Romeo Castellucci
At La Monnaie
LA MONNAIE / DE MUNT
Opera
Die Zauberflöte Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Presentation
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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Running time
3 hours 20 minutes (with interval)
Prices
Gold - € 159
Cat 1 - € 129 / Cat 2 - € 99
Cat 3 - € 85 / Cat 4 - € 62
Cat 5 - € 34 / Cat 6 - € 10
Language
Sung in German
Surtitles in Dutch and French
Presentation
Pre-performance talks 30' before the start of the performances
Streaming
live on ARTE Concert, Mezzo, La Trois, Musiq3, Klara
27.09.2018
streaming on
www.lamonnaie.be/en/streaming
15.10 > 4.11.2018
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Tue 18 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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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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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
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
News
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Opernwelt crowns Romeo Castellucci ‘director of the year’
Read moreIn its Jahrbuch 2019, the Opernwelt magazine has bestowed to Romeo Castellucci three awards, including the prestigious title ‘Director of the Year’.
