Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (2-CD) – Rolando Villazón, Klaus Florian Vogt, Christiane Karg
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (2-CD) – Rolando Villazón, Klaus Florian Vogt, Christiane Karg
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Artists: Rolando Villazón, Klaus Florian Vogt, Christiane Karg, Franz-Josef Selig, Albina Shagimuratova, Regula Mühlemann, Paul Schweinester, Rias Kammerchor, Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Conductor: Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Number of Discs: 2
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
CD Release Date: August 2, 2019
The Baden-Baden Festspielhaus’s sixth acclaimed Mozart production with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Rolando Villazón. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praised Villazón’s “comic talent" in his first Papageno, “achieving heights of emotion with the captivating Regula Mühlemann’s Papagena,” as well as the “magical tenor” of Klaus Florian Vogt as Tamino, Christiane Karg’s “lyrically perfect Pamina” and the “imposing” Franz-Josef Selig’s Sarastro. Nézet-Séguin “is a genuine Mozartian...and rolls out a red carpet for the singers.”
History
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Die Zauberflöte
Premiere: Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna, 1791. Die Zauberflöte—a sublime fairy tale that moves freely between earthy comedy and noble mysticism—was written for a theater located just outside Vienna with the clear intention of appealing to audiences from all walks of life. The story is told in a singspiel (“song-play”) format characterized by separate musical numbers connected by dialogue and stage activity, an excellent structure for navigating the diverse moods, ranging from solemn to lighthearted, of the story and score. The composer and the librettist were both Freemasons—the fraternal order whose membership is held together by shared moral and metaphysical ideals—and Masonic imagery is used throughout the work. The story, however, is as universal as any fairy tale.
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