
Katia Ricciarelli
Actor · b. 1946 · Rovigo, Veneto, Italy
Catiuscia Maria Stella Ricciarelli (born 16 January 1946), known as Katia Ricciarelli, is an Italian soprano and actress. Born in Rovigo, Veneto, to a very poor family, she struggled during her younger years. She studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice, won several vocal competitions in 1968, and made her professional debut as Mimì in Puccini's La bohème in Mantua in 1969. She appeared as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore in Parma in 1970. In the following year, she won RAI's "Voci Verdiane" award. Between 1972 and 1975, engagements followed in the major European and American opera houses, including Lyric Opera of Chicago (1972); Teatro alla Scala (1973); Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (1974); and the Metropolitan Opera in 1975. In 1981, she began a decade-long association with the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, thus broadening her repertoire of Rossini's operas. Beside her many opera performances, she also appeared as Desdemona in Franco Zeffirelli's film version of Verdi's Otello in 1986, alongside Plácido Domingo. In 2005 she won the best actress prize Nastro d'Argento, awarded by the Italian film journalists, for her role in Pupi Avati's La seconda notte di nozze. In 1991 she founded Accademia Lirica di Katia Ricciarelli, and, since 2003, she has been Artistic Director of the annual summer Macerata Opera Festival. In 2006 she participated in the reality show La fattoria (Italian version of The Farm) on Canale 5. In 1986, on her 40th birthday, she married Pippo Baudo, a television personality; she filed for divorce in the summer of 2004. In 2021-2022 she participated in the reality show “Grande Fratello VIP” (Big Brother VIP 6), getting evicted after 165 days. Source: Article "Katia Ricciarelli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Movies13
Movie5.6ComedyDino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician; their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that belonged to a woman now dead.
La sedia della felicità
2014 · 105 votes
Movie5.4ComedyRomanceRacial integration is Elena's profession and passion, not only filling her working day as a cultural mediator assisting immigrants, but spilling over into her home life as well. All too often her husband Carlo must attend charity events where he feels distinctly out of place. During one of these evenings, Carlo meets Nadine, a beautiful black woman.
Movie6.2DramaMusicBased on Shakespeare's play, Verdi's opera depicts the devastating effects of jealousy, "...the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds upon". Believing Otello has promoted the fast-rising Cassio over himself, Iago plots to destroy both Cassio and Otello. Iago convinces the jealous Otello that his beautiful wife Desdemona is unfaithful, and that Cassio is her lover. Jealousy is followed by tragedy, then retribution, "Has Heaven no more thunderbolts?"
Otello
1986 · 11 votes
Movie6.2DramaWhen his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with him after World War II, a mentally-ill farmer who spends all his time destroying unexploded ordnance scattered across the countryside finds a new purpose in his lonely life.
Movie9.0MusicCarmen, presented in a production at the French Opera House.
Georges Bizet: Carmen
1980 · 1 votes
Movie5.6DramaComedyBologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.
Movie9.0MusicLive from the Metropolitan Opera, 14 February 1980. This version takes place in Boston rather than Sweden.
Un Ballo in Maschera
1980 · 1 votes
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Movie6.0DramaA widowed mother, tries desperately to get an entry into the ruthless world of professional football for her 12-yer-old son.
Movie2.0RomanceComedyIl ritmo della vita
2010 · 2 votes
Movie5.1DramaThrough five stories, the film talks about the problems related to social networks and its use especially by young people.
Infernet
2016 · 9 votes
MovieDramaTV MovieFive patients suffering from serious mental disorders, after therapy carried out at the mental health department, are entrusted to the care of Carmen who has the task of helping them resume a normal life and reintegrate into the social and working context. All of them go to live in the apartment where they are distrusted by their neighbours, intimidated by their strange habits. Only four of them will be able to regain possession of their lives, overcoming the dark tunnel into which their mind had fallen.
Movie9.0DramaMusicMaazel conducts this production from Vienna, starring Jose Carreras and Eva Marton.
Turandot
1983 · 1 votes
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TV6.3DramaComedyDon Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.
TVTalk Show
TV8.0Talk ShowNewsLe Grand Échiquier is a French variety television program created and presented by Jacques Chancel. It aired at 8:30 pm on the first channel of the ORTF from January 12, 1972 to July 12, 1972, then on the second color channel of the ORTF from September 1972 to December 1974, and finally on Antenne 2 from January 1975 to December 21, 1989. The program returned to France 2 on December 20, 2018 and is hosted by Anne-Sophie Lapix.
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · 3 votes
TV6.2CrimeComedyCarabinieri is an Italian television series that aired on Canale 5 from March 2002 to July 30, 2008. The series is an action thriller with added elements of comedy, and has been compared to the soap opera format. It told the story of the police barracks located in Città della Pieve.
Carabinieri
2002 · 15 votes
TV5.1MysteryAction & AdventureThe investigations and adventures of the Forestry Corps of San Candido.
TV5.3DramaCome una madre
2020 · 3 votes
TV6.8DramaThe story of the rise and fall of Toso, the leader of the criminal organization Mala del Brenta. A ruthless and cunning criminal who for two decades, through robberies, kidnappings, murders, trafficking in drugs and weapons, built an empire. Miniseries based on the autobiographical book by Felice Maniero.