Barbarella is marked by the same audacity and originality fantasy humor beauty and horror cruelty and eroticism that make comic books such a favorite. The setting is the planet Lythion in the year 40 000 when Barbarella (Jane Fonda) makes a forced landing while traveling through space. She acts like a female James Bond vanquishing evil in the forms of robots and monsters. She also rewards in an uninhibited manner the handsome men who assist her in the adventure. Whether she is
Victor is trying to escape his life as a drug dealer in the South Bronx. Enter Jack a Wall Street investment banker with a business proposal that has Victor's name written all over it.
This sparkling production continues the Rossini one-act opera series emerging from the Schwetzingen Festival with excellent direction acting and stagecraft.This production of La cambiale di matrimonio represented yet another piece de resistance that sets a standard in musical buffoonery for the other all too rare productions in this genre.Recorded live at the Rococo Theatre Schwetzingen May 1989.
Recorded at the Schwetziner Festspiele in 1995.
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