ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick) (01/26/86)
Does anyone know whether anyone has ever done The Magic Flute
on film? How about any of the other Mozart operas?
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... {ucbvax,lll-crg}!ucdavis!ccrrickjulian@riacs.ARPA (Julian E. Gomez) (01/27/86)
> Does anyone know whether anyone has ever done The Magic Flute > on film? How about any of the other Mozart operas? Bergman did "The Magic Flute" around '75 or earlier. Didn't someone else do Don Juan (i'm not thinking of Fellini's Casanova). -- "If Chaos himself sat umpire, what better could he do?" Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez (ARPA: julian@riacs) 415-694-6141 415-694-6363 (UUCP: decvax!decwrl!julian@riacs) RIACS - Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science
monique@ucla-cs.UUCP (01/27/86)
> Does anyone know whether anyone has ever done The Magic Flute > on film? How about any of the other Mozart operas? > -- > --rick heli > ... {ucbvax,lll-crg}!ucdavis!ccrrick Of course, Ingmar Bergman adapted the Magic Flute to the screen!
leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) (01/27/86)
Yes, MAGIC FLUTE has been done as a film. In fact, it is one of the best known films of operas since it was done by no less a director than Ingmar Bergman. It was made for TV in Sweden in 1974, then released as a feature film in this country. I saw it in 1977 and walked out on it. (It was through no fault of the film, I had gotten a job offer to come to AT&T just an hour or so before going to see it and had too much on my mind to concentrate on the film. Wouldn't you know it, I never got another chance to see it, and my wife, who I dragged out of the film, has never completely forgiven me.) Other Mozart operas have been filmed, I am pretty sure, but they always drop from sight shortly after release. MAGIC FLUTE was an exception. I know of a major film production of Puccini's LA BOHEME made in the 60's that isn't listed in film sources like Maltin and Scheuer. I think these are considered to be just a special category of films for a narrow audience. They are not covered by film books and video-stores rarely carry them. That may change a little as video sound reproduction improves. I haven't looked that hard for Mozart on cassette, but I would have noticed Puccini on cassette. Puccini wrote some of the most beautiful music I have ever heard and I would notice if it was available in video form. You might want to keep an eye on your local PBS station and, if you get it, the Arts and Entertainment network. Both run opera fairly commonly and PBS usually gets a local station to simul-cast. Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!leeper
greg@olivee.UUCP (Greg Paley) (01/28/86)
> Does anyone know whether anyone has ever done The Magic Flute > on film? How about any of the other Mozart operas? > -- > --rick heli > ... {ucbvax,lll-crg}!ucdavis!ccrrick The Ingmar Bergman film of the "Magic Flute", made in the mid 70's and sung/spoken in Swedish, featured a cast of "unknowns" and served as a springboard of sorts for the baritone Hakan Hakegard who now sings at the Met, San Francisco, Covent Garden, and other major houses. Two other films that come to mind are the 1979 Joseph Losey production of "Don Giovanni" (starring Ruggero Raimondi, Kiri Te Kanawa, Edda Moser) and a mid-to-late 70's production, produced by Jean-Pierre Ponelle, of "The Marriage of Figaro" (starring Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni and Kiri te Kanawa). - Greg Paley/Olivetti ATC
jsf@rlgvax.UUCP (Steven Fritzinger) (01/28/86)
> Does anyone know whether anyone has ever done The Magic Flute > on film? How about any of the other Mozart operas? > -- > --rick heli > ... {ucbvax,lll-crg}!ucdavis!ccrrick Bergman has done _The_Magic_Flute_. I saw it several years ago, and thought it was as good as any of the live performances of it I have seen. -- Steve Fritzinger CCI-OSG Reston,Va. seismo!rlgvax!jsf "Look, I don't know what you two are doing here, but I think you ought to know I've killed alot of old people in my time, and I'm not above doing it again"
pwyc@ihnp1.UUCP (Peter Chen) (01/28/86)
> Does anyone know whether anyone has ever done The Magic Flute > on film? How about any of the other Mozart operas? ingmar bergman, "magic flute". a classic. -peterc ...ihnp4!ihnp1!pwyc "macho non troppo"
francois@yale.ARPA (Charles B. Francois) (01/29/86)
In article <166@riacs.ARPA> julian@riacs.ARPA (Julian E. Gomez) writes: >Bergman did "The Magic Flute" around '75 or earlier. Didn't someone >else do Don Juan (i'm not thinking of Fellini's Casanova). You are perhaps thinking of Joseph Loosey's "Don Giovanni". --Charles B. Francois {...,decvax,allegra}!yale!francois
tbg@apollo.uucp (Tom Gross) (01/29/86)
>> Does anyone know whether anyone has ever done The Magic Flute >> on film? How about any of the other Mozart operas? >Bergman did "The Magic Flute" around '75 or earlier. Didn't someone >else do Don Juan (i'm not thinking of Fellini's Casanova). Joseph Losey directed Don Giovanni, which was released in 1979, I think. I saw the film and only remember that it was filmed in Vicenza, Italy and was very boring. It was a little bit like a very long episode of the Monkees: arias made "interesting" by having people sing different lines in different (quick-cut) shots in "interesting" locations like standing in the middle of a boat in the middle of a lake. I am not a big Mozart opera fan (I am a Verdi-Puccini kind-of-guy); someone who really enjoys Don Giovanni might have liked the film. As I recall the reviews of the flick at the time confirmed my feelings. Also, this was the only production of Don Giovanni I have ever seen, so maybe certain lines are SUPPOSED to be sung in the middle of a lake. I am trying to remember what other films Joseph Losey is famous for and can't remember. I know he is famous for SOMETHING. Please help, this is driving me crazy. Tom Gross Apollo Computer, Inc.
rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) (01/31/86)
So far, nobody has mentioned Joseph Losey's rather idiosyncratic film
of "Don Giovanni", which appeared to generally savage reviews about
four years ago (I loved it, saw it twice and bought the record, but
what do I know?).
It featured Ruggiero Raimondi , Kiri Te Kanawa, Edda Moser, Jose Van Dam,
Teresa Berganza, John MacCurdy and I-can't-remember-the-tenor. The music
was conducted by Lorin Maazel (Orchestre National de Paris?).
It was gorgeous to look at and the singing was magnificent. One of the
reasons the critics hated it was that it took a very stern, moralistic
approach to the story - staged productions tend to play it more light-
heartedly, almost as a farce. They also hated the fact that the music
and singing were studio-recorded first and the singers lip-synched to
it during filming - personally, I think that was preferable to seeing
the facial gyrations singers must go through in monstrous close-up.
Losey also introduced an extraneous, though non-speaking-or-singing
character into the action - a mysterious valet, dressed in black, whose
rather sinister appearances whenever Don G was up to no good suggested
that he may have been an agent of the Don's eventual doom.
As I said, I loved it - it's been about three years since I saw it last,
but it remains very vivid in my memory. It's shown every now and again
in repertory cinemas in San Francisco, by the way.
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pacific bell | san ramon | californiarjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) (02/01/86)
> I am trying to remember what other films Joseph Losey > is famous for and can't remember. I know he is famous > for SOMETHING. Please help, this is driving me crazy. I know I should leave this for the folks with the reference books but... The Losey films that spring immediately to mind (other than Don Giovanni) are "Darling" (Julie Christie's ticket to stardom), "The Servant" (Harold Pinter screenplay, starring Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Edward Fox) and "The Go-Between" (another Pinter screenplay from L. P. Hartley's book, with Julie Christie, Alan Bates). -- rod williams | {ihnp4,dual}!ptsfa!ptsfc!rjw ------------------------------------------- pacific bell | san ramon | california
ecl@mtgzz.UUCP (e.c.leeper) (02/04/86)
> Yes, MAGIC FLUTE has been done as a film. ... I saw it in 1977 and > walked out on it. (It was through no fault of the film, I had gotten a > job offer to come to AT&T just an hour or so before going to see it > and had too much on my mind to concentrate on the film. Wouldn't you > know it, I never got another chance to see it, and my wife, who I > dragged out of the film, has never completely forgiven me.) Yes I have. Evelyn C. Leeper ...ihnp4!mtgzz!ecl ****************************************************************************** * Get a Usenetter on the ballot at Confederation! * * Nominate MARK R. LEEPER for Hugo for Best Fan Writer in 1986! * ******************************************************************************
mgh@mtuni.UUCP (Marcus Hand) (02/08/86)
In article <89@ucdavis.UUCP> ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick) writes: >Does anyone know whether anyone has ever done The Magic Flute >on film? How about any of the other Mozart operas? >-- > --rick heli > ... {ucbvax,lll-crg}!ucdavis!ccrrick Joseph Losey's Don Giovanni. -- Marcus Hand (mtuni!mgh)