This production of a special edition of Mozart’s great fairy-tale opera The Magic Flute is an abridged version specially prepared for the purpose of educating the secondary school students in enhancing their knowledge and appreciation of western opera.<\/p>\n
Opera is a refined and highly developed art form with an enduring tradition emphasizing beautiful music and powerful dramatic expression. Mozart is one of the greatest musical geniuses in history particularly famous for his operatic compositions. The Magic Flute is the last opera he created shortly before his premature death at the age of 35. It has been one of the most popular and successful works of its kind ever since its first performance in Vienna in 1791 and has been widely praised for its inspired music and imaginative theatrical effects, built around a fantastic story full of colourful events and idealistic meanings.<\/p>\n
Musica Viva’s production highlights the following attractive episodes of the opera:
\n The Prince and the Birdcatcher
\n The Prince’s dream of love
\n The Queen of the Night’s command
\n The Search for Pamina in captive
\n The High Priest Sarastro’s Temple
\n The High Priest’s promise of protection
\n The test of silence
\n Pamina’s misunderstanding and frustration
\n Queen of the Night’s murderous intention
\n The Birdcatcher finds a wife
\n The charm of the Magic Flute
\n The trial of fire and water
\n The triumph of Wisdom and Brotherhood<\/p>\n
Pre-Performance Talk
\n Nature and characteristics of western opera
\n Demonstrations on the art of operatic singing
\n Techniques and creative process of opera production
\n Brief introduction of the opera The Magic Flute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","location_type":[350136],"event_category":[373314,373458],"area_type":[350138],"event_language":[365770],"series":[387117,387391,387137],"event_category_other":[],"class_list":["post-1314732","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","location_type-indoor-en","event_category-music-en","event_category-music-opera-en","area_type-local","event_language-german","series-arts-scheme","series-2018-19-arts-experience-scheme-for-senior-secondary-students-3","series-arts-experience-scheme-for-senior-secondary-students","search-detail"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1314732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location_type?post=1314732"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=1314732"},{"taxonomy":"area_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area_type?post=1314732"},{"taxonomy":"event_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_language?post=1314732"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1314732"},{"taxonomy":"event_category_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category_other?post=1314732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}