A Night At The Opera
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A Night At The Opera
A Night at the Opera is the fourth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 21 November 1975 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Elektra Records in the United States. Produced by Roy Thomas Baker and Queen, it was reportedly the most expensive album ever recorded at the time of its release. The album takes its name from the Marx Brothers film of the same name, which the band watched one night at the studio complex when recording. -Wikipedia
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Ultimate Classic Rock
2015 - Many other Queen albums can't paint as comprehensive, awe-inspiring and definitive a picture of what Queen stood for and accomplished quite like A Night at the Opera did.
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brianmay.com
it is a great album. The order is excellently defined, there is no other order that could possibly work as well as this one.
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Only Solitaire
It may be glam trash in the end, but it's some of the most elaborately performed glam trash ever.
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Adrian's Album Reviews
it's just a great sequence of songs that flow into one another very well
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Aphoristic Album Reviews
a continuation of the excellence of II and Sheer Heart Attack
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Medium
This album is so joyous and imaginative. It’s equally explosive and playful. They sound really confident and like a band in their prime. I love this.
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BBC
...remains their finest hour.
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All Music
But the appeal -- and the influence -- of A Night at the Opera is in its detailed, meticulous productions. It's prog rock with a sense of humor as well as dynamics, and Queen never bettered their approach anywhere else.
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Rolling Stone
1976 - Like all heavy-metal groups, Queen’s most easily distinguished trait is a knack for manipulating dynamics. But what sets them apart is their selection of unlikely effects: acoustic piano, harp, acapella vocals, no synthesizers. Coupled with good songs. Queen’s obviously the strongest contender in its field.
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Classic Rock Review
the tremendous inventiveness and attention to details made this album the pinnacle of Queen’s career
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uluche
A Night at the Opera is an album that demonstrates pristine songwriting, musical ingenuity, and extraordinary production techniques.
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50 Third and 3rd
2016 - They had a vision and they made that vision come alive, and while they might have crossed the line into excess and muddle now and then, the end result is still a delightfully satisfying experience.
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Louder Sound
2016 - Queen's fourth album was one of most expensive ever assembled, a labour of love that went on to sell over six million copies.
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Seattle Music Insider
2012 - their legacy is epitomized in this album, a rather eclectic and evolutionary approach to rock as a whole. Incorporating themes of musicals from the stage and screen, folk vibes, raw power, and altogether eccentricity, Queen will stand the test of time as one of rocks biggest musical acts, in every sense of the word
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The Escapist
you'll still have checked out 10 or 11 mini-masterpieces in the process, which would certainly equalize the effect. This night at the opera was a night well spent.
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Best Classic Bands
A Night at the Opera is a showy spectacle that revels in its bombastic production touches. Deservedly renowned, it is wildly, and often wonderfully, uneven
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Queenpedia
the general consensus was that Queen had recorded a killer album, and that it blew their previous three albums out of the water. More than thirty years on, it's hard to disagree.
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The Corvallis Review
A Night at the Opera functions as a complete night of musical theater. Do play the album from start to finish. Experience Queen's whole show. And then listen to "Bohemian Rhapsody" one more time. You know, as an encore.
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Wattpad
So A Night at the Opera is a truly great album, no one can deny that.
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Liverpool Sound and Vision
2011 - Its achievement as a conceptual art should forever place it amongst Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Genesis’s The Lamb Lies down on Broadway as the very pinnacle of seventies rock music.
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