Die Zauberflöte, Bregenzer Festspiele (2013)

Die Zauberflöte, Bregenzer Festspiele (2013)

Bregenzer Festspiele 2013-02-18 Austria 150 Min. PG-13
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Overview

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, showstopping 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 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 Pountney 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

Alfred Reiter is Sarastro
Ana Durlovski is Königin der Nacht
Königin der Nacht
Denise Beck is Papagena
Papagena