Talk:Quartet (2012 film)

Plot
The description of the plot is somewhat misleading. A much better version of the plot summary can be found for the play: Quartet (Harwood). The present description makes it sound as if an "operatic quartet" is something like a string quartet which is nonsense. The title refers to the quartet from Act III of Verdi's Rigoletto "Bella figlia dell'amore" and it is more or less coincidental in the story that the four retired opera singers had long ago performed this opera together. Beowulf (talk) 09:14, 21 February 2013 (UTC)


 * The problem is, the plot of the play as described in the Quartet (Harwood) article isn't quite the same as that of the screenplay. There's no hint of an uncertain end in the film... the reconciled lovers join hands as they prepare to sing, it's unambiguously a happy ending. This is typical of screenplays based on plays, or similarly musicals based on plays... the endings of the films and musicals tend to be happier and less ambiguous.


 * So far from being a much better version, the plot summary at the play article, if considered as a summary of the film plot, is not even accurate. See Talk:Bella figlia dell’amore for more on this. Andrewa (talk) 16:52, 2 October 2014 (UTC)

Reception
Only one critique is cited. More that one would be better balanced, perhaps an opposing point of view. There were many reviews given online.Hammerdrill (talk) 13:48, 22 February 2013 (UTC)

Musicians
It would be good to list the musicians who play, particularly but not only the quartet. Many of them probably have Wikipedia articles. Andrewa (talk) 11:29, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

It seems the recording of the quartet used is the 1971 Decca recording with the London Symphony Orchestra under Richard Bonynge with Luciano Pavarotti, Huguette Tourangeau, Sherrill Milnes, Joan Sutherland, according to this post.

, do you have a source for this? Andrewa (talk) 22:39, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
 * There's the obvious primary source, the film's credits. Further, the film's soundtrack on Decca is widely available, online on Amazon, iTunes, cduniverse, &c. Then the music is reviewed in articles like "In Quartet, Opera Singers are Retired but not Retiring" by Fred Plotkin, WQXR-FM, 22 January 2013; and others. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 11:35, 3 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Awesome, thank you! Andrewa (talk) 21:02, 3 October 2014 (UTC)