Product Details

• Directors: salzburger marionettentheater
• Format: NTSC, Color, Collector's Edition, Dolby, Import
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 5
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Dawoori Entertainment
• Run Time: 538 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000LY23SW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #369,507 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The Salzburg Marionette Theatre has now been in existence for more than 90 years and has become world famous not only through its 160 annual performances in Salzburg but also through its countless international tours. The Salzburg Marionette Theatre has performed all over the world and makes regular tours and guest appearances in France, USA, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and South Africa. Anyone who believes that the Marionette Theatre is just for children is certainly mistaken. Here the artists from the great opera houses of the globe have performed. World-class artists, stage-directors and designers, come back again and again to work for the Salzburg Marionettes.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Something Different, May 25, 2007

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This review is from: Mozart Premium Opera Gift Collection From the World Renowned Salzburg Marionette Theater (Salzburger Marionettentheater) (Cosi Fan Tutte / Don Giovanni / The Marriage of Figaro / The Abduction from the Seraglio / The Magic Flute [Import - All Region] (5 Dvd Set-2006) (DVD)

I have many operas in my DVD collection, but one I specialize in is "The Magic Flute". When I did a search, this item came up. For some reason this item is produced in Korea with the booklet in Korean. Not a problem. What was a problem was that there are no subtitles. To help there are excellent narrations by Peter Ustinov. Knowing the stories of the operas made it less difficult to follow, but this set should be redone with subtitles.

This is a fun way to see the operas. Using marionettes, the puppetry is very well done. They perform to excellent recordings of different singers and orchestras for each of the five operas. These DVDs are excellent ways to introduce children to opera (except for lack of subtitles). Opera fans might also like to try something different. The operas are somewhat abreviated so they are not as long as the complete operas.