Opera Atelier Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute

Canada’s premier Baroque opera/ballet company, Opera Atelier makes its Penn State debut in a heralded production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute. Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, like Opera Atelier from Toronto, provides live musical accompaniment for the performance of Mozart’s final and most beloved opera. Founded a quarter century ago and still guided by artistic directors Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg, Opera Atelier specializes in producing works from the seventeenth… Show more and eighteenth centuries. While drawing on the aesthetics and ideals of that age, the company goes beyond period reconstruction to infuse its productions with inventive theatricality that resonates with today’s audiences. The Magic Flute, a family-friendly tale of a prince out to rescue the daughter of a queen, is performed in English with English supertitles.

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