The Opera House

The Opera House (2017)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 2017-10-01
  • User Rating: 8.2/10 from 4 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 48min
  • Language: English
  • Director: Susan Froemke
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Summary

In this documentary, award-winning filmmaker Susan Froemke explores the creation of the Metropolitan Opera’s storied home of the last five decades. Drawing on rarely seen archival footage, stills, and recent interviews, The Opera House looks at an important period of the Met’s history and delves into some of the untold stories of the artists, architects, and politicians who shaped the cultural life of New York City in the ’50s and ’60s. Among the notable figures in the film are famed soprano Leontyne Price, who opened the new Met in 1966 in Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra; Rudolf Bing, the Met’s imperious General Manager who engineered the move from the old house to the new one; Robert Moses, the unstoppable city planner who bulldozed an entire neighborhood to make room for Lincoln Center; and Wallace Harrison, whose quest for architectural glory was never fully realized.

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  • Leontyne Price

    as Self - Interviewee
  • Humphrey Burton

    as Self - BBC Arts Reporter
  • Justino Díaz

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Rudolf Bing

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Wallace Harrison

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Franco Zeffirelli

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Samuel Barber

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Robert Moses

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Hilary Ballon

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Rosalind Elias

    as Self (archive footage)
  • Kyna Leski

    as Self (archive footage)
Sound Engelbert Humperdinck Music
Directing Susan Froemke Director
Production Muffie Meyer Consulting Producer
Sound Roger Phenix Sound
Sound Modeste Moussorgsky Music
Sound Aaron Copland Music
Production Mia Bongiovanni Executive Producer
Sound Richard Strauss Music
Sound Richard Wagner Music
Editing Lindsey Schneider Archival Footage Research
Production Susan Froemke Producer
Editing Jaclyn Lee First Assistant Editor
Sound Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Music
Directing Peter R. Livingston Jr. Co-Director
Visual Effects Dana Schechter Animation
Sound Gaetano Donizetti Music
Sound Samuel Barber Music
Sound Giuseppe Verdi Music
Editing Prudence Arndt Archival Footage Coordinator
Editing Justine Pierce Archival Footage Research
Production Jaclyn Lee Associate Producer
Visual Effects Molly Schwartz Animation
Visual Effects Jason Conradt Animation
Editing Victor Ilyukhin Assistant Editor
Sound Charles Gounod Music
Editing Peter R. Livingston Jr. Editor
Production Peter Gelb Producer
Production Alexandra Eastman Executive Producer
Sound Giacomo Puccini Music
Sound Vincenzo Bellini Music
Sound Georges Bizet Music

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