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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on July 16, 2010?

44 free events take place on Friday, July 16 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out July 16 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of July . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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44 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, July 16, 2010

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Concert | Enrique Iglesias, Spanish Pop Singer


The son of Julio Iglesias emerged on the American pop scene in the 90s with hits like "Bailamos," "Be with You" and "Hero." His new album is Euphoria.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 am
Free

Concert | The Go-Go's, 80s Punk Pop


The all-female band's Beauty and the Beat, from 1981, is considered one of the classic New Wave LPs. They racked up a number of hit singles, including "We Got the Beat," "Our Lips Are Sealed," "Head over Heels" and "Vacation." Those attending are advised to arrive at 6:00am.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 am
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Other | Skateboarding and Roller Blading


Free and open to all skateboarders and roller bladers, weather permitting. WARNING: This is an unsupervised facility. Enter the skatepark at your own risk. You must wear a helmet at all times.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:00 am
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Five tours daily on the hour.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:30 am
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Other | Big City Fishing


Yes, you can fish in the Hudson River! They provide rods, reels, bait and instruction. So come on down and try your luck at fishing while enjoying the warm sun and cool breezes.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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City Walk | Lower Manhattan Walking Tour


New York City's best and funniest walking tour. This high-energy tour will take you through the heart of the Lower Manhattan, entertaining you, your friends and family with stories, hidden secrets and relevant information about the Big Apple. The USA’s first capital city, a center of global finance and a tribute to over two centuries of immigration and the American experience - New York City's history is the history of America. And on every step of our tour, expert guides - part professors, part performers - will explain why.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Dance Performance | Ballet Fiesta Mexicana


Dressed in traditional costumes, Ballet Fiesta Mexicana Ybarra presents an interactive dance performance that celebrates the diverse and culturally rich country of Mexico.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Workshop | Internet 1: Basics


Hands on using wireless laptops. An introduction to the Internet, including getting connected, using a web browser, and navigating web pages.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Park Walk | From the Maine to the Mall Tour


Explore the south end of the park, including the Children's District, Lake, and the Mall.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Other | Play Petanque in the Park


Learn to play petanque, the popular European game anchored in precision, patience, and camaraderie, from members of La Boule New Yorkaise, NYC's championship club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Other | Play Ping Pong


Hone your ping pong skills at one of two state-of-the-art tables. Paddles and balls are provided free of charge. Sign up with an attendant in the park to reserve a time slot.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Other | Rent a Bike for Free to Explore Governors Island


Borrow a bike for free for up to one hour. Call for complete info.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Dance Lesson | Summer Native American Dance


Interactive dance programs with different Native American artists each week.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Workshop | In the Loop Knitting and Crocheting Club


Are you a crafter? Join the knitting and crocheting club, led by instructor/designer Ina Braun, to create garments for charitable organizations.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free

Tour | Times Square Tour


Learn about history of world-famous neighborhood with its 40 miles of neon supersigns, prominent theaters, and multiple megastores. Rain or shine.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Jazz | Dona Carter, Pianist/Composer


Carter has directed a variety of ensembles, large and small, composing and arranging many original pieces. She has performed in a variety of venues, in the United States and abroad - often sharing the stage with other outstanding musicians. In addition to performing, and teaching, she is musical director of a special jazz chorus that performs at jazz festivals in the New York Region.
   New York City, NY; NYC
12:30 pm
Free

Tour | Grand Central and Its Neighborhood


Discover architecture and social history of Grand Central neighborhood; learn secrets of Whispering Gallery in Grand Central Terminal; gaze upon hubcaps and roadsters on side of Chrysler Building; discover favorite Midtown Manhattan hangout of Mercury, Hercules, and Minerva; learn why Pershing Square isn’t really square; visit original Lincoln Memorial by Daniel Chester French. Award-winning tour led by urban explorer, historian, and storyteller Justin Ferate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Latin Music: Cocomama


Cocomama is an international group of women based in New York City who are natives of such diverse places as Cuba, Israel, France, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Oregon and Wisconsin. They play “hard-hitting”, original Latin music deeply rooted in Afro-Caribbean rhythms. Inspired by their various musical and cultural backgrounds, their music draws upon jazz, World, Afro-Cuban, and South American traditions. Members of the band have played with such legendary artists as Machito, Dizzy Gillespie, Betty Carter, Sheila E., Celia Cruz, Ray Barretto, and Tito Puente.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$6

