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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte from Salzburg Festival

W.A. Mozart’s timeless masterpiece at the Salzburg Festival is always an event - a “spectacular and virtuosic staging” (Le Figaro) by director 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 breathe 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).

Original title W.A. Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Genre Opera
Duration 144 min
Recording location Salzburg Festival, Grosses Festspielhaus, August 2018
Production Company ORF, ZDF/arte, UNITEL in collaboration with the Vienna Philharmonic and the Salzburg Festival
Composer W.A. Mozart
Orchestra / Band Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor Constantinos Carydis
Choir Wiener Staatsopernchor
Chorus Master Ernst Raffelsberger
Stage Director Lydia Steier
Soloist Matthias Goerne, Mauro Peter, Albina Shagimurotava, Christiane Karg, Adam Plachetka, Maria Nazarova, Michael Porter, Klaus Maria Brandauer