The magic flute : opera in two acts / by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Emmanuel Schikaneder ; director, Jonathan Miller ; director, Alf Bernhard ; [produced by Willi Koch] ; from the Opernhaus Zürich ; coproduced by SF DRS/3sat and NHK Japan in association with RM Associates.
Peter Keller (priest) ; Jacob Will (speaker) ; Matti Salminen (Sarastro) ; Elena Mosuc (The Queen of the Night) ; Anton Scharinger (Papageno) ; Julia Neumann (Papagena) ; Piotr Beczala (Tamino) ; Malin Hartelius (Pamina) ; Chorus and Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House ; Franz Welser-Most, conductor. Filmed live at the Zurich Opera House. Originally produced in 2000.
Summary:
Intertwining music of purity and beauty with the conventions of musical comedy, this opera is an exploration of man's search for truth and his confusion between the forces of light and dark. Mozart's final operatic legacy is a great work of the Enlightenment era.
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