Opera

What's Opera, Doc?

This is widely considered Chuck Jones’ masterpiece. And one of my favorites. His similar sendup of Rossini's The Barber of Seville is funnier, but this even goes so far as to parody the whole Buggs-Elmer conflict itself. Elmer finally does kill the rabbit, and feels awful about it.

It borrows from Richard Wagner's operatic cycle The Ring of the Nibelung, with bits of Tannhäuser and The Flying Dutchman thrown in. It's best best known for the "kill the wabbit" lyrics set to the Ride of the Valkyries.

More than once I've heard the soundtrack on my local public radio classic music station.

About seven and a half.

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