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Mozart's The Magic Flute (Metropolitan Opera)
In Act 1, Tamino is sent on a mission by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter from the evil lord Sarastro. He is accompanied by the friendly bird-catcher, Papageno. But Tamino will soon discover that what he has been told was false, and if he really wishes to win Pamina's hand, he himself will have to undergo his own personal transformation. Mozart turns the "rescue opera" formulas inside out - as he often did with other musical forms - and by the end of Act 1, we realize that everything we have been led to believe up to this point is untrue. Act 2 sets matters right. The opera is one of Mozart's last creations (he died two months after the premiere), but considering that he was only 35 at the time, he was a young man and still developing new styles; The Magic Flute hints at what "might have been" had he lived a longer life.
Katie Couric....Self - Host
Matthew Polenzani....Tamino
Wendy Bryn Harmer....First Lady
Kate Lindsey....Second Lady
Tamara Mumford....Third Lady
Nathan Gunn....Papageno
Erika Miklósa....Queen of the Night
Stephen Paynter....First Slave
Kenneth Floyd....Second Slave
Gregory Cross....Third Slave
Greg Fedderly....Monostatos
Ying Huang....Pamina
Bennett Kosma....First Spirit
Jesse Burnside Murray....Second Spirit
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