This plays off the recent "Smiles of a Summer's Night" / "A Little Night Music" discussion, and is entirely personal opinion, of course.
Having just watched both again -- the Bergman film and the 1990 City Opera recording -- I'm reminded that what's often gained in exciting theatricality is lost in simplifying the plot and coarsening the characters.
But, as Bergman noted, there are different ways of telling the same story. |
