Mozart's The Magic Flute - Perth Festival 2019

Mozart's The Magic Flute - Perth Festival 2019

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Posted 2019-01-25 by finyfollow

Wed 20 Feb 2019 - Sat 23 Feb 2019

Mozart's The Magic Flute is presented in association with West Australian Opera & West Australian Symphony Orchestra, as part of the Perth Festival.

The Magic Flute premiered in Vienna on 30 September 1791, just two months before Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's premature death. Mozart conducted the orchestra, while Austrian actor and theatrical producer, Emanuel Schikaneder sang the role of Papageno.

Now, this outstanding two-act comic opera has been reimagined by internationally-renowned opera director Barrie Kosky and the British theatre group 1927. The production is a celebration of true love conquering all and takes the audience into an enchanted world.



It will play at His Majesty's Theatre, 825 Hay Street, Perth from 20th to 23rd February 2019, at 7.30 pm. Tickets will cost from $36 to $500 and you can book yours at this link. There are a limited amount of Platinum Packages available at $500. These are the best seats in the house on opening night with interval drinks and access to the exclusive opening night VIP function with company artists.



This will be an ingenious kaleidoscope from the 1920's silent moves and it will mix both animated films and live action together. It will also be [i]"Weimar cabaret, dark humour and German expressionism,"[/i] in a visual fantasia, which is made not only for film buffs and art lovers, but also for lovers of great opera.

Kosky's Komische Oper Berlin will be coming to Australia for the first time with the premiere being in Perth. It will be accompanied here by West Australian Symphony Orchestra and all the amazing 1927's magical projected animations. There will be huge three-storey spiders, flappers and demons, butterflies and wolves. This will be a very imaginative and inventive opera as The Magic Flute is unlike all others!



The staging is brilliant and the film animation will interact with live performers. This is a production that has excited and pleased people all around the world and it will now be on for Australian audiences to see. It will be performed as it never has before in this unusual and exciting format. The Guardian says about this production [i]"'A tour de force … The visual ingenuity stunned and delighted … unforgettable."[/i]



This event is part of the Perth Festival, which runs from 8th February to 3rd March 2019. This opera will be presented by arrangement with Arts Projects Australia.

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