The opera is a production of the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera (HBSO) in collaboration with the Goethe Institute in Vietnam and Norway’s Transposition Programme.

Vocalists from the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera perform in Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute, which will be restaged at the HCM City Opera House on March 31.

The opera, with a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder, tells the love story of Prince Tamino and Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night. After Pamina is held in captivity under the high priest Sarastro, the Queen of the Night persuades Tamino to rescue his daughter.

The Magic Flute premiered in 1791 in Vienna and has been staged by hundreds of theatre companies in the world, such as the Metropolitan Opera, Opéra National de Paris, and Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Directed by French-German musician David Herman, the play was first introduced in HCM City in 2014.

The opera will be choreographed by HBSO choreographer Nguyen Phuc Hung, and will be sung in German and spoken in Vietnamese.

The performance will feature soprano Cho Hae Ryong as Pamina, Pham Trang as Prince Tamino, and Pham Khanh Ngoc as Queen of the Night.

The multi-lingual singer Derek Anthony, founder of the Music & Drama Institute in Hong Kong, will play Sarastro.

German conductor and vocal master Askan Siegfried Geisler will lead the performance.

Concert ‘Autumn Bamboo’ to delight Hanoian audiences

Music lovers will have the opportunity to enjoy a classic concert entitled ‘Tre Mua Thu’ (Autumn Bamboo) at the L'Espace French Cultural Centre in Hanoi, on October 19 and 20 at 8pm.

 

Classical concert to bring Ravel and Debussy to the ears of Hanoi

A concert of classical music starring violinist Stephane Tran Ngoc and pianist Tran Thai Linh will take place on September 1 at L’Espace French Cultural Centre at No. 24 Trang Tien Street, Hanoi.

 

2018 “Autumn Melody” concert to be held in Hanoi

Music lovers will have a chance to enjoy well-known masterpieces of symphonic music, ballets and operas, as well as contemporary dancing and classic Vietnamese works at a concert entitled “Autumn Melody” 2018, to be held at the Hanoi Opera House on August 16.

 

Conductor Le Phi Phi to return home for Bach concert

Conductor Le Phi Phi will return to Vietnam from Macedonia to conduct a concert featuring works composed by Johann Sebastian Bach on August 9 at the Opera House in Ho Chi Minh City. 

 

Violinist Bui Cong Duy to perform at Toyota Concert 2018

Talented Vietnamese violinist Bui Cong Duy will join Taiwanese-American cellist Grace Ho and the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra to perform at the Toyota Concert 2018, which is scheduled to be held in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City from August 10-14. 

 

Source: VNS/VNA