DIE ZAUBERFLOTE (THE MAGIC FLUTE)

an opera by W. A. Mozart

Opera in a Suitcase
Conductor Dimitar Kosev
Director, Costume Designer and Scenographer Denis Ivanov

Sarastro – Petar Kunev
Tamino – Ivaylo Yovchev
Papageno – Ivan Kabamitov
The Queen of the Night – Viktoriya Pigova
Pamina – Desi Stefanova
Papagena – Prolet Pencheva

After “Le nozze di Figaro” (The Marriage of Figaro”), “Die Zauberflote” is the second production of the Stara Zagora Opera in the cycle “Opera in a Suitcase”.

Director Denis Ivanov shares his views:”Die Zauberflote”, as any fairy tale, opens a horizon for the imagination. This is why I take the action to the Orient, in the world of Scheherazade and One Thousand and One Nights, in the magical 15^th century – the century of princesses and knights, of the man of honor, fighting for his “lady of the heart”, the time of sorceresses and enchantresses. In the production, I have tried to present the theme of the personal choice, which everyone makes at an early age. The other basic message of the spectacle is related to the tolerance among people from different civilizations and religions in the conditions of a growing globalized world.”

Duration: 90 minutes
Performed in Bulgarian
premiere: 2 December 2016 the Festival for the Opera and Ballet Arts