Based on the Academy Award-winning 1994 Italian film andthe 1985 novel Ardiente Paciencia by Antonio Skarmeta, Il Postino tells the story of a young postman who discovers the courage to pursue his ...

Never before at Opera Saratoga have all aspects of a production been so consistently strong and seamlessly integrated, as with Daniel Catán's "Il Postino," which opened Thursday night. With all ...

Virginia Opera is delivering a fresh package of firsts in its latest production: “Il Postino.” The 2010 opera that opens Friday will be the VOA’s first “From Screen to Stage” offering, in which it ...

EXCLUSIVE: Italian director Mario Martone, who has been on the festival and awards circuit over the past year with Oscar submission and Cannes title Nostalgia, is at the Berlinale with his passion ...

Take an inside look at the creative process behind producing Il Postino Take an inside look at the creative process behind the opera with footage of the cast and crew during an initial production ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Veteran auteur Mario Martone, whose Naples-set drama “Nostalgia” launched last year from Cannes, has quite a lot in common with ...

Tenor Placido Domingo will create the role of Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda in a new opera, “Il Postino,” by Mexican composer Daniel Catan, Los Angeles Opera company artistic director ...

After blowing a hole in the budget with a controversial Wagner “Ring” cycle in the midst of a sour economy, it would be understandable if the Los Angeles Opera reverted to a holding pattern of ...

The romantic story combines elements of Cyrano de Bergerac with details of the real life of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. The poet’s exile was in fact to nearby Argentina, but in this version, as in the ...

Two years after starring in its premiere in Los Angeles, Placido Domingo brought “Il Postino,” the opera about the great Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, to Neruda’s homeland. The opera by the late Daniel ...

The opera Il Postino (The Postman) focuses on Mario, a poor fisherman s son turned personal postman for Pablo Neruda, one of Chile s most famous and controversial poets. Neruda takes Mario under his ...