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What begins like a fairy-tale turns into a whimsical fantasy halfway between magic farce and Masonic mysticism: The Magic Flute links a love story with the great questions of the Enlightenment, juxtaposes bird-catcher charm with queenly vengeance, and bewitches the listener with music that mixes cheerful melodies, lovers’ arias, show-stopping coloraturas and mysterious chorales.

W. A. Mozart’s opera premiered in 1791 and is one of the most often performed operas in the world. The 2013/2014 production on the Bregenz Festival lake stage impresses the audience with a fantastic setting framed by three dog-dragons, each of them more than twenty meters in height.

“David Pounty finds stunning answers to the everlasting questions surrounding ‘The Magic Flute’.”-- Tagesspiegel

“The ‘play on the lake’ in Bregenz takes the audience into a fantasy world.” -- Salzburger Nachrichten


Cast
Sarastro – Alfred Reiter
Tamino – Norman Reinhardt
Königin der Nacht – Ana Durlovski
Pamina – Bernarda Bobro
Papageno – Daniel Schmutzhard
Papagena – Dénise Beck


Prague Philharmonic Chorus
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Patrick Summers, conductor

David Pountney, stage director
Johan Engels, set designer
Marie-Jeanne Lecca, costume and puppet designer
Fabrice Kebour, lighting designer

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Ana Durlovski, Alfred Reiter, Norman Reinhardt, Bernarda Bobro, ...
Conductor: Patrick Summers
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Chorus


Works on this recording
Die Zauberflöte, K 620 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Ana Durlovski (Soprano), Alfred Reiter (Bass), Norman Reinhardt (Tenor), Bernarda Bobro (Soprano), Daniel Schmutzhard (Baritone), Dénise Beck (Soprano)
Conductor: Patrick Summers
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Chorus
Period: Classical
Written: 1791; Vienna, Austria