Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Die Zauberflöte K. 620 (1791)
Singspiel en deux actes sur un livret d’Emanuel Schikaneder créé le 30 septembre 1791 au Theater auf der Wieden, à Vienne
Version semi-scénique et création vidéo Benoît Bénichou
Pamina Sandrine Piau Tamino Jeremy Ovenden La Reine de la nuit Rocio Perez Sarastro Alexander Köpeczi Papageno Christoph Filler Papagena Daniela Skorka Monostatos Markus Brutscher Première dame Judith Van Wanroij Deuxième dame Marie-Claude Chappuis Troisième dame Angélique Noldus L’Orateur Christian Immler
Ensemble vocal de Lausanne (dir. Daniel Reuss) The 3 children of Zürcher Sängerknaben (Gstaad) The 3 children of Weiner Sängerknaben (La Côte Saint-André)
Les Talens Lyriques Direction Christophe Rousset
“In this opera the basic struggle centres on the age-old contest between the forces of good and evil, a subject that we tend to oversimplify nowadays (as in the current geopolitical issues). To my mind, nothing is ever really black or white. There is much more of Gluck in The Magic Flute than one might imagine, which is what interests me in revisiting this masterpiece, which has already given rise to many different versions. It is my hope that audiences will be enchanted by this new reading of the work!”
– Christophe Rousset
