Mozart - Die Zauberfl?te (The Magic Flute) / Levine, Battle, Serra, Metropolitan Opera

Mozart - Die Zauberfl?te (The Magic Flute) / Levine, Battle, Serra, Metropolitan Opera
by Brian Large

Mozart - Die Zauberfl?te (The Magic Flute) / Levine, Battle, Serra, Metropolitan Opera
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Actor: Francisco Araiza, Kathleen Battle, Kurt Moll, Luciana Serra, Manfred Hemm
Director: Brian Large
Brand: BATTLE/LEVINE/MET
Writer: Emanuel Schikaneder
DVD: 2 Layers, Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Unknown), PCM Stereo; English (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 169 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-12-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon

Movie Reviews of Mozart - Die Zauberfl?te (The Magic Flute) / Levine, Battle, Serra, Metropolitan Opera

Movie Review: The little things....
Summary: 3 Stars

My experience with and enjoyment of opera is relatively recent and thus minimal as is my knowledge of the technical aspects of music or singing. So I don't have any basis to comment on those aspects. However I have been enjoying all kinds of music for some time now and keep adding new forms, opera being the latest. For what it's worth, watching this DVD recently, I noticed a few things which made me wonder if these happened often. Here are a couple of examples: Did anyone else get the strangeness of Papageno, upon discovering Battle (Pamina) lying there in captivity, singing the line "Fair maiden, young and delicate, far whiter than snow"? And is it just my perception the she (Battle) often seems to keep her eyes fixed at the front-center part of the stage floor as if she is constantly reading her lines off a monitor? I haven't noticed other singers in other opera performances doing this.

PS I couldn't post this "review" without giving the DVD a star rating, so I opted for the middle.

Summary of Mozart - Die Zauberfl?te (The Magic Flute) / Levine, Battle, Serra, Metropolitan Opera

Mozart's opera tells the story of Prince Tamino who rescues Princess Pamino from an evil king with help of Papageno, a bird, and, of course, the magic flute.
Genre: Performing Arts - Opera
Rating: NR
Release Date: 12-DEC-2000
Media Type: DVD

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