MIDSUMMER MOZARTIADE
Amadeus & Co invites you and yours to our magical 7th Midsummer Mozartiade, from 12 to 18 June, right in the heart of Brussels! Our festival can look forward to some exciting changes. After all, a seventh edition is a real reason to celebrate….together!
What's on this year? The Magic Flute (Mozart's most popular opera) will be playing at Théâtre Royal des Galeries (a popular Brussels stage). As an echo, Mozart's Requiem (another iconic final work) will be performed in an evocative chamber version brought to us by the CAV&MA in Namur. Alongside these two masterpieces, you will find serenades in the Galerie du Roi by the EtCaetera wind quintet, a free concert at the beautiful church Notre-Dame du Finistère (a haven of peace in the busy Rue Neuve), informative lectures on Mozart’s final works in the Maison CFC bookstore, and much more.
The Magic Flute, one of the world's most beloved operas, rekindles its magic every show. Its unprecedented success may even have surprised Emanuel Schikaneder, the actor-singer-impresario who wrote the libretto, took on the role of Papageno and managed, in the summer of 1791, to convince a busy Mozart to write the music. Schikaneder's libretto (a mishmash of chivalrous road trip and burlesque bromance, of skilfully crafted philosophical tale and cheerfully derived fairy tale) has never ceased to seduce directors and audiences over the centuries.
But it is above all the music that keeps this masterpiece at the top of the charts. Only Mozart could write a score of such stylistic variety and yet of such harmony. From start to finish, his joyous and exuberant music gives substance to the characters in a way that goes far beyond acting and words. In short, he wrote a masterpiece opera for a popular theatre. And it is another popular theatre that will be hosting us this time, namely the Théâtre Royal des Galeries. It also happens to be a historic house with a distant but distinctive lyrical past. But why this move, you may ask? Quite simply because the Théâtre des Martyrs, our home since 2017, will be closed from April for major renovation works.
Thus, The Magic Flute will play at the Théâtre Royal des Galeries in Brussels on 16 and 18 June. It will then be performed in Mons on 5 July at the Théâtre Royal as part of the Festival au Carré and for the first time in Namur on 8 July at the Grand Manège as part of the Festival Musical de Namur. This gives a variety of audiences four opportunities to discover this new luminous and poetic production, directed by Eric Gobin and conducted by Gabriel Hollander at the helm of the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie.
And the artists? Gianna Cañete Gallo (Konstanze in 2019) will return, this time as Pamina. She will appear alongside João Terleira (Il Contino Belfiore in 2022), a Tamino already acclaimed in Darmstadt. Morgane Heyse will be bringing her Queen of the Night to Belgium, after various gigs in Germany and the Netherlands, while Damien Pass will come a little further north for his first Papageno, after his Doctor in Pélleas et Mélisande at the Opéra de Lille. Pauline Lebbe, Sonia Jacquelin and Aina Callaert (all three choristers in La clemenza di Tito in 2021) will be playing double-agents (at times three ladies, at times three boys). And so on, in the true spirit of our festival!
Lest we forget, Mozart 'takes us by the hand, so to speak, guides us and ultimately invites us to follow him wherever he goes'. So join us in June for a 7th Midsummer Mozartiade full of magic and metamorphosis!
What's on this year? The Magic Flute (Mozart's most popular opera) will be playing at Théâtre Royal des Galeries (a popular Brussels stage). As an echo, Mozart's Requiem (another iconic final work) will be performed in an evocative chamber version brought to us by the CAV&MA in Namur. Alongside these two masterpieces, you will find serenades in the Galerie du Roi by the EtCaetera wind quintet, a free concert at the beautiful church Notre-Dame du Finistère (a haven of peace in the busy Rue Neuve), informative lectures on Mozart’s final works in the Maison CFC bookstore, and much more.
The Magic Flute, one of the world's most beloved operas, rekindles its magic every show. Its unprecedented success may even have surprised Emanuel Schikaneder, the actor-singer-impresario who wrote the libretto, took on the role of Papageno and managed, in the summer of 1791, to convince a busy Mozart to write the music. Schikaneder's libretto (a mishmash of chivalrous road trip and burlesque bromance, of skilfully crafted philosophical tale and cheerfully derived fairy tale) has never ceased to seduce directors and audiences over the centuries.
But it is above all the music that keeps this masterpiece at the top of the charts. Only Mozart could write a score of such stylistic variety and yet of such harmony. From start to finish, his joyous and exuberant music gives substance to the characters in a way that goes far beyond acting and words. In short, he wrote a masterpiece opera for a popular theatre. And it is another popular theatre that will be hosting us this time, namely the Théâtre Royal des Galeries. It also happens to be a historic house with a distant but distinctive lyrical past. But why this move, you may ask? Quite simply because the Théâtre des Martyrs, our home since 2017, will be closed from April for major renovation works.
Thus, The Magic Flute will play at the Théâtre Royal des Galeries in Brussels on 16 and 18 June. It will then be performed in Mons on 5 July at the Théâtre Royal as part of the Festival au Carré and for the first time in Namur on 8 July at the Grand Manège as part of the Festival Musical de Namur. This gives a variety of audiences four opportunities to discover this new luminous and poetic production, directed by Eric Gobin and conducted by Gabriel Hollander at the helm of the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie.
And the artists? Gianna Cañete Gallo (Konstanze in 2019) will return, this time as Pamina. She will appear alongside João Terleira (Il Contino Belfiore in 2022), a Tamino already acclaimed in Darmstadt. Morgane Heyse will be bringing her Queen of the Night to Belgium, after various gigs in Germany and the Netherlands, while Damien Pass will come a little further north for his first Papageno, after his Doctor in Pélleas et Mélisande at the Opéra de Lille. Pauline Lebbe, Sonia Jacquelin and Aina Callaert (all three choristers in La clemenza di Tito in 2021) will be playing double-agents (at times three ladies, at times three boys). And so on, in the true spirit of our festival!
Lest we forget, Mozart 'takes us by the hand, so to speak, guides us and ultimately invites us to follow him wherever he goes'. So join us in June for a 7th Midsummer Mozartiade full of magic and metamorphosis!
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