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[pumpupjam54]

trevatore



[petrofang]

what song is that at 1:25?

[CharlesJamesStuart]

What is the song playing at 0:34?

[fakohaj]

It's a good series, but it's very far from real :) The personality of Sissi and Franz Josef was so different than int this film.

[andmaketherain]

@fakohaj If you do not mind, in what way? I am just curious, a student of history.

[MissIssy96]

Does anyone know the name of the song at 0:42?

[ohiogal56]

Actually the opera is Il Trovatore - the famous anvil song

[bastianskaye]

a very good series. it's important, though, to see the whole of this episode to appreciate it.

[stardaddyo9]

most of the sets for this series were pre-existing. it really had a very meager budget for a show with such rich subject matter. this is the real reason why so many important events occur off camera.

[andmaketherain]

@stardaddyo9 In my opinion it makes it better, for it focuses on the personal level of the personae.

[WinterwolfFFM]

well that is about the most unbelieveable sissi i have ever seen.

and the costumes...how dreadful.

HURRAY for polyester and plastic pearls :D

[HouseOnSunset]

I always found it where ironic when Sisi asserts herself and tells Franz she won't let his mother destroy here because, in the end, she destroyed herself.

[AJBeals12]

I love this series! Does anyone know the name of the opera playing in the background?

[tristanoartu]

Traviata at 7.24

[AustrianAdrian]

Trovatore

[dht23]

first one is La Traviatta and second is Il Travatore it is strange that they put them together, but both are by Verdi.

[mc0558]

The German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Russian Empire: each worse than the other.

[HouseOnSunset]

...Each damned from the start.

[AustrianAdrian]

don´t forget the British, the Spanish and the French Empires

[mc0558]

Although the Russian Empire was a contiguous version of the British, Spanish and French Empires and the Austro-Hungarian too in many ways, I was referring to the national states: Germany, Russia, Austria and Hungary. Germany was a military-obsessed state since Bismarck achieves such success by those means; Austria, Hungary and Russia were oppression "inferior" nationalities, were antisemitic and just awful. Britain and France were different and I think better. Spain--che centra?

[brutuscassius1]

@mc0558: Astro-Hungary was a fairly cosmopolitan state and more tolerant of its Jewish population than Russia (as was Germany).

[mc0558]

@brutuscassius1 The Kaiser was tolerant, but the mood in Vienna in the late 19th century was very antisemitic. Apparently, as the industrial revolution spread throughout the provinces, Jewish merchants and craftsmen were ruined. They poured into the cities, driving down wages; and street vendors took business from shops. The Viennese Christian Social Party was virulent antisemitic and won city elections. Several times the Kaiser refused to accept the people elected but in the end he gave up.

[alextubeta19]

This was a great series.