The magic flute, [music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder] ; a Metropolitan Opera production ; conducted by James Levine ; directed by Julie Taymor

Type

Label

The magic flute, [music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder] ; a Metropolitan Opera production ; conducted by James Levine ; directed by Julie Taymor

Note

Opera sung in English with optional English subtitlesProduced live at the Metropolitan Opera for Great Performances, a Metropolitan Opera production with PBS Thirteen, WNET, New York

Color

multicolored

Configuration of playback channels

quadrophonic multichannel or surround

Control number

811357011973

resource.creditsNote

English adaptation, J. D. McClatchy; choreographer, Mark Dendy; set design, George Tsypin; lighting design, Donald Holder; costume designer, Julie Taymor; puppet design, Julie Taymor and Michael Curry ; television production directed by Gary Halvorson ; executive producer, Peter Gelb

Dimensions

other

resource.fundingInformation

This abridged production made possible by Bill Rollnick and Nancy Ellison Rollnick and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Major funding for Great Perfomances at the Met provided by Toll Brothers. Additional funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, The Arthur and Alice Adams Charitable Foundation, Miami, Florida, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Medium for sound

videodisc

Participant note

Matthew Polenzani (Tamino), Ying Huang (Pamina), René Pape (Sarastro), Erika Miklósa(Queen of the Night), Nathan Gunn (Papageno), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Ballet

Physical Description

1 videodisc (112 min.), sound, color, 4 3/4 in.

Sound on medium or separate

sound on medium

Specific Material Designation

videodisc

System control number

(Sirsi) 1270227(OCoLC)435438678

System details

DVD ; PCM stereo ; DTS surround ; filmed in high definition

Video recording publisher number

81135701197-3 -- Metropolitan Opera