Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder
April 7 - 9, 2023 at Symphony Hall
April 15 & 16, 2023 at Tucson Music Hall
Mozart’s beloved classic, The Magic Flute, is a fairytale of darkness and light, which explores the journey in search of truth and reason, love, and enlightenment.
As the action unfolds, Tamino, a prince lost in a foreign land, is pursued by a terrifying monster. He is rescued by three mysterious ladies, who kill the monster and give Tamino a picture of Pamina, daughter of the Queen of the Night, with whom he falls instantly in love. They tell him that Pamina has been captured by the powerful and evil Sarastro, and Tamino vows to rescue her.
With the gift of a magic flute and magic bells, as well as the light-hearted assistance of the bird-catcher, Papageno, Tamino sets off on his dangerous quest. However, he soon discovers that nothing, not even Day and Night, is quite as it first appears.
The role of Tamino will be shared by tenors Terrence Chin-Loy and Brad Bickhardt. Terrence Chin-Loy returns to the Arizona Opera stage portraying the role of Tamino in The Magic Flute. An alum of the Pullin Opera Studio, Chin-Loy opened the 2021/22 Season in his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up In My Bones. A graduate of Indiana University, Yale University, and Mannes College, Mr. Chin-Loy most recently sang with Arizona Opera Henrik Egerman in A Little Night Music and Ferrando in Così fan tutte.
Incoming Pullin Studio Artist Brad Bickhardt brings experience from roles in both opera and musical theatre, with companies including Opera Naples, Opera Saratoga, Tri-Cities Opera, and Opera Ithaca. A graduate of the Indiana University Opera and Ballet Theater, the Korean-American tenor has had successes in numerous roles as a young artist, including with the Glimmerglass Festival and Wolf Trap Opera.
Two rising sopranos will be featured in the role of Pamina, Tiffany Choe and Véronique Filloux. Pullin Studio artist and Korean American soprano Tiffany Choe was born and raised in Southern California. An emerging artist from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, Choe trained at the prestigious Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute as a fellow, and has performed roles ranging from Mimì in La Bohème, to Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro, to Magda in Puccini’s La Rondine.
Sharing the responsibilities for Pamina will be fellow Pullin Artist, French-American soprano Véronique Filloux, who has been noted for using her “dazzling coloratura and lithe stage presence to piquant comedic effect” (Opera News). A graduate of the Pittsburgh Opera Resident Artist program, Filloux has brought to life a range of traditional and contemporary operatic roles, including Despina in Così fan tutte, Chan in Charlie Parker’s Yardbird, and the title role in Semele.
Stage director Tara Faircloth’s work has been seen in opera houses around the nation. Faircloth returns to Arizona Opera where her directing credits include Pirates of Penzance, Carmen (2016), Don Giovanni, and The Marriage of Figaro. Critics hailed her recent directorial debut at Lyric Opera of Chicago: a “wickedly funny, elegantly sung, cleverly directed production of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville.” In recent seasons, she created new productions of The Little Prince (Utah Opera), Ariadne auf Naxos (Wolf Trap Opera), Il re pastore (Merola Opera), Agrippina (Ars Lyrica Houston), and L’incoronazione di Poppea (Boston Baroque). Faircloth’s engagements in the 2021/22 Season included several new productions, including Emmeline with Tulsa Opera, La Traviata at Opera Santa Barbara and The Merry Wives of Windsor with The Juilliard School.
Grammy nominated conductor, arranger, orchestrator, and composer James Lowe will return to conduct The Magic Flute with Arizona Opera following his company debut in the 2021/22 Season production of El Milagro del Recuerdo. Lowe has garnered praise for "beautifully sculpted" (Opera News) performances, and appears regularly with major opera houses in the U.S. and abroad, as well as on Broadway, including the world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis with New York City Opera, Songbird, a new adaptation of Offenbach’s La Périchole with The Glimmerglass Festival (which Lowe also arranged and orchestrated), and several productions over his long relationship with Houston Grand Opera. On Broadway, Lowe was the Music Director and Conductor of the recent revival of Les Misérables, as well as the Tony Award-winning revival of Cole Porter's Anything Goes, starring Sutton Foster and Joel Grey.
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto: Emanuel Schikaneder
Conductor: James Lowe
Stage Director: Tara Faircloth
Assistant Stage Director: Mario Pacheco
Tamino: Terrence Chin-Loy and Brad Bickhardt
Pamina: Tiffany Choe and Véronique Filloux
Queen of the Night: Katrina Galka and Emily Misch
Sarastro: Matthew Anchel
Papageno: Skyler Vargas
First Lady: Kaitlyn Sabrowsky
Second Lady: Lauren Cook
Third Lady: Alice Chung
Monastatos: Dylan Morrongiello
Speaker: Peter Morgan
Papagena: Grace Kahl
Production made possible, in part, by a gift from Marlys A. Beider
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