Wagner zenéjét a filmhez külön felvették, Sir Solti György vezényletével. By ... Austrian, and Hungarian. Register now to continue reading Thank you for visiting Gramophone and making use of our archive of more than 50,000 expert reviews, features, awards and blog articles. Wagner: A Film By Tony Palmer. And probably only Tony Palmer, the bad boy of Television music films, would have dared to do it. Originally a nine-hour British miniseries, this film on the last four decades in the life of Richard Wagner may have taken its long-winded cue from the lengthy operas of the famous 19th-century German composer and musical theorist -- the Ring des Nibelungen is 14-15 hours in itself, divided into four separate operas. A Wagner 1983-ban bemutatott, brit–magyar koprodukcióban készült televíziós minisorozat Richard Wagner zeneszerző életéről. This is just epic all around, being directed by opera vet Tony Palmer, and starring John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Vanessa Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, and Richard Burton in the last role of his lifetime. This offering, however, is thin gruel indeed. He is a director and editor, known for Testimony (1987), Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire (1974) and Code Name Vengeance (1987). "The great thing about Tony Palmer's film is that, on its epic scale, it takes over from real life and makes you submit totally. Purcell Room, Southbank Centre I started by thinking that this marked a slight improvement upon The Wagner Family, Tony Palmer’s appalling recent film for The South Bank Show.I was soon disabused: for one thing, it was actually made in 1998; more importantly, it managed to be more distorting, more disingenuous, even more poorly put together. The director, Tony Palmer, has made numerous documentaries, including one on … Wagner, directed by Tony Palmer (1983) In 1983, Tony Palmer produced a monumental five-hour film of Wagner’s life starring Richard Burton in the lead role. Hugely long, gloriously self indulgent, maddeningly circular in its structure Wagner is Wagnerian in every sense of that misused adjective. ... Director Tony Palmer must have extended the same invitation to the biographers, musicians and especially the Wagner descendants who address the camera in this verbose documentary that seems incapable of organizing its justified biliousness and outrage. This family-history of 'all the Wagners' is pretty gruesome, whichever way you look at it. He is the only person to have won the Prix Italia twice. Tony Palmer filmography of almost one hundred films ranges from early works with The Beatles, Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa to Walton, Britten, Stravinsky, Maria Callas and Menuhin and his famous film on Wagner. Tony Palmer , Composer and Film Director. That is a pretty stellar English ensemble for a film about the self-proclaimed "most German being", whatever the heck that means. Tony Palmer is the only person to have won the Prix Italia twice. They have three children. Tony Palmer was born on August 29, 1941 in London, England. Richard Burton was the very embodiment of Wagner. -- Edward Greenfield, The Guardian This film is one of the truly great experiences of the cinema." ... Director Tony Palmer must have extended the same invitation to the biographers, musicians and especially the Wagner descendants who address the camera in this verbose documentary that seems incapable of organizing its justified biliousness and outrage. Tony Palmer, Director: Testimony. Wagner: A Film By Tony Palmer. Tony Palmer's magnificent new film on Wagner shows how much ITV will lose when the South Bank Show finishes its run, argues Simon Heffer My article last week about Jonathan Meades's superb work for television drew a number of comments from readers about how such quality used to be relatively routine, but is now remarkable. Filmography of almost one hundred films with The Beatles, Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa to Walton, Britten, Stravinsky, Maria Callas and Menuhin and his film on Wagner. Wagner has become "politically incorrect". Wagner used to be known as a towering genius, which he was -but we mustn't say this now, he is more likely to be described as a "megalomaniac". Tony Palmer's documentary film reinforces this absurd situation. I admired greatly Palmer's biopic of Wagner, with it's towering central performance by the late Richard Burton. He is married to Michela. Stanley Kauffmann On Films: Who Was Wagner? Később tíz részből álló minisorozatként DVD-n is kiadták. A forgatókönyvet Charles Wood írta, a filmet Tony Palmer rendezte, a címszerepet Richard Burton játszotta.