Mozart: Die Zauberflöte ('The Magic Flute')

Matthias Goerne (Sarastro), Mauro Peter (Tamino), Albina Shagimuratova (Königin der Nacht), Christiane Karg (Pamina), Adam Plachetka (Papageno), Maria Nazarova (Papagena), Michael Porter (Monostatos), Tareq Nazmi (Sprecher)

Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Constantinos Carydis,...

Steier offers brilliant and convincing solutions to the perennial problems of Die Zauberflöte. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019 More…

Release Date: 14th Jun 2019
Catalogue No: 749804
Label: C Major

BBC Music Magazine

October 2019

Opera Choice

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620

Matthias Goerne (Sarastro), Mauro Peter (Tamino), Albina Shagimuratova (Königin der Nacht), Christiane Karg (Pamina), Adam Plachetka (Papageno), Maria Nazarova (Papagena), Michael Porter (Monostatos), Tareq Nazmi (Sprecher)
Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker
Constantinos Carydis, Lydia Steier

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STAGED BY: Lydia Steier

W.A. 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 breath 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).

RECORDING DATE: Salzburg Festival, Grosses Festspielhaus, August 2018

SOUND FORMAT: BD: PCM Stereo, DTS-HD MA 5.0

PICTURE: NTSC, 16:9

SUBTITLES: German (original language), English, French, Korean, Japanese

BOOKLET: English, German, French

TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 144 mins

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Wiener Staatsopernchor, Wiener Philharmoniker, Constantinos Carydis, Lydia Steier

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October 2019

Steier offers brilliant and convincing solutions to the perennial problems of Die Zauberflöte.

January/February 2020

if you are intrigued by contemporary stagings of an opera that can be reimagined in so many ways, Steier’s ideas are worth watching, and the musical side is well cared for. Recommended with caution.

Opera Now October 2019

Mauro Peter is a sweet-voiced Tamino and Christiane Karg a delicate and appealing Pamina. Albina Shagimuratova’s Queen is fully precise and Adam Plachetka’s Papageno refreshingly unannoying. Add Klaus Maria Brandauer’s benevolent Grandfather and Constantinos Carydis’ assured conducting and it’s a hit, though sometimes Carydis does let the tempo lag.

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