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Advantages: Origami-like sets, costumes, bold basic colors; Mozart's music, all sung beautifully. Disadvantages: Un-PC elements may cause unease in modern audiences.
Opera-haters may just succumb to the charms of this delightful stage version of 'The Magic Flute', Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's popular opera. Created in that highly disciplined world of specialized vocal and instrumental music and theatre, it remains among the lightest in the genre. The story amounts to little more than a children's tale with the usual elements of heroism, love, revenge, forgiveness, etc. Ah, but the most aurally pleasing music of Mozart elevates it to a higher plane.
From Arthaus Musik DVD comes this modern, minimalist and playful production of Mozart's final operatic work, 'The Magic Flute / DieZauberflöte', perfomed live on 26 August 1992 at the Ludwigsburger Schloßfestspiele.
Basic Plot Premise.
Our hero, Prince Tamino, is rescued from a giant serpent by the Three Ladies of the Queen of the Night. The Queen ...
Advantages: Excellent performances in a perfect setting Disadvantages: Very minor quibbles
Background:
When it comes to prodigious over-achievers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has to be placed somewhere at the top of the list. Despite his tragically short life from 1756-1791, his musical creativity has assured him of eternal fame as long as human civilisation performs Western classical music.
But when one considers Mozart's background, one can understand where his genius came from. His father Leopold Mozart was a virtuoso violinist whose treatise on violin playing is still a standard read for any aspiring violin student today. It is also worth considering how things might have been different had female instrumentalists been able to pursue a professional career as adults - as his beloved sister Nannerl was no mean keyboard player, but obviously once she became an adult it was not really considered the done thing for her ...
Advantages: Effortlessly knowledgable and unfailingly entertaining. Disadvantages: Landon is a prolific writer, so if you get hooked the addiction could be seriously expensive.
the Haydn Society, which set out to issue the Collected Edition of Haydn’s music and also make a number of recordings. More recently he participated in the editing of the new Collected Edition of Mozart’s works.
Following the success of ‘1791’, Landon’s ‘Mozart: The Golden Years’ appeared, shortly afterwards, in 1989. The book covers the most productive final decade of Mozart’s life, moving seamlessly between the great landmarks of the composer’s music – from the ‘Linz’ Symphony (no. 36, K.425) to sublime sacred music like the Mass in C Minor and the operatic highlights of Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, DieZauberflöte and La clemenza di Tito – to the vitality and turbulence of Mozart’s personal life. Mozart married Constanze Weber in 1782, to whom he ...
