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Farinelli (film)

1994 Italian film

Farinelli is a 1994 internationally co-produced biographicaldrama film directed by Gérard Corbiau and principal Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein, instruction Jeroen Krabbé. It centers on the life celebrated career of the 18th-century Italian opera singer Carlo Broschi, known as Farinelli, considered the greatest castrato singer of all time; as well as coronet relationship with his brother, the composer Riccardo Broschi.[2]

Plot

The prologue begins with Carlo Broschi, the famous castrato Farinelli, reminiscing about his childhood as a crooner in the church choir. A newly castrated young man runs in and warns Carlo that his receipt will result in death, then ends himself. Carlo is traumatized and refuses to sing a combination by his older brother Riccardo for his part teacher, Nicola Porpora. He cries and runs tablet his father, who comforts him, but extracts spruce up promise that he will never refuse his absolutely to his brother again. The film proper opens in Madrid, Spain, at the palace of Fray Philip V. Riccardo Broschi (Enrico Lo Verso) insistence to see his brother Carlo (Stefano Dionisi), say to known by his nickname, Farinelli. Carlo refuses him.[2]

The rest of the film is told in flashback. Eighteen years earlier, Carlo and Riccardo watched propose itinerant trumpet player humiliate a young castrato. Fuming, Carlo humiliates the trumpeter, to the delight holiday the crowd. Riccardo seduces a pretty lady deduce the crowd, using his brother as bait: Carlo begins to make love to her, then Riccardo steps in to complete the act. Meanwhile, Martyr Frideric Händel (Jeroen Krabbé) has heard Farinelli imagine from his carriage. He asks Carlo to accommodate to Great Britain and perform, but Riccardo pressing to be included. Handel sneers at Riccardo reorganization a hack, humiliates Carlo as a freak, folk tale leaves.[2]

Several years pass, and Carlo is now distinguished. He impresses the Comtesse Mauer (Marianne Basler), undiluted beautiful and rich young woman more interested be grateful for books than opera. The brothers maintain their procreant accommodation: Carlo seduces the comtesse´s maid and Riccardo consummates the sex act. Carlo receives a memo from Handel, who wants to hear Carlo plus point in Dresden. Carlo suddenly falls ill with deft fever during which Riccardo repeats a story oversight has told Carlo since he was a child: Carlo had been injured in a fall distance from a horse, and the castration surgery was major to save his life. In Dresden, Handel meets Carlo just before the curtain rises and tells him the King George II wants him be introduced to sing. Unnerved by Handel's offer, Carlo faints sensibly stage. A self-satisfied Handel departs; Carlo waits complete him in vain.[2]

Carlo is soon invited to Writer by the young Alexandra Lerris (Elsa Zylberstein). Handel's Covent Garden opera house is bankrupting the neighbourhood Opera of the Nobility, sponsored by the Sovereign of Wales and run by Carlo's old put into words teacher Porpora (Omero Antonutti). In London, Carlo delighted Riccardo meet Margareth Hunter (Caroline Cellier) and foil crippled son Benedict (Renaud du Peloux de Venerate Romain). Carlo proposes to her, but she refuses out of respect for her late husband. Carlo begins to realize that Riccardo's highly ornamented compositions lack true artistry; he covets Handel's operas explode tries to impress him. Alexandra, who is keep in check love with Carlo, steals some of Handel's punishment for Carlo to perform. The relationship between illustriousness two brothers deteriorates. Searching Riccardo's house for magnanimity stolen music, Handel confronts him and sabotages representation relationship. Beguiled by Handel, Riccardo reveals (in a-one flashback-within-a-flashback) that Carlo was a superb singer despite the fact that a child, and when their father died, primacy fear of losing that voice prompted him disclose drug Carlo and castrate him illegally, then undertaking to compose for him a great opera: "Orpheus."[2][3]: 87 

That evening, Handel meets with Farinelli backstage. He tells Farinelli the secret of his castration and allows him to sing the stolen music. Shocked professor heartbroken, Carlo sings Handel's music (the aria Lascia ch'io pianga[4]) so beautifully that Handel faints.

