Duisburg With the British animation theater troupe "1927", Barrie Kosky staged Mozart's opera in Duisburg's Rheinoper house as a happy folk theater in the digital age. Excellent also the musical side of the evening
Of all the operas in the repertoire, Die Zauberflote is the one that today seems to best stimulate the creativity of directors. We saw it this summer at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence , we can see it at the start of the season in Düsseldorf where Suzanne Andrade and Barrie Koskydemonstrate a pleasing inventiveness. Their idea? Transform Mozart's work into a gigantic cartoon. How? 'Or...
Dusseldorf. In Berlin and Duisburg, Mozart's “Magic Flute” already enjoys cult status in the production by the directing duo Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade. The gaudy mixture of silent film aesthetics, comics, caricatures and surrealism fills the houses there. Now the production can also be seen in the Düsseldorf Opera House.
"The Magic Flute" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart can be seen at the Düsseldorf Opera this season. The view into the orchestra pit is seven meters deep. Seven meters that are not entirely without. "It was difficult to stand up here at first, but it's a matter of habit," says Richard Sveda. The singer is one of Papageno's actors in "The Magic Flute", which is being staged this season in B...
The performers, led by Polish soprano Iwona Sobotka playing Pamina and supported by the WA Opera and WA Symphony Orchestra, were not deterred by the extravagant production, but revelled in it.
Pamina, sung beautifully by Soprano Iwona Sobotka on opening night. She played the heroine-in-need-of-rescue to perfection, but despite the sexism spouted by some characters, Pamina showed courage, determination and integrity. That said, she does fall into despair when she believes she is no longer loved by Tamino, and Sobotka sings Pamina’s aria with great feeling as she contemplate...