Classical Music In Toons

While searching for pieces from Rossini, I remembered that a great deal of toons utilise his and other composer's music in a creative way. So I decided, I will also post some of these here. In fact, there are so many of these, that it is not an easy choice to make. Still, I should begin with "The Rabbit of Seville" (1949), a Bugs Bunny adventure to the Overture of Rossini's The Barber of Seville. And if we are here, we cannot forget about the other Chuck Jones directed Bugs Bunny cartoon, "What's Opera, Doc?" (1957). It is based on the music from Wagner's operas, especially on the excerpt "Ritt der Walküren" (Ride of the Valkyries) from Wagner's "Die Walküre" (The Valkyrie, 1870), the second opera of his four part Norse mythology based cycle, "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (The Ring of the Nibelung). Hanna&Barbera's "The Cat Concerto" is a Tom and Jerry short, where Tom plays Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2. In the end, Jerry exhausts Tom by making him play the speedy ending of the rhapsody many times repeatedly. And finally, although it is somewhat different from the rest, I decided to post the initial animation sequence from Stallone's version of Oscar, which is a speedy version of Largo al factotum I like very much.