Organization

Glyndebourne Festival

Singer

Tenor

Thomas Atkins

Second priest

Bass

Martin Snell

First priest

Soprano

Kamilla Dunstan

Second lady

Set designer

André Barbe

Child vocalist

Daniel Todd

First spirit

Conductor

Ryan Wigglesworth

Stage director

Barbe & Doucet

Lighting designer

Guy Simard

Chorus master

Aidan Oliver

Assistant Director

Kathleen Stakenas

Donna Stirrup

David Portillo

Tamino

Esther Dierkes

First lady

Marta Fontanals-Simmons

Contralto

Katharina Magiera

Third lady

Baritone

Björn Bürger

Papageno

Caroline Wettergreen

The Queen of the Night

Jörg Schneider

Monostastos

Sofia Fomina

Pamina

Michael Kraus

Speaker

Brindley Sherratt

Sarastro

First armored man

Second armored man

Alison Rose

Papagena

Felix Barry- Casademunt

Second spirit

Simeon Wren

Third spirit

Orchestra

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

German

Die Zauberflöte -  (The Magic Flute)

Glyndebourne

United Kingdom

Die Zauberflöte (Mozart), 2019
Barbe & Doucet's inventive take on Mozart's most magical comedy.

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Opera House

Ebert Room

Think you’ve already seen The Magic Flute? You haven't really seen it until you've seen the version of the explosive duo Barbe & Doucet, who invite us to what they call a “huge musical comedy”. At the Glyndebourne Festival under the direction of Ryan Wigglesworth, experience one of Mozart's most popular works in an ambitious production with “eleven sets and two years of preparation”. 

Completed just months before its composer's untimely death at age 35, the Singspiel draws heavily on the codes of Freemasonry, of which Mozart was a member. As part of the search for his love Pamina, Prince Tamino undergoes different tests that lead him toward truth and away from the darkness of ignorance. In the words of Hegel, “The Kingdom of the Night, the Queen, the Kingdom of the Sun, the Mysteries, the Initiations, Wisdom, Love, the Tests, along with a kind of moral middle ground, which in its generality is excellent, all of that, combined with the depth, enchanting grace, and soul of this music, stretch and satisfy the imagination, and warm the heart”.

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