Mozart, La Flûte enchantée

A new production by the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

“Passing through a thousand states of rapture and mystery, a couple journeys from shadow to light, bearing a new ideal for human society. Mozart’s cherished child, whose popular success he watched over until his final hours, marks a miraculous aesthetic and spiritual achievement: its complex simplicity, with a unique diversity of tones and languages, makes it a universal masterpiece in a class of its own, somewhere between enchanting entertainment and noble initiation. But what shadow must necessarily lurk within every luminous utopia when, in the West of yesterday or today, it becomes a reality, when a certain vision of the perfect community enters history? Drawing on the sensory archive of our collective memory, Clément Cogitore invites us to follow the coming-of-age story of young children growing up in a world of fragile beauty and uncertain truth. Leonardo García-Alarcón and Cappella Mediterranea tackle a work by their signature composer for the first time at the Festival, supported by a cast as enchanting as one would expect.”

Program

Die Zauberflöte
Singspiele de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder
First performed on 30 September 1791 in Vienna

A new production by the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, in co-production with the Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and Opéra Ballet Vlaanderen.

Cast

Pamina – Ying Fang
Tamino – Mauro Peter
Die Königin der Nacht – Sabine Devieilhe
Papageno – Sean Michael Plumb
Sarastro – Brindley Sherratt
Der Sprecher – Edwin Crossley-Mercer
Erste Dame – Alix Le Saux
Zweite Dame – Ashley Dixon
Dritte Dame – Adriana Bignagni Lesca
Papagena – Emma Fekete
Monostatos – Rodolphe Briand
Erster Priester, Zweiter geharnischter Mann – Damien Pass
Zweiter Priester, Erster geharnischter Mann – Jonghyun Park

Chœur de Chambre de Namur
Knabenchor der Chorakademie Dortmund
Cappella Mediterranea

Musical Direction – Leonardo García-Alarcón
Satge Direction and Video Design – Clément Cogitore

Set Design – Alban Ho Van
Costumes – Wojciech Dziedzic
Lighting – Sylvain Verdet
Choreography – Evelin Facchini
Dramaturgy – Simon Hatab