Concert "STORYTELLING AND EXCERPTS FROM "DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE" - MOZART"
- Time: 20:00, Friday, May 17 2024
- Location: Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (VCCA), B1-R3 floor, Vincom Mega Mall Royal City, 72A Nguyễn Trãi, Thanh Xuân, Hà Nội
- Livestream on the Opera và Thanh nhạc cổ điển
- Free admission
- Registration link: https://forms.gle/QFt75e2pEA6TScma6
“Die Zauberflöte" (The Magic Flute) - W.A.Mozart is known as one of the most beloved operasin the world. With bright, attractive and beautiful melodies throughout the play, "The MagicFlute" has gone beyond the borders of classical music and gradually become familiar to the public, for example, the Queen of the Night's aria "Der Hölle Rache" or the chorus "Das Klingetso herrlich". The opera has a fairy-tale quality, a charming, humorous, and joyful story that also serves as a metaphor for many profound moral and philosophical ideas and perspectives.
Having been introduced to Vietnamese audiences many times with grand staging andrenowned performers, "The Magic Flute" will appear this time in a new and more accessible format, an experimental version from the Opera và Thanh nhạc cổ điển community.
“The Magic Flute” will be performed as a concert- opera (without staging), blending narration and shortening the length of the work. The performance will retain the most captivating and iconic musical excerpts, all accompanied by piano, offering a streamlined yet immersive experience. Notably, the script is completely rewritten based on the old story with the writing of young writerHiền Trang. The narration is entirely in Vietnamese, the singers will sing the original German with bilingual Vietnamese
- English subtitles.
Plot: Tamino, the main character of "The Magic Flute" this time, is an artificial intelligence musician, a robot chosen to embark on a strange journey to rescue another robot, Ms. Pamina. Aversion where the Queen of the Night and the Sun God Sarastro are fictionalized as greatscientists, with an infinite vision of the future of technology. A version where machines can compose, pray, and love.
The experimental version of “The Magic Flute” is not unfamiliar, but rather approachable andengaging for anyone navigating a world that evolves daily with advanced technology. At the sametime, the work explores intriguing and odd aspects of the relationship between computers and humanity.
This production features young, talented opera artists, who have won top prizes in major national and international classical competitions such as Lan Quỳnh (2022 Sao Mai National Chamber Music Champion), Quốc Chí (Gold Medal of 2021 National Music and Dance Festival),Cảnh Trần (Winner of 2023 National Opera Concours), Quang Công (Second Prize of 2023National Opera Concours), Linh Trần (2023 National Opera Concours Best Chamber Singer), ... along with promising singers such as Đức Tùng, Hương Quỳnh, Ngọc Linh, Vân Martha, Quỳnh Anh, Ngọc Thảo and ODZ Choir.
Supporting units: Grand Piano and Lac Tien Arts Co.,Ltd.
