Opera Meets Film, Special Features
Opera Meets Film: A Little Bit of Satire & Wagner in ‘What’s Opera, Doc?’
https://operawire.com/opera-meets-film-a-little-bit-of-satire-wagner-in-whats-opera-doc/
What do you get when you cross Richard Wagner’s “The Ring Cycle,” with its dramatic story of warring gods and goddesses told by the light of an exorbitant musical tapestry, the humorous animations of Warner Bros., a large helping of ironic self-awareness? Well, you end up with “What’s Opera, Doc?” The brain child of animators Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese, {…}
