Survivor Laser Italian Charm

Marcello Mastroianni ( La Dolce Vita ) stars in the sequel to the hit comedy Big Deal On Madonna Street . Twenty years after their first "big deal" landed them in jail, the original gang is back in action. Peppe "The Panther" has a new job lined up to make them rich, but his pal Tiberio (Mastroianni) is determined not to have anything to do with it. In a series of bad breaks and mishaps, they get a run of luck that just about puts them in the clear to enjoy the lives they've always dreamed of.

David McVicar's spellbinding production of Le Nozze Di Figaro is set in 1830s post revolution France, where the inexorable unraveling of an old order has produced acute feelings of loss. In the relationship between Finley's suave, dashingly self-absorbed Count and Roschmann's passionately dignified Countess, which lies at the tragic heart of the opera, the sexy ease between a feisty Figaro (Erwin Schrott) and a sassy Susanna (Miah Persson) is starkly absent, the tenacious spark between Marcellina...