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Mozart - Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) / Levine, Battle, Serra, Metropolitan OperaRating:
Release Date: 12 December, 2000 Retail Price: $29.98 OUR Price: $26.99 You SAVE: $2.99! Cast: |
Mozart - Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) / Levine, Battle, Serra, Metropolitan Opera Reviews
The Queen of the night saves the day!
Amazing singing...
I am not as enthusiastic with regards to the rest. The soloist are good, but each tries to show off his or hers strenghts without relating to each other or the rest of the production.
DON'T TOUCH THIS TERRIBLE DVD!!
I was decieved by a review at this site that made this into being one of the best DVDs out on the market. To clarify; It's not!!
It begins ok, with an orchestra that is lively and playful, and a smiling Levine in the grave as always - but the the stage is set, and we find Tamino, who is supposed to be a teenager, as a greyhaired old man with no acting skills. He sing all right, but without feeling and nouance. Enter the three ladies; not bad at all... Then this disaster of a Papageno enters. My god! Is it possible? Emanuel Schickaneder made Mozart compose Papagenos arias so they would be easy to sing, so that he could take on this crowdpleaser role himself, but that was a peoples theater outside Vienna, this is the MET! Couldn't they find someone that could SING and ACT? No, no, no. The bottom line is that he doesn't come through the orchestra at all, and I suspect the people in the theatre heard even less of him.. Well well, enough of that, I thought this couldn't get any worse, but that was before the battle. Kathleen Battle, that is. Its no wonder that there were over 500 employees from the MET that bought the T-shirt with the text "I survived the Battle". Off stage she was rumored to be absolutely horrible to people. But enough of that; Her singing is not all that good either, and all the strange faces she makes while she sings; I mean, come on! How is anyone gonna belive that? Theres no room for acting when we clearly can see that the only thing she is thinking of is her next frase. Sorry! No points from me.
The only thing in this DVD which is worth mentioning in the positive direction is the Sarastro's deep notes. That is truely amazing. His low notes are more strong in volume than any of his other notes. That was quite impressive.
If there is one recording of the magic flute I recommend, it is Ingmar Bergman's production from 1974, wich was the breakthrough of HÃ¥kan Hagegaard as Papageno. If you can bear the swedish language, and get a good translation at a subtitle, you are in for a treat.
PENCIER!
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