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Title: Clumsy and awkward
Review: For a musical play like Die Fledermaus actors who sing are very much to be prefered to singers who try to act! Besides, filmed theater has very serious limitations.My ideal Fledermaus is the magnificent movie made in Color in Vienna just before the end of WWII. The soundtrack was lost but after the end of the war the cast was reassembled and the soundtrack was recorded anew. I saw the movie several times in Zürich in about 1948. I would dearly love to see it again. None of the performances I have seen since can compare.The treatment of an opera as a movie was in 1951 used by William Powell and Emeric Pressburger in their great Tales of Hoffmann. Perhaps they had seen Fledermaus?
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