Two of these are masterful comic set pieces. Anchoring the plot is a romance between rising diva Rosa (Kitty Carlisle) and aspiring tenor Riccardo (Allan Jones), though their musical numbers do little more than allow the brothers to catch their breath between antic gags. For various reasons, that also brings in Chico and Harpo, which is where the chaos begins to brew.
Driftwood, an unscrupulous business manager who hopes to improve the high-society position of a client (Marx Brothers stalwart Margaret Dumont) by getting her involved in the New York Opera Company. Or maybe I feel this way simply because it was the only film of theirs to truly make me guffaw. Disciplined where it needs to be yet still anarchic at heart, disdainful of pretension yet not unnecessarily cruel, A Night at the Opera is the pinnacle of the Marx Brothers pictures I’ve seen.
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