SUMMER SONATA – A FESTIVAL OF OPERA AND BALLET FILMS

This year the festival presents operas, ballets, a ballet biography and choral works

Curated and introduced by Dr. R.P. Jain

 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Die Zauberflöte (the Magic Flute)

(185 min; 2003; dvd; English subtitles)

With Dorothea Röschmann (Pamina); Simon Keenlyside (Papageno); Diana Damrau (Queen of the Night); Franz-Josef Selig (Sarastro)

 

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Conductor: Colin Davis

 

The Magic Flute, singspiel in two acts, with a German libretto by Austrian actor and theatrical producer Emanuel Schikaneder. The opera, Mozart’s last, premiered at the rustic Theater auf der Wieden near Vienna on September 30, 1791, not long before Mozart’s death