LA PIETRA DEL PARAGONE (The Touchstone) concerns the Count Asdrubale who is wealthy and therefore of great interest to many women – notably Aspasia, Fulvia, and Clarice. Only Clarice, however, loves him for something other than his riches. There are also male hangers-on: the corrupt journalist Macrobio, the poetaster Pacuvio, and Giocondo, who is Asdrubale's true friend, but who has his own eyes on Clarice. To test his friends and would-be fiancées, Asdrubale pretends that he has been bankrupted. Sure enough, only Clarice and Giocondo stand by him, and when his fortune is "miraculously" saved, the three have the last laugh on everyone else... or do they? This production is set in what looks like the early 1960s. But the real innovation is the use of blue screen technology: using tiny cameras and sets, along gigantic screens hanging over the stage, a kind of video mixing makes the singers appear to inhabit any number of fanciful settings and perform a myriad of improbable actions.
Sonia Prina
La marquesa Clarice
Jennifer Holloway
La baronessa Aspasia
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October 2, 2007
2h 41m
8.0
Philippe Béziat
Luigi Romanelli
1
Naive Film
SE
Les Films du Point du Jour
N/A
Unitel Classics
N/A
Laura Giordano
Donna Fulvia
François Lis
Il conte Asdrubale
José Manuel Zapata
Il cavalier Giocondo
Joan Martín-Royo
Macrobio
Christian Senn
Pacuvio
Filippo Polinelli
Fabrizio
Jean-Christophe Spinosi
Self - Conductor
Gioachino Rossini
Self - Composer
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