There’s no shortage of movie musicals based on popular plays. Far fewer are based on operas. Max Ophüls’s rarely seen 1932 film “The Bartered Bride,” a seventy-six-minute, giddily inventive adaptation ...
“Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride”Filmmaker Burton spins an enchanting animated tale for friends of the bride and ghoul alike. Using characters made of rubber meticulously shot through stop-motion animation ...
BOSTON — As I listen to the overture of Bedřich Smetana’s "The Bartered Bride" in preparation for my call with Boston Midsummer Opera music director and conductor Susan Davenny Wyner, I sense ...
Selected home-video releases this week: “Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride” – Filmmaker Burton spins an enchanting animated tale for friends of the bride and ghoul alike. in a movie nominated for an Oscar in ...
The Czechiest features of The Bartered Bride – cornerstone of Czech opera and the first to go international after premiering in 1866 – are in the music rather than the story or setting. No accident: ...