The Magic Flute (2003)

“The Magic Flute is a peculiar hybrid – part fairytale, part slapstick comedy and part Masonic ritual…” — Agenda, The Sunday Age.

Production Details

Dates:
November 6 – 16th, 2003.
Venue:
Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne.

Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Conductor: Armando Krieger, Greg Hocking.
Director: Caroline Stacey

Following the sold-out triumph of La Traviata in June, and Bizet’s ever-popular The Pearlfishers in September, Melbourne Opera’s final production for our debut 2003 season was The Magic Flute.

Sung in English in a new translation, The Magic Flute is Mozart’s final masterpiece, a stunning mixture of low comedy and high seriousness as two young men and women find maturity and love through trial.

This new production was directed by Caroline Stacey, designed by Kaoru Alfonso, conducted by Maestro Armando Krieger, Warwick Stengards, and Greg Hocking, and featured the acclaimed Melbourne Opera Orchestra and Chorus along with a cast of extraordinary Australian singers.

Cast

Cast:
Sarastro — Richard Curtin, David Gould
Tamino — Stephen Smith, James Egglestone, Jacob Caine
Pamina — Joanna Cole, Antoinette Halloran, Elena Xanthoudakis
Speaker — Ian Cousins, Roger Howell
Queen of the Night — Teresa la Rocca, Jane O’Toole, Ebony Hack
Papageno — Francesco Fabris, Jason Wasley, Derek Welton
Papagena — Shu-Cheen Yu, Seija Knight, Kylie Pointer
Monostatos — Matthew Davine, Mark Fowler
Three Ladies — Felicity Baldock, Barbara Idzkowska Curtin, Isobel Veale,
Rebecca Long, Kathryn Grey, Jenny Wakefield,
Vanessa West
Two Priests — Jacob Caine, Derek Welton, Daryl Barclay, Bryan O’Connell
Two Men in Armour — Mark Fowler, Piers Bray, Adrian McEniery, David Gould,
Alex McCutcheon.
Three Genies — Katrina Soucoultanos, Natalie Edwards, Marie Finne,
Marina Connolly, Laura Slavin, Fintan Hocking.
Two Slaves — Fatih Karakas, Josh Perillo
CHORUS  
Amanda Bathgate
Jacob Caine
Rebecca Crabtree
Peter Donnelly
Jennifer Donohue
Brendan Egan
Ann Fichera
Marie Finne
Angus Grant
Peter Grant
Sue Halls
John Handley
Kathy Hatton
Mark Henderson
Fatih Karakas
Sally Kirkcaldy
John Marum
Alex McCutcheon
Suzan Milosevic
 
Helena Nicolaou
Bernard Nolan
Bryan O’Connell
Josh Perillo
Rodney Phillips
Taso Psychoulas
Kylie Purcell
Robert Ratcliffe
Camila Rivera
Susan Robertson
Roland Seidl
Katrina Soucoultanos
Christopher Stobie
Rachel Sztanski
Erica Taylor
Norma Tovey
Mary Vidovich
Lynda Watkins
Cecily Woodberry
David Woodberry