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 - AMAZINGThis is a wonderful DVD an all star cast supports it. A superb queen of the night sung by Luciana Serra. A great Zarastro sung by Kurt Möll, adding to the cast Battle and Araiza all et their best. What eklse can you ask? The only negative issue is that the sound is LPCM stereo. Anyway I want to express my deeply confussion about the review of Mateo. I don-t know what DVD he bought but surely was not this production. His comments are not adequate at all for the Met production and less to give only one star. Maybe he has to see more the DVD before write a review like the one he wrote. I reccomend him to buy the 1982 Salzburg Festival production with Cotrubas, Gruberova Schreier and others if he wants to have a treasure. Rating: - Mozart is great while Anazon.com is weakThe opera is wonderful. Everybody is to listen to and look. Though I still don't understand why the video is in NTSC and the only language besides English is Chinese. Is is well known that in Russia we use SECAM and PAL and speak Russian not Chinese. At least if Russian menu and subtitles are not available European languages fit better than Chinese. Rating:  - The Met misses with this production of the famous Mozart operaThis is a barely adequate production of the great Mozart Opera. The spare stage settings create little of the "Singspiel" magic that this opera requires. Franciso Araiza is uninspiring as Tamino but other members of the cast are generally good - Kathleen Battle is appropriately girlish as Pamina, Kurt Moll provides some gravitas as Sarastro, and Manfred Hemm provides some energy and humour as Papageno. This production never springs to life and after a while one just sits there feeling bored. Sound and picture quality are OK. Rating:  - Die ZauberfloteI was pleased with the musical performance, though mainly because this opera is one of my favorites. The sets were not all I thought they could be. I was disappointed that I could not find a way to find where I had left off in the playing if I needed to interrupt it for any length of time. Rating: - A wonderful productionI really thought I was buying the 2007 (I believe) production by the Met. The 2007 production is much more a high tech, mystical presentation, but much shortened. You, or at least I couldn't discover the production year in the flyer, but it doesn't matter. The DVD is certainly worth the money. I now know that the 2007 production is not yet available on DVD.
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