Winner of the Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature and lauded by the San Francisco Chronicle as “wonderfully funny yet equally heart-rending,” IN THE SHADOW OF THE STARS is a hilarious and affectionate look at the path to stardom inside the competitive world of opera. Filmmakers Allie Light and Irving Saraf relegate the divas to the background and focus on a limelight-craving group of “choristers” — the seldom-noticed singers who stand behind the soloists portraying peasants, soldiers and slaves.
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In the Shadow of the Stars
93-minutes
This is the"A Chorus Line" of the opera world. The lives of singers and the plots of grand opera merge in this poignant and funny film about the choristers of the San Francisco Opera. Winner of the 1991 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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In the Shadow of the Stars
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Running Time
93 minutes
In the Shadow of the Stars
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Year(s) screened
- 1993
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