The Ho Chi Minh City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) has cooperated with Goethe Institute to restage the opera The Magic Flute, scheduled for June 30 and July 1 at the city Opera House.
Vocalists from the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera will perform the opera The Magic Flute at the Opera House on June 30 and July 1. (Photo courtesy of HBSO)
HCM City (VNA) - The Ho Chi MinhCity Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) has cooperated with GoetheInstitute to restage the opera The Magic Flute, scheduled for June 30 and July1 at the city Opera House.
The opera is about the love story of PrinceTamino and Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night. After Pamina was held incaptivity under the high priest Sarastro, the Queen of the Night persuadesTamino to rescue her daughter.
The work includes music by Mozart andlyrics by poet Emanuel Schikaneder.
The production premiered in 1791 in Vienna,and has been staged by hundreds of theatre companies in the world, includingthe The Metropolitan Opera, Opéra National de Paris, and Deutsche Opera Berlin.
In Vietnam, The Magic Flute premiered inlate 2013 with the support of Norway’s Transposition Programme. It has beendirected by French-German Director David Hermann since 2014.
In 2016, thanks to the support of GoetheInstitute, HBSO worked with vocal master Askan Siegfried Geisler and languagecoaches Cornelia Schwind and Doan Hai Vu to perform the opera in its originallanguage of German.
This year, Geisler will continue to offervocal training to HBSO artists.
The opera will feature Nguyen Khanh Ngoc (playingthe Queen of the Night), Pham Trang (Prince Tamino), Pham Duyen Huyen, and ChoHae Ryong (Pamina) from the Republic of Korea.
HBSO vocalists, musicians and dancers willalso perform in the opera, led by Vietnamese conductor Tran Nhat Minh.-VNA
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Vocalists from the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera will perform the opera The Magic Flute at the Opera House on June 30 and July 1. (Photo courtesy of HBSO) 
