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| Duke Kim as Tamino with Ethan Ibsen, Caleb Petrini, and Autumn Helene Chociej because the Three Genies in The Magic Flute at Seattle Opera. Picture: David Jaewon Oh. |
Audiences have one final weekend to catch Seattle Opera’s newest manufacturing of Mozart’s The Magic Flute,
which has taken the town by storm. Concocted by visionary director
Barrie Kosky and mixed-media theater group 1927, the manufacturing blends
hand-drawn animations with silent movie aesthetics in a singular, absolutely
animated movie projected over stay performers. Learn what critics should
say about this audacious new manufacturing, and don’t miss your likelihood to
see The Magic Flute, taking part in at McCaw Corridor till March 9. Tickets and information at seattleopera.org/flute.
A outstanding synergy of musical and visible storytelling. […] Whereas adults may have enjoyable decoding a number of the cultural references baked into this Magic Flute, it additionally works splendidly as an interesting musical journey for youthful audiences. Mozart’s magic is aware of no age limits. —The Seattle Instances
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| Duke Kim as Tamino and Brandie Sutton as Pamina in The Magic Flute at Seattle Opera. Picture: Sunny Martini. |
Seattle Opera’s animated tackle Mozart’s The Magic Flute is beautiful, riveting, and peculiar as hell. —The Stranger
[T]he manufacturing is a continuing delight. It’s really a present inside itself, in the most effective sense of the descriptor. You by no means know what you’ll see subsequent, or on which degree or by means of which portal a personality or ensemble will seem. On this sense, it’s a bit like Mozart’s writing: How will he shock, delight, and transfer us subsequent? —Classical Voice North America
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| Rodell Rosel as Monostatos in The Magic Flute at Seattle Opera. Picture: David Jaewon Oh. |
Silent movie mixed with the vocality of opera could seem self-contradictory, however when dream worlds collide and archetypal, mythological components and historical trials of initiation coalesce into a standard theatrical language, the end result makes this fascinating manufacturing properly price seeing. —Bachtrack
Mozart himself would have cherished Seattle Opera’s wonderful new manufacturing of The Magic Flute. […] Judging by the raucous applause on opening weekend, this shocking interpretation of a beloved favourite is an unqualified success. —SGN
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| In Sung Sim as Sarastro and Rodell Rosel as Monostatos with members of the Seattle Opera Refrain in The Magic Flute at Seattle Opera. Picture: Sunny Martini. |
The drawings and animations convey the manufacturing collectively and glue every little thing in place and are intriguing in their very own proper as artwork in addition to shifting the motion alongside. […] All of those components make this a to not be missed manufacturing. It runs by means of March 9, and if you will get tickets, do. This manufacturing has been around the world already and will probably be a type of exhibits that will probably be mentioned for years to come back. Go see it. —British Theatre Information
