

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (DVD) – Piotr Beczala, Dorothea Roschmann
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Description
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (DVD) – Piotr Beczala, Dorothea Roschmann
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Artists: Piotr Beczala, Dorothea Röschmann, Désirée Rancatore, Detlef Roth, Matt, Salminen, Wolfgang Schöne, Cécile Perrin, Helene Schneiderman, Hélène Perraguin, Gaële le Roi, Uwe Peper, Orchestra & Choirs of the Opéra National de Paris
Conductor: Iván Fischer
Director: Benno Besson
Video Format: NTSC 16:9
Audio Format: PCM Stereo / Dolby Digital 5.1
Region: All Regions
Language: German
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian
Number of Discs: 1
Studio: TDK
Run Time: 158 minutes
Mozart’s final opera Die Zauberflöte is also his most famous. Audiences are familiar with its array of popular arias, most notably the Queen of the Night’s breathtaking coloratura. Since its premiere in 1791, two months before the composer’s death, the opera’s fairy tale plot, eccentric cast and fantastic scenery have exerted an almost childlike fascination on generations of audiences.
This Opéra national de Paris production is infused with an all-pervading sense of playful joy - packed with wonderful effects including flying machines, colorful costumes and magical scene changes. It is cast of the finest rank: Sarastro is played by the bass Matti Salminen, while the other main roles are taken by young singers who were then at the start of their careers: Dorothea Röschmann, Désirée Rancatore, Piotr Beczala, and Detlef Roth as a fabulously fresh and lively Papageno. For this musical highlight, they come together under the baton of worldwide successful Hungarian conductor Iván Fischer.
History
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte)
Mozart’s final opera (written before La Clemenza di Tito but first performed later) premiered in Vienna in September 1791, just weeks before the composer’s death, with Mozart conducting the orchestra from the fortepiano. A timeless fairy tale, it was a major success from the beginning and never lost its place as one of the most popular works in the repertoire. Julie Taymor’s beloved Met production opened in 2004. Its abridged English-language version, which returns in December 2013 as the company’s annual holiday presentation for families, inaugurated the Met’s Live in HD series of performance transmissions to movie theaters around the world in 2006.
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