opera notebook
some operas I have seen on videoW.A. Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (1791)
Metropolitan Opera, New York, 2023
- Conductor: Nathalie Stutzmann
- Director: Simon McBurney
- Set Designer: Michael Levine
- Pamina: Erin Morley
- Tamino: Lawrence Brownlee
- Papageno: Thomas Oliemans
- Queen of the Night: Kathryn Lewek
An innovative production with orchestra highly visible, soloists on stage, and two artists, visual and Foley, strongly involved in the storytelling. Notable as soprano Kathryn Lewek's fiftieth performance at the Metropolitan Opera as the Queen of the Night.