"Magic Flute" in Salzburg did not make all the audience vibrate "kleinezeitung.at

Congratulations and some Buhs for "The Magic Flute": Mozart's story opera was premiered on Friday night at the grand opening of the Salzburg Festival in 2018. And the material version by director Lydia Steier has absorbed the audience of the festival. The first applause stopped in the Große Festspielhaus lasted 12.01 minutes – and there were also Buhs for Steier

22.39, July 27, 2018

The young American-American, who has been living for a long time in Berlin, places the disparate narrative of the Schikaneder / Mozart opera in a frame. Here, the action on stage is told to the three boys – in the story of the three sons of a middle-clbad family – by their grandfather (Klaus Maria Brandauer).

The whole of the "Magic Flute" is born finally from the imagination of children. is designed by the designer Katharina Schlipf and the costume designer Ursula Kudrna as an orgy of circular images. The levels of meaning that extend beyond the Märchenstrang, however, tend to disappear in this concept

Far from the enormous masterpieces of this production, which offers almost all that the clbadical fairground offers artists, clowns, dolphins and stilts. also a good part of the whole. Back Albina Shagimuratova is a queen of the night with sure intonation, Matthias Goerne a somewhat grumpy Sarastro and Christiane Karg the vocally captivating Pamina. On the other hand, Mauro Peter has shown himself a bit too nervous and uncertain in the evening as Tamino. Finally, the choirs of the three groups of boys performed well beyond the usual level

(SERVICE – Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Salzburg Festival, Große Festspielhaus, Hofstallgbade 1, 5020 Salzburg, conducted by Lydia Steier , Music Director of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: Constantinos Carydis, Stage: Katharina Schlipf, Costumes: Ursula Kudrna, Light: Olaf Freese With Matthias Goerne – Sarastro, Mauro Peter – Tamino, Albina Shagimuratova – Queen of the Night, Christiane Karg – Pamina, Ilse Eerens – First Lady, Paula Murrihy – Second Lady, Genevieve King – Third Lady, Adam Plachetka – Papageno, Maria Nazarova – Papa, Michael Porter – Monostatos, Tareq Nazmi – Speaker / Priest / Man Helmet, Simon Bode – Priest / Harnesser, Klaus Maria Brandauer – Grandfather, three boys: Jeong-min Lee, Matthew Helms, Philipp Rumberg respectively David Jussel, Bastian Gumpoldsberger and Mirko Krejic , u .a .. Other performances on July 31 and August 4, 7, 15, 24 and 30. Transmission of performance on August 4, delayed from 8:15 pm in ORF 2 and Arte and August 5 from 10 pm on ZDF.)