Dave Heather While waiting for Stella to conclude her performance in the opera house next door, Hoffman recounts his 3 tragic loves: Olympia the mechanical doll, Giulietta the courtesan, and Antonia the young consumptive. Mikhail Baryshnikov, … First-class throughout. When she discovers him seated directly behind her, Driftwood joins Mrs. Claypool, and introduces her to Herman Gottlieb (Sig Ruman), director of the New York Opera Company, also dining at the restaurant. Hermann Prey, | | 109 min In the third opera of Wagner's Ring Cycle, a young man named Siegfried, raised by the dwarf Mime, finds the pieces of a magic sword and goes on a quest to experience fear for the first time, all part of a plan set forth by the god Wotan. Zeppo Marx had left the team, and for a time it appeared that the … The Duke lives the high life. | Joan Sutherland, This continues until Fiorello and Tomasso each have ordered about a dozen hard-boiled eggs and Driftwood has ordered about everything else—including coffee to sober up some stewed prunes. At the suggestion of producer Irving Thalberg, the film marked a change of direction in the brothers' career. Plácido Domingo, | AKA: Una noche en la opera, Uma Noite na Ópera. 105 min Alison Hagley, Director: | "[23], Roger Ebert admitted that, while A Night at the Opera "contains some of their best work", he "fast-forward[ed] over the sappy interludes involving Kitty Carlisle and Allan Jones. Thalberg, however, felt that this made the brothers unsympathetic, particularly to female filmgoers. Crammed into this little space at the end of the scene are Driftwood, Fiorello, Tomasso, Ricardo, two cleaning ladies who make up the bed, a manicurist (Manicurist: Do you want your nails long or short? It was the first of five films the Marx Brothers made under contract for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after their departure from Paramount Pictures, and the first after Zeppo left the act. Justino Díaz, | Gross: The Marx Brothers Collection (A Night at The Opera/A Day at The Races/A Night in Casablanca/Room Service/At the Circus/Go West/The Big Store) 4.7 out of 5 stars 453 DVD 134 min Brian Large The end consisted of a grand finale in the traditional MGM musical fashion, something lacking from the brothers' Paramount efforts.[17]. Frankly disappointing. In his autobiography, Groucho and Me, he wrote of the Marx Brothers' 13 films, "Two were far above average. A Night at the Opera is an Comedy movie that was released in 1935 and has a run time of 1 hr 36 min. Teresa Stratas, These routines were carefully honed in a series of live stage performances, as the brothers took to the road and performed the new material around the country before filming began. Frédéric Mitterrand Natalie Dessay, Director: Milnes, too, impresses, and has a great death scene. Unless the cinematography is really wonderful or really awful, I've mostly ignored it.I've included a few recommendations for CDs, just for fun. Screenplay. Traditional staging, with a radiant Gheorghiu at the center. Domingo's whingey, unstable yet wildly attractive Carlo is fascinating; Freni is lovely and dignified, a worthy heroine who made me care about her tragedy.CD recommendation: 1970, Carlo Maria Giulini conducting, with Plácido Domingo, Montserrat Caballé, Shirley Verrett, Sherrill Milnes (EMI 2000), 191 min | This production is quite pretty; the visual symbolism, while obvious, is not too distracting; it's well-sung. Paata Burchuladze, 8/10 In the final opera of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle, the lovers Siegfried and Brünnhilde are torn apart by a pair of royal siblings who use magic and deception to gain their love and the magic ring. | An energetic and pretty production, although the direction is strictly amateur-hour. Don Carlo, crown prince of Spain, falls in love with Elisabeth of Valois, originally promised to him but later married to his father King Philip, as part of the terms of a peace treaty ... See full summary », Director: Harry Belafonte, | Some find that the technical problems--the disruptive mistral winds swamping the microphones, the occasionally out-of-focus camera--add atmosphere. | | Luciano Pavarotti, Oh, that's the usual clause that's in every contract. The funniest picture ever made!. Hildegard Behrens, | Juan Pons, The zany Marx Brothers turn an operatic performance into chaos in their efforts to promote their protégé’s romance with the leading lady. Brigitte Fassbaender, Thomas Allen, Paoletta Marrocu, Diane Pilcher, Stars: 1 by Various Artists, Mirko Cuderman, Marko Munih, Walter Langer, Jovan Sajnovic & Alfred Scholz on.. | Stars: Allen is a splendidly self-deluded Giovanni; Gruberova a delicate, tragic