Mozart, The Magic Flute – concert version
artistic director, Jérémie Rhorer
Tamino, Matthew Newlin, ténor
Pamina, Mari Eriksmoen, soprano
La Reine de la Nuit, Sarah Traubel, soprano
Papageno, Riccardo Novaro, baryton
Papagena, Elena Galitskaya, soprano
Sarastro, Luigi De Donato, basse
Monostatos, Maxime Melnik, ténor
Trois Dames, Gwendoline Blondeel, soprano, Florence Losseau, soprano, Mélodie Ruvio, contralto
L’Orateur, Guilhem Worms, baryton basse
Trois Garçons, Maitrise des Hauts de Seine
Chœur de chambre de Namur
conductor, Jérémie Rhorer
New production on period instruments
After having conducted Idomeneo, The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, with the phenomenal success that we know, Jérémie Rhorer offers us, for the first time in Beaune, The Magic Flute, the most popular opera that Mozart, as an unequalled magician, composed on a masterly libretto by his friend Schikaneder, librettist but also initiator of the role of Papageno. Created two months before his death, the Magic Flute is a fairy tale whose subject is the elevation of the human being by wisdom, love and goodness to a higher morality corresponding to the ideas of the Enlightenment, the Aufklärung of rationalism. Tamino, a young prince, and Papageno, a birdwatcher’s companion, take us on a quest to find Pamina, the daughter of the Queen of the Night, who has been kidnapped by the magician Sarastro who is holding her captive. Thanks to a magic flute and a magic chime, Tamino and Papageno find Pamina. The Magic Flute was a triumph at its premiere and soon conquered the stages of the world, as Mozart left one world to enter another: the music of The Magic Flute marked the entrance into the 19th century. Finally, Anne Blanchard has assembled a dream cast of soloists with Matthew Newlin as Tamino, Mari Eriksmoen as Pamina, Sarah Traubel as the Queen of the Night (making her French debut in Beaune) or Riccardo Novaro as Papageno in the title roles, and in the other roles, prodigious young talents.