A treasured holiday tradition, Mozart’s heartwarming fairy tale takes the stage in the Met’s abridged, English-language production by Julie Taymor — the Tony Award–winning director of Broadway’s "The Lion King." Featuring some of opera’s most popular melodies, it’s perfect for audiences of all ages.
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From the Met: "'The Magic Flute' is the Met’s abridged, English-language version of Mozart’s 'Die Zauberflöte,' a sublime fairy tale that moves freely between earthy comedy and noble mysticism. Mozart wrote the opera for a theater located just outside Vienna with the clear intention of appealing to audiences from all walks of life. The story is told in a singspiel ('song-play') format characterized by separate musical numbers connected by dialogue and stage activity — an excellent structure for navigating the diverse moods, ranging from solemn to lighthearted, of the story and score. The composer and the librettist were both Freemasons, the fraternal order whose membership is held together by shared moral and metaphysical ideals, and Masonic imagery appears throughout the work. The story, however, is as universal as any fairy tale."
See the synopsis from the Metropolitan Opera.
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto: Emanuel Schikaneder
CAST
Tamino: Paul Appleby
Three Ladies: Tessa McQueen, Edyta Kulczak and Megan Esther Grey
Papageno: Michael Sumuel
Queen of the Night: Rainelle Krause
Attendants: Stephen Paynter, Kurt Phinney and Craig Montgomery
Monostatos: Thomas Capobianco
Pamina: Joélle Harvey
Spirits: Hugo Martinez-Nieto, Amory Julien Winkles and Clément Lafourcade
Speaker: Harold Wilson
Sarastro: Alexander Köpeczi
Priests: Paul Corona and Nicholas Nestorak
Papagena: Emma Marhefka
Guards: Ben Reisinger and Sunghoon Han
