First Night ( Cosi (Sizzle) ) ( 1st Night )

First Night (DVD) (*)

$29.99

Original Title: Cosi (Sizzle)
Alternate Title: 1st Night
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
112 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Christopher Menaul

Written By:
Christopher Menaul
Jeremy Sams

Actors:
Peter Basham ..... Biker
Sarah Brightman ..... Celia
Edyta Budnik ..... Bertha
Oliver Dimsdale ..... Phillip
Susannah Fielding ..... Debbie
Richard E. Grant ..... Adam
Jane How ..... Audrey
Magdalena Kurek ..... Gosha
Nigel Lindsay ..... Martin
Mía Maestro ..... Nicoletta
Julian Ovenden ..... Tom
Tessa Peake-Jones ..... Mrs Hammond
Laura Power ..... Stella
Hugh Ross ..... Bunny
Stanley Townsend ..... Paolo Prodi

Synopsis:

Adam (Richard E. Grant) is a rich industrialist and frustrated opera singer aspiring to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he's just a City suit living a capitalist dream he decides to stage an opera in his lavish country retreat. He feels sure the shallow taunting will end once his friends see him in full voice. In fact his singing might even help him win the hand of Celia (Sarah Brightman) the female conductor he's been pursuing, especially since she is the first to be recruited for his showpiece.

A cast of young opera singers are gathered together at the country house by rich industrialist Adam (Richard E Grant), himself a frustrated opera singer who wants to take the opportunity to sing the part of Don Alfonso. The singers are under the operatic direction of Celia (Sarah Brightman), who Adam is secretly in love with. What follows is a series of romantic - and sometimes mildly comic - dalliances and misunderstandings between the remainder of the young cast of singers (headed by Mia Maestro and Julian Ovenden) that contrasts with the tangled plottings of Cosi Fan Tutte. The opera's themes of love, jealousy and mistaken identity are repeated in real life, with new relationships forged and established ones tested.

A lush operatic romp set against the elegant backdrop of a stunning Scottish country house, First Night is an engagingly breezy romantic comedy- drama as a group of singers gather to rehearse a performance of Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte and where life - just for a while - starts to imitate art.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 14 October, 2012.