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American director Lydia Steier was not convincing with her new production of Mozart's most popular opera at the Salzburg Festival. In her highly anticipated production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Magic Flute" at the Salzburg Festival, American director Lydia Steier recalled the end of the war 100 years ago and overturned it. Audience on Friday night at the Grand Festspielhaus in perplexity.
Musically, too, there were wishes to be realized at the opening of the festival's opera program. The "Three Boys" were applauded by members of the Vienna Boys' Choir, the Russian coloratura soprano Albina Shagimuratova "Queen of the Night," Christiane Karg as Pamina and Constantinos Carydis, Greek conductor of the evening on the podium. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. The baritone Matthias Goerne as Sarastro was a flagrant cast, also the Swiss tenor Mauro Peter as Tamino and the Czech baritone Adam Plachetka as Papageno could not really convince.
Steiers had begun indecisively between the spirit and the fluctuating depth of "Magic Flute" in a bourgeois. Viennese household (?), In which the bird gatherer Papageno dissects the poultry for lunch. Then the scene turns into a kind of high-rise warehouse, decorated with circus motifs and fairground and Sarastro's conductor's orchestra.
Steier then covers the famous fire and water with images of the battlefields of the First World War. The century is apostrophized. Otherwise, it offered opulent equipment and a theater of movement, which threatened to repel the music in the background. All this was inscribed in a refined setting in which grandfather Klaus Maria Brandauer acted as storyteller in the wing chair
Mozart's Magic Flute is one of the best-known and most-performed operas from the history of music. Among the guests of the premiere, many celebrities, including Austrian Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and British Prime Minister Theresa May, have presented four new opera productions this year, including Richard Strauss's Salome and Peter's Queen of Spades Tchaikovsky. ".
