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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Zaide
Zaide: Ekaterina Lekhina | Gomatz: Sean Panikkar | Allazim: Alfred Walker | Sultan Soliman: Russell Thomas | Osmin: Morris Robinson | Choir Ibn Zaïdoun (Chorus Master: Moneim Adwan)
Camerata Salzburg
Louis Langrée
Mozart left his Singspiel Zaide unfinished, but its wonderful music is most definitely still worth performing. And which director is better suited to staging this tale of slavery and love than Peter Sellars, who is famous for the tremendous passion with which he confronts political and intercultural questions in his productions and interprets classical operas in altogether convincing ways? “In Zaide”, Sellars insists, “Mozart was attempting to construct a musical and dramatic bridge between Europe and the Muslim world, replacing the ‘menace’ perceived on both sides with mercy and compassion.”
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Zaide
Facts DVD
Item number
3078358
UPC number
899132000862
Region code
0
Picture format
NTSC 16:9
Sound format
PCM Stereo
Dolby Digital 5.1
Release
Total running time
108 mins
Subtitles
English, French, German
Booklet notes
English, French, German
No. of discs
1
Recording
2008