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Opera is a 1987
Italian films of 1987
A list of films produced in Italy in 1987 :-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...

 Italian
Cinema of Italy
The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.-Early years:...

 giallo
Giallo
Giallo is an Italian 20th century genre of literature and film, which in Italian indicates crime fiction and mystery. In the English language it refers to a genre similar to the French fantastique genre and includes elements of horror fiction and eroticism...

 film written and directed by Dario Argento
Dario Argento
Dario Argento is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror and slasher movies....

. The film stars Cristina Marsillach
Cristina Marsillach
Cristina Marsillach is a Spanish actress.She was born in Madrid and is the daughter of Adolfo Marsillach and sister of Blanca Marsillach, also a Spanish actress....

, Urbano Barberini
Urbano Barberini
Urbano Barberini is an Italian actor fluent in Italian and French. His most recognized role in the English-speaking countries was in his work in Dario Argento's film Opera though in the English dubbing, his voice was replaced with a more masculine actor's voice...

, and Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson
Ian Charleson was a Scottish stage and film actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell, in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. He is also well known for his portrayal of Rev...

. Cinematography is done by Ronnie Taylor
Ronnie Taylor
Ronnie Taylor is a British Cinematographer, who has collaborated with directors Richard Attenborough and Dario Argento. He was born in Hampstead, London and joined the film business at nineteen. He first worked for Gainsborough Studios at Lime Grove in Shepherds Bush. This studio was later taken...

 while Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

 and Claudio Simonetti
Claudio Simonetti
Claudio Simonetti is an Italian composer who has specialized in the scores for Italian and American horror films since the 1970s.- Biography :...

 composed the film's score. The film was released in the United States under the title Terror at the Opera. The film was one of Argento's most commercially successful films having 1,363,912 cinema goers in his native country Italy.

Plot synopsis

Argento's 1987 follow-up to Phenomena centers around a young, insecure opera singer named Betty (Cristina Marsillach). After the lead in Verdis's Macbeth is injured in an auto accident, Betty is reluctently thrust into the role in the opera. During her first performance, a murder takes place in one of the opera boxes. Mysterious murders continue throughout the film as Betty is stalked and those around her meet their unfortunate end. The killer binds and places tape under Betty's eyelids with needles attached so she is unable to blink, and therefore forced to watch as the murders take place. Meanwhile, Betty continues to have frightening dreams involving a masked person and her mother. During the final performance of the opera the killer is revealed, and Betty must confront her past in a terrifying climax.

Cast

  • Cristina Marsillach
    Cristina Marsillach
    Cristina Marsillach is a Spanish actress.She was born in Madrid and is the daughter of Adolfo Marsillach and sister of Blanca Marsillach, also a Spanish actress....

     as Betty
  • Ian Charleson
    Ian Charleson
    Ian Charleson was a Scottish stage and film actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell, in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. He is also well known for his portrayal of Rev...

     as Marco
  • Urbano Barberini
    Urbano Barberini
    Urbano Barberini is an Italian actor fluent in Italian and French. His most recognized role in the English-speaking countries was in his work in Dario Argento's film Opera though in the English dubbing, his voice was replaced with a more masculine actor's voice...

     as Inspector Alan Santini
  • Daria Nicolodi
    Daria Nicolodi
    Daria Nicolodi is an Italian actress and screenwriter.- Early life and career :Daria Nicolodi was born in Florence on June 19, 1950. Her father was a Florentine lawyer and her mother, Fulvia, was a scholar of ancient languages. Her maternal grandfather was composer Alfredo Casella...

     as Mira
  • Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni
    Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni
    Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni is an American actress, musician, and artist.-Early life:She was born in Manhattan; she and her parents moved to Rome, Italy when she was four years old...

     as Giulia
  • Antonella Vitale as Marion
  • William McNamara
    William McNamara
    William West McNamara is an American actor.-Early life:Born in Dallas, Texas, McNamara is the son of a professional race car driver for the Ford Motor Company and an interior designer. He attended Columbia University and studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute...

     as Stefano
  • Barbara Cupisti
    Barbara Cupisti
    Barbara Cupisti used to be an Italian television and film actress who is well known outside of her native country by Horror fans. They will most likely recognize her from her films with director Michele Soavi.Since 2002 she started to direct....

     as Signora Albertini

Soundtrack

  • "White Dakeness",
    "Balance",
    "From the Beginning"

by Brian Eno
Brian Eno
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

 and Roger Eno
Roger Eno
Roger Eugene Eno was born in Woodbridge, England in 1959. He is known primarily as an ambient composer.He began euphonium lessons at twelve and at sixteen entered Colchester College to study music...


By Arrangement with Opal Ltd, London
  • "Opera",
    "Craws",
    "Confusion"

by Claudio Simonetti
Claudio Simonetti
Claudio Simonetti is an Italian composer who has specialized in the scores for Italian and American horror films since the 1970s.- Biography :...


By Arrangement with BMG Ariola-Walkman SRL
  • "Opera Theme",
    "Black Notes"

by Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman
Bill Wyman is an English musician best known as the bass guitarist for the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from 1962 until 1992. Since 1997, he has recorded and toured with his own band, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings...

 and Terry Taylor
By Arrangement with Ripple Music Ltd.
  • "Knights of the Night",
    "Steel Grave"

by The Group Steel Grave
By Arrangement with Franton Music/Walkman SRL
  • "No Escape"

by The Group Norden Light
By Arrangement with Sonet
  • "Lady Macbeth ("Vieni t'afretti")

from opera "Macbeth
Macbeth (opera)
Macbeth is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on Shakespeare's play of the same name...

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Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...


Performed by Maria Callas
Maria Callas
Maria Callas was an American-born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique, a wide-ranging voice and great dramatic gifts...


By Arrangement with Fonit Cetra
  • "Casta Diva"

from "Norma
Norma (opera)
Norma is a tragedia lirica or opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after Norma, ossia L'infanticidio by Alexandre Soumet. First produced at La Scala on December 26, 1831, it is generally regarded as an example of the supreme height of the bel canto tradition...

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Composed by Vincenzo Bellini
Vincenzo Bellini
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...


Performed by Maria Callas
By Arrangement with Fonit Cetra
  • "Amami Alfredo",
    "Sempre libera"

from "La Traviata
La traviata
La traviata is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La dame aux Camélias , a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils. The title La traviata means literally The Fallen Woman, or perhaps more figuratively, The Woman...

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Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
Performed by Maria Callas
By Arrangement with Fonit Cetra
  • "Un bel dì vedremo"

from "Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly
Madama Butterfly is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Puccini based his opera in part on the short story "Madame Butterfly" by John Luther Long, which was dramatized by David Belasco...

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Composed by Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...


Performed by Mirella Freni
Mirella Freni
Mirella Freni, birth name Mirella Fregni, is an Italian opera soprano whose repertoire includes Verdi, Puccini, Mozart and Tchaikovsky...


By Arrangement with PolyGram (as Poligram)
  • "Macbeth"

(excerpt)
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
Performed by Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz
Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz
Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz is a Norwegian/Italian operatic soprano.-Career:Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz is the daughter of the Norwegian architectural historian and theorist, Christian Norberg-Schulz , and the Italian translator and writer Anna Maria de Dominicis...

(as Elisabetta Norberg Schulz) soprano, Paola Leolini Soprano,
Andrea Piccinni (as Andrea Piccini) Tenor, Michele Pertusi Baritone, with "Arturo Toscanini" Symphonic Orchestra of Emilia and Romagna
Recorded at the Elite Studio of Sermide (MN)
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