Mozart Zauberflöte "Nur Stille/Die Strahlen der Sonne"Finale

"Nur Stille/Die Strahlen der Sonne" Finale at the "Salzburger Festspiele" 2006 (René Pape,Diana Damrau....)

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• zauberflöte
• mozart
• nur
• stille
• strahlen
• sonne
• salzburger
• festspiele
• 2006
• diana
• damrau
• finale
• rene
• pape

[paddymusic]

but her acting is as powerful as always ... i really like the black one...it looks great and i also like the green one during "der hölle rache"

[paddymusic]

i will!!!

[Bluemango123]

As for the ending, I seen a few comments asking why the Queen didn't die. Since Sarastro and the Queen represent day and night, it would just be a continued struggle between them since they are entities. As Diana said, she always played the Queen as if she were going to make a return.

I think this is just one of the many battles to come in the future.

[ambitionbird]

The best staging of this finale I've seen.

The final look before the curtain descends is electrifying, which only Damrau could pull off.

The two sides of the stage --

light - dark

sun - moon

male - female

gold - silver

-- it's an entire cosmology.

[eliplu]

haha alle kommentieren auf englisch :D und verstehen nicht was der singt..

[ZenPapageno]

@afrodude1991 I see no evidence that Mozart was racist, but there's something he didn't understand about white people. Knowing that whites were looking down on blacks, he must have assumed that white women would always reject black men. The troubling part of Magic Flute is M complaining that he can't score because he's an ugly black man. If Mozart were alive, he'd be as embarrassed as hell. Anyway, the story doesn't demand that the character be black, just ugly.

[afrodude1991]

@ZenPapageno yeah, i understand that. my comment was about how people will change productions to stay politically correct. all productions i've seen have just portrayed him as unattractive.

i think that the artistic integrity of the piece is destroyed when Monostatos isn't portrayed as a Moor. Mozart wrote it that way for a reason and to CHANGE what he wrote is ridiculous. i just have a HUGE thing for artistic integrity.

[ZenPapageno]

@afrodude1991 Blackface looks silly, like somebody in a minstrel show doing jokes and Stephen Foster songs. Still, the only character in the show who complains about his color is Monostatos himself. Papageno says, "Well how about that -- a black man! But then, there are black birds, so why not a black man?" Also, the black man is in a position of power, not a slave.

[Bluemango123]

That last look Damrau gives says it all. "This isn't over!"

[afrodude1991]

is that guy in blackface?

i just found out that Monostatos is supposed to be a Moor but NONE of the productions portray him as a Moor. why in the world so PC?

[himrien]

c'est merveilleuse

[isabelle070209]

René Pape je vous adore....

[wickedistheshiz]

That is Diana Damrau.

[kubaboy123]

omg. what the fuck ist this?!

Diana Damrau is so mutch better. well Diana Damrau is the best queen of the night^^