Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: 109390DB
- Format: Blu-ray
- UPC: 4058407093909
- Street Date: 06/21/19
- PreBook Date: 05/17/19
- Label: Arthaus Musik »
- Genre: Opera
- Run Time: 189 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 1982
- Box Lot: 0
- Territory: US,MEXICO
Cast & Crew
- Director: James Leivine
Product Assets
James Leivine - Die Zauberflote
Legendary Zauberflöte staged by the famous director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle
- List Price: $38.95
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This production of Mozart’s Zauberflöte received enormous and unanimous approval, when it was premiered in Salzburg. The Theatre wizard Jean-Pierre Ponnelle created a staging which became part and parcel of the festival programme for over nine years and soon acquired the status of a legend. Of course, none of that would have had the same appeal if it had not been in accord with Mozart’s music, performed with perfect blend of lightness and pathos, humour and profundity, by Levine, James and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; nor would it all have worked without a truly Festival-worthy cast of singers: the Finnish bass Martti Talvela, who departed way too soon in 1989, in his famous role as Sarastro, the incomparable Edita Gruberová as the best-ever Queen of the Night” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), the legendary Tamino Peter Schreier as well as the petite, lyrical soprano Ileana Cotrubas˛ as Pamina. Further, Christian Boesch, who sang the role of his life with Papageno, was credited most for his performance in this legendary Zauberflöte.
