Prima Donna (1959)
- Directed by
- Alan Burke
- Country
- Australia
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A singer navigates the pressures of putting on an opera performance. The story focuses on the emotional highs and lows of preparing for the show.
theatricalmelodramaticoperaticformalstagednostalgicmusicalbittersweet
What happens
Prima Donna is a 1959 television play broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It was an adaptation of an opera by Arthur Benjamin and was directed by Alan Burke. It was the first of several operas Burke would direct. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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