Her international breakthrough came at Glyndebourne, where she sang as Adina in Franco Zeffirelli's staging of Donizetti's L ' elisir d ' amore ; in the Glyndebourne 1960-62 season she sang the Mozart comic roles of Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro and Zerlina in Don Giovanni.

From then until about 1975, when Dolby Stereo was used for the first time in films, most motion pictures — even some from which stereophonic soundtrack albums were made, such as Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet — were still released in monaural sound, stereo being reserved almost exclusively for expensive musicals such as West Side Story, My Fair Lady, or Camelot ; epics such as Ben-Hur or Cleopatra ; or dramas with a strong reliance on sound effects or music, such as The Graduate, with its Simon and Garfunkel score.

He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for the first two films of Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, receiving the Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Godfather Part II ( 1974 ).

The most notable theatrical releases were George Cukor's multi-Oscar-nominated 1936 production, Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version, and Baz Luhrmann's 1996 MTV-inspired Romeo + Juliet.

Stephen Orgel describes Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 Romeo and Juliet as being " full of beautiful young people, and the camera, and the lush technicolour, make the most of their sexual energy and good looks.

", part of Rota's score for Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet.

Olivia Hussey ( born 17 April 1951 ) is an Argentinian actress who became famous for her role as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Academy Award-winning 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet, winning a Golden Globe as well as the David di Donatello for best actress.

Chosen out of 500 actresses, she appeared in her first starring role, as Juliet in Zeffirelli's 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet, opposite Leonard Whiting's Romeo.

His first film role was as Benvolio in Franco Zeffirelli's film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet ( 1968 ).

** In 1968, John McEnery portrayed Mercutio in Franco Zeffirelli's film Romeo and Juliet.

His other films in this period included a minor role as Prince Escalus in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet ( 1968 ), as well as a starring role in Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes ( 1970 ) and the science fiction film, The Asphyx ( 1973 ).

Over the background of Nino Rota's theme to Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, Bates would read a story sent by a listener.

Among his other memorable film roles in the 1960s were as the well-intentioned Friar Laurence in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet and as the villainous Dr. Durand Durand ( who tries to kill Jane Fonda's character by making her literally die of pleasure ) in Roger Vadim's counterculture classic Barbarella ( both films were released in 1968 ).

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Another exception was Franco Zeffirelli's hugely successful 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, which, although photographed in beautiful settings and certainly having the look of an epic, was shown in most areas in monaural sound ( although its three soundtrack albums were all made in stereo ), and at a screen aspect ratio of 1. 66: 1 ; that is, roughly the width of today's average movie screen or HDTV screen, not the very wide screens required for films made in Ultra Panavision, Cinemascope, Todd-AO or any of the other ultrawide processes invented in the 1950s.

Since the days of Ben-Hur, the studios have welcomed international productions including Helen of Troy ( 1956 ), Francis of Assisi ( 1961 ), Cleopatra ( 1963 ), The Agony and the Ecstasy ( 1965 ), Fellini's Casanova ( 1976 ), Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet ( 1968 ), La Traviata ( 1982 ) and many other grand film productions.

In 1968 her movie debut at the age of 36 was as Juliet's nurse in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet.

Featuring Zeffirelli's signature lush photography, Brother Sun, Sister Moon was conceived and executed in much the same visual manner as his Academy Award-winning adaptation of Romeo and Juliet ( 1968 ).

Zeffirelli's first film as director was a version of The Taming of the Shrew, originally intended for Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni but finally including the Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton instead.

An account of the film from conception, along with Zeffirelli's main motivation for making it ( namely, removing sole responsibility for the death of Jesus from the Jews ), to final edit and audience reactions to it.

He also provided the English soundtrack for Franco Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon, which was released in the US on 2 December 1972.

He is best known for his film debut as David Axelrod in Franco Zeffirelli's Endless Love ( 1981 ), as Dan in Yellowbeard and his role as Chad Douglas Fairchild in Zalman King's Two Moon Junction ( 1988 ).

He studied with London for four years, getting bit parts until he won the lead role in Franco Zeffirelli's period feature Storia di una Capinera ( Sparrow ) opposite Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave.

Haddon Hall has, however been used to depict Thornfield on multiple occasions: in 1996 for Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre, in 2006 for the BBC mini series directed by Susanna White, and the 2011 feature starring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender directed by Cary Fukunaga.

The location for Thornfield Hall is Haddon Hall, Bakewell, Derbyshire, UK Since Zeffirelli's use of Haddon Hall, subsequent versions of Jane Eyre have used it and is now apparently synonymous with Thornfield Hall.

Prior to Zeffirelli's location use, Haddon Hall had been once used ( before Jane Eyre ) as the castle for The Princess Bride.

" Zeffirelli's teenage leads, Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, had virtually no previous acting experience, but performed capably and with great maturity.

Far darker than Zeffirelli's version, the film is set in the " crass, violent and superficial society " of Verona Beach and Sycamore Grove.

Visconti's methods, had a deep impact upon Zeffirelli's later work.

