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opera, claudio simonetti
€ 20.50

 
opera
(1987)


composer: claudio simonetti

label: simonetti music

AKA: Terror at Opera

soundtrack style: thriller crime mystery horror



   


tracks

01. Opera
02. Crows
03. Impending Danger
04. Steel Grave
05. Confusion
06. The Mask
07. Knight of the Night
08. The Cinema Show
09. Cosmo
10. Confusion (Reprise)
11. Opera (Original demo played on piano - 1987)
12. Crows (Simonetti Horror Project Version - 1990)
13. Days of Confusion (Simonetti Horror Project II version - 1991)
14. Confusion (Original demo played on piano - 1987)
15. Opera (Daemonia live at ProgWest Festival, Claremont, Los Angeles - Novembre 9th 2002)
16. Opera (Original Videoclip - 1989)

 
 
further information
Contains inedit alternate versions and video clips of the title-track "Opera"
 
description
Reprinted of the soundtrack composed by Claudio Simonetti to one of the most terrifying film of Dario Argento, with inedit alternate versions and video clips of the title-track "Opera"
A must for all fans of horror soundtracks and Goblin, the first historic band of Simonetti.
 
story

The polar-opposite worlds of opera and horror collide in this gory giallo film from director Dario Argento.
Christina Marsillach (Tom Hanks' romantic interest in Every Time We Say Goodbye) stars as Betty, a beautiful understudy who gets an unlikely break to play the female lead in a contemporary opera of Verdi's Macbeth.
Her fear of Macbeth's notorious curse proves to have foundation when a psychopath with a strange connection to Betty murders a stage hand in the midst of her debut and later kills several ravens being used in the opera.
Characters introduced at this point who could be the killer include:
the show's director, Marco (Ian Charleson); Betty's publicist, Mira (Daria Nicolodi); and the police inspector, Alan Santini (Urbano Barberini).
The middle third of the film is devoted to the killer's bloody work which serves to torment Betty.
The madman binds her and tapes a row of tiny needles beneath her eyes so that she is forced to watch him butcher a young stage manager and a costume designer, among others.
With the police investigation going nowhere and the killer zeroing in on Betty's death, Marco decides to enact his own plan to stop the madman;
he releases the ravens (apparently, they always remember their enemies) during a performance.
The birds circle wildly before attacking the killer and plucking one of his eyeballs out.
He absconds with Betty, but dies in a fire after revealing his demented motivation and his connection to the young singer.
A final scene set in the Swiss mountains provides a couple of final shocks.

Cast:
Urbano Barberini, Ian Charleson, Christina Marsillach, Daria Nicolodi, Antonella Vitale

Director:
Dario Argento

 

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