THE MAGIC FLUTE

W. A. Mozart

Great Classics | Audiences of the Future

12 and 13 SEP | 21h

Centro Cultural Olga Cadaval

Sung in the Portuguese version by Alexandre Delgado
Opera in 2 acts
Subtitled in PT and EN
Duration 2 hours with interval
M6

Operafest 2025, in its 6th edition from 7 August to 13 September, after Verdi's "Traviata", Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" and Philippe Boesmans' "Julie", closes with a flourish and brings back Mozart's "The Magic Flute", in the Portuguese version by Alexandre Delgado, directed by Mónica Garnel, which delighted the public and critics at Operafest 2023! With an excellent Portuguese cast and musical direction by maestro Pedro Carneiro, the last opera composed by the Austrian genius is also the most-watched opera ever, since its premiere in 1793, in a theatre on the outskirts of Vienna, owned by the businessman, actor and singer Emanuel Shikaneder, a friend of Mozart who wrote the libretto.

The flute that the three ladies give to Prince Tamino to face the dangers that will lead him to his beloved Pamina, has the power to neutralise evil, its music works miracles - a metaphor for the universal and unifying power of music.
Advocating Masonic ideals and symbolizing the struggle between good and evil, light and darkness, full of contradictions. In the style of fairy tales that serve as instruction manuals for life, this seemingly simple tale ultimately tells us about power relations, failed couples in constant dispute, parental abuse, cowardice versus courage, but also about love, friendship and the small joys of life, with a touch of humor, fantasy and the most sublime music of Mozart, radiating a light that infects all audiences.

Advocating Masonic ideals and symbolizing the struggle between good and evil, light and darkness, full of contradictions, inn the style of fairy tales that serve as instruction manuals for life. This seemingly simple tale ultimately tells us about power relations, failed couples in constant dispute, parental abuse, cowardice versus courage, but also about love, friendship and the small joys of life, with a touch of humor, fantasy and the most sublime music of Mozart, radiating a light that touches all audiences.

Musical direction: Pedro Carneiro
Stage direction: Mónica Garnel
Stage direction assistant: Anna Lepännen
Setting and props: Patrícia Costa
Light design: Sérgio Moreira
Direction of Children’s Cast: Rute Dutra

Cast
Pamina: Cecília Rodrigues
Tamino: Bruno Almeida
Papagueno: André Henriques
Queen of the night: Patrícia Modesto
Sarastro: Nuno Dias
1ª Lady and Papaguena: Filipa Portela
2ª Lady: Rita Filipe
3ª Lady: Alexandra Calado
Monostato: Marios Miniatopuolos
Guard: Benjamim Barroso
Three Children: António Relvas, Joana Almeida, Duarte Nunes

Orquestra de Câmara Portuguesa

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