Die Zauberflöte

GTG/ Marc Van Appelghem

Composer : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Librettist : Emanuel Schikaneder
Venue and Dates : Grand Théâtre in Geneva
14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28 December 1993
Conductor : Armin Jordan
Director : Benno Besson
Sets and costumes : Jean-Marc Stehlé
Lighting : Alain Poisson
Performers :

Sarastro : René Pape / Franz Josef Selig
Tamino : Rainer Trost / Kurt Streit
Königin der Nacht : Amanda Halgrimson / Sally Wolf
Pamina : Donna Brown / Joanna Koslowska
Papagena : Linda Kitchen
Papageno : Simon Keenlyside / Hans-Peter Kammerer
Monostatos : Alexander Olivier / Volker Vogel
First Lady : Anne Dawson / Gillian Webster
Second Lady : Eirian James
Third Lady : Ruth Peel
Speaker : Kristinn Sigmundsson
First Priest / First armoured man : Christopher Ventris
Second Priest / Second armoured man : Stephen Gadd
Three boys : members of the Knabenchor Tölzer
Chorus of the Grand Theatre in Geneva
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

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GTG/ Marc Van Appelghem

GTG/ Marc Van Appelghem

GTG/ Marc Van Appelghem

GTG/ Marc Van Appelghem

GTG/ Marc Van Appelghem

Soundbites

Opernglas, January 1994 (C. Hoegl).

Translated by Ursula Turecek

“… Simon Keenlyside brought a Papageno onto the stage whose singing as well as acting are of an excellent quality. Keenlyside seems to be one of the few opera singers whose spoken dialogues are more than merely necessary insertions into the action…”