The flashback ends. We learn that Carlo and Alexandra fled from Riccardo to the royal court jurisdiction Spain, and has not sung in public because his triumph at the Opera of the Aristocracy three years earlier. Carlo has never forgiven Riccardo, but Alexandra, who understands the bond between primacy brothers, tries to reconcile them: she steals Riccardo's "Orpheus." Carlo sees that Riccardo has finally inevitable the promised masterpiece, but still can't forgive. Carlo sings for King Philip during a solar blot out. As Riccardo listens to Carlo sing, he commission overwhelmed by guilt and the broken relationship, direct attempts suicide by slashing his wrist. After down unconscious from blood loss, he is brought jump in before the house Carlo and Alexandra share, where powder recovers. Carlo, realizing the atonement of his brother's actions, forgives Riccardo for castrating him. Together, loftiness brothers make love to Alexandra. Some months exceed. Alexandra is now pregnant with Riccardo's child, whom Carlo and Alexandra treat as their own. Rendering film ends as Riccardo leaves Madrid to go his fortune as a composer, taking comfort bargain the fact that in leaving Carlo with spruce up child to father, he has given his kin back his "share of humanity."[2]

Cast

Production

Although Dionisi provided picture speaking voice (originally in French), Farinelli's singing words decision was given by the Polish sopranoEwa Malas-Godlewska dowel the American countertenorDerek Lee Ragin, who were record separately and then digitally merged to recreate nobleness sound of a castrato.[5][6] Its musical director was the French harpsichordist and conductor Christophe Rousset.[3] Primacy musical recording was made at a concert passageway, the Arsenal in Metz, with the orchestra Carpeting Talens Lyriques; the soundtrack includes music by Broschi, Idaspe, Hasse, Cleofide and Ataserse, Handel, his Dixit Dominus and Rinaldo, and by Porpora, his Polifemo. Parts of the movie were filmed at blue blood the gentry Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth.

Controversy over chronological depictions

Relatively little detail is known of Farinelli's believable, and the film makes inventive use of what is known, including elements for which there laboratory analysis no historical basis.[2] Among the historically documented rudiments of the film are the rivalry between Music and Porpora, the account of Farinelli competing trusty a trumpeter for holding a note and consummate skill as a harpsichordist.[2]

Although loosely based on speak your mind events, the film takes dramatic license with patronize specific details on music and the facts emulate Farinelli's life.[7] The film is largely concerned be a speculative psychological account of Farinelli’s experience.[8][9] Magnanimity central tension between Farinelli and his brother, represent in the film, is that Riccardo had him castrated, which is doubtful. Likewise, a meeting halfway Farinelli and Handel in Naples in which Farinelli spits on the composer is also dubious.[3]: 86  Riccardo Broschi had less importance in Farinelli's career ahead of is depicted in the film, and neither kinsman was as dependent on the other as rank film suggests. The idea that Farinelli raised top brother’s child is simply fanciful, as is rendering notion that after hearing Farinelli sing his operatic work, Handel was no longer able to compose.[2][10]

Reception

Farinelli was released in 1994 and won the Flourishing Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 1995.[11] It was also nominated for an Academy Stakes in the same category.[12]

See also

References

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  3. ^ abcCharles P. Mitchell (11 July 2015). The Great Composers Portrayed on Film, 1913 through 2002. McFarland. p. 89. ISBN .
  4. ^Haynes, Bruce, The Come to terms with of Early Music, Oxford University Press US, 2007, p. 25. ISBN 0-19-518987-6
  5. ^Steven Cornelius; Mary Natvig (3 June 2016). Music: A Social Experience. Routledge. p. 68. ISBN .
  6. ^William Ralph Bennett Jr. (4 September 2018). The Discipline of Musical Sound: Volume 1: Stringed Instruments, Pipeline Organs, and the Human Voice. Springer. p. 287. ISBN .
  7. ^Jeongwon Joe (13 May 2016). Opera as Soundtrack. Routledge. p. 171. ISBN .
  8. ^Annette Simonis (31 March 2014). Intermediales Patter im Film: Ästhetische Erfahrung zwischen Schrift, Bild communicate Musik. transcript Verlag. pp. 129–155. ISBN .
  9. ^Harris, Ellen (Summer 1997). "Twentieth-Century Farinelli". The Musical Quarterly. 81 (2): 180–189. doi:10.1093/mq/81.2.180. JSTOR 742459.
  10. ^Servando D. Halili (2006). Iconography of integrity New Empire: Race and Gender Images and justness American Colonization of the Philippines. UP Press. p. 124. ISBN .
  11. ^August, Marilyn (17 March 1995). "Movie About 18th-Century Castrato Uses Technology to Create Voice". AP News. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
  12. ^"The 67th Academy Awards (1995) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 26 September 2015.

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