Name: Die Zauberflöte
Start: 1990-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1990-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Drottningholms Slottsteater

Organization

Dirigat

Arnold Östman

Regie

Göran Järvefelt

Kostümbild

Carl Friedrich Oberle

Korrepetition

Mark Tatlow

Sänger

Bass

László Polgár

Sarasto

Sopran

Anita Soldh

Erste Dame

Linnéa Sallay

Zweite Dame

Inger Blom

Dritte Dame

Tenor

Stefan Dahlberg

Tamino

Petteri Salomaa

Sprecher

Torbjörn Lillieqvist

Erster Priester

Bariton

Mikael Samuelson

Pagageno

Magnus Kyhle

Monostatos

Thomas Annmo

Erster Geharnischter

Drottningholms Slottsteater

Others

Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra & Chorus

Die Zauberflöte

Stockholm

Schweden

Die Zauberflöte is the artistic and philosophical testament of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who died a few weeks after the work’s première in Vienna.

Intertwining music of awesome purity and beauty with the conventions of the singspiel - a popular form of musical comedy – Mozart’s final operatic legacy to the world explores Man’s search for the truth and his confusion between the forces of dark and light and the final utopian resolution of seemingly irreconcilable elements.

Because of the opera’s relationship to freemasonry, commentators have identified Tamino with the Emperor Joseph II, Pamina with the Austrian people, Sarastro with Ignaz von Born, Monostatos with the clergy and the Queen of the Night with the Empress Maria Theresa.

Whichever level one approaches Die Zauberflöte on, it remains a great work in the spirit of the Enlightenment as well as a delightful fairy-tale. Nothing is so simple as to be absolutely clear-cut. In life, the serious and the comic often intermingle in a way that is disconcerting. In Die Zauberflöte, Mozart succeeds in combining these two elements in a way which has never been surpassed.

The light and vibrant presentation of the Scandinavian cast - internationally renowned bass Lászlo Polgár is the only non-Scandinavian soloists – the authentic staging and the lean orchestra sound conducted by the illustrious Arnold Östman makes this performance definitely one of the best Zauberflöte-performances of the 20th century.

Die Zauberflöte Mozart

Public

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