Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This work, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s most famous opera by far, is also his most enigmatic. Prince Tamino falls in love with Pamina after only having seen a picture of her. But as her mother, the Queen of the Night, reports, Pamina is being held captive by Sarastro. At the queen’s behest, Tamino and his companion Papageno set off to free Pamina from Sarastro’s temple. But as soon as they arrive there, the question of which characters are good and which are evil arises. The only thing that seems clear is that Pamina returns Tamino’s affections, and in the end the two of them are united after difficult trials.
For 25 years, August Everding’s production of Die Zauberflöte has enchanted Staatsoper audiences of all ages. But now the time has come for Mozart’s complex masterpiece to be examined anew. And so American director Yuval Sharon carries away audiences to new worlds of images that are no less imaginative, yet aesthetically quite different from the previous production. At the heart of the production is the idea of a collage, analogous to that of Mozart’s music itself, oscillating constantly between the stylistic levels of singspiel and opera seria. Sharon, together with stage designer Mimi Lien and Belgian fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck, takes this variety as an occasion to approach Mozart’s opera in a creatively playful and colorful way.
Alondra de la Parra, Conductor
Martin Wright, Chorus-master
Anna Milukova, Assistant Chorus-master
Mimi Lien, Set designer
Mark Löhrer, Assistant Set designer
Walter Van Beirendonck, Costume designer
Reinhard Traub, Lighting designer
Hannah Wasileski, Video designer
Markus Böhm, Sound designer
CAST
Grigory Shkarupa, Sarastro
Julian Prégardien, Prince Tamino
Serena Sáenz, Pamina
Florian Teichtmeister, Papageno
Victoria Randem, Papagena
Nicola Proksch, Queen of the Night
David Oštrek, Speaker
Florian Hoffmann, Monostatos
Adriane Queiroz, First lady
Natalia Skrycka, Second lady
Anja Schlosser, Third lady
Jun-Sung Han, First armed man
Frederic Jost, Second armed man
Andrés Moreno García, First priest
David Oštrek, Second priest
Nikos Fragkou, dancer
Maximilian Reisinger, dancer
Joschka Schneider, dancer
Adriana Thiel, dancer
Paulina Tovo, dancer
Valentina Zick, dancer
February 17, 21, 23, and 28, 2019
March 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 16, 2019