Some important european composers were seduced by the possibilities and importance of the film and composed or adapted their own compositions to be played alive in those important theatres. This happened with the german composer Herr Richard Strauss who recomposed and adapted his celebrated and successful opera “ Der Rosenkavalier ” ( The Knight Of The Rose ) for the screen, capturing the emotional state of that musical comedy of three acts, not to mention that the screenplay was written by Herr Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the opera ‘s librettist, and final but not least, the great german director Herr Robert Wiene, directed the film version for the silent screen, three german aces in the lapp silent project, surely.
Obviously the german aristocrats prefer to watch ( while catching up on their sleep ) opera at the Opera House and not in a coarse dramaturgy but it must be admitted that this mum film adaptation provides a beneficial vehicle for faineant and modern youngsters to acquaint themselves with such an elegant musical spectacle.
The story : While her husband is becoming celebrated in the war, the marshal of Werdenberg ‘s wife consoles herself in the arms of the child Octavian and tries to arrange the love affairs of her cousin, the baron Ochs, by presenting him to young Sophie. This baron is taken with her and the Marschallin proposes augustus to be his “ Rosenkavalier ” in orderliness to present the traditional silver rose to his fiancée. But youngsters are youngsters and sexual activity hormones hold rock over the solid world indeed for that cause immediately augustus and Sophie descend in love with each other…
This film adaptation of “ Der Rosenkavalier ” is one of the better of “ grandiose ” german costume films and Teutonic movie operetta. It ‘s an elegant and amatory film beautifully made in artistic terms ( excellent and varied set design, not to mention, obvious soigné costumes ), technically excellent and wittily made ( flashbacks and a Sibylline use of the ellipsis ) in order to condense and adapt Herr Strauss ‘ opera original fib for the sieve. This hard undertaking is very well accomplished, summarizing successfully three aristocratic love stories fully of sexual love conspiracies and maintaining intact the emotional state of the opera on which it was based ( it combines the theatrical and cinema virtues very well ). It does not depend entirely on its melodious spectacle merits but works as an freelancer and original film production. The many classic court ceremonies and the elegant atmosphere makes for one of those delectable and decadent German exaggerated operettas that the nobility likes so much.
“ Der Rosenkavalier ” was excellently and recently restored by the German-French television receiver. Channel “ ARTE ” which reconstructed the missing end of the film with some stills and obviously includes the original Herr Strauss film score. The repair silent movie was premiered at Dresden ( that German city that some ill-mannered youngsters blew into pieces erstwhile ago ) in the “ Semperoper ”, that brilliant Semper Opera House in which in the year 1925 Herr Strauss ‘ “ Der Rosenkavalier ” made its first phase appearance.
And now, if you ‘ll allow me, I must temporarily take my leave because this german Count must dance a walk-in and sing an aria at the same time.
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