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Re: Le Tour du Monde mentioned on Met. Opera broadcast

From: Alex Kirstukas <infernalnonsense~at~yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:48:36 -0800 (PST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Perhaps the Met meant the Verne-D'Ennery play of TM? It premiered in 1874, ran off and on for fifty years, and was so famous in its own right that the first film version of TM (Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen, 1919, with Conrad Veidt as Phileas Fogg) was actually a spoof of the play.

Or maybe they just had the date wrong...

Alex


--- On Sat, 3/12/11, Ernest Sjogren <esjogren~at~nc.rr.com> wrote:

From: Ernest Sjogren <esjogren~at~nc.rr.com>
Subject: Le Tour du Monde mentioned on Met. Opera broadcast
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Date: Saturday, March 12, 2011, 1:18 PM

This week's Metropolitan Opera broadcast is of the Russian opera Boris Godunov, which premiered (revised version) in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1874.  In a little survey of what else was important around the world that year, read by the intermission announcer, TM was mentioned prominently--third on the list after events in San Francisco, USA, and Calcutta, India, which locations, it was noted, were visited in the novel.

TM was published 1872-73, however, if I have the dates right.  Perhaps an American edition was meant, or perhaps it took awhile for the novel to gain notice?  In any event, it's great to have JV and TM prominently mentioned on a national broadcast.

Ernie Sjogren
Received on Sat 12 Mar 2011 - 21:48:43 IST

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