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The Magic Flute OCTOBER 09, 2015 THE FRIDAY | 8:00 PM OCTOBER 11, 2015 MAGIC SUNDAY | 4:00 PM OCTOBER 13, 2015 FLUTE TUESDAY | 7:00 PM FLÂNEUR FOREVER Honolulu Ala Moana Center (808) 947-3789 Royal Hawaiian Center (808) 922-5780 Hermes.com AND WELCOME TO AN EXCITING NEW SEASON OF OPERAS FROM HAWAII OPERA THEATRE. We are thrilled to be opening our 2014) conducts, and Allison Grant As always we are grateful to you, season with one of Mozart’s best- (The Merry Widow, 2004) directs this our audience, for attending our loved operas: The Magic Flute. This new translation of The Magic Flute by performances and for the support colorful production comes to us Jeremy Sams. you give us in so many ways from Arizona Opera, where it was throughout the year. Without your created by Metropolitan Opera This will be another unforgettable help we simply could not continue stage director, Daniel Rigazzi. season for HOT with three to bring the world’s best opera to Inspired by the work of the French sensational operas, including Hawaii each year. surrealist painter, René Magritte, a stunning new production of the production is fi lled with portals– Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer But now sit back and enjoy Mozart’s doorways and picture frames–that Night’s Dream, directed by Henry The Magic Flute. lead the viewer from reality to Akina, with videography by Adam dreams. With a cast that includes Larsen (Siren Song, 2015) and a MAHALO Antonio Figueroa as Tamino and So spectacular production of Verdi’s Il Young Park as the formidable Queen Trovatore designed by Peter Dean Henry G. Akina of the Night, this is a production Beck. Artistic Director that will delight and entertain. We are also glad to welcome back In the meantime please join us Simon Crookall HOT favorites, Curt Olds (Ko-Ko, for our beautiful Opera Ball: A Executive Director The Mikado 2014) as Papageno, and Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Paul Whelan (Daland, The Flying Sheraton Waikiki on Saturday, Dutchman 2015) as Sarastro. Hal November 14; it is without doubt “the France (Pagliacci & Carmina Burana, best party in town!” Aria 3 The Magic Flute In paradise, bad still happens. That’s why First Insurance Company of Hawaii provides quality protection for your home, auto and business. We offer great coverage and rates, and back our policies with local knowledge and effi cient claims service. For a free quote, call your independent agent. fi coh.com The Magic Flute Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder Translation by Jeremy Sams Translation by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc., Agent in the USA for Josef Weinberger, Ltd., London, publisher and copyright owner. CAST In order of vocal appearance ANTONIO FIGUEROA JULIUS AHN PAUL WHELAN Tamino Monostatos Sarastro AMY MILLS TALISE TREVIGNE BUZ TENNENT First Lady Pamina First Priest / Second Armored Man MAYA HOOVER RAPHAEL STARK ERIK D. HAINES Second Lady First Spirit Second Priest / First Armored Man BLYTHE I. KELSEY SOPHIA STARK RACHEL SCHUTZ Third Lady Second Spirit Papagena CURT OLDS SOPHIA SANSANO Papageno Third Spirit SO YOUNG PARK LEON WILLIAMS Queen of the Night Speaker ARTISTIC TEAM HAL FRANCE JOHN POLLARD SUE SITTKO SCHAEFER Conductor Set Designer Wig & Make-Up Designer ALLISON GRANT PETER DEAN BECK KATY REEVES Stage Director Lighting Designer Stage Manager BEEBE FREITAS LESLEY BERNSTEIN Rehearsal Pianist/Co-Chorus Costume Designer Director HELEN E. RODGERS NOLA NAHULU Costume Director Chorus Co-Director Aria 5 The Magic Flute CHORUS Chorus Coordinator: Chris Walsh SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS Naomi Castro Bonnie Chock Burke Mark Ah Yo David Del Rocco Jaime Blu Craycroft* Karyn Castro Dan Barnett Falefia Jr Brandon Fuamatu* Amy Allyssa Johnson* Sarah Lambert Connelly* Christopher Chung Keane Ishii* Leah Ralston* Jan T. Kamiya* Stephen M. Foster Sean Kiyo Sakata* Kathryn Sarff* Diane Sunada Koshi Scot Izuka Stelio Georgine Stark* Chris Walsh Ian McMillan Stephen Strugnell *Mae Z. Orvis Opera Studio participant SUPERS Ryan Calimlim Leilani Hurt Emi Sampson Riley Calimlim Karina Park Alana Uehara Sydney Cullen Ellie Sampson Emma Wong PRODUCTION STAFF DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION WIG & MAKE-UP DESIGNER MASTER FLYMAN SECURITY T.H. Stettler Sue Sittko Schaefer Alema Ryder Kiekie Productions *SCENERY & PROPS DESIGNER ASSISTANT WIG & MAKE-UP PROP MASTER BACKSTAGE SECURITY John Pollard DESIGNER Gen Boyer COORDINATOR Kellen Eason Miu Lan Oman *PROJECTION DESIGNER SOUND & VIDEO Doug Provost STAGE MANAGER Charles Roberts SUPERTITLES Katy Reeves Chiori Shively LIGHTING DESIGNER WARDROBE MISTRESS Peter Dean Beck ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Pam Gossage Julie Chin *COSTUME DESIGNER SCENIC ARTIST Lesley Bernstein 2ND ASST. STAGE MANAGER M. Emi Yabuta Nicole Tessier COSTUME DIRECTOR I.A.T.S.E. UNION STEWARD