Anna. A Night at the Opera is a 1935 American comedy film starring the Marx Brothers, and featuring Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman, and Walter Woolf King. Stars: 136 min Never quite leaps into believability, yet the finale is touching and effective. Exquisitely staged amidst wonderful Roman locations. The staging and costumes are somewhat bland, though I do like the sets. Dara is the show's weak link vocally, but he's got the shtick down to an art, and his barcarolle is wonderfully done. | Kirk Browning 112 min | Musical. Morrie Ryskind. In 2008, a film student reported that the Hungarian National Film Archive possesses a longer print of the film. Drama, Music, An Egyptian military commander, Radamès, struggles to choose between his love for the enslaved Ethiopian princess Aida, and his loyalty to the Pharaoh. But sometimes, even if I can't get to an opera house, I want a fuller experience--costumes, staging, lights. Director: | The saga continues. In an interview with Richard J. Anobile in The Marx Brothers Scrapbook, Groucho said he was so appalled by an early draft of the script—which was apparently written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby—that he shouted, "Why fuck around with second-rate talent, get Kaufman and Ryskind [to write the screenplay]!" The Victorian sets and costumes, while they make no sense whatsoever (was that the point?) 60 min Statistics: average rating, directors, actors, genres, countries in IMDb Top 250 IMDb Top 250 Informer: Night at the Opera, A (1935) | "[19] "The comedy material is always good and sometimes brilliant", reported Variety. This unique opening was created, but not used in the released film because MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer felt the parody would cheapen the respected trademark. | A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies. Director: Carlo Battistoni 8/10 Every "Musetta" after Nishkin has disappointed me--her Waltz here has never been bettered.CD recommendations: | The targets of their mischief were largely confined to clear villains. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies. To complicate the story further, the ... See full summary », Director: 6/28/2016 A Night at the Opera, Vol. Comedy, Romance, Music, Director: An opinionated orchestra keeps the pace strong. The production starts at such an emotional extreme that there is nowhere much to go with it (a fault with Strauss more than this production). Franco Zeffirelli A Glyndebourne Festival production of Britten's opera, with a fine cast plus pretty sets and costumes. | Stars: [9] 96 min Stars: 7/10 Both Groucho and Harpo stated this as fact in their memoirs,[13][14] and Leonard Maltin repeats it in the DVD commentary. Michael Devlin, Many great comedy stars had trouble adapting they to the code's strict rules, but the Marxes transitioned seamlessly. Fantasy, Music, Stars: Ricardo has an altercation with Lassparri, which results in both Rosa and Driftwood being fired from the opera company by Gottlieb. Driftwood: And two medium-boiled eggs. Ryland Davies, 10/10 Anna Tomowa-Sintow, $2.54M. James Levine, | While searching for an opponent on the run, he arrests Cavaradossi and blackmails Tosca. My favorite part is the interpretation of the Venusberg ballet. 7/10 Driftwood, Mrs. Claypool, Rosa, Lassparri and Gottlieb all set sail from Italy to New York aboard an ocean liner. A Night at the Opera adalah sebuah film komedi Amerika 1935 yang dibintangi oleh Marx Bersaudara, dan menampilkan Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Margaret Dumont, Sig Ruman, dan Walter Woolf King.Film tersebut adalah film pertama yang Marx Bersaudara buat untuk Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer setelah mereka keluar dari Paramount Pictures, dan yang pertama setelah Zeppo meninggalkan akting. Peasant boy buys love potion to woo rich girl. Valery Gergiev, A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies. Ileana Cotrubas. There's no absurdly quasi-religious reverence here for Wagner or about the work the company is doing. The film was directed by Sam Wood. Pavarotti sings with ease; Millo is very very good rather than great; only Nucci's Renato disappointed me. Luis Lima. | Director: As Groucho's and Margaret Dumont's characters are boarding the ocean liner, Dumont asks Groucho, "Are you sure you have everything, Otis? Musical. James Levine, | | The setting (a WWII-era army base and city) works well. [15] While the print does not contain the opening musical number, it does contain several excised lines referencing Italy that had been cut sometime after the film's original release. Gorgeous production design (alas, no elephants), and with a notably fine chorus. Drama, Musical, Romance. A fine if imperfect production. 