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From: tbg@apollo.uucp (Tom Gross)
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Subject: Re: movie adaptations of Mozart operas
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Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 12:38:29 EST
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>> 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.