Forbidden Music (Italian: Musica proibita) is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Carlo Campogalliani and starring Tito Gobbi, María Mercader and Giuseppe Rinaldi. An elderly composer recalls his youthful romance with a woman while a student in Florence.
It was made at the Fert Studios in Turin.
Cast
Tito Gobbi 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 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.