Screening | Short Films by Native Americans


Native directors capture the spirit of the exhibition Hide: Skin as Material and Metaphor. Gesture Down (I Don't Sing) (2006, 10 min.) The filmmaker shares a poetic and personal reflection of his journey south from California to Mexico in search of the “last” traditional Kumeyaay singer. The work was inspired by James Welch’s poem, “Gesture Down to Guatemala.” Good Looking (2007, 21 min.) A struggling young actor finally lands a role. Unfortunately, it’s as a bimbo in a zombie film. Now she must decide: take the part or maintain her self-respect? My Métis Grandmother (2008, 30 min.) All her life, Cecile St. Amant concealed her Métis heritage. Now, her granddaughter, the filmmaker, lovingly begins to lead her to a new way of thinking. Female Rain (2006, 2 min.) In a piece based on a poem by Navajo writer Laura Tohe, the filmmaker expresses her love of the Navajo language. Writing the Land (2007, 8 min.) A celebration of Musqueam elder Larry Grant’s experience of rediscovering the Hunkamenum language and cultural traditions in the cityscape of Vancouver, located on ancestral Musqueam lands.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Dance Lesson | Summer Native American Dance


Interactive dance programs with different Native American artists each week.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Ivy Baldwin Dance Company's Here Rests Peggy


Here Rests Peggy is a new quartet for performers Lawrence Cassella, Eleanor Smith, Katie Workum, and Ivy Baldwin. Directly inspired by Baldwin’s research fellowship in Bogliasco, Italy, Here Rests Peggy is a dance influenced by everything from the dramatic and stylized world of German Expressionist film, to the outrageous life and art collection of Peggy Guggenheim. Surrounded by an installation of paintings by visual artist Anna Schuleit, the performers appear, reappear, and disappear, both physically and emotionally, traveling in and out of love, anguish, rage, and selfish couplings.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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City Walk | Midtown Manhattan Walking Tour


New York City's best and funniest walking tour…..and it’s Free! Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories is just waiting to be peeled away.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Park Walk | Strawberry Fields Forever Tour


Begin with the tranquility and beauty of Strawberry Fields then enjoy Bethesda Terrance and the Mall as the tour takes you east, across the park.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Genealogy 2: Using Library Databases


Hands on using wireless laptops. Enhance your genealogical research by using historical newspapers, records, maps and databases.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Screening | Short Films by Native Americans


Native directors capture the spirit of the exhibition Hide: Skin as Material and Metaphor. Gesture Down (I Don't Sing) (2006, 10 min.) The filmmaker shares a poetic and personal reflection of his journey south from California to Mexico in search of the “last” traditional Kumeyaay singer. The work was inspired by James Welch’s poem, “Gesture Down to Guatemala.” Good Looking (2007, 21 min.) A struggling young actor finally lands a role. Unfortunately, it’s as a bimbo in a zombie film. Now she must decide: take the part or maintain her self-respect? My Métis Grandmother (2008, 30 min.) All her life, Cecile St. Amant concealed her Métis heritage. Now, her granddaughter, the filmmaker, lovingly begins to lead her to a new way of thinking. Female Rain (2006, 2 min.) In a piece based on a poem by Navajo writer Laura Tohe, the filmmaker expresses her love of the Navajo language. Writing the Land (2007, 8 min.) A celebration of Musqueam elder Larry Grant’s experience of rediscovering the Hunkamenum language and cultural traditions in the cityscape of Vancouver, located on ancestral Musqueam lands.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Workshop | Email 1


Learn how email works, sign up for a free email account, and learn about sending, replying to and forwarding messages.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:15 pm
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Screening | Brazilian Documentary: Ana Maria Magalhães' Reidy, Building Utopia (2009)


This film follows the trajectory of architect and urbanist Affonso Eduardo Reidy, who turned Rio de Janeiro into a modern city with such projects as the Museum of Modern Art and the Flamengo Embankment. 77 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Film | Sally Potter's Rage (2009): The Underside of Fashionistas


With Bob Balaban, Steve Buscemi and Judi Dench. Fourteen actors play characters persuaded to reveal their secrets into a schoolboy’s cell phone at a New York fashion show. When an accident occurs on the catwalk, possible murder motives come to light. 99 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Concert | Free Music Fridays: Bill Albatross / Andi Rae Healy / Jennifer Logue


Explore the galleries free of charge, have a refreshment in the café, and enjoy live music in the stunning atrium. Free Music Fridays are hosted by Matt Jones. Growing up an air force brat, singer/songwriter Andi Rae Healy found herself traveling all over the world before settling in New York City and she has covered many genres before settling into her version of bluesy alt-country, which you will hear on the brand new LP I Guess I Am a Sinner, produced by Sammy Merendino and featuring an appearance by Cyndi Lauper.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Screening | Brazilian Film: Anna Muylaert's Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2009)


When a bachelor moves into the empty apartment next to Baby, she seizes the chance to finally fill her life with something beyond the pleasures of chain-smoking—and she won’t let anything get in her way. 86 min. Showing with Augusto Canani's The Bizarre Friends of Ricardinho (2009, 20 min.).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | River Wildlife from Aboard a Tall Ship


