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Summary: The Magic Flute
Review: This is an update on my earlier review. Criterion are re-mastering the DVD to correct the audio problem. The new discs will be available from September 2000 with the channels the right way around.The Magic Flute will then be perfect and worth at least 7 stars out of 5.
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Summary: Cherubino dances a jig and talks about Trollflojten
Review: This is by far the best opera video I have ever seen. Papageno is delectably adorable with a beautiful, warm, lyric voice. The Three Ladies are especially good as well. The Queen of the Night is downright Terrifying. The cast, freed by the luxuries of recording, are able to move, and thus act, without the constraints of perfect posture. Ohhh, the acting, the sets, the cast... I could die, rally I could. ~Cherubino, farfallone amoroso~
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Summary: Marvelous!
Review: This is one of the best movie I have ever seen. I watched it 3 times straight. Ingmar Bergman is a genius.
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Summary: a major classic
Review: This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film. This film which can best described as an operetta, is based on the opera of the same name by Mozart. The only difference is that the libretto is in Swedish. The origianl Swedish title of the film is Trollflöjten. The movie is well known and has remained popular to this day. Disappointingly, the Criterion DVD has no special features on it.
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Summary: We only see Bergman, we only hear Mozart...
Review: Well, the tagline of this film pretty much tells the whole story. Mozart's playful opera, which, as we all know from "Amadeus," was written for the enjoyment of the masses, is filmed by the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. If you love opera or Bergman, then how can you not check this one out? True, it is a bit strange to hear the opera sung in Swedish (with English sub-titles), but it is not like most of us had committed the original German lyrics to memory. Bergman stages the opera in a theater and films the production (including a quaint little look behind the scenes at one point); I believe this was original done for Swedish TV. Sarastro (Ulrik Cold) steals the daughter of the Queen of the Night (Birgit Nordin), with Josef Köstlinger as Tamino, Hakan Hagegard as Papageno, and Elisabeth Eriskon as Papagena. This DVD includes the stereo score, which I understand has not always been available when this film was screened in the past.
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Summary: We only see Bergman, we only hear Mozart...
Review: Well, the tagline of this film pretty much tells the whole story. Mozart's playful opera, which, as we all know from "Amadeus," was written for the enjoyment of the masses, is filmed by the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. If you love opera or Bergman, then how can you not check this one out? True, it is a bit strange to hear the opera sung in Swedish (with English sub-titles), but it is not like most of us had committed the original German lyrics to memory. Bergman stages the opera in a theater and films the production (including a quaint little look behind the scenes at one point); I believe this was original done for Swedish TV. Sarastro (Ulrik Cold) steals the daughter of the Queen of the Night (Birgit Nordin), with Josef Köstlinger as Tamino, Hakan Hagegard as Papageno, and Elisabeth Eriskon as Papagena. This DVD includes the stereo score, which I understand has not always been available when this film was screened in the past.
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