ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick Heli) (02/11/86)
I don't know how many people are actually interested in this
topic, but I am a firm believer in following a net request with a
summary of responses, so to practice my principles...
Thanks! for the many responses... 26 in all... I have summarized
the responses in a general way below. (Note that the indicative is
used below for convenience only as I have not done any checking.)
Send me mail if you'd like further detail:
1. The Marriage of Figaro was made in German sometime during the
1970's.
2. The Magic Flute was made sometime around 1974 by Ingemar Bergman
and seems to have generated quite a positive response. It is
in Swedish and was released in the United States with English
subtitles. It is on video tape (somewhere). Another version
was done some years before that, but it failed at the box
office.
3. Don Giovanni was done by Joseph Losey in 1979 and is reputed
to have had technical problems. Some critics apparently claimed
that it was too heavy and would have preferred it played completely
as farce (I think it's much more than a farce...). Also, a film
of a live production on the stage was made sometime in the
1950's starring Cesare Siepi.
4. Cosi Fan Tutte is also on video tape (somewhere).
My preliminary checking for tapes has not yielded much yet
("Magic Flute? That's a children's film, isn't it?" "Magic
Flute? Is that the same as 'The Smurfs and the Magic Flute'"),
but I'm still hopeful (I'll try the Berkeley Music Library if I
must). Also, watching PBS was recommended for those of you that
are interested.
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--rick heli
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