Katia Ricciarelli: My Favourite Opera (DVD)

a film by Allan Miller "My Favourite Opera" portraits the Italian star soprano Katia Ricciarelli. Katia Ricciarelli is best known for her roles in Rossini, Verdi and Puccini Operas but also appeared as Desdemona in Franco Zeffirelli's film version of Verdi's Otello and won the best actress prize Nastro d'Argento, for her role in Pupi Avati's La seconda notte de nozze. This documentary from 1991 shows Katia Ricciarelli in private moments and rehearsing her favourite opera I Capuleti e i Montecchi from Vincenzo Bellini. With superb photography from the Teatro la Fenice in Venice.