Die Zauberflöte

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Royal Opera House, Covent GardenBow Street, Covent Garden, London, Greater London, WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder

Performers

The Royal Opera
Julia Jones	Conductor
Sir David McVicar	Director
Ekaterina Siurina	Soprano	Pamina	2013 Apr 16, 18, 22, 24
Charles Castronovo	Tenor	Tamino	2013 Apr 16, 18, 22, 24
Christopher Maltman	Baritone	Papageno	2013 Apr 16, 18, 22, 24
Susana Gaspar	Soprano	Papagena
Albina Shagimuratova	Soprano	Queen of the Night
Brindley Sherratt	Bass	Sarastro	2013 Apr 16, 18, 22, 24
Sebastian Holecek	Bass	The Speaker (Der Sprecher)
Peter Hoare	Tenor	Monostatos
Sophie Bevan	Soprano	Pamina	2013 May 07, 09
Andrew Staples	Tenor	Tamino	2013 May 07, 09
Sir Simon Keenlyside	Baritone	Papageno	2013 May 07, 09

Reviews of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K620 directed by Sir David McVicar

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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, September 2021

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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, November 2019

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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, September 2017

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Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, February 2015

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Gran Teatre del Liceu: Auditorium, Barcelona, June 2022 (Español)

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Die Zauberflöte at Covent Garden

David Karlin, 17th April

How, I wonder, is it best for an opera company to treat a revival of a well-aired, well-liked, decent but not particularly radical production of a top ten opera? This was what the Royal Opera had to contend with in this season’s revival of David McVicar’s 2003 setting of Die Zauberflöte: many in the audience will have known every note of the opera, and several will have been thoroughly familiar wi

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