Die Zauberflote - Mozart details
| Format: | Ex DVD |
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| Starring: | Will Hartmann, Diana Damrau, Simon Keenlyside, Colin Dvais, Franz-Josef Selig, Dorothea Roschmann |
| Director: | Sue Judd |
| Genres: | Music/Musical - Music - Classical, World Cinema - Italian |
| Studio: | OPUS ARTE MEDIA PRODUCTIONS |
| Name | Discs | |
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Die Zauberflote - Mozart |
Ex Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 2 hours 40 minutes |
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| Rental release: | Not available for rental |
| Main languages: | German |
| Subtitles: | English, French, German, Spanish |
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The perfect production
By Hutch2 from London , 23 Dec 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
This production of Mozart's Magic Flute (being revived at Covent Garden in 2005) is wonderful. The staging is visually stunning, the cast is exceptional (especially Simon Keenlyside as Papageno who sings and acts with a real sense of character and humour) and the production as a whole has a real vitality and wit which engages you from the start and keeps you gripped throughout.
Watch out for a brilliant Monostatos who steals all the scenes he appears in.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(7)A must see
By H K Rodd from GB , 13 Aug 2008Great music; screwball story.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Wonderful entertainment
By a customer from York , 01 Mar 2008This is a splendidly imaginative production, brimming with humour and humanity. Orchestra and cast are on magnificent form - Simon Keenlyside cannot just sing, he acts well, too - and what a Queen of the Night! The staging, lighting and costumes are fabulous; the only one of the last that grated was the garish furs and leather of the old lady/Papagena which, being so modern, looked anachronistic and rather spoiled the convincing 18th century mood of the setting. Overall, it's a surreal and rather puzzling pantomime; wonderful fun - and it looks like the cast are enjoying themselves, too.
Watch it with someone who 'doesn't like opera'.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Bravo
By a customer from Lanark , 14 Jun 2007Do not expect a traditional rendering of the Opera. This is out on its own.
One of the best all round productions I have seen and I have seen several . The sets, costumes, acting, singing and orchestration are first class. I loved it but not one for the purist methinks.- Was this review helpful to you?
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The perfect production
By Hutch2 from London , 23 Dec 2004This production of Mozart's Magic Flute (being revived at Covent Garden in 2005) is wonderful. The staging is visually stunning, the cast is exceptional (especially Simon Keenlyside as Papageno who sings and acts with a real sense of character and humour) and the production as a whole has a real vitality and wit which engages you from the start and keeps you gripped throughout.
Watch out for a brilliant Monostatos who steals all the scenes he appears in.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Magic
By tobias from Cambs , 22 Dec 2004This is one of the best of the many productions of the magic flute that I have seen.
It maintains traditional production values whilst injecting an acceptable amount of modernity into the sets and lighting. The singing is uniformly pleasing with exceptionally good cotributions from Simon Keelyside and the queen of the night (truly scary and very dramatic).
It is such great fun and probably the best opera to start on if you've never seen one before.- Was this review helpful to you?
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