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NNTT at home - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

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Music by Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART
Opera in 2 Acts
Sung in German with Japanese surtitles

Performed on October 3, 2018
ActⅠ: 65mins / ActⅡ: 80 mins
Until 12
June, 14:00 JST


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SYNOPSIS

A young prince Tamino is saved from a serpent by the Three Ladies in the service of the Queen of the Night. The bird-catcher Papageno boasts that it was him who killed the creature, and is punished. When Tamino learns that the Queen's daughter Pamina has been abducted by the evil Sarastro, he vows to rescue her. He is given a magic flute and Papageno magic bells for protection. When they arrive at Sarastro's palace, however, Tamino discovers that Sarastro is in fact a wise ruler, and it is the Queen of the Night who is evil. Tamino and Papageno are invited into the palace.

Tamino agrees to undergo trials of initiation in order to gain Pamina's hand, and Papageno also reluctantly agrees as he wants a wife too. Meanwhile, the Queen of the Night appears to her daughter, and giving her a dagger orders her to kill Sarastro. Pamina is confused, but Sarastro explains that only love prevails in this sacred place. However, when Tamino won't speak to her because he is on a vow of silence she is grief-stricken and tries to kill herself. Eventually, though, the two are successfully reunited and they face the ordeal of fire and water together. Happily, Papageno finds Papagena too. The Queen of the Night and her followers try to attack the temple but are engulfed in thunder, and the opera ends with a chorus hailing Sarastro and his wisdom.

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CREATIVE TEAM & CAST

CREATIVE TEAM

Conductor: Roland BÖER
Production: William KENTRIDGE
Co-director: Luc DE WIT
Set Design: William KENTRIDGE, Sabine THEUNISSEN
Costume Design: Greta GOIRIS
Lighting Design: Jennifer TIPTON
Projection Design: Catherine MEYBURGH
Video Operator: Kim GUNNING
Supervisor for the Lighting: Scott BOLMAN
Chorus Master: MISAWA Hirofumi
Stage Manager: TAKAHASHI Naohito

Production of Aix-en-Provence Festival and Rouen Opera, created at Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in 2005

CAST

Sarastro: Sava VEMIC
Tamino: Steve DAVISLIM
Sprecher / Erster Priester / Zweiter Geharnischter: NARITA Makoto
Zweiter Priester / Erster Geharnischter: AKITANI Naoyuki
Königin der Nacht: YASUI Yoko
Pamina: HAYASHI Masako
Erste Dame: MASUDA Noriko
Zweite Dame: KOIZUMI Eiko
Dritte Dame: YAMASHITA Makiko
Erster Knabe: MAEKAWA Yoriko
Zweiter Knabe: NODA Chieko
Dritter Knabe: HANAFUSA Eriko
Papagena: KUSHIMA Kanae
Papageno: Andrè SCHUEN
Monostatos: MASUJIMA Tadahiro

Chorus: New National Theatre Chorus
Orchestra: Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

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