Schnelle Füße - Das klinget - Könnte jeder brave Mann

[rockgor]

Is Bergman goofy in the head? Running and singing are mutually

exclusive.

[scordeteyla]

@rockgor it's a movie and the singers didn't sing it live, so it is possible :)

[papagena92]

@rockgor agree with scordeteyla, the singers sang in a studio, here they are lip-syncing.

[papagena92]

I love this part, in every production!!

(In the German one with Dorothea Roschmann and Simon Keenlyside this bit is amazing^^).

[alahl002]

@papagena92 its amazing in this version to but i get were your coming from papagena

[papagena92]

@alahl002 you get where I'm coming from? what do you mean?

[alahl002]

@papagena92 "I get where you're coming from" is an expression that means pretty much that I see your point and that i agree with it. maybe not completely but in most of it, do you understand?

[Volviert]

Bergman + Mozart = Epic win

[DreiKnaben1]

This is the best part of the whole opera! It's soooo funny :)

[SatanAteMySocks]

I love how Mozart quoted himself here. :-)

[scordeteyla]

what do you mean by that? :)

[SatanAteMySocks]

Didn't you notice the theme from Eine kleine Nachtmusik when Monostatos comes on stage? ;-)

[scordeteyla]

nö :) i suppose, i should have, but i didn't ^^

[shanghaibenny2]

Beautiful sight and sound. Bergman was not always fatalistic in his productions.

[tinythechick]

håkan hagegård is sooo cute, im in love with him. ;)

[DoryViolet]

ME 2!!!!! and I love pamina too.

[ferdinand164]

there are a few things that change in this version that I don't like like the voice of monostatos and the fact that in the original script (i don't want to be racist in anyway) monostatos is black

[scordeteyla]

the voice is your own opion, okay.

but i think that that monostatos is supposed to be black, too. there's a version of the Zauberflöte with Dorothea Röschmann as Pamina and Diana Damrau as the queen, where Monostatos really isn't black at all...

[lotus49a]

Indeed there is and it's a particularly fine production. Look out for Diana Damrau as die Königin - she was fantastic.

[scordeteyla]

true, she's one of the best queens :)

[papagena92]

I love the "Das klinget" in that version!!!!

[edgewooddirk1212]

They did make his skin a bit darker... I found it amusing how Monostatos is in a jester-like garb.

[Skenardo]

Monostatos is supposed to be a Moor, according to the libretto. I can't say much about the costume, though.

[scordeteyla]

well, you're very smart, aren't you? we all know he's supposed to be black... (we wrote it about ten times already)

[Skenardo]

Well, the thing is, A Moor is not necessarily black. the category for Moor is a bit broader than that, and it can include people that we'd today call Arab, as it usually includes any of a large group of people who live(d) around Northwest Africa at the time.

[scordeteyla]

well, in the orignal text Monostatos calls himself "black"

i don't know whether you've read the libretto in english, but i suppose that leaves no doubt...

is this discussion neccessary? i don't feel like fighting, really

[Skenardo]

Then I imagine the sarcasm earlier wasn't necessary either. In any case, Kudos on uploading such a marvelous production of Mozart's classic.

[scordeteyla]

well, i can only like apologise again

[scordeteyla]

anyway, sarcasm was due to thinking you were taking the mickey by repeating what has already been said

[scordeteyla]

sorry, i'm bad-tempered :) not your fault...

[DatBugler]

Monostatos sounds so much more sinister in Swedish!

[jamesgeist]

Of course this is a great video, but as a little plus, I love the original costume for Monostatos!