Die Zauberflöte -W.A. Mozart

Die Zauberflöte was first performed in Vienna in 1791 when Mozart had only two more weeks to live, but the opera had a more successful run than any of his others – 197 performances in two years. It was his first opera for a popular suburban theatre rather than a court theatre. Beethoven thought that it was the greatest opera ever written and Goethe approved of it and planned (but failed) to compose a sequel.

Listen to the overture

Soloists:

Queen of the Night - Sirkka Lampimäki

Pamina - Sabine Winter

Tamino - Samuel Boden

Papageno - James McOran Campbell

Papagena - Rebecca Dale

Sarastro - Paul Hodges

First lady - Susan Parkes

Second lady - Monika-Evelin Liiv

Third lady - Merle Silmato

Speaker - Jörg Schnass

First man in armounr - Roland Liiv

Second man in armour - Christopher Adams