The Magic Flute by Mozart, Sun 09 Jun 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by Melly Still, Conductor Finnegan Downie Dear, Nevill Holt Opera, Market Harborough, United Kingdom

Nevill Holt Festival 2024 opens with Mozart’s most magical opera, directed and designed by Melly Still (Tony and Olivier Award-nominated Coram Boy, National Theatre; Rusalka and The Wreckers, Glyndebourne). An enchanting fairy-tale quest for love, The Magic Flute promises an evening of magic, mystique and romance, set to some of the most sublime music ever written by Mozart, conducted by Finnegan Downie Dear. A feast for the senses of opera lovers of all ages, Nevill Holt Festival’s new production will see a cast of the UK’s most talented emerging opera singers take to our stage. It will be created in partnership with the award-winning Britten Sinfonia, which The Guardian recently described as “one of our most innovative and vital ensembles”. Magic Flute ticket holders will be welcome to attend free pre-show talks in the chapel and will have complimentary access from 3pm onwards to the Nevill Holt estate gardens and Modern British sculpture collection as well as the 2024 Festival’s exhibitions of Anthony Caro and Eduardo Paolozzi’s sculptures, marking the centenary of both artist’s birth. “The Magic Flute stands alone — its mixture of the comic, the tragic and the fantastic, somehow all bound together through the beauty of Mozart’s music, is inexhaustibly fascinating. It is a privilege to be working with Melly Still, Nevill Holt Festival and Britten Sinfonia on this project, and I can think of no more perfect setting than the intimate and enchanting theatre at Nevill Holt to bring a new version of this piece to life.” Finnegan Downie Dear