Basic Information
Year
:
1984
Duration
:
87
Distributor
:
EMI MUSIC SPAIN
Region
:
0
Video
:
Pal
4:3
Subtitles
:
English, German, French, Spanish
:
Interactive Menus, Chapter Selection, Interview with Daniel Schmid, Cast & Crew, Stills, DVD-Rom containing extensive notes and biographies, Bonus audio tracks of original 1948 recordings by Sara Scuderi
Disc Format: Single Sided Single Layer
Synopsis
Meet the inhabitants of the "Casa di Riposa" in Milan, the world’s first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896.
Swiss director Daniel Schmid has captured a world in which these wonderful singers (many of whom had significant careers on the opera stage) re-live and re-enact their triumphant roles of the glorious past.
"This is one of the most insightful, life-affirming, and just plain entertaining movies ever made on the subject of the old age, music, and the capacity of art to uplift ad sustain the human spirit" The Christian Science Monitor..