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Lighting Coordinator:
1994  Elektra
2000  The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute

Lighting Design:
1977  Rigoletto
1978  The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
1978  Tosca
1979  Don Pasquale
1980  Puccini: Manon Lescaut
1981  La Traviata - The Met
1981  Rigoletto
1982  Hansel & Gretel - The Met
1982  Puccini: La Boheme
1982  The Metropolitan Opera - Wagner: Tannhäuser
1983  Lucia di Lammermoor
1984  La Forza del Destino
1986  Lohengrin
1988  Ariadne auf Naxos
1988  Carmen
1988  Il Trovatore
1990  Die Walküre
1991  L'Elisir d'Amore
1992  The Ghosts of Versailles
1993  Falstaff
1993  Richard Wagner: Parsifal
1994  Elektra
1995  Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
2000  The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute
2008  Manon Lescaut – The Met
2009  Puccini: Turandot
2011  Puccini: La Fanciulla del West
2012  The Metropolitan Opera: La Clemenza di Tito
2012  Verdi: Ernani
2013  The Metropolitan Opera: Francesca da Rimini
2017  The Metropolitan Opera: Idomeneo
2018  The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème
2018  The Metropolitan Opera: La Fanciulla del West
2019  The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot

Lighting Director:
1977  Rigoletto
1978  The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni
1978  Tosca
1979  Don Pasquale
1980  Puccini: Manon Lescaut
1981  La Traviata - The Met
1981  Rigoletto
1982  Hansel & Gretel - The Met
1982  Puccini: La Boheme
1982  The Metropolitan Opera - Wagner: Tannhäuser
1983  Ernani
1983  Lucia di Lammermoor
1984  La Forza del Destino
1985  Tosca
1986  L'italiana in Algeri
1986  Lohengrin
1988  Ariadne auf Naxos
1988  Carmen
1988  Il Trovatore
1990  Die Walküre
1991  L'Elisir d'Amore
1992  The Ghosts of Versailles
1993  Falstaff
1993  Richard Wagner: Parsifal
1993  Stiffelio - The Met
1994  Elektra
1994  Il Tabarro & Pagliacci
1995  Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
2000  The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute
2008  Manon Lescaut – The Met
2009  Puccini: Turandot
2011  Puccini: La Fanciulla del West
2012  The Metropolitan Opera: La Clemenza di Tito
2012  Verdi: Ernani
2013  The Metropolitan Opera: Francesca da Rimini
2017  The Metropolitan Opera: Idomeneo
2018  The Metropolitan Opera: La Bohème
2018  The Metropolitan Opera: La Fanciulla del West
2019  The Metropolitan Opera: Turandot

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At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.