Rapsodia Satanica

Rapsodia Satanica
Directed byNino Oxilia
Based onPoems by Fausto Maria Martini
StarringLyda Borelli

Andrea Habay Ugo Bazzini

Giovanni Cini
Music byPietro Mascagni
Release date
  • 1915 (1915)
CountryItaly
LanguageSilent (Italian intertitles)

Rapsodia Satanica ('Satanic Rhapsody') is a 1915 Italian silent film directed by Nino Oxilia featuring Lyda Borelli in a female version of Faust based on poems by Fausto Maria Martini. Pietro Mascagni wrote his only film music for the film and conducted the first performance in July 1917. Mascagni was keen to take commission for the film music due to the financial burden of supporting two sickening brothers.

The French-German TV channel Arte restored the film in 2006 and Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, conducted by Frank Strobel recorded Mascagni's score.

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