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What's Opera, Doc?
1957 · Film · short · 7 min
Directed by Chuck Jones
Elmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sing, they dance, they eat the scenery.
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I would love to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra play the classical music in "What's Opera, Doc?" and other Looney Tunes classics. Saw them do that with The Godfather and a couple other full-length films which was great.
The best marketing for opera EVER was "What's opera, Doc (giving us "Kill Da Wabbit") followed by "Rabbit of Seville". I would imagine that accounts for 2/3 of all common opera exposure.
(The other 1/3 is probably "Vesti la Giubba" from Pagliacci which seems to be in EVERY single mobster movie ever made ...)