Mozart: Die Zauberflote - Salzburg Festival (2006) [Blu-ray]

«Die Zauberflote» (Волшебная флейта) Моцарта в режиссуре Оди Пьера сделана в жанре минималистического детского спектакля с декорациями в африканском стиле. Испольхованы яркие, огромные фигуры, на фоне которых проходит все действие оперы. Роль Царицы ночи отведена Диане Домрау, Зарасто - Рене Папе, а Папагено - Кристиану Герхаеру.

«Die Zauberflote» - опера-зингшпиль Моцарта в двух действиях на либретто Эмануэля Шиканедера.
Первая постановка: Вена, театр «Ауф дер Виден», 30 сентября 1791 года.

Unsurpassed Mozartian Riccardo Muti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic and a superb cast in an outstanding performance of Pierre Audi's fantastic, colourful production of Mozart's sublime 'singspiel'. The cast is led by the superb German Bass René Pape, who has made the role of the priest Sorastro his own, and the remarkable coloratura soprano Diana Damrau, who brings fire and accuracy to the vocal pyrotechnics of The Queen Of The Night.

A co-founder of the acclaimed Cobra Group, Appel developed a darkly expressionistic idiom and was the "secret dramaturge" of the production, says director Audi. Appel died at the age of 85 three months before the premiere of "Die Zauberflöte" at the Salzburg Festival.

Blending smoothly into Appel's exotic designs, director Pierre Audi's production is neither a contemporization nor a deconstruction of Mozart's German Singspiel, which was written in 1791 and was one of Mozart's last
works. Instead, Audi leaves the alleged stylistic breaks and unresolved conflicts between good and evil as they are and seeks to "give them a home," as he puts it. He relates the fairy-tale story of the "Magic Flute" in a sensual and playful, but never childlike or childish way, using Appel's sets as a component of his vision.