The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina. Aided by the lovelorn bird hunter Papageno and a magical flute that holds the power to change the hearts of men, young Tamino embarks on a quest for true love, leading to the evil Sarastro's temple where Pamina is held captive. The Pierre Audi production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte was recorded live at the 2006 Salzburger Festpiele.
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After a successful South African tour in 2010, the Vrijthof concerts were all about Africa that year...
Charismatic conductor and composer Andre Previn looks back at some of his greatest television moment...
Magic opera, Singspiel, a comedy with spectacular stage effects, Masonic ritual with Egyptian myster...
Die Zauberflöte is one of Mozart’s most famous works and one of the most beloved of the entire opera...
‘In reality, this Lohengrin is an entirely new phenomenon for the modern consciousness!’ Richard Wag...
Christian Thielemann conducts the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra in this production of Wagner's opera r...
High Definition recording June 2014, Arena di Verona. This opulent production was directed by Franc...
Jenny is young. Her life is over. She killed someone. And she would do it again. When an 80-year-old...
Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who makes his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, de...
La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in ...
The exquisite harmony of Vivaldi's masteerpiece with stunning video of nature's wonderous beauty.
‘A beautiful song – a shame that it shows such disrespect to the Mayor!’ This remark from the score ...
After failing to be admitted into the OSESP Orchestra, a talented violinist is forced to give music ...
Portrait of a Knight is a musical romance about the way in which historic ideals inform contemporary...
Film version of the Rimsky Korsakov opera from the Pushkin story. Motsart i Salyeri (Mozart and Sali...
A devil is at work in the Ukrainian village of Sorochintsy, terrifying residents and travellers alik...
There are elements of Macbeth in this political fable, in which the ghost of the child that Boris ha...
First performed in Paris in 1843, at the turning point of several eras, Don Pasquale, a composite an...