Die Zauberflöte

Production de 2014 - Robert Carsen

• Conductor

  Antonello Manacorda; Simone Di Felice

• Music

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• Libretto

  Emanuel Schikaneder

• Director

  Robert Carsen

• Set design

  Michael Levine

• Costume design

  Petra Reinhardt

• Lighting design

  Robert Carsen

• Lighting design

  Peter Van Praet

• Video

  Martin Eidenberger

• Dramaturgy

  Ian Burton

• Chorus master

  Ching-Lien Wu

In Die Zauberflöte, a prince from a far‑off land on a quest to liberate a princess meets a giant snake, a cocky bird‑seller, the Queen of the Night and a High Priest who imposes strange rites of passage. How does one approach Mozart’s last opera, first performed in Vienna in 1791, two months before the composer's death? As a fantastical tale for children, as the reflection of the masonic allegiance of Mozart and his librettist Schikaneder, or as an ardent meditation on human existence? The director Robert Carsen attempts to go beyond the libretto's simplistic opposition of good and evil, represented by Sarastro and the Queen of the Night, suggesting that each of them guides the young Tamino and Pamina on the path to wisdom. An optimistic reading that does not exclude the idea of death, described by Mozart in a letter to his father as “our best friend”.

Orchestre et Chœurs de l'Opéra national de Paris
Coproduction avec le Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden

Die Zauberflöte

Production de 2014 - Robert Carsen

• Sarastro

  René Pape

• Tamino

  Stanislas de Barbeyrac

• Der Sprecher

  Martin Gantner

• Erster Priester

  Niall Anderson

• Zweitter Priester

  Tobias Westman

• Königin der Nacht

  Caroline Wettergreen

• Pamina

  Pretty Yende

• Erste Dame

  Margarita Polonskaya

• Zweite Dame

  Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur

• Dritte Dame

  Katharina Magiera

• Papageno

  Huw Montague Rendall

• Papagena

  Tamara Bounazou

• Monostatos

  Michael Colvin