The BMCC Department of Music and Art presents the 26th Annual Opera on the Terrace:
The Magic Flute
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performed by the BMCC Downtown Symphony
Douglas Anderson, Conductor
with
Lauren Becker, Hernan Berisso, Charles Samuel Brown, Patrice Eaton,
Ethan Fran, Melissa Gerstein, Alison McConekey, Sanford Rothenberg,
Mark Victor Smith, Joyce Yin, and more
This concert is free and open to the public
About the Magic Flute
The Magic Flute is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue.
In the opera the Queen of the Night persuades Prince Tamino to rescue her daughter Pamina from captivity under the high priest Sarastro; instead, he learns the high ideals of Sarastro’s community and seeks to join it. Separately, then together, Tamino and Pamina undergo severe trials of initiation, which end in triumph, with the Queen and her cohorts vanquished. The earthy Papageno, who accompanies Tamino on his quest, fails the trials completely but is rewarded anyway with the hand of his ideal female companion Papagena.
For more information, contact the Department of Music and Art at (212) 776-7240.
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