The Magic Flute, Opera Bastille, Paris: 17 September-19 November 2022

The Magic Flute is an eminently popular masterpiece offering multiple interpretations as a moral, political and philosophical tale. Mozart's limpid musical language and candid vocality, in turn playful, poignant and solemn, along with his profound message, carrying aloft the humanist banner, attain genuine universality. Alternating with Simone Di Felice, Antonello Manacorda conducts the finest Mozartian singers in Robert Carsen's elegant and uncluttered staging, a dark jewel that tames death to make it our best friend.

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• Die Zauberflöte

  Opera in two acts (1791)

  • Music :

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  • Libretto :

    Emanuel Schikaneder

  • Conductor :

    Antonello Manacorda

    Simone Di Felice - (19, 22, 28 oct.)

  • Director :

    Robert Carsen

  • Set design :

    Michael Levine

  • Costume design :

    Petra Reinhardt

  • Lighting design :

    Robert Carsen

    Peter Van Praet

  • Video :

    Martin Eidenberger

  • Dramaturgy :

    Ian Burton

  • Chorus master :

    Ching-Lien Wu

  Orchestre et Chœurs de l'Opéra national de Paris
  Coproduction avec le Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden

• Cast

  • Tamino :

    • Mauro Peter

      (13 Sept. > 13 Oct.)

    • Pavel Petrov

      (19 Oct.-19 Nov.)

  • Zweite Dame :

    • Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur

  • Dritte Dame :

    • Katharina Magiera

  • Papageno :

    • Huw Montague Rendall

      (13 Sep.> 19 Oct.)

    • Iurii Samoilov

      (22 Oct. > 19 Nov.)

  • Papagena :

    • Tamara Bounazou

  • Sarastro :

    • René Pape

    • Brindley Sherratt

  • Monostatos :

    • Michael Colvin

  • Pamina :

    • Pretty Yende

      (13 Sept. > 22 Oct.)

    • Christiane Karg

      (19 Oct. > 19 Nov.)

  • Königin der Nacht :

    • Caroline Wettergreen

  • Der Sprecher :

    • Martin Gantner

      (11 Sept. > 22 Oct.)

    • Michael Kraus

      (28 Oct. > 19 Nov.)

  • Erster Priester :

    • Niall Anderson

  • Zweitter Priester :

    • Tobias Westman

  • Erste Dame :

    • Margarita Polonskaya