Lincoln Center Festival Presents A MAGIC FLUTE 7/5-17

A Magic Flute, Peter Brook's production with the acclaimed Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, was awarded France's esteemed Molière Award for best musical theater at a ceremony on Sunday, April 17 in Paris. Lincoln Center Festival 2011 will present the U.S. Premiere of A Magic Flute, an intimate 90-minute, fully-staged adaptation of the beloved Mozart opera, in sixteen performances July 5-17 at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater. Like his ground-breaking La Tragédie de Carmen (which was performed in New York at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in 1983), Brook's free interpretation of The Magic Flute, performed by an ensemble of two actors and alternating casts of seven singers with pianist, is a poetic invocation with its spare and subtle staging shedding new, vibrating light on Mozart's masterpiece.

For more information about this year's Molière Awards, visit www.lesmolieres.com.

A Magic Flute (U.S. Premiere)
Directed by Peter Brook
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Freely adapted by Peter Brook, Franck Krawczyk, and Marie-Hélène Estienne
Lighting Design by Philippe Vialatte
Costumes by Hélène Patarot with the help of Oria Puppo
Pianists: Franck Krawczyk and Matan Porat

Singers: (alternating casts): Dima Bawab, Malia Bendi-Merad, Leila Benhamza, Luc Bertin-Hugault, Patrick Bolleire, Jean-Christophe Born, Raphaël Brémard, Thomas Dolié, Antonio Figueroa, Virgile Frannais, Betsabée Haas, Agnieszka Slawinska, Adrian Strooper, Jeanne Zaepffel
Actors: William Nadylam, Abdou Ouologuem

July 5*, 6-10, 12-17 at 8 p.m.; July 9, 10, 16, 17 at 2 p.m.
*Preview performance

Performed in German and French with English supertitles;
16 performances; running time (approx.): One hour, 30 minutes

Gerald W. Lynch Theater, John Jay College, Amsterdam Avenue between 58th and 59th Streets
Tickets: $45, 65, 85

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