Semiramide
Semiramide

Semiramide

8.0

3 hr 39 min

1990-12-22

1

In ancient Babylon, SEMIRAMIDE (Anderson) encourages her lover Assur (Ramey) to murder her husband, King Ninus. Her son, Ninius, disappears, believed dead, and Semiramide rules in her own right. 15 years later, as the opera opens, she is about to announce the name of her successor. Idreno (Olsen) and Assur are the leading candidates for the throne and the hand of Princess Azema (Shin), but Semiramide has taken a fancy to young Arsace (Horne), her victorious military leader who has been summoned back to Babylon. Only the high priest Oroe (Cheek) knows that Arsace is actually Ninius, spirited away to safety after the coup. As the queen announces Arsace as her successor, the ghost of her husband appears from his tomb, demanding that Arsace punish the late king’s murderers... Filmed at New York's Metropolitan Opera, John Copley's production of Rossini's last, longest and most elaborate dramatic opera brings together what many consider the definitive contemporary cast.

Drama

Music

Trailers

Characters

June Anderson

June Anderson

Semiramide

Marilyn Horne

Marilyn Horne

Arsace

Samuel Ramey

Samuel Ramey

Assur

Stanford Olsen

Stanford Olsen

Idreno

Young-Ok Shin

Young-Ok Shin

Azema

John Cheek

John Cheek

Oroe

Similar Movies

Narc

2002-01-14

The Postman Always Rings Twice

1981-03-20

The Big Easy

1986-11-27

Fly Away Home

1996-09-13

Cosi Fan Tutte

1989-07-04

Our Own

2020-03-13

House of Sand and Fog

2003-12-19

The Knock Out Cop

1973-10-25

Lili Elbe

2023-12-08

Tess

1979-10-06

Clean, Shaven

1995-04-14

The Illusionist

2006-08-18

Rope

1948-02-01

Lemming

2005-05-11

Mississippi Burning

1988-12-08

Scarface

1932-04-09

Dead Man

1995-12-23

Misericordia

2024-10-16

The Devil's Rejects

2005-07-22

Monsieur Hawarden

1968-04-01