La flauta mágica en el Real: el cine como prodigio

By Mario Muñoz, 24 January 2016

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“se trataba de hacer sentir al espectador el prodigio de aquellos primeros pasos en el cine”

Reviewed at Teatro Real: Sala Principal, Madrid on 19 January 2016

Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Teatro Real

Ivor Bolton, Conductor

Suzanne Andrade, Director

Esther Bialas, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Sophie Bevan, Pamina

Ana Durlovski, Queen of the Night

Joel Prieto, Tamino

Joan Martín-Royo, Papageno

Christof Fischesser, Sarastro, The Speaker (Der Sprecher)

Elena Copons, First Lady

Ruth Rosique, Papagena

Gemma Coma-Alabert, Second Lady

Nadine Weissmann, Third Lady

Airam Hernández, First Priest

Mikeldi Atxalandabaso, Monostatos

David Sánchez, Second Priest

Coro Intermezzo

Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid

Barrie Kosky, Director

Andrés Máspero, Choirmaster / chorus director

Diego Leetz, Lighting Designer

Ulrich Lenz, Director

Deborah Warner attains her theatrical dream at the Teatro Real

Juan José Freijo, 12th March

Warner once again displays her unquestionable talent onstage and her affinity with Benjamin Britten, although, on this occasion, the musical aspect are not equally satisfactory.

***11

Illuminating history-makers: Nixon in China lands in Madrid

David Karlin, 17th April

John Adams’ opera about Richard Nixon’s historic meeting with Mao Tse-Tung is performed with all round excellence, with a real find on the podium in the shape of Olivia Lee-Gunderman.

****1

The martyrs and the oppressed: Peter Grimes at Teatro Real Madrid

Juan José Freijo, 19th April

The new production of Peter Grimes stands out as the strongest item in Teatro Real's season, with magnificent staging by Deborah Warner and superb musical direction by Ivor Bolton, with outstanding vocal and dramatic performances.

*****

Reality as a staging concept: La traviata at Teatro Real, Madrid

Juan José Freijo, 22nd July

In this historic reopening, Lisette Oropesa offers a magnificent performance, dramatically overwhelming and vocally very unique.

****1

La Veronal heads Into the Little Hill in Madrid

John Marten Barnard, 15th February

The Teatros del Canal host the Benjamin–Crimp partnership’s thrillingly dark, lyric retelling of Robert Browning’s famous 1842 poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin by La Veronal dance company.

*****

A disappointing new Falstaff from Laurent Pelly at the Teatro Real

Fernando Remiro, 25th April

Comedy fails to spark in Laurent Pelly's new production of Falstaff at the Teatro Real.

**111

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Mario Muñoz

Mario Muñoz Carrasco (Madrid, 1976) es compositor y crítico musical. Cursa estudios de Guitarra Clásica en la Escuela de Música Creativa para especializarse más adelante en Composición e Improvisación Jazz en la Escuela de Nuevas Músicas. Desde el 2007 ejerce como crítico musical en distintos medios, tanto en radio como en prensa escrita, a la par que participa en actividades musicales de diversa índole (ponencias, congresos, confección de temarios, notas a programas, cursos de apreciación musical, etcétera). Desde su creación en 2011 cursa el Grado en Musicología de la UCM, formando parte de su primera promoción.