Furthermore, film brings us much closer to the singers than is possible, or desirable, in a live performance.
3įilming a live performance magnifies these flaws and adds others, notably echoing voices and booming footsteps. And opera singers are paid to sing, not to act or to look young and beautiful, and most of the time they don’t. Physical movement happens in real time, after all, and musical action doesn’t. While many operas cry out for inventive staging, few of the performances I’ve seen ever manage to deliver consistently. The challenges of making an opera work visually are almost insurmountable. 1 Twenty-five years later, it remains the finest operatic film ever made. Back in 1976, Ingmar Bergman made a movie of Mozart’s famous opera The Magic Flute.
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