A beloved New York holiday tradition, Mozart’s enchanting musical fairy tale returns in the Met’s abridged, English-language production by Julie Taymor—the Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s "The Lion King."
Read the synopsis and program guide from the Metropolitan Opera.
From the Met: "Mozart and his librettist, Emanuel Schikaneder, created "The Magic Flute" with an eye toward a popular audience, but the varied tone of the work requires singers who can specialize in several different musical genres. The baritone Papageno represents the comic and earthy, the tenor Tamino and the soprano Pamina display true love in its noblest forms, the bass Sarastro expresses the solemn and the transcendental, and the Queen of the Night provides explosive vocal fireworks."
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto: Emanuel Schikaneder
CAST:
Tamino: David Portillo
Three ladies: Caitlin Lynch, Maire Therese Carmack and Eve Gigliotti
Papageno: Will Liverman
Queen of the night: Kathryn Lewek
Attendants: Stephen Paynter, Kurt Phinney and Craig Montgomery
Monostatos: Rodell Rosel
Pamina: Hera Hyesang Park
Spirits: Nico Hwang, Luka Zylik and Ori Wosner
Speaker: William Guanbo Su
Sar astro: Soloman Howard
Priests: Christopher Job and Scott Scully
Papagena: Magdalena Ku´zma
Guards: Robert Stahley and Richard Bernstein
