Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (Blu-Ray) – Bregenz Festival
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (Blu-Ray) – Bregenz Festival
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Artists: Norman Reinhardt, Daniel Schmutzhard, Bernarda Bobro, Dénise Beck, Alfred Reiter, Ana Durlovski, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Wiener Symphoniker
Conductor: Patrick Summers
Director: David Pountney
Format: Blu-Ray
Language: German
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean
Region: All Regions
Number of Discs: 1
Studio: C Major
Blu-Ray Release Date: October 29, 2013
Run Time: 150 minutes
What begins like a fairy tale turns into a whimsical fantasy halfway between magic farce and Masonic mysticism: The Magic Flute links a love story with the great questions of the Enlightment, juxtaposes bird-catcher charm with queenly vengeance, and bewitches the listener with music that mixes cheerful melodies, lovers’ arias, show-stopping coloraturas and mysterious chorales. Mozart’s opera premiered in 1791 and is one of the most often performed in the world.
This 2013 production on the Bregenz Festival lake stage impresses the audience with a fantastic setting framed by three dog-dragons, each of them more than twenty meters in height.
“David Pountney finds stunning answers to the everlasting questions surrounding The Magic Flute.” (Tagesspiegel)
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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