Metro Cinema Society: Edmonton Opera Film Series

Edmonton Opera Film Series

Edmonton Opera presents a film series that explores and relates thematically to its 2012/13 season of productions. Beginning our season with one of the grandest of all grand opera’s, Verdi’s Aida will transform you through an inspired tale of ancient Egypt and forbidden love.

Opera: Cleopatra

Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz

UK 1963, 192 min, Digital

Sep 26 (2012) @ 7pm

Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor) attempts to secure her power as Queen of Egypt by charming Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) and Mark Antony (Richard Burton) with whom she has a stormy love affair, but Egypt is finally integrated into the Roman Empire...... view more

Opera: Amarcord

Director: Federico Fellini

Italy/France 1973, 123 min, Digital

Jan 9 @ 7pm

Fellini delighted audiences with this funny and affectionate fantasy vision of his boyhood, the fourth of the legendary director’s works to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film.... Amarcord (the title is Romagnese dialect for “I remember”) is set... view more

Opera: Doctor Zhivago

Director: David Lean

USA/ Italy 1965, 197 min, Digital

Mar 27 @ 7pm

With Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin wrapping up the 2012/13 season, Edmonton Opera is excited to screen _Doctor Zhivago_ as part of the EO Film Series. Both the opera and the film tell stories of drama, beauty, romantic obsession and regrets that... view more