''Forbidden Music'' () is a 1942 Italian

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Carlo Campogalliani Carlo Campogalliani (10 October 1885 – 10 August 1974) was an Italian screenwriter, actor and film director. Campogalliani directed around eighty films during his career and acted in another fifty. He directed the 1934 sports film '' Stadio'' a ...

and starring

Tito Gobbi Tito Gobbi (24 October 19135 March 1984) was an Italian operatic baritone with an international reputation. He made his operatic debut in Gubbio in 1935 as Count Rodolfo in Bellini's '' La sonnambula'' and quickly appeared in Italy's major oper ...

, María Mercader and Giuseppe Rinaldi.Bayman p.138 An elderly composer recalls his youthful romance with a woman while a student in

Florence Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence ...

. It was made at the Fert Studios in

Turin Turin ( , ; ; , then ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital from 1861 to 1865. The city is main ...

Cast

as Paolo Marini, detto Paolo Folchi * María Mercader as Claretta Melzi * Giuseppe Rinaldi as Giulio Folchi * Loredana as Elena Landi * Mario Casaleggio as Il maestro Bignami * Carlo Romano as Otello * Enzo Morisi as Arnaldo Rovere * Carlo Duse as Il marchese Melzi * Letizia Quaranta as La marchesa Beatrice Melzi * Giorgio Costantini as Mario Melzi *

Mario Siletti Mario Giovanni Siletti (22 July 1903 – 19 April 1964) was an Italian actor. He was born in Turin. He performed in more than 160 films from 1932 to 1964. He began appearing in American films no later than 1946. From 1962 to 1964, he also portra ...

as Il conte Landi, padre di Elena * Ilena Jurick * Valfrido Picardi as L'impresario Salvetti * Lori Randi * Giuseppe Zago

References

Bibliography

* Bayman, Louis. ''The Operatic and the Everyday in Postwar Italian Film Melodrama''. Edinburgh University Press, 2014.

External links

* 1942 films 1940s Italian-language films Films directed by Carlo Campogalliani Films set in Florence Italian historical drama films 1940s historical drama films Films set in the 1900s Italian black-and-white films 1942 drama films 1940s Italian films Italian-language historical drama films {{1940s-Italy-film-stub