by InTrieste
The Verdi theater is back with one-act operas that include three titles this ’23-’24 season and the opening night is dedicated to one of Mozart’s masterpieces, The Magic Flute, fable-like and dreamy, perfect for audiences of all ages.
With the reduction of the libretto by the well-known Giulian artist Andrea Binetti, who also signs the direction, sets and costumes as usual, The Magic Flute in one act lives above all on the music of one of the most interesting young emerging talents in the world of Italian composition and very present in Trieste for some years, Arezzo Paola Magnanini who at only 26 years old already has many reductions, orchestrations and transcriptions under her belt, including the elaboration and orchestration from the original score of the chamber opera Cendrillon by Pauline Viardot.
The cast sees Andrea Binetti himself in the role of the wandering bird-catcher Papageno, here also a narrator and therefore popularizer of the complicated plot with a thousand symbolic references; then the young Italian tenor Francesco Napoleoni in the role of Tamino, already well into his career and above all with solid experience at the Teatro della Zarzuela in Madrid, a genre in itself very close to the spirit of the One Act Operas as conceived and developed by Verdi of Trieste . Papagena will have the voice of the young Ukrainian soprano Veronika Foia, who arrived as a refugee from the war in Friuli and was already appreciated by the Julian public in Luciano Berio’s Magnificat during the symphony season. Always among the freshest talents is the violinist and soprano Patricia Daniela Fodor as Pamina, who already shone in the spring at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna with Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro. The bass Rustem Eminov, already in the Summer Orfeo, will be Sarastro and the cast closes with a much loved face from the One Act Operas, as well as the singer Giacomo Segulia.
Tickets cost 10 euro and can be purchased at the Verdi theater’s box office before the opera.
Opera dates:
Tuesday 17 October 2023 at 11.00 and 20.00
Wednesday 18 October 2023 at 11.00 and 17.30
Thursday 19 October 2023 at 11.00 and 18.00
Friday 20 October at 11.00 am and 6.00 pm
Tuesday 7 November 2023 at 11.00 and 18.00
Wednesday 8 November 2023 at 11.00 am and 5.30 pm
Thursday 9 November 2023 at 11.00 am and 5.30 pm
Tuesday 14 November 2023 at 11.00 and 18.00
Wednesday 15 November 2023 at 11.00 am and 3.00 pm
Thursday 16 November 2023 at 11.00 and 17.30
Friday 17 November 2023 at 11.00 and 20.00
Sunday 19 November 2023 at 4.00 pm
Tuesday 21 November 2023 at 11.00 and 18.00
Wednesday 22 November 2023 at 11.00 and 18.00
Thursday 23 November 2023 at 11.00 am and 5.30 pm
