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Article: `Farinelli' Is Incomplete
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 14, 1995
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FARINELLI (STAR) (STAR)
Farinelli; Carlo Broschi Stefano Dionisi
Riccardo Broschi Enrico Lo Verso
Alexandra Elso Zylberstein
Margaret Hunter Caroline Cellier
Directed by Gerard Corbiau. Produced by Vera Belmont, Linda
Gutenberg, Aldo Lado, Dominique Janne and Stephane Thenoz. Written
by Andree Corbiau. Running time: 110 minutes. Rated R (for
depiction of adult themes and sexuality). Opening today at the
Evanston, Pipers Alley and Wilmette theaters.
Ascending from above the stage on a chariot, wearing an elaborate
and vaguely Aztecan golden headdress, Farinelli caused women to swoon
as he sang operatic arias. He used handkerchiefs to wipe the sweat
from his brow, then ...
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