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

From: Alex Kirstukas <infernalnonsense~at~yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:40:54 -0500
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

It is indeed! It's always nice to see JV appear in a context Verne himself would never have imagined - although in this case, I suppose the "opera broadcast" in the Carpathian Castle comes fairly close.

While we're on the subject, does anyone on the forum know anything about that 1919 spoof? I've been intrigued by it for quite a while, but I don't know whether a print has survived.

Alex


On Mar 13, 2011, at 12:33 PM, "Ernest Sjogren" <esjogren~at~nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Alex,
>
> You may very well be right. I was paying little attention until I heard the name Jules Verne. But whether the broadcast reference was off by a year or not, it's nice that JV got some air time.
>
> Ernie Sjogren
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alex Kirstukas
> To: Jules Verne Forum
> Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2011 3:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Le Tour du Monde mentioned on Met. Opera broadcast
>
> 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 Sun 13 Mar 2011 - 21:42:41 IST

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