.
Early years
Colbran was born in Madrid, Spain, to Giovanni Colbran ...
*
Camillo Pilotto
Camillo Pilotto (6 February 1888 Birth name: Camillo Raul Vittorio Pilotto. – 27 May 1963) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 101 films between 1916 and 1963. He was born and died in Rome, Italy.
Selected filmography
* ''The Song ...
as
Domenico Barbaja
Domenico Barbaia (also spelled Barbaja; 10 August 1777 – 19 October 1841) was best known as an opera Italian impresario.
An energetic man, Barbaia, who was born in Milan, began his career by running a coffee shop. He made his first fortune by ...
*
Armando Falconi as
Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies
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*
Greta Gonda
Greta Gonda (1917–1974) was an Austrian stage and film actress who emigrated to Italy where she worked as a leading lady.Gundle p. 267 She was born in Margarethe Tomicek Mondschein in Vienna, but left for Italy in the mid-1930s. In later life G ...
as Teresa Coralli
*
Memo Benassi
Domenico "Memo" Benassi (21 June 1886 – 24 February 1957) was an Italian film actor who appeared in more than forty films in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He played the composer Beethoven in the 1942 film '' Rossini''.Mathew & Walt ...
as
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...
*
Cesare Fantoni
Cesare Fantoni (1 January 1905 – 15 January 1963) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Bologna, Fantoni began his acting career in Luchino Visconti’s stage proses until making his first on-screen appearance in 1937. ...
as
Niccolò Paganini
Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (; 27 October 178227 May 1840) was an Italian violinist and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. His 24 Caprices f ...
*
Edoardo Toniolo
Edoardo Toniolo (22 November 1907 - 31 December 1986) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Life and career
Born in Turin, the son of the stage actors Antonio and Rosa Rosaz, at young age Toniolo debuted on stage in supporting roles. He late ...
as Rossini's and Paganini's Friend
*
Paolo Stoppa
Paolo Stoppa Knight Grand Cross (6 June 1906 – 1 May 1988) was an Italian actor.
Biography
Born in Rome, he began as a stage actor in 1927 in the theater in Rome and began acting in films in 1932. As a stage actor, his most celebrated ...
as
Andrea Leone Tottola
Andrea Leone Tottola (died 15 September 1831) was a prolific Italian librettist, best known for his work with Gaetano Donizetti and Gioachino Rossini.
It is not known when or where he was born. He became the official poet to the royal theatres ...
*
Gildo Bocci
Gildo Bocci (1 September 1886 – 22 July 1964) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1913 and 1959. He was born and died in Rome, Italy.
Partial filmography
* ''Messalina'' (1924) - Apollonio
* ''Quo Vadis'' (1924) - ...
as Duke Sforza-Cesarini
*
Lamberto Picasso
Lamberto Picasso (21 October 1880 – 17 September 1962) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1914 and 1953.
Selected filmography
* ''The Naked Truth'' (1914)
* ''The Doctor's Secret'' (1931)
* ''Paradise'' (1932)
* ' ...
as Col. Negri
*
Giacomo Moschini as Duke Carafa
*
Gilda Marchiò
Gilda Marchiò (1884–1954) was an Italian theatre actress.Bassnett & Lorch p.86 She also appeared in a number of films in the 1940s, her performances including a small role in the 1942 propaganda film ''Odessa in Flames''.
Selected filmography ...
as Anna Guidarini, Rossini's Mother
*
Massimo Pianforini
Massimo Pianforini (1890–1966) was an Italian film and television actor.Kinnard & Crnkovich p.64
Selected filmography
* '' Doctor Antonio'' (1937)
* '' For Men Only'' (1938)
* ''The Count of Brechard'' (1938)
* '' The Knight of San Marco'' (19 ...
as Professor Carpassi
*
Romolo Costa
Romolo Costa (26 February 1897 - 1 January 1965) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Costa appeared in more than seventy films and television series between 1934 and 1964 and he was a character actor who generally appeared in support ...
as Austrian Prince
* Vera Ruberti as Viennese Noblewoman
* Franco Rondinella as Don Raffaele
*
Oreste Fares
Oreste Fares (1885–1950) was an Italian stage and film actor.Landy p.155
Selected filmography
* '' Before the Jury'' (1931)
* ''Venus'' (1932)
* '' Villafranca'' (1934)
* '' Red Passport'' (1935)
* '' Cavalry'' (1936)
* '' To Live'' (1937)
* '' ...
as
Giovanni Paisiello
Giovanni Paisiello (or Paesiello; 9 May 1740 – 5 June 1816) was an Italian composer of the Classical era, and was the most popular opera composer of the late 1700s. His operatic style influenced Mozart and Rossini.
Life
Paisiello was born in T ...
*
Diana Dei
Diana Dei (born Agnese Mancinelli, 1 March 1914[Oreste Bilancia
Oreste Bilancia (24 September 1881 – 31 October 1945) was an Italian film actor.
Born in Catania, Sicily he was a star of Italian films in the silent era. He worked during the 1920s in Weimar Germany which had the largest European film indust ...](_b ...<br></span></div> as The Woman under the Rain
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as Her Husband
* Anna Maria Dionisi as Colbran's Maid
References
Bibliography
* Nicholas Mathew & Benjamin Walton. ''The Invention of Beethoven and Rossini: Historiography, Analysis, Criticism''. Cambridge University Press, 7 Nov 2013.
External links
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1940s musical drama films
Italian musical drama films
Films directed by Mario Bonnard
Films about classical music and musicians
Films about composers
Italian biographical drama films
Gioachino Rossini
1940s biographical films
Italian black-and-white films
1940s historical musical films
Italian historical musical films
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