Welcome to a world where animals dance and children fly, where princes battle dragons and hope battles despair. To a world where ideas matter, and music saves the day. Welcome to a magical experience for the whole family in an enchanting new production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Julie Taymor, director of Disney's The Lion King, has taken Mozart's fairy tale and turned it into a show that, in the spirit of the original, speaks to the child in all of us. A feisty young cast brings this landmark production to Brisbane.
Andrew Brunsdon is Tamino, with Andrew Jones as Papageno, and Taryn Fiebig as Pamina. The towering role of Queen of the Night is taken on by Brisbane based soprano, Milica Ilic, and David Parkin is Sarastro. Tamino is a noble prince on a quest. He discovers strange lands, inhabited by wondrous creatures - scary women, wise children and even a bird man - but that is not what he is looking for. Will Tamino finally discover the truth? And will he find true love?
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Performed in English with subtitles.
This production is reproduced by Opera Australia from the original production of The Magic Flute by the Metropolitan Opera, New York. Translation by J.D. McClatchy. Performed by arrangement with The Metropolitan Opera, publisher and sole copyright holder.
Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Conductor Anthony Legge, Director Julie Taymor, Set Designer George Tsypin, Costume Designer Julie Taymor, Puppetry Designers Julie Taymor & Michael Curry, Lighting Designer Gary Marder based on original design by Donald Holder
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"There's so much to love about this show and almost nothing to dislike."
TimeOut, 11 Jan 2012
Read more"Artistic director Lyndon Terracini must be congratulated on the balance he brings to the OA's programmes. The Magic Flute has been reinvented, principally by the Lion Kingly genius of Taymor, and transported into an enchanting, magical realm as potent as any in the minds of Mozart and Schikaneder way back when."
Curtain Call, 8 Jan 2012
Read More"A beautiful and captivating version of Mozart's pop fave"
Stage Noise, 7 Jan 2012
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Meet the Cast
Pamina Taryn Fiebig
Helpmann Award-winning soprano Taryn Fiebig is one of Australia most popular and versatile artists. She graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1993 with a Bachelor of Music in Cello performance after which she commenced vocal training with Molly McGurk and later with Megan Sutton.
It was her particular interest in early-music repertoire which won her two scholarships to the Dartington International Summer School in 1995 and 1996, studying with Emma Kirkby, Evelyn Tubb and Anthony Rooley. Further study with Jane Manning was made possible by a Churchill Fellowship in 2000. She completed the Emerging Performers Programme at the Australian Opera Studio in 2003, having studied with Gregory Yurisich and Patricia Price.
As a soloist, she has performed the 15th Century Masterpiece El Cant de la Sibil-la with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra for their popular Noël Noël Christmas concerts. Internationally, Taryn has performed in Los Angeles with the contemporary music ensemble L.A. EAR unit, in England with the English Chamber Orchestra in St. John's Smith Square, London and on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4 in the radio dramas Southland and Pembroke, Arcadia.
In 2005, Taryn Fiebig joined Opera Australia as a principal soprano. Her many roles with this company have included Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Galatea in Acis and Galatea, Musetta in La bohème, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, The Plaintiff in Trial by Jury, Clorinda in Cenerentola, Belinda in Dido and Aeneas, Papagena in The Magic Flute, Rose in Lakmé, Servilia in La Clemenza di Tito, Karolka in Jenufa, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance and Gianetta in The Gondoliers. In 2008/2009, she sang the leading role of Eliza Dolittle in the national tour of My Fair Lady.
Taryn has sung Sicle in L'Ormindo for Pinchgut Opera and has appeared as soloist with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Perth Collegium Baroque Orchestra, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Sydney Chamber Choir and for the Sydney Chamber Music Festival.
For Opera Australia in 2010/2011, Taryn sang Susanna, Musetta, Zerlina, Yum-Yum, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Aphrodite in The Love of the Nightingale, Lisa in La Sonnambula and won the Helpmann Award for her portrayal as Lucy in Bliss (which she sang in Sydney, Melbourne and at the Edinburgh Festival) and appeared in concert with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Selby & Friends and in recital at the Art Gallery of NSW as part of their Rensonate series.
In 2012, Taryn Fiebig will sing Susanna and Pamina in new productions of Le nozze di Figaro and The Magic Flute for Opera Australia.
Tamino Andrew Brunsdon
Papageno Andrew Jones
Queen of the Night Milica Ilic
Sarastro David Parkin
First Lady Elisa Wilson
Second Lady Sian Pendry
Third Lady Tania Ferris
Papagena Kiandra Howarth
Monostatos Kanen Breen
Speaker Andrew Collis
Magical menagerie casts a spell on Opera House
Singers in
the opening production of Opera Australia's summer season will need to
watch their step, lest they step on a silken serpent or bump their heads
on a low-flying goose.
The first show of the year is a
reproduction of the Metropolitan Opera's original production of Mozart's
The Magic Flute, directed by Julie Taymor of The Lion King fame and
featuring dazzling costumes, special effects and an array of puppets and
imposing props.
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Making The Magic Flute
Mat Lawrence talks about puppets, props and polar bears
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