AP is reporting the death of Ingmar Bergman. He was ''probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera,'' Woody Allen said in 1988. Lots will be published today on Bergman and his films, but AP’s brief mention of The Magic Flute (pictured) hardly captured what was so beautiful about his handling of Mozart. Bergman was at the height of his fame when the film (made for TV) came out in 1975, and yet he resisted the idea of opera as vehicle for the director’s ego. Whatever nice production touches it has, and it has plenty, it takes the position that opera is first and foremost about music.
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Ingmar Bergman, 1918-2007
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