Die Zauberflöte: Festival d'Aix‐en‐Provence
About the Event
Through myriad states of rapture and mystery, a couple makes its way from darkness to light, bearing a new ideal for human society. Mozart’s favourite work, whose popular success he was able to witness until his dying hours, is a miraculous aesthetic and spiritual achievement: its complex simplicity, with its unique diversity of tones and languages, makes it a universal masterpiece in its own right, somewhere between fairy‐tale entertainment and noble initiation. But any bright utopia invariably has a dark side when it assumes concrete form in the West of yesterday or today when a certain vision of the perfect community enters history. Digging into the sensitive archives of our collective memory, Clément Cogitore invites us to follow the bildungsroman of young children as they grow up in a world of fragile beauty and uncertain truth. For the first time at the Festival, Leonardo García‐Alarcón and Cappella Mediterranea are taking on a work by its flagship composer, performed by a cast that is every bit as magical as the occasion requires.
Cast / Production
Conductor
Leonardo García‐Alarcón
Stage direction and Video
Clément Cogitore
Set design
Alban Ho Van
Costume design
Wojciech Dziedzic
Lighting design
Sylvain Verdet
Choreography
Evelin Facchini
Dramaturgy
Simon Hatab
Pamina
Ying Fang*
Tamino
Mauro Peter
Die Königin der Nacht
Sabine Devieilhe*
Papageno
Sean Michael Plumb*
Sarastro
Brindley Sherratt
Der Sprecher
Edwin Crossley‐Mercer*
Erste Dame
Alix Le Saux
Zweite Dame
Ashley Dixon
Dritte Dame
Adriana Bignagni Lesca
Papagena
Emma Fekete
Monostatos
Rodolphe Briand
Erster Priester, Zweiter geharnischter Mann
Damien Pass*
Zweiter Priester, Erster geharnischter Mann
Jonghyun Park*
Choir
Chœur de Chambre de Namur
Children’s Choir
Knabenchor der Chorakademie Dortmund
Orchestra
Cappella Mediterranea
*Former artists of the Académie
