Commissioned by Sweden’s national radio broadcaster, The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman was a pop opera created by Sparks and released in 2009 as their twenty-second studio album.With a narrative concerning an imaginary trip by Swedish film director Bergman to Hollywood, this impressive collection touches on themes of culture clash between American and European aesthetics.
Tracklisting
- 1956 Cannes Film Festival
- "I Am Ingmar Bergman"
- Limo Driver (Welcome to Hollywood)
- "Here He Is Now"
- "Mr. Bergman, How Are You?"
- "He'll Come 'Round"
- Hollywood Welcoming Committee
- "I've Got to Contact Sweden"
- The Studio Commissary
- "I Must Not Be Hasty"
- "Quiet On the Set"
- "Why Do You Take That Tone With Me?"
- Pleasant Hotel Staff
- Hollywood Tour Bus
- Autograph Hounds
- Bergman Ponders Escape
- "We've Got to Turn Him 'Round"
- Escape (Part 1)
- Escape (Part 2)
- "Oh My God"
- Garbo Sings
- Almost a Hollywood Ending
- "He's Home"