Fri, November 20, 2009
A cooperative production of National Centre for the Performing Arts, The Norwegian National Opera and Opera Hong Kong
Production Team
Director: Paul Curran
Conductor: Jari Hamalainen
Stage Design: Gao Guangjian
Role Cast
Tamino Bruce Sledge/Eric Margiore
Papageno Paul Armin Edelmann/Brian Montgomery
Pamina Huang Ying/Inna Dukach
The Queen of the Night Ekaterina Lekhina
Being the final piece of work in Mozart's life, The Magic Flute was also his favorite opera. With a plain and interesting form of myth play, the opera expresses Mozart's ideal of Utopia, where wisdom conquers blindness, light conquers darkness and goodness conquers wickedness. Meanwhile the opera also incorporates diversified musical and drama forms that were popular in Germany, Austria, Italy, France and Czech before the 18th century, displaying a rich and beautiful musical content.
Synopsis
The Queen of the Night saved Tamino, the Egyptian prince who was chased by a serpent. She showed the prince a picture of her daughter Pamina and the prince fell in love instantly. Telling the prince that her daughter had been caught by Sarastro, the Queen of the Night promised that he could marry Pamina once he freed her. The prince said yes, and the Queen of the Night gave him a magic flute which could save him from trouble. Then the prince started off. In fact Sarastro was the king of wisdom and the ruler of "land of light". The husband of the Queen of the Night gave Sarastro a magic sun mirror before he died and asked him to tutor his daughter... ...
When
Today, 7:30 pm - 9pm
Starts Nov 20th , ends Nov 23rd
daily
Where
National Center for the Performing Arts
Contact
piao.com.cn
6417-7845
