# City of Song > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/City_of_Song > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/City_of_Song.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Song > Source revision: 1339447929 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1931 film by Carmine Gallone City of Song Directed by Carmine Gallone Written by C.H. Dand Miles Malleson Hans Székely Produced by Arnold Pressburger Isidore Schlesinger Bernard Vorhaus Starring Jan Kiepura Betty Stockfeld Heather Angel Cinematography Curt Courant Arpad Viragh Edited by Lars Moen Music by Paul Abraham Philip Braham Ernesto Tagliaferri Production companies Cine-Allianz Tonfilm Tobis Film Distributed by Sterling Films Release date 9 January 1931 (1931-01-09) Running time 96 minutes Countries Germany United Kingdom Language English ***City of Song***, also known as ***Farewell to Love***, is a 1931 British/German [romance film](/source/Romance_film) directed by [Carmine Gallone](/source/Carmine_Gallone) and starring [Jan Kiepura](/source/Jan_Kiepura), [Betty Stockfeld](/source/Betty_Stockfeld) and [Hugh Wakefield](/source/Hugh_Wakefield).[1] It was shot at [Wembley Studios](/source/Wembley_Studios).[2] The film's sets were designed by the [art directors](/source/Art_director) [Oscar Friedrich Werndorff](/source/Oscar_Friedrich_Werndorff) and [J. Elder Wills](/source/J._Elder_Wills). A German-language version was released in 1930 under the title *[The Singing City](/source/The_Singing_City)*. ## Plot A tourist guide in [Naples](/source/Naples) is taken on by an English woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her [protégé](/source/Prot%C3%A9g%C3%A9). ## Cast - [Jan Kiepura](/source/Jan_Kiepura) as Giovanni Cavallone - [Betty Stockfeld](/source/Betty_Stockfeld) as Claire Winter - [Hugh Wakefield](/source/Hugh_Wakefield) as Hon. Roddy Fielding - [Heather Angel](/source/Heather_Angel_(actress)) as Carmela - Franz Maldacea as Chi, a boy of the streets - Philip Easton as John, an artist - [Miles Malleson](/source/Miles_Malleson) as Theater Watchman ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [BFI.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20090114012843/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/29547) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Wood p.69 ## Bibliography - Low, Rachael. *Filmmaking in the 1930s Britain*. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. - Wood, Linda. *British Films, 1927-1939*. British Film Institute, 1986. ## External links - [*City of Song*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020769/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Carmine Gallone Il bacio di Cirano (1913) The Naked Truth (1914) Senza colpa! (1915) Flower of Evil (1915) The Wedding March (1915) Sotto le tombe (1915) Avatar (1916) La falena (1916) Malombra (1917) The Thirteenth Man (1917) La storia di un peccato (1918) Redemption (1919) A Doll Wife (1919) The Sea of Naples (1919) On with the Motley (1920) The Faces of Love (1924) The Fiery Cavalcade (1925) The Last Days of Pompeii (1926) The City of a Thousand Delights (1927) Pawns of Passion (1928) Land Without Women (1929) Ship in Distress (1929) The Singing City (1930) City of Song (1931) My Cousin from Warsaw (1931) A Son from America (1932) Sailor's Song (1932) Going Gay (1933) My Heart Calls You (1934) Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1934) My Heart Is Calling You (1934) My Heart is Calling (1935) Casta Diva (1935) If It Were Not for Music (1935) The Divine Spark (1935) Thank You, Madame (1936) Mother Song (1937) Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937) Giuseppe Verdi (1938) Marionette (1939) The Dream of Butterfly (1939) Eternal Melodies (1940) Love Me, Alfredo! (1940) Manon Lescaut (1940) Beyond Love (1940) The Secret Lover (1941) First Love (1941) The Two Orphans (1942) The Queen of Navarre (1942) Odessa in Flames (1942) Harlem (1943) Sad Loves (1943) The Song of Life (1945) Biraghin (1946) Before Him All Rome Trembled (1946) The Lady of the Camellias (1947) The Legend of Faust (1949) The Force of Destiny (1950) Night Taxi (1950) Messalina (1951) We're Dancing on the Rainbow (1952) Fatal Desire (1953) Puccini (1953) Madame Butterfly (1954) House of Ricordi (1954) Casta Diva (1954) Mata Hari's Daughter (1954) Don Camillo's Last Round (1955) Michel Strogoff (1956) Tosca (1956) Carthage in Flames (1960) Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961) Carmen di Trastevere (1962) La monaca di Monza (1962) This article related to a British film of the 1930s is a stub. 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