(This review will focus on the Jan. 4 performance, though with mentions of the Jan. 3 performance as well.) There is a moment near the end of Davide Livermore’s “Die Zauberflöte” at Muscat’s Royal Opera House of Musical Arts in which Tamino and Pamino must face the trials by fire and water with the magic flute in tow. But Livermore {…}
On Dec. 15, 2019, The Metropolitan Opera raised the curtain on this season’s run of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” Julie Taymor’s family-friendly production continues to be a visual and musical delight that, while abridged, makes for a strong concentration of the work. Under the baton of Lothar Koenigs, Sunday’s cast of artists was comprised of a fine mix of new {…}
(Credit: Richard Termine / Met Opera) The Met is set to revive Julie Taymor’s “The Magic Flute” on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019. The opera will be headlined by a wide-ranging cast of familiar and new faces. Queens and Kings Kathryn Lewek will reprise her Queen of the Night for the fifth season of her career. To date it is the {…}
The Metropolitan Opera has announced a cast change for its upcoming performances of “The Magic Flute” The company announced that Jeni Houser will sing the Queen of the Night in the Jan. 2 performance of Mozart work and Kathryn Lewek will sing the role Jan. 4. Both sopranos will replace So Young Park, who was originally scheduled. Houser will make {…}
We will apologize beforehand because you are going to be hearing a few opera titles repeatedly quite a bit over the next few weeks. You know which ones and they comprise a major part of our recommendations for the first major holiday weekend of the season. The Magic Flute – LA Opera Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade’s immersive “Magic Flute” {…}
The Children’s Philharmonic of New Jersey is set to present Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”during this holiday season. The performance, set for Dec. 15 at The First Presbyterian Church of Verona, will feature Mozart’s final masterpiece in an English-language translation. Among the performers will be music students aged 6-12. The opera will star The Children’s Philharmonic’s Season Artists including Joseph Mayon {…}
(Photo: Cory Weaver) Having already seen Los Angeles Opera’s 2013 co-production with Berlin’s Komische Oper and live-animation company 1927 of “The Magic Flute,” it was impossible not to look forward to its return this season at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on Saturday night, November 16th. It was not disappointing in the least, but ultimately a very different experience. Much of {…}
Will Liverman is set to make history at the Metropolitan Opera. The rising star baritone, who made his Met debut in 2018, will become the first African American to take on the role of Papageno at the Metropolitan Opera in the company’s 469th performance of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” “Being the first black Papageno at the Metropolitan Opera is so {…}
Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” is set to be revived at the Washington National Opera in an English version. In time for the holiday season, the production will feature designs by famed children’s author/illustrator Maurice Sendak. David Portillo is set to star as Tamino with Sydney Mancasola singing Pamina in her WNO debut. Kathryn Lewek will sing her signature Queen of {…}
(Credit: Iko Freese) After a big red curtain opens up at the end of the overture, the audience is greeted with a massive movie screen. In the center, a door rotates to reveal Tamino behind an extension of the screen that covered the lower part of his body. Suddenly the projections came alive with the chase of the beast underway. {…}
(Credit: Brian Kuhlmann) Audrey Luna will make her Mostly Mozart Festival debut, stepping in for Christina Poulitsi as the Queen of the Night in “The magic Flute.” Luna will be performing on July 17 and 19. Per a press release, Poulitsi has withdrawn due to illness. Luna is no stranger to New York audiences, having appeared prominently in such Met {…}