Mozart: The Magic Flute at the Château de Versailles Spectacles

Cast

Florie Valiquette Pamina
Mathias Vidal Tamino
Marc Scoffoni Papageno
Lisa Mostin The Queen of the Night
Tomislav Lavoie Sarastro
Pauline Feracci Papagena
Olivier Trommenschlager Monostatos
Suzanne Jerosme First Lady
Marie Gautrot Second Lady
Mélodie Ruvio Third Lady
Matthieu Lecroart The Speaker
Matthieu Chapuis First Priest, Man in armor
Jean-Christophe Lanièce Second Priest, Man in armor

Acrobats: Antoine Hélou, Alex Sander Dos Santos, Sayaka Kasuya, Mathieu Hibon, Iris Garabedian, Elvis Pisicchio.

Children: Tanina Laoues, Emma De La Selle, Garance Laporte Duriez.

Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet Musical conductor
Cécile Roussat, Julien Lubek Director, scenography and lights
Sylvie Skinazi Costumes
Élodie Monet Stage sets assistant

Presentation

OPERA IN FRENCH VERSION

In 1791, at the Theater auf der Wieden, in a suburb of Vienna, Mozart gave the first performance of his Singspiel Die Zauberflöte. Emanuel Schikaneder’s libretto – he was also the director in his own theatre – aimed to reach a popular audience in their own language. Thanks to the theatrical and dreamlike qualities of the work and to Mozart’s magnificent music it was performed more than a hundred times in a year, and its success has never waned since.

To charm audiences of all ages, music lovers and inexperienced public, Mozart and Schikaneder’s plus was addressing spectators in their own language – and not in Italian as in court operas. This is what this new production is proposing, in a version entirely in French, staged by Cécile Roussat and Julien Lubek (remember their beautiful Dido and Aeneas by Purcell) and conducted by Hervé Niquet, with a team of soloists fully invested in their roles of actor-singers, in French, to give more force to Mozart’s masterpiece.

Production Opéra Royal de Wallonie / Liège.
Corealisation Opéra Royal / Château de Versailles Spectacles, Opéra Grand Avignon, Le Concert Spirituel.

Show in French with surtitles in French and English