Pier Luigi Pizzi Movies

Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship.

Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in...

The ironic study of a young man's poignant adventures and sensual adventures...based on "Roman Tales" by Alberto Moravia.

Bob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is taking on him!

A well known actor comes to off-season Capri to unwind and meets a young man. The attraction is immediate and mutual but before their relationship...

A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces...

A humble Milanese window-cleaner with dreams of magazine and TV fame accuses himself of the murder of a soprano from La Scala.

1943. The affair between Anna, unhappily married to wheelchair-bound Pino, and deserter Franco unfolds in foggy Ferrara, intertwining with the power...

Documentary

George Frideric Handel was one of those rare composers who excelled in both sacred, secular, instrumental and operatic music, leaving us...

An inhabitant of the Moon, crashed on the Earth due to the violent shock caused by an atomic experiment, remains amazed by the discovery of this...

Carl Maria von Weber's romantic opera staged at Teatro Lirico di Cagliari in 2002. Gérard Korsten leads the Orchestra and Chorus, with...

Maometto II (or Maometto secondo) is an 1820 opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Cesare della Valle. Set in the 1470s...

From the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

A staging of Britten's opera filmed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in June 2008.

For those with any interest in Vivaldi's operas Orlando Furioso is essential viewing, being a 1989 San Francisco Opera revival by Pier Luigi Pizzi of...

"Die tote Stadt" is a psychologically layered drama with Hitchcock-like features, about Paul who, after the loss of his beloved Marie, slowly but...

Discover this rare Verdian jewel! Aroldo—one of the composer’s least performed works—premiered in 1857 in Rimini, Italy. The work...