FULL Die Zauberflöte or Superflute Los Angeles 2023 Arnold Livingston Geis, Ashley Fabian, E. Scott Levin, Mariah Rae
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Die Zauberflöte or Superflute or The Magic Flute
- Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Libretto: Emanuel Schikaneder Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: El Portal Theatre. North Hollywood, California, Pacific Opera Project
- Recorded: March 25, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Arnold Livingston Geis, Ashley Fabian, E. Scott Levin, Mariah Rae, Michelle Drever, Andrew Potter, William Grundler, Tiffany Ho, Ariel Pisturino, Megan Potter, Alec Fore, Michael Payne
- Conductor: JOSH FOY
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: JOSH SHAW
- Costume Designer: MAGGIE GREEN
- Lighting Designer: BO TINDELL
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Pacific Opera Project
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: gensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
POP brings back its 2019 season-opening tour-de-force production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute AKA #Superflute, set in classic video games from the early 1990s. The “super” production transports Papageno, Tamino, and the gang to the land of video games resembling Mario Bros. and Zelda with a new English libretto by Artistic Director Josh Shaw and E. Scott Levin. Opera Magazine wrote that the new production “could bring in a new generation of opera-goers” and Opera Today raved “Pacific Opera Project’s rollicking new take on The Magic Flute is as much endearing fun as a box full of puppies. And as ingenious Artistic Director Josh Shaw has reimagined the piece (marketed as #Superflute), the staging is also just about as relentlessly and adorably rambunctious, all the while proving to be commendably musically refined… I loved it. I think Mozart would have loved it. If not, to hell with him!”