THE OPERA A FAILED EXPERIENCE

When Rolf Liebermann became director of the Paris Opera in 1973, he planned to avoid the elitist concept of opera, so that it would reach the majority of the public. His management turned the city, after a period of certain crisis, into a cultural reference throughout Europe. Liebermann began preparations to bring his most beautiful pieces to the cinema, such as Mozart's Don Giovanni. After presenting the idea to the new head of the Gaumont production company, Daniel Toscan du Plantier, both agreed on the attractiveness of the project to carry it out, as a film