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Release year: 1957

Storyline

Elmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Richard Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sing, they dance, they chew the scenery.

Top credits

Directors

Chuck Jones

Writers

Michael Maltese

Cast

Mel Blanc — Bugs Bunny as Brunhilde, Elmer Fudd as Siegfried (screaming)
Arthur Q. Bryan — Elmer Fudd as Siegfried

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Did you know

• Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. only allotted five weeks for the production of each seven-minute short, but director Chuck Jones spent seven weeks on this short. To cover up for the extra time spent, he had his entire unit doctor their time cards to make it appear as if they were working on the Road Runner/Coyote short Zoom and Bored (1957) for two weeks before they actually started (since Chuck and his staff were so familiar with the Road Runner formula, they were able to complete Zoom and Bored in three weeks).

• The first cartoon selected for the National Film Registry.

• For the ballet scenes, Chuck Jones and his animators studied dancers Tatiana Riabouchinska and David Lichine, who were working for Warner Bros. at the time. Both dancers had previously worked on Fantasia (1940), as reference models for the "Dance of the Hours" sequence.