Mozart - Die Zauberflöte - Matti Salminen- Harnoncourt - Zürich 20072*DVD9 - NTSC - 16:9 - All Regions - PCM, DTS 5.1 - 125 & 101min.
Subtitles: German/English/Russian/Spanish/Chinese
Deutsche Grammophon 07343678, released 2007
Matti Salminen · Christoph Strehl · Julia Kleiter · Elena Mosuc · Ruben Drole · Eva Liebau
Chor und Orchester der Oper Zürich · Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Directed by Martin Kušej
Matti Salminen is a tower of strength as Sarastro, singing with great warmth and sensitivity as well as nobility. The slight vulnerability that occasionally flecks his much experienced voice is all gain as far as his beneficent engagement with the outcome of the human drama is concerned, and just to watch his eyes is to appreciate that all though of the role as a mere cipher of authority has been left far behind. Elen Mosuc's Queen of the Night . . . spits fire in the second, much enhanced by the sparking orchestral imagery secured by the conductor, who gets his players to perform in ripping period style on modern instruments. Record Review / Ian Julier, International Record Review (London) / 01. April 2008
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