COUNTESS ANNUNZIATA GALLERY

There is a live action version of The Singing Springing Lark, made in East Germany in 1982.
The story is set in the mid-nineteenth century, and the villainess/false heroine is one Contessa (Countess) Annunziata, played by stunning Brandenburg veteran Renate Blume:

The Contessa is dark because the true heroine, commoner Konstanze, is blond. Doesn't the Contessa remind me of Shakespeare's Dark Lady...? 

Starring: 

Renate Blume as Countess Annunziata

Featuring: 

Bodo Wolf as Lienhard

Manfred Heine as Florian the jester/retainer.