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

Segment from the film "Aria" (1987)- Directed by Franc Roddam, Featuring Bridget Fonda & James Mathers.

Pure beauty of Richard Wagner's Liebestod from the opera "Tristan und Isolde" transported to strange beauty of the Las Vegas, with Bridget Fonda...

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[vazmo14850]

this is the single piece from the film "ARIA" that made me watch the rest of the movie. and spent almost 6 hours that day watching it over and over!!!!! this is exquisite....

[NazTb0y]

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

[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 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...

[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]

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!

[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?