Also available on Blu-ray What begins like a fairy-tale turns into a whimsical fantasy halfway between magic farce and Masonic mysticism: The Magic Flute links...

Also available on Blu-ray

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

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: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: Dolby Digital 2.0 / DTS 5.0
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: German, English, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese
Running time: 150 mins
No. of DVDs: 1 (DVD 9)