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The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama (1999) Plot Summary Explained
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- 1999 · 90 mins · English
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- Peter Greenaway, Marie Angel, Christopher Gillett, Miranda van Kralingen, Lyndon Terracini, Roger Smeets
Rosa, libretto by Peter Greenaway, score by Louis Andriessen, opens a ten‑opera series on composers’ deaths, mixing real and fictional subjects. It follows Brazilian Juan Manuel de Rosa, who abandoned music school for western films and becomes a Hollywood composer of Western scores. At 32 he lives in an abandoned Uruguayan slaughterhouse, neglects his fiancée Esmeralda, cares for a black mare, Bola; cowboy‑clad men arrive, kill both Rosa and Bola, prompting a suspicious investigation.
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