Land Great Britain
Year 1987
Director Nicolas Roeg
Cinematography Harvey
Harrison
Editing Tony Lawson
Music Giuseppe Verdi
("Un Ballo in Maschera", performed by Leontyne Price),
Carlo Bergonzi, Robert Merrill, Shirley Verrett, Reri Grist
Production designer
Diana Johnstone
Starring Theresa Russell
Producer Don Boyd
Production Boyd's Co. Films Productions Ltd./RVP Productions/Virgin Vision
Length 98 min. (in total)
Format 35 mm, colour and
black & white
"In ARIA, ten film directors have used the powerful combination of moving
pictures and opera music to express themselves personally. To envelop and
link these 'movie poems', which contain, in cinematic form, much of the
heightened drama associated with the opera house, we have also told the
simple story of a
singer who decides to immerse himself in the preperation of one last great
performance in a wonderful old Italian theatre; a performance he dedicates to
a beautiful
young girl" (Don Boyd).
Nicolas Roeg