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THE MAGIC FLUTE Comes to Teatr Wielki Next Month

Performances run through 30 May 2023.

THE MAGIC FLUTE Comes to Teatr Wielki Next Month

The Magic Flute comes to Teatr Wielki next month! Performances run thorugh 30 May 2023.

The Queen of the Night aria has departed the Solar System a long time ago and is travelling further in space alongside a few other musical gems in search for intelligent life. Those charged with selecting the tracks for the Voyager Golden Record faced a huge responsibility: if, indeed, there is an alien civilisation somewhere in the Universe that could potentially be hostile to the human race, it was best to introduce ourselves with 'music [that] hath charms to soothe a savage breast'.

And there is not a living soul on Earth who would not agree that these few minutes of coloratura fireworks are worth saving the human kind for. In the internationally popular Komische Oper's production of Mozart's The Magic Flute which we have been lucky enough to have in Warsaw for a few seasons now, the aria is performed by a giant lady spider dancing over a wriggling Tamino. The staging is the work of Barrie Kosky and the '1927' duo made of performance art, theatre and film wizards who first conquered the Edinburgh Fringe and then 'brought down the system' at a few respected opera houses around the world.

This dazzlingly hallucinatory show featuring actors playing in a live animation is a tribute to silent film. The director calls it 'a silent movie by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart' inspired - one might add - by 18th-century chalcography, Yellow Submarine, Monty Python's Flying Circus, and superhero comics, to name just a few obvious references. It is an amazing show, an operatic joyride.



Maestro Peter Tiboris to Lead The Pan-European Philharmonia In An All-Beethoven Concert In Photo
Maestro Peter Tiboris will conduct the Pan-European Philharmonia in Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, 'Pastorale' and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15. at the Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio at the Polish Radio Concert Hall Warsaw, Poland.

Review: DAISY at Jerzy Szaniawski Dramatyczny Theater In Walbrzych Photo
What did our critic think of DAISY at Jerzy Szaniawski Dramatyczny Theater In Walbrzych? There are musicals that arise with glee and joy and others that do not. There are musicals that make you think and others that you will quickly forget. Daisy the Musical is not easy. It's sad but beautiful. It shows the life of one of the most incredible women that used to live in our region. Daisy, Princess of Pless had an overwhelming life definitely worth showing off.

Review: THE DISCOMFORT OF EVENING at Wroclaw Mime Theatre Photo
What did our critic think of THE DISCOMFORT OF EVENING at Wroclaw Mime Theatre?


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