Die Schutzflehenden - DVD

Staats Sicherheiten [DIGITAL VIDEO DISC] Released 2009 product/publication from Belvedere

Founded in 1212, the St. Thomas Choir Leipzig is one of the most famous and prestigious boys' choirs in the world. This documentary, upon the 800th anniversary of the group's formation, accompanies InchDie Thomaner,Inch ages 9 to 18, over a period of one year at home and touring abroad. Their unique world, from motets to boarding school to a South American tour, is filled with pressure to perform, doubt pride, and homesickness, balanced by accomplishment, growth, and friendships that will last a lifetime.

W.A. Mozart's timeless masterpiece at the Salzburg Festival is always an event! Especially when Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) receives such a Inchspectacular and virtuosic stagingInch (Le Figaro) by director Lydia Steier. Steier introduces the role of the grandfather, a narrator reading the opera like a fairy tale to his three grandchildren, performed by the famous actor Klaus Maria Brandauer (Out of Africa, James Bond). This 'trick' in combination with the gigantic moveable sets by stage designer Katharina Schlipf, allows new views on Mozart's magical opera, with it's different worlds. Thanks to conductor Constantinos Carydis, who Inchseems to breath with the musicInch (Tagesspiegel), there is a new Mozart to be heard too Carydis draws Inchprecise phrasing and plenty of crisp articulationInch (Financial Times) from Inchthe musicians of the great Vienna PhilharmonicInch (New York Times).