Organization

Stage director

Daniel Slater

Conductor

Oliver von Dohnányi

Lighting designer

Evgeny Vinogradov

Costume designer

Francis O'Connor

Set designer

Chorus master

Angelica Grozina

Singer

Tenor

Sergey Osovin

Tamino

Evgeny Kryukov

Vladimir Cheberyak

Baritone

Alexey Semenischev

Papageno

Dmitry Starodubov

Maksim Shlykov

Soprano

Victoria Novikova

Pamina

Olga Semenishcheva (Peshkova)

Olga Starodubova (Tenyakova)

Darya Leus (Tamarova)

The Queen of the Night

Olga Vutiras

Natalia Mokeeva

Bass

Vladislav Troshin

Sarastro

Vladislav Popov

Garry Agadzhanyan

Anton Perminov

Olesya Stepanova

Papagena

Saule Antysheva

Luiza Zhuleva

Yana Mikheeva

Vitaly Petrov

Monostastos

Aleksandr Kulga

Mikhail Korobeinikov

Speaker

Andrey Reshetnikov

Viacheslav Shumov

First priest

Vladimir Voroshnin

First lady

Olesya Nemtseva

Ksenia Kovalevskaya

Second lady

Natalia Karlova

Contralto

Nadezhda Ryzhenkova

Third lady

Tatiana Nikanorova

Yuri Volkov

First armored man

Anatoly Shliman

Mikhail Morozov

Second armored man

Aleksandr Lepihin

Child vocalist

Yulia Filimonova

First spirit

Irina Krasheninnikova

Second spirit

Maria Orlova

Third spirit

Artem Abashev

Konstantin Chudovsky

Pavel Mezhov

Spoken

Second slave

Ural Opera Ballet

Elena Nakishova

Choreographer

Igor Bulytsyn

Assistant Director

Yaroslavia Kalesidis

Executive producer

Anna Demchinskaya

Assistant Conductor

Ivo Meinen

German

Russian

Die Zauberflöte -  (The Magic Flute)

Ekaterinburg

Russia

Ekaterinburg Opera

Die Zauberflöte Mozart

Public

Private

The Magic Flute

Approved

The Magic Flute is not exactly an opera. It is a singspiel or in other words, a play with singing in German – an entertainment genre, extremely popular during Mozart's time. Its vocal performances coexist with sustained conversational parts: Sometimes a singspiel is called a musical of the 18th century. It allows for presenting a fantastic story – with machine effects and all theatrical magic. It is a fantastic and fairy tale story that Emanuel Schikaneder, the entrepreneur and librettist, offered to Mozart.

British directors have come up with The Magic Flute in the steampunk style for the Ural Opera. This word comes from the English "steam". At the end of the 20th century, the steampunk became a genre of science fiction: the Victorian England of the 1850’s; people rave about the scientific progress that will lead humanity to the eternal bless; the industrial boom has started in the world, labyrinths of pipelines are arranged everywhere, steam engines and fantastic mechanisms are in operation.

All of this has formed an unexpected theme with the outline of the story for The Magic Flute, where Tamino, the main character, literally undergoes fiery trial, water and copper pipes (Russian idiom, meaning "go through thick and thin") for the sake of happiness with his beloved Pamina. To prevent the viewer from being distracted from the action for even a moment, Daniel Slater, the director, has rewritten conversational dialogues and Aleksandr Cherepanov, the artist from Yekaterinburg, has drawn the accompanying comic action.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew