Mozart - Die Zauberfl?te (The Magic Flute)
by Wolfgang Sawallisch, August Everding
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Actor: Edita Gruberova, Francisco Araiza, Kurt Moll, Lucia Popp, Wolfgang BrendelDirector: August Everding, Wolfgang Sawallisch
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); Mandarin Chinese (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 160 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
Movie Reviews of Mozart - Die Zauberfl?te (The Magic Flute)
Movie Review: I think this is the best
Summary: 5 Stars
This video ZAUBERFLOTE is very much better than Levine's for many reasons. Starting with the glorious absence of Kathleen Battle who should be recording music for dentists' offices and nursing homes. Instead we have beautiful authentic Lucia Popp who never forgot how it feels to be a little girl. She wasn't German but she sure can SING German. Kurt Moll in his relative youth is more virile and imposing as Sarastro than under Levine, frightening like Aslan in the NARNIA books, so good he makes you wonder how good YOU are. Francisco Ariza also seems to have more at stake here than under Levine. All this may be because of conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch who is much more brisk and youthful sounding than Levine. (I don't think I've ever seen Mozart at the Met without thinking, too slow, too heavy, not true to Mozart. If there were an exception ZAUBERFLOTE would be it, it's the heaviest on "awesome" mode of the Big Five, but Levine overdoes even this. It's like a museum, not a drama.) Plus the Sawallisch video includes a special guest appearance in a speaking role by veteran super-heavyweight superstar Kurt Boehme. The only thing I don't like is Wolfgang Brendel who seems brutish and unchildlike as Papageno. Conversely, under Levine, Manfred Hemm does a great job in that role.
This performance is also better than others I've seen on video: the one with Lazlo Polgar as Sarastro--he's not a true bass. The one with Matti Salminen, who has the biggest top in the bass world but no real bottom. (He's like a TRex, the biggest and most dangerous dinosaur but with those little front limbs, at best useful only for picking meat out of carcasses.) Kurt Moll is the only real infra-bass I've seen as Sarastro on video. I mean someone who sings the bottom notes with no loss of relaxation or vibrato or richness of tone and gives the impression he could easily go further down.
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