The Magic Flute Singspiel in Two Acts Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), K
FEB. 22, 24 & 27 classical series SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS RENÉE AND HENRY SEGERSTROM CONCERT HALL presents 2017-18 HAL & JEANETTE SEGERSTROM FAMILY FOUNDATION CLASSICAL SERIES Performance begins at 8 p.m.; Preview talk with Alan Chapman begins at 7 p.m. CARL ST.CLAIR • CONDUCTOR | ROBERT NEU • STAGE DIRECTOR PACIFIC CHORALE — ROBERT ISTAD • ARTISTIC DIRECTOR The Magic Flute Singspiel in Two Acts Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), K. 620 Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder Act I INTERMISSION Act II Cast Tamino John Tessier, tenor Papageno Hadleigh Adams, baritone Pamina Tess Altiveros, soprano Queen of the Night Kathryn Lewek, soprano Sarastro Evan Boyer, bass Three Ladies Amy Shoremount-Obra, soprano Deborah Nansteel, mezzo-soprano Julia Benzinger, mezzo-soprano Monastatos Julius Ahn, tenor Child Spirits Members of the Southern California Children’s Chorus Papagena Bridgette Gan, soprano Speaker of the Temple, Priest, Armed Guard, Slave Colin Ramsey, bass Priest, Armed Guard, Slave David Guzman, tenor Technical Team Robin Walsh, puppet designer | Kathy Pryzgoda, lighting designer Katie Wilson, costume designer | Ora Jewell-Busche, wig and makeup designer PACIFIC SYMPHONY PROUDLY RECOGNIZES ITS OFFICIAL PARTNERS Official Hotel Official Television Station Official Classical Radio Station The Saturday, February 24 concert is being recorded for broadcast on Sunday, March 11, 2018, at 7 p.m. on Classical KUSC. 4 • Pacific Symphony NOTES In the late 1760s and mid-1770s Mozart was already experimenting with operatic composition. His first opera was La finta semplice, an opera buffa he composed at age 12. The more serious operas Mitridate (1770) and Lucio Silla (1772) followed. Throughout these years, his eagerness to try out operatic forms was insatiable.
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