Wagner - Liebestod - From the film "Aria" (1987)

[NazTb0y]

Oh my god! You don't play the Liebestod during a fucking sex scene... Franc Roddam must have really hated Wagner to have paired the content of the Liebestod to such unfitting form. He probably counts on no one knowing shit about Wagner, let alone bothering to read the German libretto. At least he didn't defile the immaculate voice of Waltraud Meier by associating it with this meretricious piece of trash. Aria! As if this were the film for opera aficionados to see! Aria, my ass!

[BlueCougar]

@NazTb0y Goodness, the amount of ignorance in this comment is appalling! Roddam perfectly captured the meaning of the whole opera in this aria. Liebestod = the consummation of love through death! It seems YOU have no understanding what the lines in the final aria mean. "Soll ich schlürfen, untertauchen? Süss in Düften mich verhauchen? Unbewusst - höchste Lust..." But of course, YOU'd rather have seen a 50 year old fat soprano hovering emotionless over a 60 year old tenor instead...

[NazTb0y]

@BlueCougar Liebestod = transfiguration of the soul through death & putting off of sexual fulfillment. You don't get Wagnerian sexuality. This is why Nietzsche preferred Bizet to Wagner! b/c Isolde never got to consummate her love, she gains a kind of ascetic ecstasy mixed with pain, & b/c the love is supernatural, i.e., the product of a magical potion, it's too much for them both to bear and kills them. The ultimate thought experiment in sexual asceticism. Your interpretation is mundane...

[NazTb0y]

@BlueCougar Trouble is, you're viewing the Liebestod through Hitchcock rather than Wagner. Wagner isn't modernism or realism--but the most modern & enduring kind of Romanticism--a kind that still speaks to us, Hitchcock's Vertigo notwithstanding. If you're calling Meier fat, you're ignorant. She's petit & gorgeous, & her Munich performances captures the youthful vigor of Isolde perfectly.

[NazTb0y]

@BlueCougar what now, Cougar? Who got schooled in Wagner?

[NazTb0y]

@BenjaminFonseca Waltraud Meier in Munich is better...

[forevermorphingari]

yes Leontyne,singgg =')

[atrejutipokmop]

I remember this movie, the first time I saw her she was 17, and of course I liked it. I do not know if you could upload all the parts, would be great.

[keepondreaming20]

ok am i the only one who cant believe this is on youtube?

[vkatsaitis]

Unforgettable segment. Always on my mind and shocking gave me a few sleepless nights. Superb movie.

[rlaures]

Gracias por el aporet

[garfreed]

I remember when I saw this at the theater in 1988 -- I was shocked and couldn't get this segment out of my mind.

[youfeda]

Grazie

[saltrapty]

this one...left me, speechless. and i knew what was going to happen too cause of roger eberts review. he gives no spoiler alert at all. but...i knew what was going to happen, and i still felt, the most shocked and depressed i have felt while watching a movie, and if you check my videos, im sorta known for doing shocking movies...but this, over, salo, cannibal anything, was more disturbing to me. i LOVE it.

[archcorenth]

@saltrapty of course the title of the aria might give it away too. :-P

[saltrapty]

@archcorenth thanks to your reply i watched this segment again just now. I just watched the human centipede 2 nights ago, and still, this segment is more disturbing to me. its hard to watch. i think its bridgets face when she looks at him after he slits his wrist. they are like, ok...we did it. time to die now. very disturbing.

[SteamMachineTR]

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