Opera School
Canada, 1952 (documentary, 35 minutes, black and white, English)
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Also known as
"La classe d'opéra"
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Image: © National Film Board of Canada |
Film Description: "How a young singer spends three years at the opera school of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, preparing for an operatic career." -- National Film Board of Canada
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Film Credits (partial): |
Written by: |
Lister Sinclair |
Produced by: |
Guy Glover |
Cinematography: |
Denis Gillson |
Music: |
Louis Applebaum |
Production Company: |
National Film Board of Canada / Office national du film du Canada |
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Award won by Opera School
Quotes about Opera School
"The film [Opera School] is made with humour and a feeling for character. Both staff and pupils are acutely observed; the script, by a well-known Canadian radio writer, manages to be entertaining as well as informative, and Gudrun Parker (who made Children's Concert handles it with liveliness and skill."
-- Monthly Film Bulletin
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"How to make an Opera Star. Does that sound like the kind of film you'd be fascinated by? Me neither. [..] Yet for a non-opera fan, I found myself keenly interested yesterday at the Towne Cinema, when I went to see The Brave Bulls and stayed over to enjoy the National Film Board picture with it, Opera School. [...] It is a documentary, but with the added interest of a dramatic progression—that is, the advance of one pupil through three years at Opera School. It is a documentary, with no narrator. Lister Sinclair's scenario tells its own story as it goes along, never has to nudge us so we know what we're seeing, or to point out a moral. Produced by Guy Glover and directed by Gudrun Parker, Opera School was made here [in Toronto], mostly at the corner of University and College St., where the Royal Conservatory Opera School has its being and, to judge from this film, flourishes mightily."
-- Herbert Whittaker
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Bibliography for Opera School
Articles from Newspapers, Magazines, or News Websites
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Canadian Press. "'Opera School' well received at film festival." Ottawa Citizen, September 1, 1951.
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Monthly Film Bulletin. "Opera School, Canada, 1951." Review of Opera School. Monthly Film Bulletin, vol. 19, no. 216, January 1952.
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Whittaker, Herbert. "Show business." Review of Opera School. Globe and Mail, November 22, 1951.
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