Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Anna tells us the tragic story of Cio-cio-san, protagonist of Madam Butterly, an opera by Giacomo Puccini, libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica. The opera was dedicated to the Queen of Italy, Elena di Montenegro.
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Italy
Manara and his team are still looking for the hit-and-run driver who killed the tramp, and investigating the vineyard owner's disappearance. Lara gives Manara a clue as to why she's still angry with him.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
A man found dead in the middle of the road, the cyclist who found him, and Commissioner Manara who as usual, is the center of attention.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
We begin a new episode of Commissioner Manara. Lara is bedridden with a fever, and there is a missing person reported at the station. And if that weren't enough, someone was found dead by the side of the road.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
The Lenni case will be filed as consenting manslaughter, in view of the fact that he was coerced. Commissioner Manara asks again about being transferred but doesn't get very far.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Dr. Masini confesses to having falsified his diploma in order to practice medicine, but reveals some surprises about the death of Lenni.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Commisioner Manara and Lara continue their investigation, interviewing Dr. Di Censi, whose answers enable them to make an important connection with a note they'd found of the late Professor Lenni's. They go to Dr. Masini's office and find him just about to leave.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
It turns out Lenni's will contains some surprises. Someone important is excluded completely and another person, quite unexpectedly, is included. Meanwhile, Caterina is puzzled by Doctor Masini's behaviour the day of Lenni's death.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Manara visits the dead professor's daughter and it becomes ever clearer to Manara that the mother's alibi won't hold.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Lara Rubino visits Lenni's villa and finds that his wife has broken in. Manara uses his considerable charm on a vet.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy Tuscan
The autopsy shows that the victim couldn't have pulled the trigger, but Manara's boss insists on suicide. Manara and his team have other ideas.
Difficulty:
Beginner
Italy
In this second and final segment of La Bohème, Anna, as Lucia, goes on to tell us about her life. What will become of her?
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
From the gardener, Michele, we learn that the dead professor was not well liked. Rubino lets us know about her soured friendship with Manara at the police academy.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Manara arrives at his hotel, and the clerk is curt with him until she learns he's the new commissioner. Manara and the deceased are the topics discussed by Rubino and her aunt.
Difficulty:
Adv-Intermediate
Italy
Rubino, the new inspector, can't stand being in the same room with Manara. And when he doesn't even remember why, she really gets angry. But then they get some interesting news from the morgue...
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