Ever wonder what lies beneath the East River? Board the tall ship Peking for water testing and see examples of animal life in the harbor.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Rock & Pop: Thee Oh Sees / Golden Triangle / So Cow


Thee Oh Sees’ (pictured) psychedelic sound weaves “AM radio howl with the catchiest of driving tunes” to create “gorgeous harmonies, heightened fidelity, thick spring-reverbed bombast, [and] mighty drums.” Brooklyn’s Golden Triangle, a band of three girls and three boys, plays loud and spooky, reverb-drenched distorto girl group pop, mixing male/female vocals with gnarly surf guitar jangle. Ireland's So Cow tops this super cool lineup.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Sunset Jam on the Hudson: Drumming Circles


Improvise on African, Latin and Caribbean rhythms at the SUNSET JAM ON THE HUDSON drumming circles. The gatherings are led by master drummers MAGUETTE CAMARA, MARY KNYSH and PAMELA PATRICK. After beginning with the teaching of traditional drumming patterns, and establishing a steady heartbeat pulse, participants are then asked to contribute their own rhythmic patterns as part of a call-and-response chanting and drumming.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Screening | Frederick Wiseman’s Documentary The Store (1983)


A masterly study of leisure, consumer culture, and class in America. Wiseman’s wanderings through the showrooms and corporate offices of Neiman-Marcus at Christmastime are both hilarious and depressing. Insatiable need, ostentatious greed, and desperate loneliness hang in the air, as sales clerks smooth-talk rich, insecure Texans into buying furs and jewels and other “indispensable” luxury goods, and employers and management gather together over holiday celebrations filled with sad tinsel decorations and even sadder conversations. 118 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Jazz | Gregory Generet, Emmy-Winning Jazz Vocalist


Gregory Generet is a native New Yorker who has performed throughout New York City with sold-out shows at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Highline Ballroom. He has performed in Paris and Italy. After receiving three Emmy Awards for his work at CBS Network, Generet focused on his own work and in 2009 he released his debut CD (re)Generet-ion.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Jazz | Jazz Standards: Alex Levin Trio


Originally from Philadelphia, Alex Levin has performed in Philadelphia and New York as a leader and a sideman for the last fifteen years. He has appeared at clubs throughout the city, and can most frequently be found leading his own trio at such clubs as Kavehaz, Detour, Rue B and Night and Day. Besides leading his trio, Alex performs regularly with vocalists Ayana del Valle and Heather Moran. He has composed numerous pieces, and has arranged music for top vocalists.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | Al Pacino in The Merchant of Venice, Directed by Daniel Sullivan


The Oscar winner returns as Shylock in this classic. Also with Gerry Bamman, Francois Battiste, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Bill Heck, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Byron Jennings, Heather Lind, Hamish Linklater, Jesse L. Martin, Nyambi Nyambi, Lily Rabe, Matthew Rauch, Richard Topol, and Max Wright.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:00 pm
Free

Concert | Electronic Music: Caribou / Phantogram


Swim is Caribou’s masterpiece, an album that absorbs club culture sounds weaved within subtle pop frameworks, and the record Dan Snaith has wanted to bring to fruition for as long as he has been making music. Snaith, a Canadian from small-town Ontario now based in England, has been a leading figure in electronic music over the past decade. Phantogram’s (pictured) music sounds like it’s made by a band from the city. Electronic loops, hip-hop beats, shoegaze, soul, pop — each finds its way into their songs. Unexpectedly, the band doesn’t live and work in a major urban center, but rather calls the town of Saratoga Springs, NY (population 26,186) home. Opening is The Chain Gang of 1974.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | New York Philharmonic performs works by Bernstein, Tchiakovsky and Prokofiev


Program: Tchaikovsky Polonaise from Eugene Onegin Bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet (selections) Featuring Andrey Boreyko, conductor. This outdoor concert will be followed by a fireworks display.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Phil Lord & Chris Miller's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009): Vanilla Sky


With the voices of Anna Faris, James Caan and Bill Hader. Inspired by the beloved children's book, this animated film focuses on a town where food falls from the sky like rain. 90 min. Movie begins at dusk (around 8:30pm.) Free Popcorn.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | Shakespeare in the Parking Lot: Love's Labour's Lost


The Bard's comedy in an unusual outdoor setting.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Screening | Benoît Jacquot's Tosca: The Movie (2001): Puccini Onscreen


Baron Scarpia, chief of the pontifical police, suspects the painter Mario Cavaradossi of having helped a revolutionary, Angelotti. The Baron uses the morbid jealousy of Tosca, a singer and mistress of the painter Cavaradossi, to achieve his ends. 126 min. In French with English subtitles.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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