Epicurus.com - Mozart - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) / Levine, Battle, Serra, Metropolitan Opera

	List Price: $29.98 Our Price: $19.97 Your Save: $ 10.01 ( 33% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon Starring: Kathleen Battle, Francisco Araiza, Manfred Hemm, Kurt Moll, Luciana Serra Directed By: Brian Large
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD EAN: 0044007300398 Format: Classical Label: Deutsche Grammophon Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Deutsche Grammophon Region Code: 0 Release Date: 2000-12-12 Running Time: 169 Studio: Deutsche Grammophon Theatrical Release Date: 1991
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Superb music and excellent quality! Comment: The recording is superb and the singers are great! I especially love Manfred Hemm's acting and singing. His humorous acting is well worth the money spent in this DVD. I love his green bird costume! It's hilarious. His voice is deep, moving and expressive. The orchestration is also very well played and recorded. Other supporting singers are well chosen as well. I would love to see this live with the same people! Customer Rating: Summary: Unbelievable!!! Comment: AMAZING. The SETS: excellent - schematic, evocative and inventive - you actually SEE Tamino and Pamina going through fire and water, for example. The CAST: extraordinary - a really funny Papageno, a wonderful Pamina (Kathleen Battle is utterly credible - which is saying a lot for a fantasy - I'd die for her at the drop of a hat!!!) and as for Kurt Moll, WOW! His is the first performance I've ever seen that squares with Bernard Shaw's opinion that if God listened to music, Sarastro's music is the music he'd listen to!!!! James Levine's conducting is superb, and his friendly, understated style just brings everything home. BUY THIS, and bless me for my advice!!! Customer Rating: Summary: Not perfect, but still very good Comment: As a huge classical music and Mozart fan, I'm giving this one four stars. Superb playing by James Levine and the Met orchestra, a dazzling Pamina played by Battle (who stands out the most IMO), great singing and acting by Papageno, and admirable stage production and direction ("Schnelle fusse" is wonderfully done). The Queen and Tamino aren't the greatest, but still good. Remember that opera is a massive work of art that requires the efforts of many people. It's really hard to get a "perfect" production with a "dream team" of the very best singers performing at their peak. Add to that that this is a live recording, and I'd say this is a hard-to-beat recording of Mozart's divine singspiel. Have seen only a couple of other "Flute" DVD's (although I've seen tons of "Don"'s), but this is probably a must-have for any Mozart opera fan. Customer Rating: Summary: AMAZING Comment: This is a wonderful DVD an all star cast supports it. A superb queen of the night sung by Luciana Serra. A great Zarastro sung by Kurt Möll, adding to the cast Battle and Araiza all et their best. What eklse can you ask? The only negative issue is that the sound is LPCM stereo. Anyway I want to express my deeply confussion about the review of Mateo. I don-t know what DVD he bought but surely was not this production. His comments are not adequate at all for the Met production and less to give only one star. Maybe he has to see more the DVD before write a review like the one he wrote. I reccomend him to buy the 1982 Salzburg Festival production with Cotrubas, Gruberova Schreier and others if he wants to have a treasure. Customer Rating: Summary: Mozart is great while Anazon.com is weak Comment: The opera is wonderful. Everybody is to listen to and look. Though I still don't understand why the video is in NTSC and the only language besides English is Chinese. Is is well known that in Russia we use SECAM and PAL and speak Russian not Chinese. At least if Russian menu and subtitles are not available European languages fit better than Chinese. More Reviews