0 Fiorello refuses to go until they've eaten, and eventually Driftwood's very small stateroom is crowded with an assortment of people. G The opera setting also allowed MGM to add big production song numbers (which were one of this studio's specialties), such as the song Alone, with the departure of the steamship, and the song Cosi Cosa with the Italian buffet and dancing. Music, Drama. However, according to MPAA records,[10] the film was re-edited by MGM in 1938,[11] prior to the war, because of complaints from the Italian government that it "made fun of Italian people". See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc, Breaking The Fourth Wall By Talking To The Audience, Les contes d'Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann). A satisfying conclusion, though it felt rather a long time coming. A Night at the Opera. With Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle. Renata Scotto, We all know that many of the best opera recordings are only available on CD, rather than DVD. | This was my first opera as well as my first opera-on-film, and I was emotionally overwhelmed at the time. Stars: Mitchell is warm and infinitely lovable, giving her death scene great emotional impact. | | An enjoyable if sometimes confusing look backstage as the San Francisco Opera mounts the Ring Cycle. | Fassbaender sings well, but is less satisfying as an actress (or should I say actor?). Director: Sherrill Milnes, The opera is so strange in form, and so emotionally abstract, that it's difficult for me assess. "[24] Danel Griffin says: "A Night at the Opera is funny, but this is NOT the Marx Brothers, and their earlier style is so sorely missed that the film falls flat. Agnes Baltsa, Brian Large Betsy Norden, Claus Viller | Download English A Night at the Opera (1935) Subtitle for free from a database of thousands of machine translated subtitles in more than 75 languages | José Carreras, 9/10 The three stowaways have to hide out in the room while a parade of people walk in, asking to either use the cabin, or to perform their regular duties. This is the famously amateurish outdoor recording. | Plácido Domingo, Driftwood: And two hard-boiled eggs. Ying Huang, Fiorello: (inside room): And two hard-boiled eggs. Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Roberto Frontali, But Domingo is wonderful despite the weird make-up, and, overall, this still works extremely well for me.CD recommendation: 1971, Aldo Ceccato conducting, with Beverly Sills, Nicolai Gedda, Rolando Panerai (EMI 1988), 0 Knut Skram, Domingo is in fine form, especially in E lucevan le stelle. Drama, Fantasy, Music. Comedy, Music, Director: Stars: Richard Strauss' classic opera version of the ancient Greek tragedy about the princess Elektra, who dreams of avenging her father Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover. Nicolai Gedda, Petra Malakova, Votes: Roger Soyer, | Harolyn Blackwell, [23] Ken Hanke calls it "hysterical, but not up to the boys' Paramount films. Baltsa, a less naturalistic actress than Ewing, is irresistable; Carreras is both dignified and touching; an electric Ramey brings the house down. Stars: | I should have liked this better: The costumes and sets are appealing, Gruberova, Stratas et al sing well, it's a fine opera. They sing, they dance, they eat the scenery. But it's colourful, frenetic, and great fun. Kwiechien, Beczala (filling in for Rolando Villazon), and Abdrazakov are admirable, as is the chorus. Drama, Music, Enrico wants sister Lucia to marry Arturo for political gain. A Night at the Opera dissects the eighty-three most popular operas recorded on compact disc, from Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur to Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. Alfredo Kraus, Mirella Freni, Some people just don't get it. But it's solidly sung; the orchestra is remarkably good, with strong forward momentum; and there's plenty of dry ice and lighting effects to create atmosphere. | Kitty Carlisle, Votes: Market Distributor Release date 2002 2007 2008 2009 2013 Thomas Hampson, Director: Stars: 118 min Nonetheless this is a hugely successful production: a splendid opening scene out on the moors, a glittering wedding sextet, an indubitably thrilling Mad Scene. 3,256 Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night. [16], A Night at the Opera began a new era for the Marx Brothers' style of comedy. | Comedy, Music, Directors: Carlisle and Jones were both trained in operatic singing and provided their own singing voices in the film. Drama, Musical, Director: Mariusz Kwiecien. 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