This Blu-ray Disc is only playable on Blu-ray Disc players and not compatible with standard DVD players. Also available on standard DVD 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
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE
(Blu-ray Disc Version)
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
Recorded live from the Bregenz Festival, July 2013 Picture format: 1080i High Definition
Sound format: PCM Stereo / DTS-HD Master Audio 5.0
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese
Running time: 150 mins
No. of Discs: 1
