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Taneyev Quartet

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The Salzburg Festival 2018 “The Magic Flute” with the up-and-coming Greek conductor Kalidis and a youthful and stable lineup including Gernet, Kark, and Shagimuratova! The Salzburg Festival presents Mozart’s operas every year, and “The Magic Flute” is one of the most special ones. 2018 marks the first appearance since 2012 (Vienna Konzentus Musiks conducted by Arnoncourt and directed by Herzog), with a new production by an American female director, Lydia Steyer. American female director, Lydia Steyer, has newly directed the production of “The Magic Flute”. The “The Magic Flute” is in the Zingspiel form with many lines, but Steyer cut most of the lines, and the “old man” who tells the story appears as a narrator (originally, he was an actor, Bruno Bachmann, but he was replaced by a narrator in the production). (Actor Bruno Ganz was originally sch