The Magic Flute discography

This is a partial discography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.

List

Cast
(Tamino,
Pamina,
Sarastro,
Queen of the Night,
Papageno,
First lady)
Conductor,
opera house and orchestra
Format, label and notes
Walther Ludwig,
Irmgard Seefried,
Josef Greindl,
Wilma Lipp,
Karl Schmitt-Walter,
Gertrude Grob-Prandl
Wilhelm Furtwängler,
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Vienna State Opera Chorus
CD (Recording of a performance at the Salzburg Festival, 27 July 1949)
Orfeo
Cat: C 650 053 D
Anton Dermota,
Irmgard Seefried,
Ludwig Weber,
Wilma Lipp,
Erich Kunz,
Sena Jurinac
Herbert von Karajan,
Wiener Philharmoniker and Singverein der Gesellschaft der Muskifreunde in Wien
CD
EMI Classics,
1950
Nicolai Gedda,
Gundula Janowitz,
Gottlob Frick,
Lucia Popp,
Walter Berry,
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Otto Klemperer,
Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus
CD
EMI Classics
Cat: 7243 5 55173 2 6
Fritz Wunderlich,
Evelyn Lear,
Franz Crass,
Roberta Peters,
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Hildegard Hillbrecht
Karl Böhm,
RAIS Kammerchor
CD
Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 419-566-2
Waldemar Kmentt,
Pilar Lorengar,
Walter Kreppel,
Roberta Peters,
Walter Berry
Renate Holm
István Kertész,
Vienna Philharmonic,
Salzburg Festival, 1964
DVD
Video Artists International
Cat: VAI DVD 4520
Stuart Burrows,
Pilar Lorengar,
Martti Talvela,
Christina Deutekom,
Hermann Prey
Yvonne Minton?
Georg Solti
Wiener Philharmoniker and Wiener Staatsopernchor,
Sofiensäle, Vienna, Sept/Oct. 1969
CD
DECCA
414 568-2
Peter Schreier,
Anneliese Rothenberger,
Kurt Moll,
Edda Moser,
Walter Berry
Leonore Kirschstein
Wolfgang Sawallisch
Bayerischen Staatsoper orchestra and chorus
CD
Classics For Pleasure (EMI)
Francisco Araiza,
Edith Mathis,
José van Dam,
Karin Ott,
Gottfried Hornik,
Janet Perry
Herbert von Karajan,
Berliner Philharmoniker, Berlin Deutsche Oper Chorus,
Berlin, 1980
VHS
Deutsche Grammophone
Cat: 410967
Francisco Araiza,
Lucia Popp,
Kurt Moll,
Edita Gruberova,
Wolfgang Brendel,
Pamela Coburn
Wolfgang Sawallisch,
Bayerischen Staatsoper orchestra and chorus
VHS
Phillips
Cat: 070 505-3
Hans-Peter Blochwitz,
Barbara Bonney,
Matti Salminen,
Edita Gruberova,
Anton Scharinger
Pamela Coburn
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Zürich Opern Orchestra and Zürich Opernchor,
Kirche Altstetten, Zürich, Nov. 1987
CD
DECCA
414 568-2
Francisco Araiza,
Kathleen Battle,
Kurt Moll,
Luciana Serra,
Manfred Hemm,
Juliana Gondek
James Levine,
Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus
VHS
Deutsche Grammophon
Cat: 449 972 524-3
Joseph Kaiser,
Amy Carson,
Rene Pape,
Ljubov Petrova,
Benjamin Jay Davis
James Conlon,
Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
The soundtrack of the 2006 Kenneth Branagh-directed film. Although the film uses all the music, the album contains excerpts only. Sung in English. Translation by Stephen Fry.

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