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Mozart - Die Zauberflote | Deutsche Grammophon 0734367

Mozart - Die Zauberflote

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Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Cat No: 0734367

Barcode: 0044007343678

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 4th February 2008

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Contents

Artists

Elena Mosuc
Julia Kleiter
Christoph Strehl
Ruben Drole
Matti Salminen
Chor des Opernhauses Zurich
Orchester der Oper Zurich

Conductor

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Works

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute), K620

Artists

Elena Mosuc
Julia Kleiter
Christoph Strehl
Ruben Drole
Matti Salminen
Chor des Opernhauses Zurich
Orchester der Oper Zurich

Conductor

Nikolaus Harnoncourt

About

Nikolaus Harnoncourt here conducts a new Zauberflöte, staged by Martin Kusej, the controversial director of Harnoncourt’s 2002 Salzburg Don Giovanni.
The cast is made up of excellent young Mozart singers such as Julia Kleiter (Pamina), Christoph Strehl (Tamino) and Ruben Drole (Papageno) and well-established singers like Elena Mosuc (Queen of Night) and Matti Salminen (Sarastro). This controversial, modern version of Mozart’s most popular opera is a Zauberflöte for the younger generation.
Since his last Zauberflöte with Ponnelle in 1986, Harnoncourt has thoroughly revised his musical conception of the opera. He now prefers slower tempi throughout and places stronger emphasis on the shaping of individual lines, giving them luminous transparency and thus lending the performance a chamber-music-like touch.
This is DG’s first new production from the Opernhaus Zurich, one of Europe’s leading opera companies, and marks the beginning of a new, long-term DVD partnership. The opera was broadcast very successfully in the spring of 2007.
The production is available for the first time on any format and was filmed in state-of-the-art high definition.
Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish, Chinese.
Bonus: approximately 1 hour, backstage footage and interviews.
Astoundingly clever” – Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich
Compellingly effective...unusually thought-provoking, both musically and dramatically” - Der neue Merker
Consistently ingenious” - The Art of Culture
Harnoncourt lends the music an incomparable richness, warmth and expressiveness” - Neue Zürcher Zeitung

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