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Farinelli

Country: Italy, Language: Italian, 111 mins

  • Director: Gérard Corbiau
  • Writer: Marcel Beaulieu; Andrée Corbiau
  • Producer: Véra Belmont; Linda Gutenberg

CGiii Comment

Fact drowned and tarnished by fiction - this is a hatchet job.

Farinelli is given the rock star treatment - it's all very Ken Russell-ish without his humour.

Having said this, Farinelli is a superb production, lavish and opulent in talent.

Sit back and rejoice in the music and the staging - it is fantastic fiction.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Farinelli, is the artistic name of Carlo Broschi, a young singer in Handel's time. He was castrated in his childhood in order to preserve his voice. During his life he becomes to be a very famous opera singer, managed by his mediocre brother (Riccardo).

Cast & Characters

Stefano Dionisi as Carlo Broschi;
Enrico Lo Verso as Riccardo Broschi;
Elsa Zylberstein as Alexandra;
Jeroen Krabbe as George Frideric Handel;
Caroline Cellier as Margareth Hunter;
Renaud du Peloux de Saint Romain as Benedict;
Omero Antonutti as Nicola Porpora;
Marianne Basler as Countess Mauer;
Pier Paolo Capponi as Broschi;
Graham Valentine as Prince of Wales;
Jacques Boudet as Felipe V;
Delphine Zentout as Young admirer;
Richard Reeves;
Jonathan Fox;
Jo Betzing