The Death of a Composer: Rosa, a Horse Drama

Year: 1999

Runtime: 90 mins

Language: English

DramaMusicTV MovieWestern

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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