The videography is interesting and focused though in the overture i would have liked more shots of the orchestra and a little less of levine, the picture quality is sharp and the sound has a certain clarity to it. As this rereleased 1975 version shows, the opera was the perfect vehicle for bergmans combination of symbolism, seriousness and mischief. It also happens to be the lightest in tone among the movies filmed by ingmar bergman. It was intended as a television production and was first shown on swedish television but was followed by a cinema release later that year. Mozarts overture and even mozart himself embody musical and cultural. Bergman makes the plot more accessible than it usually is. Classic fm the magic flute ingmar bergman facebook. If anything, the magic flute gives viewers the clearest window into bergman s fascination with the otherworldly, as the project allowed him to realize his childhood dream of filming his favorite. Overture to the magic flute string orchestra score and parts hal leonard. The magic flute the current the criterion collection.
The queen of the night offers her daughter pamina to tamino, but he has to bring her back from her father and priest sarastro. The work is in the form of a singspiel, a popular form during the time it was written that included both singing and spoken dialogue. Bergman makes flute a fable of fun the new york times. Shot in sumptuous color by sven nykvist, and featuring some of the finest nordic singers of the day, the film marks bergman s overt tribute to classical music. It is more than two hours long, and spellbinding for every minute. She gives a magic flute to tamino and magic bells to the bird hunter papageno. Initially he hoped to shoot his adaptation in the drottningholm itself, but the logistics proved too challenging and the venue too fragile. She gives a magic flute to tamino and magic bells to the bird hunter.
Mozarts immortal opera is masterfully reworked for the screen by the great ingmar bergman in this sublime rendering of one of the composers bestloved works a cheerful and charming operatic celebration of. For 20 years we provide a free and legal service for free sheet music without asking you anything in exchange. Those stereotyping ingmar bergman as a gloomy swede mustnt have seen the magic flute cert. Adaptation, enactment, and ingmar bergmans magic flute.
I really suggest all of you do try and do this with some scores you like. One of these is ingmar bergman s incredible the magic flute, which is combination of a staged opera within a narrative film. Yet ingmar bergman s screen version of mozarts the magic flute, which opened at the coronet yesterday, is an absolutely dazzling film entertainment, so full of beauty, intelligence, wit and. The magic flute merges bergman s two artistic selves, a man of the cinema and of the stage, in one. There are many momentary, shimmering exceptions in bergman s oeuvre. A beautiful adaptation of my favorite operas, this version of the magic flute remains one of the best opera adaptations ever made.
Ingmar bergman expert peter cowie discusses the idiosyncratic ways the swedish master brought the delight of mozart to the screen. With ulrik cold, josef kostlinger, irma urrila, hakan hagegard. Ingmar bergmans magic flute starts with an image of a sunset reflected on water. This is cinema with a smile as big as bergman s, but. Bergman s film of the magic flute remains the finest screen version of an opera ever produced. Barry banks tamino, rebecca evans pamina, elizabeth vidal queen of the night, simon keenlyside papageno, john tomlinson sarastro, lesley garrett papagena, john grahamhall monostatos, geoffrey mitchell choir, london philharmonic orchestra, sir charles mackerras. About swedish auteur ingmar bergman s 1974 filmversion of mozarts fairytale opera the magic flute trollflojten in swedish, i am probably unable to be objective. This is an amazing flute because it is so much more intimate created with infectious joy.
Ingmar bergman film version of mozarts magic flute revd by p g davis. Section playing time zipped midi files type 1 with lyrics zipped midi files type 1 no vocals. Shot in sumptuous color by sven nykvist, and featuring some of the finest nordic singers of the day, the film marks bergman s overt tribute to. She gives a magic flute to tamino and magic bells to the bird hunter papageno, who follows tamino and wants to find a wife. Mozarts magic has been neither betrayed nor merely reproduced by bergman, but rather. Bergman s direction was accomplished as always, the cinematography was gorgeous and the largely symbolic images looked amazing and enhanced the compelling story. The overture of the magic flute began, and the camera panned across the audience of a baroque theater, finally landing on a child. Some opera purists will not like bergman s magic flute for reasons that are perplexing. Twentyfive years after its first appearance, bergman s film of the magic flute remains the finest screen version of an opera ever produced. I probably heard it when i was 3 year old or something.
Overtures recorded 1926 1947 see notes for detailsmost of these appear elsewhere in the archive, but here they are, all together plus a few new ones. The magic flute orchestra the abduction from the seraglio overtures orchestra the. Anyhow, i am amazed how much counterpoint is in this overture and it really helps to notice that through transcribing. If you use and like, thank you to consider support donation. As this rereleased 1975 version shows, the opera was the perfect vehicle for bergman. The work was premiered on 30 september 1791 at schikaneders. Coinciding with the film directors centenary, it has been rereleased in cinemas along with a bluray and dvd dual format version.
Ingmar bergman has never before made a movie so warm, happy and innocent as this version of mozarts the magic flute. It was intended as a television production and was first shown on swedish television on 1 january 1975, but was followed by a cinema release later that year. So overall, while not quite perfect, this zauberflote magic flute is very good and solid. This weekend, the gold town nickelodeon in juneau, alaska, will be showing one of ingmar bergman s most fascinating films, the magic flute. Its been 10 years since he made a comedy the dreadful all these women and 20 years since he made a good one smiles of a summer night. Bergman had unsuccessfully tried for years to mount a production of the magic flute, finally getting his chance in 1975 with a television offer. The overture of the magic flute is different, however. Now, this has caused some musicologists to believe that it has nothing to do with the opera, and that it perhaps was added afterwards. Trollflojten is ingmar bergmans 1975 film version of mozarts opera.
The film was shown at the 1975 cannes film festival. Inside the box the magic flute 1975 bright walldark. I hesitate to freight bergman s the magic flute with analysis that can dilute the pure joy of experiencing it. I saw this magic flute for two primary reasons, one that magic flute is one of my favourite operas, and the other being the great ingmar bergman. Filmed at a time when bergman was wellknown chiefly for darker, more depressing films such as persona, cries and whispers and scenes from a marriage, the magic flute was a welcome breath of fresh air recalling bergman s classic comedies and exceeding their brilliance. As international prize winners, including the dranoff international two piano competition and provincia di caltanisetta international chamber music competition, they have performed in recital and with orchestras north america and europe including recent appearances at the concertgebouw, amsterdam and in munich in 20. I saw it when it came out, when i was in my second year as a student of germanic and scandinavian languages at ucla. In the film, which is an exquisite reimagining of mozarts 1791 opera of the same title, bergman adeptly m. The magic flute 1975 yify download movie torrent yts. Ingmar bergman s 1975 film of mozarts opera is a masterpiece in its own right. The magic flute 1975 ingmar bergman at an event for the magic flute 1975. This is the queen of the night but not as you know her. Mozart eine kleine nachtmusik, magic flute overture.
And he allows the marvelous but lengthy overture to speak for itself by focusing the camera on closeups. Ingmar bergman puts his indelible stamp on mozarts exquisite opera in this sublime rendering of one of the composers bestloved works. Bergman constantly blurs the lines between the two during the actual performance of the mozart masterpiece and does so with tremendous style. In my imagination, wrote bergman, i have always seen the magic flute living inside that old theater, in that keenly acoustical wooden box.
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