Zaide : Sellars, Langree / Camerata Salzburg, Lekhina, Panikkar, etc (2008 Stereo)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: ZAIDE

Zaide - Ekaterina Lekhina
Gomatz - Sean Panikkar
Allazim - Alfred Walker
Sultan Soliman - Russell Thomas
Osmin - Morris Robinson

Choir Ibn Zaidoun
Camerata Salzburg
Louis Langree, conductor

Peter Sellars, director
Geroge Tsypin, set design
Gabriel Berry, costume design
James F. Ingalls, lighting design

Filmed during the 60th Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2008

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." ( medici arts )

Running time: 108 mins