Movies: Maurizio Lo Piccolo

There's an uncompromising clarity to Blu-ray audio and video that really does bring the splendour of grand opera right into the living room. So it's all the more frustrating to get a compromised production as the final product. Jules Massenet's 1894 ...

In Bergamo Harlequin woos Annunziata and to get rid of her husband Ser Matteo invents an invasion of the city by disguising himself as a captain to enlist him. Colombina, Harlequin's neglected wife, yields to Leandro who woos her......

Pulcinella finds himself in New York and not Naples: from stockbroker to semi-naked banker in the midst of Wall Street. Actualization of Igor Stravinsky's ballet composed as a tribute to Italian music....