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Young Toscanini is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Franco Zeffirelli with C. Thomas Howell

Young Toscanini (1988)

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Young Toscanini
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Young Toscanini is a 1988 Italian-French English-language biographical film directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring C. Thomas Howell and Elizabeth Taylor. It charts the early career and romances of the conductor Arturo Toscanini in Rio de Janeiro in 1886.

Synopsis

1886. Le jeune Arturo Toscanini, violoncelliste de Parme, auditionne à la Scala de Milan. Mais le jury ne s'intéresse guère à son talent et le renvoie. Furieux, Toscanini est approché par un impresario témoin de l'altercation, Claudio Rossi, qui lui propose de venir au Brésil afin de participer à la première locale de l'opéra Aïda. Egalement pianiste de formation, Toscanini connaît déjà un immense répertoire et accompagne les chanteurs de la troupe au piano. Sur le bateau, après avoir pris froid lors d'une tempête, il fait la connaissance de Sœur Margherita, qui fait partie d'une mission de religieuses en partance pour l'Amérique latine.

Actors

C. Thomas Howell

(Arturo Toscanini)
Elizabeth Taylor

(Nadina Bulichoff)
Sophie Ward

(Schwester Margherita)
Philippe Noiret

(Dom Pedro II.)
Franco Nero

(Claudio Toscanini)
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