Shirley Valentine (film) Shirley Valentine (film) Shirley Valentine is an award-winning 1989 British romantic comedy-drama film directed by Lewis Gilbert. The screenplay by Willy Russell is based on his 1986 one-character play of the same title, which follows middle aged Shirley Valentine in an unexpected discovery of herself, and rekindling of her childhood dreams and youthful love of life. Pauline Collins reprises the titular lead role as middle-aged housewife Shirley, which she had previously played in the stage production in London's West End and on Broadway, and Tom Conti plays Costas Dimitriades, the owner of a Greek tavern with whom she has a
Tsakane Valentine Maswanganyi her career include the title role in "Carmen Jones" with the London Philharmonic at Royal Festival Hall and Bess in "Porgy and Bess" at the Cape Town Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and Norwegian National Opera. In April 2011, she portrayed the title role in the world premiere of Bongani Ndodana-Breen's "Winnie: The Opera" at the State Theatre in Pretoria. Maswanganyi currently resides in Italy where she is a voice student of mezzo-soprano Nadiya Petrenko. Tsakane Valentine Maswanganyi Tsakane Valentine Maswanganyi (born 14 February 1979) is a South African classical soprano who has an active international performance career. She first came