The stage of New Haven's historic Shubert Theater will be transformed into a fantasy world of sorcery, dungeons, dragons and other wild animals when the Yale Opera presents Mozart's "The Magic Flute" the weekend of Feb. 15-17.
Mozart's last opera and one of his most popular works, "The Magic Flute" features a complex plot rife with symbolism, a large cast of characters and some of the composer's most memorable tunes. The opera follows the quest of a young prince as he attempts to rescue a beautiful princess, the daughter of the Queen of the Night, carrying only a magic flute as a shield, guide and weapon.
This full-scale production will feature singers from the Yale Opera program, a nationally renowned opera training program that is part of the School of Music. Doris Yarick-Cross is the artistic director of Yale Opera.
Noted conductor Randall Behr will serve as music director for this production, leading members of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. Behr has worked with many of the world's leading artists and opera companies. He has been music director of The Juilliard School's vocal arts department and opera center; resident conductor of the Los Angeles Music Center Opera; and music director of the Long Beach Opera. His international roster of performances includes appearing in recital, as pianist, with Maria Ewing at London's Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, Florence's Teatro Comunale, the Chatelet in Paris, the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Hong Kong Festival. Last season, he conducted Yale Opera's production of "Faust."
"The Magic Flute" will be staged by distinguished Austrian director Andreas Prohaska; this is his fourth Yale Opera production. The son of the eminent Austrian conductor Felix Prohaska, Andreas Prohaska was educated in composition, voice and opera direction at the Musik Hochschule in Vienna, where his teachers included the renowned tenor Anton Dermota, the composer Gottfried von Einem and Alfred Uhl. He has staged more than 90 productions in German-speaking theaters, and in this country directed "Tosca" for the San Francisco Opera. Prohaska is a professor at the Musik Hochschule Berlin and has served for the past eight years as head of the voice and opera department and the music theater direction program.
Performances of "The Magic Flute" will take place at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 15 and 16, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 17.
Tickets range from $18 to $40 and may be purchased at the box office of the Shubert Performing Arts Center, 242 College St., or by calling Tickets.com at 1-800-228-6622. Tickets may also be purchased online at www.tickets.com or www.shubert.com.
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