Boris Stepanov / Recenze

The Mikhailovsky Theater hosted the first premiere of the season — the opera The Magic Flute staged, set and costumed by Pet Halmen. Conductor of the Mariinsky Theater Gavriel Heine was at the podium. The performance became a joint project of the Mikhailovsky Theater and the Lausanne Opera. The director died four years ago, and the St. Petersburg production was handled by Eric Vigier, director of the Lausanne Opera. If such a performance had appeared a couple of years earlier, it might not have seemed very relevant. And today, the strict, pure, black-and-white aesthetics, in which the production, stylizing the theater of the Mozart era, is solved, has turned out to be a balm for the soul, tormented by daily reports from the battlefields or terrorist attacks.

The Mikhailovsky Theater hosted the first premiere of the season — the opera The Magic Flute staged, set and costumed by Pet Halmen. Conductor of the Mariinsky Theater Gavriel Heine was at the podium. The performance became a joint project of the Mikhailovsky Theater and the Lausanne Opera. The director died four years ago, and the St. Petersburg production was handled by Eric Vigier, director of the Lausanne Opera. If such a performance had appeared a couple of years earlier, it might not have seemed very relevant. And today, the strict, pure, black-and-white aesthetics, in which the production, stylizing the theater of the Mozart era, is solved, has turned out to be a balm for the soul, tormented by daily reports from the battlefields or terrorist attacks.