Argento's first large-scale choral work, if one discounts The Masque of Angels ( parts of which, such as the " Gloria " and " Sanctus ", are frequently excerpted ), is The Revelation of St. John the Divine ( 1968 ), which sets portions of the Book of Revelation and is scored for male chorus, brass, and an array of percussion instruments.

He was also expected to tour several Italian cities during the 2008 – 09 winter season in another Noël Coward play, Private Lives ( performed in Italian, which he speaks fluently ), playing Elyot to Italian actress Asia Argento's Amanda.

" The film was written by Carpenter and Debra Hill with Carpenter admitting that the music was inspired by both Dario Argento's Suspiria ( which also influenced the films surreal color scheme ) and William Friedkin's The Exorcist.

Phenomena also showed Argento's predilection for using new technology, as evidenced by the film's several prowling Steadicam shots.

Argento's father died during its production, Vanessa Redgrave quit the project before filming began, he had problems working with his former long-time girlfriend and collaborator Daria Nicolodi on-set and the cast and crew were plagued by several minor accidents and mishaps.

His 1996 film The Stendhal Syndrome, in which a policewoman ( played by Argento's daughter, Asia ) who suffers from Stendhal syndrome is trapped by a serial killer in an abandoned warehouse, was the first Italian film to use computer-generated imagery ( CGI ).

2004's The Card Player, a giallo about a killer whose murders are conducted during Internet poker matches with the Rome police, earned a mixed reception: some fans appreciated the techno music score composed by ex-Goblin member Claudio Simonetti, but felt the film was too mainstream, with little of Argento's usual flourish.

2005 saw the TV broadcast of Argento's Do You Like Hitchcock ?, in which the director paid homage to Alfred Hitchcock after decades of being compared to him by critics.

A recent book by James Gracey, simply titled Dario Argento, provides fresh critical analysis and an exploration of Argento's far-reaching impact on modern horror cinema and popular culture.

Starting with 1996's The Stendhal Syndrome, Argento's films have been generally poorly received by critics.

Fulci wrote a plot synopsis and a screenplay for Argento and thought that he was slated to direct the film as well, but he died before filming could begin ( due to a series of delays caused by Argento's involvement with his own film, The Stendhal Syndrome, at the time ).

* Dominic Argento's Te Deum and Missa " Cum Jubilo " by Maurice Duruflé ( with Rodney Gilfry as baritone soloist and Frederick Swann on organ ( RCM )

Pitt next appeared in Asia Argento's The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, and headlined Gus Van Sant's Last Days, playing a rock star " inspired " by Nirvana frontman, Kurt Cobain.

Charleson's other feature film roles are: punk-era Angel in his film debut Jubilee ( 1977 ) directed by Derek Jarman ; Lt. Ryder in the Golden Bear-winning " Irish question " film Ascendancy ( 1982 ), which starred Julie Covington ; a small role as the abusive drunk Jeffson Brown in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan ( 1984 ); a comedic turn as Gerald Spong in the rather ill-fated Car Trouble ( 1985 ), opposite his friend Julie Walters ; and opera director Marco in Dario Argento's horror film Opera ( 1987 ).

Argento's other song cycles include A Water Bird Talk, which combines Chekov's one-act monodrama " On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco " with passages from Audubon's Birds of America ; The Andrée Expedition, which includes journal entries by Salomon Andrée during his ill-fated attempt to travel to the North Pole by balloon ; and Miss Manners on Music ( 1998 ), which sets newspaper clippings by columnist Judith Martin ( aka " Miss Manners ").

A Toccata of Galuppi's ( 1989 ), a 20-minute setting of a Robert Browning poem, is one of many works inspired by Argento's time in Florence.

They remain notable in part for their expressive use of music, most notably by Dario Argento's collaborations with Ennio Morricone and his musical director Bruno Nicolai, and later with the band Goblin.

He was one of the founders of the Center Opera Company ( now the Minnesota Opera ), and indeed Newsweek once referred to the Twin Cities as " Argento's town.

Ratcatchers also make a major appearance in Dario Argento's The Phantom of the Opera.

She appeared in Other People's Money with Gregory Peck ( 1991 ), and in horror maestro Dario Argento's first American film Trauma ( 1993 ).

English sound designer, writer and musician Heather Emmett published Sounds to Die For: Speaking the Language of Horror Film Sound, which includes the first in-depth study of the use of sound in Argento's films.

Notable film roles include Apocalypse Now as Engineman 3rd Class " Chef " Hicks, The Conversation, Valley Girl, Promise Him Anything ( TV ), One from the Heart, The Stone Boy, The Missouri Breaks, The Deliberate Stranger ( TV ), and horror maestro Dario Argento's first American film Trauma.

On March 4, 2011, it was announced that Hauer would play vampire hunter Van Helsing in legendary horror director Dario Argento's Dracula 3D.

