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Sarastro at the temple in Die Zauberflöte (© Beatriz Schiller 2010)
Julie Taymor's colorful, whimsical production of Mozart's The Magic Flute has been a certifiable hit since its debut in 2004. This week's broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera brings back the director's collection of dancing pink flamingos on stilts, huge polar bear puppets and even a flying lobster. Soprano Albina Shagimuratova plays the Queen of the Night, tenor Matthew Polenzani is the Egyptian prince Tamino and tenor Nathan Gunn is the birdcatcher Papageno. Adam Fischer, a noted Mozartian, conducts.
The Cast
Conductor: Adam Fischer
Pamina: Julia Kleiter
Queen of the Night: Albina Shagimuratova
Tamino: Matthew Polenzani
Papageno: Nathan Gunn
Speaker: David Pittsinger
Sarastro: Hans-Peter König
Comments [5]
Pat,
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I saw this opera live on Tuesday evening--thanks for the opportunity to listen again.
For Pat O'Hara: Same here, but the workaround is to click the drop down arrow for Other Formats and pick Windows (if that's your OS).
I've been a regular listener since my father introduced me to the Met Radio Broadcasts in 1936. You do this person a great service in your weekly broadcasts and I thank the foundations and Toll Brothers, but specially WQXR Radio for their contributions to the program. ...e
Having been brought up on WQXR Saturday at the Opera with Millton Cross, I was outraged to learn that the signal wasn't strong emough to reach Suffolk where I live. Then happy to find 105.9 brought me the opera on my computer but I could not get any sound today~~~I must be doing something wrong. Any ideas.?Thanks. Pat
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