Olivia Hussey, who dazzled moviegoers as the female star of Franco Zeffirelli's 1969 fabled adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, ...

The raising of Lazarus, Jesus’ greatest miracle, is the subject of Jesuit priest James Martin’s 2023 book “Come Forth.” As a child, Martin watched Franco Zeffirelli’s miniseries “Jesus of ...

Franco Zeffirelli was to be the director, and although he had produced opera, he had never directed a Shakespeare play before. Franco didn’t reckon the poetry of it—he had no interest in the ...

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From the earliest UK TV broadcast of the play produced by Franco Zeffirelli. Dame Maggie's 1967 portrayal of the playful debutante Beatrice in the cheerful Much Ado About Nothing is thought to be ...

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Franco Zeffirelli’s dazzling production of Puccini’s final masterpiece, which also features tenors Roberto Aronica and Marco Berti as Calàf ...