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The Pierre Audi production of Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte", recorded live at the Salzburger Festpiele in 2006. In honor of the 250th year of the composer's birth, all of Mozart's operas were staged and recorded at Salzburg that year. Christian Gerhaher is Papageno, Genia Kühmeier is Pamina, Paul Groves is Tamino, Diana Damrau is the Königin der Nacht, Irena Bespalovaite is Papagena, and René Pape is Sarastro. Riccardo Muti conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker.
This 2004 production of Richard Strauss's three-act comic opera Der Rosenkavalier (1911) emerged from the efforts of the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg. It stars Adrianne Pieczonka as Feldmarschallin, Franz Hawlata as Baron Ochs, Angelika Kirchschlager as Octavian and Franz Grundheber as Faninal. The Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor and the Wiener Philharmoniker lend added musical support, with Rupert Huber serving as chorus master of the former and Semyon Bychkov conducting the latter.