Emerson provided music for a number of films since 1980, including Dario Argento's Inferno and World of Horror, the 1981 thriller Nighthawks and, more recently, Godzilla: Final Wars.

Argento's next movie was Suspiria ( 1977 ), a violent supernatural thriller.

Udo Kier, who appeared in Argento's Suspiria, and Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, who appeared in three of his previous films, both have pivotal roles in the final Mothers chapter.

On 4 March 2011, it was announced that Rutger Hauer had signed on to play Van Helsing in Argento's Dracula 3D, which was scheduled to begin shooting in Budapest later in the year.

In Dario Argento's Phenomena ( 1985 ), the protagonist, Jennifer Corvino ( Jennifer Connelly ), witnesses a murder while sleepwalking.

Suspiria has become one of Argento's most successful feature films, receiving critical acclaim for its visual and stylistic flair, use of vibrant colors and its soundtrack.

Goblin had previously scored Argento's earlier film Deep Red as well as several subsequent films following Suspiria.

More recently, Saxon may be best known as a supporting player in horror films, most notably Bob Clark's Black Christmas ( 1974 ) as the relatively smart leader of a bunch of dumb cops ; in Dario Argento's Tenebrae ( 1982 ) as the writer hero's shifty agent ; in Mitchell ( 1975 ) as the murderous union lawyer and prostitute provider Walter Deaney ; in Battle Beyond the Stars ( 1980 ) as Sador ; in Cannibal Apocalypse ( 1980 ) where he played a Vietnam veteran tormented because his worthless pal bit him and years later, he is starting to get the urge to do the same ; in Prisoners of the Lost Universe as a alternate-universe warlord, and in Wes Craven's A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 ) as the heroine's ( Nancy Thompson's ) father.

Some elements from the mystery's plot were referenced in Dario Argento's giallo comeback movie Sleepless ( called Non ho sonno in Italy ), which featured killings referencing a nursery rhyme.

She originated the role of " Tina " in Dallas Opera's world premiere production of Argento's The Aspern Papers in 1988.

Among his most prominent pieces are the operas Postcard from Morocco, Miss Havisham's Fire, and The Masque of Angels, as well as the song cycles Six Elizabethan Songs and From the Diary of Virginia Woolf ; the latter earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1975.

Argento composed the short opera The Masque of Angels for the occasion as the first Performing Arts commission of the Walker Art Center, and the work – with its complex harmonic language and an emphasis on expansive choral writing that prefigures his later role as a prominent choral composer – firmly established his local prominence, as well as providing a role for his wife.

He then collaborated with John Olon-Scrymgeour on a number of works, including The Masque of Angels ; Christopher Sly ( 1962 ), based on an episode from The Taming of the Shrew ; and The Shoemaker's Holiday, ( 1967 ) a " ballad opera " based on a play by Thomas Dekker.

* The Masque of Flowers ( performed by Gray's Inn before the King at Whitehall to honour the marriage of the Earl of Somerset to Frances Howard, Countess of Essex ) ( 1614 )

The most famous royal visit occurred in 1624, when Ben Jonson's The Masque of Owls at Kenilworth was performed for Charles.

In The Vision of the Twelve Goddesses of 1604, she played Pallas Athena, wearing a tunic that some observers regarded as too short ; in The Masque of Blackness of 1605, Anne performed while six months pregnant, she and her ladies causing scandal by appearing with their skin painted as " blackamores.

A 1611 date is suggested by an apparent connection with Ben Jonson's Masque of Oberon, performed at Court 1 January 1611, in which appears a dance of ten or twelve satyrs ; The Winter's Tale includes a dance of twelve satyrs, and the servant announcing their entry says " one three of them, by their own report, sir, hath danc'd before the King.

* May 5-Within a few days of John Dryden's death ( May 1 ), his last written work, The Secular Masque, is performed as part of Vanbrugh's version of The Pilgrim.

* Peter Anthony Motteux, The Masque of Acis and Galatea, performed c. March

* January 10 – Ben Jonson's The Masque of Beauty is performed by Queen Anne and her retinue at the Banqueting House, Whitehall, a sequel to The Masque of Blackness.

** The Masque of Beauty performed, and published with The Masque of Blackness

As a measure of Heywood's popular standing in the final years of his life, Love's Mistress or the Queen's Masque, a play published in 1636, but performed since 1634, was reported to have been seen by King Charles I and his queen three times in eight days.

Chapman wrote one of the most successful masques of the Jacobean era, The Memorable Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn, performed on 15 February 1613.

* January 6-Lord Hay's Masque is performed at Whitehall Palace, with music by Thomas Campion and other composers.

Smith composed two large choral works with soloists: an operetta, Gisela of Rüdesheim which was performed in 1865 at the Fitzwilliam Music Society, Cambridge, and The Masque of Pandora ( 1875 ), for which the orchestration was never completed.