Joana Mallwitz conducts the “Magic Flute” in Salzburg – according to the media – culture
– She did it again: After Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte” in 2020 and 2021, Nuremberg’s GMD Joana Mallwitz will conduct Mozart’s “Magic Flute” at the Salzburg Festival this year. Read some press reviews here.
On Saturday, the “Magic Flute” directed by Lydia Steier premiered at the Salzburg Festival. The new production had moved from the Great Festival Hall to the smaller House for Mozart. And there is a new conductor at the podium: Nuremberg’s GMD Joana Mallwitz. She conducted the Vienna Philharmonic. For this she received a lot of praise in the media.
“Under the grandiose musical direction of Joana Mallwitz, an evening of opera was a success that served the theater machinery in the best sense – and was rightly enthusiastically applauded,” says online at ORF.
and BR Classic online writes: “Joana Mallwitz is the ideal opera woman in the ditch, always gesturing with her protégés on stage. The Vienna Philharmonic trimmed it for historically informed music-making: the sound is bold, brisk and crisp, sometimes a bit too compact for the acoustics in the House for Mozart”.
Stefan Ender writes in the Austrian newspaper The standard: All in all, Joana Mallwitz and the Vienna Philharmonic offer a Magic Flute that comes close to a polished, high-gloss Mozart for the luxury showcase – if it weren’t for this eloquence and soulfulness and also the slender swing. Clearly: the Salzburg Festival audience is also a different target clientele than that of a Viennese suburban theater at the time. At the end a jubilation like back then.