The Age of Innocence Opening Scene - Opera - Faust
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- In 1870s New York City, Newland Archer is planning to marry the respectable young May Welland. May's cousin, the American heiress Countess Ellen Olenska, has returned to New York after a disastrous marriage to a dissolute Polish Count.
The soprano is me…Linda Faye Stead now. Still singing!
It was sublime!
Is that you in the movie on the screen too?
Or are you singing, and that's an actress lip syncing?
What a beautiful voice BTW.
Your pitch. . . clear like crystal.
Oh my god, You have a such a great technique! i just loved it!
I come back to the video just to hear you sing!
I read that the music in the first part of this scene with the male singer and Marguerite is not from Faust, but that the later part of the same scene where Mrs Beaufort is exiting the theater is, obviously, the finale of Faust. The article I read said that the opening scene music is from a different "Faust themed" opera. ?
This really is one of the loveliest movies Marty ever directed.
I see you're on a first-name basis...🙄
One of my favorite passages from the book: "She (Christine Nilsson) sang, of course, “M’ama!” and not “he loves me,” since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences."
It's very true. But again, have you listened to any opera that was composed or sung in English? It just doesn't sound right.
I don’t understand opera but I really want to. Can you explain what’s happening in this particular one?
@@Luluwahkey Are you referring to OP's quote in particular which is an excerpt from the book that this opera scene is commented, or are you talking about the meaning of this scene, which is a metaphor with the protagonist's love triangle? For the latter, you can read David Salazar's article here: operawire.com/opera-meets-film-the-age-of-innocence-is-a-faustian-metaphor/
Today I found that Christina Nilsson really existed. She was a Swedish soprano who indeed sang Faust at Metropolitan Opera's inaugural performance in 1883. Often she signed her first name as Christine as well.
@@Luluwahkey Faust has signed a deal with the devil to get a new chance to experience life and he is using his help to seduce Marguerite
Brilliant how much of the opening is seen through the gaze of Larry Lefferts(and Sillerton Jackson.) In fact almost every key theme is hinted at.
Yes it's brilliant, it was written that way by Wharton but Scorcese brought it to life perfectly
Omg you are totally right and I could never catch that. Such a cool insight
The opera is Gounod’s Faust but sung in Italian, as was the convention at that time. I had to get the score from the archives of the New York City public library.
One of my favorite lines from the book is, "the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists . . . [and] . . . translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences." Love that Wharton humor.
Is it always sung in French now?
@@thebraidedbackpacker I'm an opera person, and I was curious as to why it was sung in Italian here, so this is very helpful. Yes, I'm pretty sure that the opera was sung in French at the Metropolitan Opera for the majority of the 20th century. It was still sometimes sung in Italian in Italy until the late 1950s or so. Also, Faust was the most popular opera in the world during the late 19th century. It has now fallen somewhat out of favour, but is still in the standard repertory.
Gounod's Faust was indeed the most popular opera in the entire repertoire throughout the Victorian & Edwardian periods. The theme of the "fallen woman" (Marguerite) & then her "divine redemption " was appealing to audiences then! It was also Nellie Melba's favourite role. Still a glorious score though...especially from Mephistopheles!@@ER1CwC
such a beautiful movie
Filmed at Philadelphia's Academy of Music (where my high school graduation was held).
Cool
It looks really nice. Must b even more beautiful while there in person. Very grand building.
A masterpiece.
Winnona/May is such an Angel. Just a classy Angel.
In fact，Winoa's appearance is different from May in the novel. May is described as the "goddess Diana", taller and stronger than Ellen.
@@zt836 Yes, in the book May is described as the goddess Diana, at least four times. Maybe that's why she is so good at archery.
@@huqiao Thank you. I didn`t know that
...yes...😍😭
She's a sharp little operator.
"Faust" and the adjective "Faustian" imply sacrificing spiritual values for power, knowledge, or material gain and / or making a risky bargain with seemingly good intentions that goes terribly wrong.
Ssshhh...no talking during the opera! 🤫
The filming was quite brilliant
My Dad saw Daniel Day Lewis play Hamlet
Does anyone know what particular part/duet of the opera this is?
Love this movie just watched it on Netflix and winona is so beautiful like an angel❤
Bravo.
What opera is? Faust?
Yes.
@@texasred2702 From Charles Gounod?
Nowadays it's only sung in French.
Anyone know who the singers are on the soundtrack?
Linda Faye Stead and Michael Reese Davies.
@@LindaStead-kh1ze. Does Jon Garrison play a part in the scene?
That would be most good Newland, MOST good.
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I remember in the book it was said they (The Old New York Elite) Liked the smaller theater because its limited space put them at ease because it kept out the disruptive and Vulgar 'New Rich" of the time. If they could see the new rich of today they would fall over dead a second time. its sad in a way that New York, and even new port has lost the gracious and elegant ways and manners of the 19'th centry and the Old Establishment of new York and Rd. island and Elshere. Sadly for better or worse that world is gone .
you must watch the gilded age!! 😅
It is sad that a world where
a respectable man is
expected to fulfill his duty
to his family is lost.
It is also sad that a world
where a respectable woman
is NOT allowed to be "just"
a wife and mother and her
free time used to strengthen
family ties.
NOTE: I said "respectable"
That indicates a certain level
of morals, financial stablity
and a society that sees the
benefit of marriage.
A man and wife are supposed
to help each other (as did the
Russells in "The Gilded Age")
and as Archer did for May (and
vice versa -- she gave him the
option to leave. But he chose
to stay with her and get married).
A man and a wife are not supposed
to be competing against each other.
I see you need some spelling lessons:
*Newport
*New York
*Rhode Island
"Nouveau riche" vs "Old money", and the instilled unspoken rule of "never talk money".
@@here_we_go_again2571 Marriage has always benefited the man....and woman...to a limited, death-grip way. The Patriarchy was at it's peak...complete control and dominance over the will of others.
Who is the singer?
Imdb lists them as Linda Farkas and Michael Rees Davis. Farkas has no other credits and Davis has a Live From the Met credit so I assume they're doing their own singing. I don't have the paid version of imdb so maybe they were dubbed. But the female singer is supposed to be Christine Nilsson, a popular opera singer of the 1870s.
Linda Faye Stead…me. Still singing!
Yes, we recorded the singing with orchestra before, had ear pieces to lip synch to ourselves while filming.
DDL❤
1:43-(2:40)(EDIT:just now sorry.)
2:40