Opera
Die Zauberflöte
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Masterpieces reveal new meanings when we ask different questions of them.— Jean Starobinski
Die Zauberflöte is one of Mozart’s most famous works and one of the most beloved of the entire operatic repertoire. Generations of spectators have been fascinated by the melodies and adventures of Papageno, the Queen of the Night, Tamino, and Pamina, the ordeals faced by the young lovers, and the work’s inexhaustible allegorical depth. The director Romeo Castellucci has deliberately stepped back from the narrative dimension of the opera in order to explore its raw emotion and its philosophical heart. For his part, the conductor Antonello Manacorda brings Mozart’s immortal music to life with the help of an outstanding cast that includes Sabine Devieilhe, one of today’s finest interpreters of the Queen of the Night.
Synopsis
The hero, Tamino, sets out to rescue Pamina, the daughter of the Queen of the Night, with whom he is in love and who has been abducted by Sarastro. Sarastro presides over a society into which Tamino is invited: he must undergo a number of trials, at the end of which he will be granted Pamina’s hand. Throughout this adventure, Tamino is accompanied by the bird-catcher Papageno, who also meets his own future partner, Papagena.
Isn’t Sarastro, however, in the promises he makes to the young people, manipulative? Is he not, moreover, the beneficiary of a cult and of slaves, in contradiction with his egalitarian principles? Should we not, accordingly, believe in the sincerity of the Queen of the Night and of the outburst in which she expresses her wounded maternal feelings?
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OperaRomeo Castellucci at La Monnaie
A video portrait
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OperaWe are no longer divas.
Sabine Devieilhe
La Monnaie opens the 2018-19 season with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s iconic opera ‘Die Zauberflöte’ in an original interpretation by Romeo Castellucci. The production boasts a five-star cast with, playing the part of the Queen of the Night, one of the leading European opera singers of the moment: Sabine Devieilhe, whose career we outline below.
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OperaFocus dramaturgy
‘Die Zauberflöte’
Our dramaturge Antonio Cuenca Ruiz introduces Die Zauberflöte.
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OperaBuilding unimaginable shapes
Michael Hansmeyer’s set design for ‘Die Zauberflöte’
For our production of ‘Die Zauberflöte’ – one of Mozart’s most famous works and one of the most beloved of the entire operatic repertoire –, director Romeo Castellucci asked the architect Michael Hansmeyer to design the set of the first act. Hansmeyer in turn collaborated with Factum Arte to create the gigantic architectural shapes he generated by algorithms.
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OperaA stage philosopher
A portrait of Romeo Castellucci
Creator of shows that, by their visual power, fascinate as much as they question, Romeo Castellucci is much in the public eye. At the beginning of the 2018-2019 season, he revisits for la Monnaie the famous opera ‘Die Zauberflöte’ by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The playwright Piersandra Di Matteo, one of his close collaborators, depicts the artist in the following portrait.
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Tue 18 Sept 2018
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Thu 20 Sept 2018
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Fri 21 Sept 2018
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Sun 23 Sept 2018
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Tue 25 Sept 2018
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20:00
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Wed 26 Sept 2018
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Thu 27 Sept 2018
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Fri 28 Sept 2018
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Sun 30 Sept 2018
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Infos
with audio description
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Tue 02 Oct 2018
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Wed 03 Oct 2018
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Thu 04 Oct 2018
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Cast
Conductor ANTONELLO MANACORDA (18, 20, 21, 25, 27, 28, 02, 03)
BEN GLASSBERG (23, 26, 30, 04)
Director, set design, costumes, lighting ROMEO CASTELLUCCI
Choreography CINDY VAN ACKER
Algorithmic architecture MICHAEL HANSMEYER
Artistic collaboration SILVIA COSTA
Added dialogues CLAUDIA CASTELLUCCI
Dramaturgy PIERSANDRA DI MATTEO, ANTONIO CUENCA RUIZ
Chorus master MARTINO FAGGIANI
Sarastro GÁBOR BRETZ
TIJL FAVEYTS (20, 23, 26, 28, 02, 04)
Tamino ED LYON
REINOUD VAN MECHELEN (20, 23, 26, 28, 02, 04)
Sprecher DIETRICH HENSCHEL
Königin der Nacht SABINE DEVIEILHE
JODIE DEVOS (20, 26, 28, 02, 04)
Pamina SOPHIE KARTHÄUSER
ILSE EERENS (20, 23, 26, 28, 02, 04)
Erste Dame TINEKE VAN INGELGEM
Zweite Dame ANGÉLIQUE NOLDUS
Dritte Dame ESTHER KUIPER
Papageno GEORG NIGL
Papagena ELENA GALITSKAYA
Monostatos, ein Mohr ELMAR GILBERTSSON
Erster Priester / Zweiter geharnischter Mann GUILLAUME ANTOINE
Zweiter Priester / Erster geharnischter Mann YVES SAELENS
Drei Knaben AXEL BASYURT (20, 23, 26, 28, 02, 04), SOFIA ROYO CSÓKA, ALEJANDRO ENRIQUEZ (20, 23, 26, 28, 02, 04), TOBIAS VAN HAEPEREN, ELFIE SALAUDDIN CRÉMER, AYA TANAKA (20, 23, 26, 28, 02, 04)
Dancers
STÉPHANIE BAYLE, MARIA DE DUENAS LOPEZ, LAURE LESCOFFY, SERENA MALACCO, ALEXANE POGGI, FRANCESCA RUGGERINI, STEFANIA TANSINI, DANIELA ZAGHINI, TIMOTHÉ BALLO, HIPPOLYTE BOUHOUO, LOUIS-CLÉMENT DA COSTA, EMMANUEL DIELA NKITA, AURÉLIEN DOUGÉ, JOHANN FOURRIÈRE, PAUL GIRARD, NUHACET GUERRA, GUILLAUME MARIE, TIDIANI N’DIAYE, XAVIER PEREZ
Amateur actors
DORIEN CORNELIS, JOYCE DE CEULAERDE, MONIQUE VAN DEN ABBEEL, KATTY KLOEK, LORENA DÜRNHOLZ, JAN VAN BASTELAERE, MICHIEL BUSEYNE, JOHNNY IMBRECHTS, YANN NUYTS, BRECHT STAUT
Actors
SOPHY RIBRAULT, CINZIA ROBBIATI, MICHAEL ALEJANDRO GUEVARA, GIANFRANCO PODDIGHE, BOYAN DELATTRE / AMOS SUCHEKI
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
MM Academy & La Monnaie's Children's and Youth Chorus, led by Benoît Giaux
ProductionDE MUNT / LA MONNAIE
Co-production OPÉRA DE LILLE (2019)
With the support of THE BELGIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S TAX SHELTER, IN COOPERATION WITH PROSPERO MM PRODUCTIONS SA/NV AND TAXSHELTER.BE, POWERED BY ING
