Victor de Sabata Hall – Ridotto of the Teatro Verdi
From 12 November to 24 December 2024
THE MAGIC FLUTE (A fantasy in one act from DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE)
Music by WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
New Orchestration by PAOLA MAGNANINI
One-act reduction by ANDREA BINETTI
Concertmaster and Conductor STEFANO FURINI
Director and Set designer ANDREA BINETTI
Costume designer ANDREA BINETTI
Production by Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste
Characters and performers
Papageno/Narrator ANDREA BINETTI
Tamino FRANCESCO SCALAS
Monostatos/Three Ladies GIACOMO SEGULIA
The Queen of the night/Papagena VERONIKA FOIA
Pamina PATRICIA DANIELA FODOR
Sarastro RUSTEM EMINOV
Orchestra and technicians by Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste
On 12 November, the popular one-act opera review of the Teatro Verdi is scheduled to begin again. The first performance is dedicated to the reduction of one of Mozart’s absolute masterpieces – The Magic Flute: a forerunner of fantasy, magical, oneiric and fable-like tales and productions, and the perfect entertainment for school children as well as for adults.
The Teatro Verdi offers a one-act reduction of Mozart’s The Magic Flute by the well-known artist Andrea Binetti from Trieste, who – as is his custom – is also the performance’s director as well as set and costume designer. One of the most interesting aspects of this production isthe orchestration by 26-year-old Arezzo-born musician Paola Magnanini, one of Italy’s young talents in the world of composition. Magagnini, quite a familiar presence in Trieste over the past few years, already has several reductions, orchestrations and transcriptions to her credit, including the elaboration and orchestration from the original score of the Pauline Viardot’s chamber operetta Cendrillon. Magagnini’s Cendrillon was included in the 71st Winter Season of the Luglio Trapanese and in the 2019/2020 Season of the Teatro Coccia (where it was performed again in December 2021), at the Teatro dell’Opera Giocosa in Savona in July 2021 and at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste in March 2022.
The cast features Andrea Binetti himself in the double role as the wandering birdcatcher Papageno and the narrator, illustrating the complicated and highly symbolic plot. With him on stage is the young but well-renowned Italian tenor Francesco Scalas as Tamino. Papagena will have the voice of young Ukrainian soprano Veronika Foia, who arrived in Friuli as a refugee from the war and was much appreciated by the Trieste audience in Luciano Berio’s Magnificat during the 2023 symphonic season. Among the youngest and freshest talents is also violinist and soprano Patricia Daniela Fodor as Pamina, already acclaimed at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna with Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. Bass Rustem Eminov will be Sarastro and, last but not least, the beloved singer and actor Giacomo Segulia, a true idol of young and old alike at the Victor de Sabata Hall will complete the cast as Monostatos.
The opera will be conducted by Concertmaster and Conductor Stefano Furini, historic first violinist at the Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste.
Full-price ticket 10 euro
Reduced-price ticket (under 18 and schools) 5 euro
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