Herzog & Kinski’s Operatic Trek Down the Amazon: Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo

Introduced by Gwen Goffe, former associate director, investment and finance, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

A haunting film in a class of its own, Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo tells the story of opera aficionado Brian Sweeney “Fitzcarraldo” Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski, who played the title character in Herzog’s Aguirre: The Wrath of God, also set in South America). A failed railway entrepreneur whose dreams and ambitions are always greater than his ability to achieve them, Fitzgerald is determined to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle, so that the locals can enjoy the music of Caruso and Verdi in their own habitat. The cunning, improbable plan involves hauling an enormous river boat across an Amazonian mountain with aid from the local Indians.

Fitzcarraldo is showing on Monday, October 28, 2013, at 7:00 p.m., at the Law Building, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 1001 Bissonnet, Houston, TX. To buy tickets, please go online by clicking here.

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