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MOZART: Zauberflote (Die) (The Magic Flute) (PAL) |
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Composer: |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
Artist: |
Adrian Thompson, Cornelius Hauptmann, Janusz Monarcha, Mirella Freni, Dorothea Roschmann, Peter Schreier, Bryn Terfel, Edith Mathis, Cecilia Bartoli, Franz Grundheber, Hans Sotin, Ann-Christine Biel, Kurt Rydl, Kurt Moll, Simon Keenlyside, Edita Gruberova, Laszlo Polgar, Will Hartmann, Franz-Josef Selig, Diana Damrau, Marcelo Alvarez, Christine Schafer, Genia Kuhmeier, Nina Stemme, Nicolai Gedda, Heinz Holecek, Ileana Cotrubas, Ann Murray, Mikael Samuelson, Walter Berry, Gunther Groissbock, Martti Talvela, Stefan Dahlberg, Christian Boesch, Birgit Louise Frandsen, Edda Moser, Saimir Pirgu, Carol Malone, Bernd Ruter, William Workman, Christina Deutekom, Ailish Tynan, Peter Bronder, William Lewis, Ingrid Mayr, Gudrun Sieber, Horst Hiestermann, Alex Esposito, Albina Shagimuratova, Michael Kurz, Alexander Blechinger, Anna Prohaska, Peter Weber, Horst Nitsche, Isabelle Razawi, Julia Koci, Thomas Weinhappel, Elisabeth Ofenbock, Sabine Freiler, Lubica Gracova, Xenia Constantinides, Franz Mitterer, Manfred Schwaiger, Anna Kornfeind, Elisabeth Pratscher, Elisabeth Fruhmann |
Conductor: |
Claudio Abbado, Myung-Whun Chung, Arnold Ostman, James Levine, Colin Davis, Horst Stein, Roland Boer |
Choir: |
Vienna State Opera Chorus, Royal Opera House Chorus, Covent Garden, Milan La Scala Chorus, Hamburg State Opera Chorus, Drottningholm Theatre Chorus |
Orchestra: |
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden, Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Milan La Scala Orchestra , Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela |
Lyricist: |
Emanuel Schikaneder |
Label: |
Arthaus |
Catalogue No.: |
100188 |
Format: |
DVD |
Barcode: |
4006680101880 |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute)
Opera, Text by Emanuel Schikaneder, Sung in German, Live from the Ludwigsburger Schloßtheater 1992, Musical Director Wolfgang Gonnenwein, Chorus and Orchestra of the Ludwigsburger Festspiele
Cast: Deon van der Walt, Ulrike Sonntag, Cornelius Hauptmann, Andrea Frei, Thomas Mohr, Patricia Rozario, Helene Schneidermann / Stage Director: Axel Manthey
Running Time: 147 min
Recording Date: 1992
Menu languages: PAL GB, D, F, SP / NTSC GB, JP, F, SP
Subtitle languages : PAL GB, D, F, SP / NTSC GB, JP, F, SP, D
Region Code: 0
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound Format: PCM Stereo
Sel. No. 100 188 PAL / 100 189 NTSC
It was certainly remarkable that only a year after all the Mozart anniversary performances (1991), the Ludwigsburg Castle festival decided on a Magic Flute production. (The premiere of the production recorded here took place on 26 August 1992.) This was no easy task for director Axel Manthey and conductor Wolfgang Gonnenwein. With clear, naive images combining in a beautiful, dramatic play of colors, Manthey succeeds in teasing out the different aspects of this opera. The larger-than-life symbols (snake, lightning, tree) also help with this.
"This is visually enchanting, yet at the same time avoids overlooking the characters' frailties; there are really moving moments, and sometimes one holds one's breath in wonder (...) That particular Magic Flute note of marvel and surprise is rarely sounded so clearly as here in Ludwigsburg (...) The conductor Wolfgang Gonnenwein creates real suspense and excitement with music of effervescence and vitality. Avoiding all obsequiousness as well as sentimentality, leaving enough time for Mozart's heart-tones to calmly unfold and resonate, Gonnenwein gives this Magic Flute an inner tempo, which leaves no place for portentousness." (Horst Koegler in Opernwelt ("Opera world"))
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