I had to drive 150 km to see this movie. It was a warm august summer evening in the middle of typical Dutch landscape, between farms, water and cows. Here 'Opera Spanga' celebrates it's yearly opera performance, usually live productions. The year 2003 was very special. Rigoletto was filmed and the cinema was a temporary open air in the middle of typical Dutch landscape. I was prepared and had my boots on............
The film was shocking, full of humor & nudity. This movie is already cult and is an absolute must to see one. The story is the original one, but time-period is a modern play mainly around a swimming pool. The singer even sings under water or while driving a motor bike or while making love to a hooker, as she is sniffing cocaine.
The scenery reminds me of the best days of the flower power period 1967. Colored furniture, glossy walls in pink and purple. The performance is solid in Italian. The film is full of surprising humor, sometimes shocking. Surely not what anybody expects to see when he goes for the opera Rigoletto.
Rigoletto, whose job embroils him in the perverse world of the Duca, tries to shield his daughter Gilda from the nature of his work at all costs. His paternal love has such a suffocating effect on Gilda, however, that she has no option but to make a "fatal" escape.
Whenever you have the opportunity to see this movie. Do not expect to see Verdi's Opera, as it should be. This is something entirely different.
This film will be banned soon by many opera-houses. The DVD should be among cult films, not within any classical section. I have placed mine next to Andy Warhol, Passolini, Fellini or Monty Python. This is hard to archive.........
My all time favorite Opera film. I heard that Corina van Eijk is working on a new project. I cannot understand why she's not allowed to enter most opera houses.
I liked a lot for what she's hated for..
The film was shocking, full of humor & nudity. This movie is already cult and is an absolute must to see one. The story is the original one, but time-period is a modern play mainly around a swimming pool. The singer even sings under water or while driving a motor bike or while making love to a hooker, as she is sniffing cocaine.
The scenery reminds me of the best days of the flower power period 1967. Colored furniture, glossy walls in pink and purple. The performance is solid in Italian. The film is full of surprising humor, sometimes shocking. Surely not what anybody expects to see when he goes for the opera Rigoletto.
Rigoletto, whose job embroils him in the perverse world of the Duca, tries to shield his daughter Gilda from the nature of his work at all costs. His paternal love has such a suffocating effect on Gilda, however, that she has no option but to make a "fatal" escape.
Whenever you have the opportunity to see this movie. Do not expect to see Verdi's Opera, as it should be. This is something entirely different.
This film will be banned soon by many opera-houses. The DVD should be among cult films, not within any classical section. I have placed mine next to Andy Warhol, Passolini, Fellini or Monty Python. This is hard to archive.........
My all time favorite Opera film. I heard that Corina van Eijk is working on a new project. I cannot understand why she's not allowed to enter most opera houses.
I liked a lot for what she's hated for..