He also played well-known figures such as Napoleon Bonaparte in Waterloo ( 1970 ); Benito Mussolini in The Last Four Days ( 1974 ) and again in Lion of the Desert ( 1981 ); W. C. Fields in W. C. Fields and Me ( 1976 ); Pontius Pilate in Franco Zeffirelli's TV miniseries

" As such, Miller told Cleese that the episode would interpret Petruchio as an early Puritan, and that the part was not to be acted along the traditional lines of the swaggering bully a la Richard Burton in Zeffirelli's 1967 adaptation.

His film career has continued with roles in a number of well known films, such as Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre, Notting Hill, Iris and Van Helsing.

In 1988 Howell played Arturo Toscanini in the story of the world renown conductor in Franco Zeffirelli's Il Giovane Toscanini with Irma Capece Minutolo and Elizabeth Taylor, which was one of his very first straight-to-video releases.

He also conducted the La Scala Orchestra in Franco Zeffirelli's 1982 film versions of Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.

Actors who have portrayed Caiaphas include Guy Rolfe in Nicholas Ray's film King of Kings ( 1961 ), Juan Rodolfo Wilcock in Pier Paolo Pasolini's film The Gospel According to St. Matthew ( 1964 ), Martin Landau in George Stevens ' film The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ), Bob Bingham in Norman Jewison's film Jesus Christ Superstar ( 1973 ), Anthony Quinn in Franco Zeffirelli's television miniseries Jesus of Nazareth ( 1977 ), and Mattia Sbragia in Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ ( 2004 ).

Zeffirelli's agent helped Limato get a mailroom job at Ashley-Famous Agency in New York.

* Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus: A Spiritual Diary ( 1984, Harper & Row ) by Franco Zeffirelli ISBN 0-06-069780-6.

He was in Franco Zeffirelli's TV mini-series Jesus of Nazareth and the American series of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles.

In 1996 she appeared in Franco Zeffirelli's Jane Eyre.

Another major breakthrough, whose originators were once thought to be crazy, is the mixing of ethnic cuisines.

A major breakthrough in bridge technology came with the erection of the Iron Bridge in Coalbrookdale, England in 1779.

Alcohol withdrawal can also be a major contributing factor in breakthrough seizures, as well.

A major breakthrough in the development of the modern facsimile system was the result of digital technology.

The industry saw a major breakthrough in 1962 when the government granted the Sociedade de Turismo e Diversoes de Macau ( STDM ), a syndicate jointly formed by Hong Kong and Macau businessmen, the monopoly rights to all forms of gambling.

A major breakthrough in the understanding of materials occurred in the late 19th century, when the American scientist Josiah Willard Gibbs demonstrated that the thermodynamic properties related to atomic structure in various phases are related to the physical properties of a material.

Charles Thomson, co-founder of the group, described punk as " a major breakthrough " in his art.

This was a major breakthrough as more than a year of political wrangling could not yield an agreement despite pressure from the West and the Arab League.

( The idea of a major breakthrough with FS technology was dropped in the mid-1970s for cost-effectiveness and continuity reasons.

A major breakthrough in the methodology and popularization of volumetric analysis was due to Karl Friedrich Mohr, who redesigned the burette by placing a clamp and a tip at the bottom, and wrote the first textbook on the topic, Lehrbuch der chemisch-analytischen Titrirmethode ( Textbook of analytical-chemical titration methods ), published in 1855.

CL-20 is considered a major breakthrough in solid rocket propellant technology but has yet to see widespread use because costs remain high.

His first major breakthrough came in 1912 at age eighteen with his first book illustration for Carl H. Claudy's Tell Me Why: Stories about Mother Nature.

Pacino made his major breakthrough when he was given the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather in 1972, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Weir's major breakthrough in Australia and internationally was the lush, atmospheric period mystery Picnic at Hanging Rock ( 1975 ), made with substantial backing from the state-funded South Australian Film Corporation and filmed on location in South Australia and rural Victoria.

His breakthrough role was in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless ( 1960 ), which made him a major figure in the French New Wave.

Well before then, another major breakthrough occurred with the next event registered by BeppoSAX, GRB 970508.

However, the breakthrough came in 1856 when the Declaration of Paris, signed by all major European powers, stated that " Privateering is and remains abolished ".

According to his memoirs written after the war, the German Chief of Staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, believed that although a major breakthrough might no longer be achieved, the French army could still be defeated if it suffered a sufficient number of casualties.

His next major breakthrough came when producer Roy Speer introduced him to leading comic Ted Ray.

But the major breakthrough came the following year when-again under the leadership of Waechter-the Greens polled 10. 6 % in the European parliamentary elections.

As a comparative study it was a major breakthrough at the time.

Sketchpad is considered to be the ancestor of modern computer-aided drafting ( CAD ) programs as well as a major breakthrough in the development of computer graphics in general.

He is credited with the first major breakthrough in heavier-than-air flight and he worked over half a century before the development of powered flight, being acknowledged by the Wright brothers.

A major breakthrough was the introduction of portable defibrillators used out of the hospital.