Opera Primer Comedic, Iventive, and Entertaining

richardwy

I ran this by the folks at PBS and they couldn't help me.

Around 1992 or so, on PBS, was a short show, maybe 5 mins, where the guy or gal who put it together aspired to show ALL (maybe not all?) the plots of operas in something like 3 to 5 mins.

It was animated along the lines of the Monty Python animations looking like gilded age set designs.

It was a hoot, with a ton of great music thrown in.

At the end, all the deaths and how folks died are tallied up including the gods in Wagner's Götterdämmerung.

Does this ring a bell with anyone?

Eggtracy · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:01 pm Post subject:

I wish it did ring a bell, because it sounds awesome. Sadly, I was 2 in 1992....
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swthiel · Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:36 pm Post subject:

Sounds like Anna Russell ...

Check this out.
And this (Part II)
And this (Part III) (it's Wagner...)
... and ... this ...Part IV

She also did "How To Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera" -- you can find it on "Anna Russell Sings?"
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richardwy · Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 9:14 am Post subject:

Right, whoever made it knew Russell.

It was sort of like Monty Python but serious except for the fact that the narrator's "matter of fact tone" and the way they went about it was comical.

Thanks for trying guys.

I guess this one is lost in the maze of media.