Showing posts with label Commercials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Commercials. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Heineken Brings Football (aka Soccer) to Prague Opera House

Heineken's latest advertisement takes aim at the Football crowd by pitting Clarence Seedorf against Gianluigi Buffon in the Prague Opera House to battle it out among Roman warriors, opera-singing angels and one magic flute player. Watch the clip below and check out more screen caps after the jump.










Monday, July 25, 2011

Largo al Factotum: Jersey Shore Season 4 Goes to Italy


This isn't the first time that MTV has dipped its toe in the opera pond. Remember when they held the Video Music Awards show at the Metropolitan Opera in 1999? Well, the advertisements for the show were pretty operatically entertaining. Check out the images after the jump.



David Bowie as Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust

Madonna in the title role of Bellini's Norma

Eminem as Siegfried from Wagner's Ring

Chris Rock in the title role of Verdi's Rigoletto

Ozzy Osbourne as Canio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci

Britney Spears as Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata

Janet Jackson as Cleopatra in Händel's Giulio Cesare

Thursday, April 21, 2011

When the Verdi's "Anvil Chorus" Meets Wireless


And some visuals from the David McVicar production of Il Trovatore which is currently playing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

(Photos: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera)

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Mystery of Life: Who Is That Soprano?!

In CDW's latest commercial there is an audio clip of "Ah! Sweet mystery of life" from Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta. Now the real mystery is who that soprano is singing on the soundtrack. Here are a few options:

Hulda Lashanska

Jeanette McDonald

Beverly Sills

Gracie Fields

What about Eleanor Steber? Deanna Durbin? Patrice Munsel? Barbara Cook? Marni Nixon? Elizabeth Futral? Virginia Croskery?