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Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.



Stefano Dionisi
Carlo Broschi (Farinelli)

Enrico Lo Verso
Riccardo Broschi

Elsa Zylberstein
Alexandra

Jeroen Krabbé
George Frideric Handel

Caroline Cellier
Margareth Hunter

Marianne Basler
Countess Mauer

Jacques Boudet
Felipe V
Graham Valentine
Prince of Wales

Pier Paolo Capponi
Broschi
Renaud du Peloux de Saint Romain
Benedict Hunter
Farinelli is a history, drama, music film released in 1994 exploring themes of opera, sibling relationship, eunuch, biography, dresden, germany, opera singer. Directed by Gérard Corbiau, it stars Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo Verso, Elsa Zylberstein. The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.
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