Vanessa

Release Date: 2018-09-14

Overview: A rare opportunity to see Barber’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work – opera from the age of Hitchcock, with an atmospheric score and tense, psychological twists. Abandoned by her lover Anatol, Vanessa retreats from the world, waiting and hoping with only her mother and her niece Erika for company. But when, 20 years later, Anatol’s handsome young son arrives unexpectedly, he shatters the calm of this shuttered household of women. Past and present love collides, and the aftershocks threaten to destroy them all.

Rating: 5.5 / 10

Cast

Virginie Verrez

as Erika

Emma Bell

as Vanessa

Edgaras Montvidas

as Anatol

Rosalind Plowright

as The Old baroness

William Thomas

as Nicholas, the Major-Domo