The Adventures of Buratino (1976 film) the makers of "The Adventures of Buratino," including "About the Little Red Riding Hood" ("Ольга Береснева") in 1977. The Adventures of Buratino (1976 film) The Adventures of Buratino () is a Soviet children's musical film, made in 1975 at Belarusfilm. Directed by Leonid Nechayev, the film was an adaptation of "The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino" by Alexey Tolstoy in turn an adaptation of Italian novel "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi. Inna Vetkina wrote the screenplay for "The Adventures of Buratino", as well as several other films directed by Nechayev. The plot of the film follows
The Adventures of Pinocchio (opera) Summers as Mister Geppetto. It was directed by Martin Duncan, conducted by David Parry, designed by Francis O'Connor and choreographed by Nick Winston. The production included some ingenious technical stage effects, and used a full symphony orchestra including two accordions (which appear briefly on stage), a piano, and assorted percussion. The opera received its German premiere in Chemnitz in 2008 with Inga Lampert in the title role; the North American premiere was by the Minnesota Opera at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts on February 28, 2009, with mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala as Pinocchio; and the Russian premiere was at