Casta Diva ( 1954 Film - ENG Sub)

Casta Diva is a 1954 Italian-French biographical melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone. Audio in Italian with English subtitles (Click on CC for subtitles).

The film tells the fictionalized biography of the famous Italian Opera Composer Vincenzo Bellini, who lived in the 19th century and died at the age of 34. The film is a remake of Gallone's 1935 film with the same name.

The film made use of the collaboration of the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma. The film contains excerpts from the operas of Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti and Niccolò Paganini, arrangement by Renzo Rossellini.

Cast & Characters:
Antonella Lualdi as Maddalena Fumaroli
Nadia Gray as Giuditta Pasta
Maurice Ronet as Vincenzo Bellini
Fausto Tozzi as Gaetano Donizetti
Jacques Castelot as Ernesto Tosi
Marina Berti as Beatrice Turina
Renzo Ricci as Giudice Fumaroli
Jean Richard as Fiorillo
Paola Borboni as Miss Monti
Lauro Gazzolo as Domenico Barbaja
Danilo Berardinelli as Niccolò Paganini
Renzo Giovampietro as Saverio Mercadante
Camillo Pilotto as Rettore Conservatorio
Luigi Tosi as Felice Romani
Dante Maggio as Il pazzariello
Nino Vingelli as Il guappo