1st Night

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1st Night
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Directed by Christopher Menaul
Starring Richard E. Grant
Sarah Brightman
Mia Maestro
Julian Ovenden
Release dates
  • June 2010 (2010-06)(London UK Film Focus)
  • May 3, 2013 (2013-05-03)(United States)
Running time
116 minutes

1st Night is a 2010 opera themed comedy film directed by Christopher Menaul and starring Richard E. Grant, Sarah Brightman, Mia Maestro, and Julian Ovenden.

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Plot

1st Night is about a rich industrialist Adam (Richard E. Grant), who aspires to a more cultured world. Spurred on by playful jibes that he is little more than a city suit living the capitalist's dream, this frustrated amateur opera singer decides to throw an opera (Mozart's Così fan tutte )in his lavish country retreat. Once his friends see him belting out the notes, he feels sure it will spell the end to their shallow taunts. In fact, it might even help him win the hand of Celia (Sarah Brightman), the female conductor he has been pursuing whom - it just so happens - is the first to be recruited for his showpiece. [1]

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References

  1. "1st Night (2013)". Rotten tomatoes. Retrieved June 30, 2014.