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5Duisburg With the British animation theater troupe "1927", Barrie Kosky staged Mozart's opera in Duisburg's Rheinoper house as a happy folk theater in the digital age. Excellent also the musical side of the evening
Of all the operas in the repertoire, Die Zauberflote is the one that today seems to best stimulate the creativity of directors. We saw it this summer at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence , we can see it at the start of the season in Düsseldorf where Suzanne Andrade and Barrie Koskydemonstrate a pleasing inventiveness. Their idea? Transform Mozart's work into a gigantic cartoon. How? 'Or' What ? Through intensive use of video, which has definitely become an essential element of all opera performances, just like costumes and lights. A white panel the size of the stage frame acts as a screen. Openings, arranged at different heights of this single scenic device, allow the characters to integrate into the projected images. Their permanent renewal prevents weariness from setting in once the process has been understood.
Vigdis Bergitte Unsgård as Pamina was one of them with her warm soprano voice, as was the agile tenor that César Cortés gave to his Tamino. The second young couple, Samuel Chan as Papageno and Mengqi Zhang as Papagena, mastered their lively roles beautifully and confidently. Emma Posman took on the coloratura of the Queen of the Night very elated, Fred Hoffmann proved himself as Monostatos, while Thorsten Grümbel as Sarastro with a slim bass was in good hands here, in a conventional production it might have been more difficult. The women's trio with Agnieszka Hauzer, Tatia Jibladze and Fiorella Hincapié was fun, also vocally, and the boys' trio with the voices of Shayleen Zavazava, Luca Janicki and Laureena Wawerla was also remarkable. [...] The doubling of roles could be suspected of masking the prejudice against singers that they have less flexibility in acting and verbalizing a role. It has not been confirmed here. Especially the togetherness of the same people was enjoyable to watch. However, the number of participants is too large and taken as an excuse to only praise the actors in general.
