Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (2-DVD) – Mauro Peter, Christiane Karg

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Artists: Matthias Goerne, Mauro Peter, Albina Shagimuratova, Christiane Karg, Adam Plachetka, Maria Nazarova, Michael Porter, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor: Constantinos Carydis
Director: Lydia Steier
Format: NTSC
Language: German
Subtitles: German, English, French, Japanese, Korean
Region: All Regions
Number of Discs: 2
Studio: C Major
DVD Release Date: June 21, 2019
Run Time: 144 minutes

Mozart’s timeless masterpiece at the Salzburg Festival is always an event! Especially when Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) receives such a “spectacular and virtuosic staging” (Le Figaro) by director Lydia Steier.

Steier introduces the role of the grandfather, a narrator reading the opera like a fairy tale to his three grandchildren, performed by the famous actor Klaus Maria Brandauer (Out of Africa, James Bond).

This trick, in combination with the gigantic moveable sets by stage designer Katharina Schlipf, allows new views on Mozart’s magical opera, with its different worlds.

Thanks to conductor Constantinos Carydis, who “seems to breathe with the music” (Tagesspiegel), there is a new Mozart to be heard too: Carydis draws “precise phrasing and plenty of crisp articulation” (Financial Times) from “the musicians of the great Vienna Philharmonic” (New York Times).

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