Helen E. Rodgers MASTER CARPENTER Al Omo, Local 665 Al Omo ASSISTANT COSTUME MASTER ELECTRICIAN RUNNING CREW DIRECTOR Sandy Sandelin I.A.T.S.E. Local 665 Martin Lopez *Scenery, Props, Projections, and Costumes for this production are owned by Arizona Opera and were crafted by the Arizona Opera Company. Hawaii Opera Theatre 6 Aria Hawaii Opera Plaza Feelin’ HOT? 848 South Beretania Street, Suite 301 Take the HOT Survey Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 808.596.7372 In our ongoing pursuit to enhance your experience of the opera, HOT invites you to take a brief survey HawaiiOpera.org about your time at tonight's opera online. [email protected] Please visit: To advertise in Aria, please contact Nella Media Group, Mike https://prescreen.fieldwork.com/s3/HOT Wiley, 808.260.8788, [email protected] Or scan the QR code with a smartphone to take Let’s be friends. the survey. Thank you for your support of HOT! Aria 7 The Magic Flute Director's Notes Once upon a time, a prince woke to find himself lost in an enchanted forest in a strange land. He had no idea how he had arrived in such a place, nor how he would ever return home. The forest was dark and full of mysterious sounds. He was alone and afraid. So begins The Magic Flute, one the libretto for The Magic Flute on contemporary fairy tale collections of Mozart’s last works, which a popular fairy tale collection all reach their culmination premiered in Vienna in September of called Dschinnistan, by Wieland, in Mozart and Schikaneder’s 1791, three months before Mozart’s Einsiedel, and Liebeskind. All masterpiece. untimely death. the main elements of The Magic Flute can be found in the stories in This production of The Magic The Magic Flute is the last operatic this collection: a group of wise, old Flute was inspired by the masterpiece of the 18th century men instructing a headstrong painter René Magritte, a 20th- and is often considered a bridge youth, the trials of fire and water, century master of “the marvelous.” between the age of reason and the magic spirits who guide the His work is filled with portals— the romantic period. When hero, the sorceress queen with the doorways, picture frames, we think of the 18th century, captive daughter, and the wizard windows, even the human we can’t help but think of the who at first appears to be evil and eye—which lead the viewer from enlightenment values that inspired then turns out to be good. Even act everyday reality into the fantastical our founding fathers. It was an two’s magic feast appears in this world of our dreams. And what age of scientific thinking and collection of stories. is a fairy tale, if not a dream new ideas about what it means refashioned into an iconic account to be human. But just as our own There were a number of other of the human experience? We are scientific age has spawned an sources for Schikaneder’s libretto, dazzled by their surprising and entire fantasy genre we know as including a fantastical story magical plot turns, while at the science fiction, the 18th century called Sethos, as well as the same time we recognize our own had its own fantastical stories initiation rituals of the Freemasons, struggles in the tribulations of fairy filled with magical lands, of which he and Mozart were both tale heroes and heroines fighting wizards, sorceresses, magic members. Over the last 200 years, for their place in the world. Who lamps, genies trapped in bottles, much has been made of the Masonic among us is not the hero of our and captive maidens. Mozart allusions in the opera. There is even own life; slaying dragons, passing enjoyed attending popular a reading of the piece, dating from through arduous trials, all to find plays and theatrical spectacles the 19th century, that sees The Magic our true love and remake the world based on fairy tales as well Flute as a complex allegory about in our own image? This is the as books like A Thousand and the persecution of Freemasons enduring power of the fairy tale One Nights. In fact, there is a in mid-18th-century Vienna. In a and of The Magic Flute, one of the contemporary account of his wife, recent book called Magic Flutes & most beloved works in the operatic Constanze, reading him Aladdin’s Enchanted Forests, David J. Buch repertoire. “We recognize our own Lamp and Cinderella the night before debunks this notion and places struggles in the tribulations of fairy the Don Giovanni premiere. the piece, where I think it belongs, tale heroes and heroines fighting for in the theatrical tradition of “the their place in the world.” The actor, impresario, marvelous.” The plays of Calderón playwright and librettist, de la Barca, the operas of Gluck, Daniel Rigazzi Emmanuel Schikaneder, based numerous popular spectacles and Stage Director For Arizona Opera Aria 9 The Magic Flute Synopsis THE MAGIC FLUTE ACT I Pursued by a serpent, Prince Tamino falls faint from for his perfect mate.
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