THE MAGIC FLUTE

THE MAGIC FLUTE AT WEST GREEN HOUSE
21st and 22nd July

Conductor     James Burton

Director     Karen Gillingham

Designer     Bernadette Roberts 
    


Pamina     Mary Bevan 

Tamino     Joshua Mills 

Papageno     Richard Latham

Queen of the Night     Ruth Jenkins 

1st Lady     Samantha Crawford

2nd Lady     Amy J Payne

3rd Lady     Lilly Papaioannou

Sarastro     Andri Björn Róbertsson 

Speaker     Joseph Padfield

Monostatos     Paul Curievici 

Papagena     Nathalie Chalkley


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Tel: 01252 845582
2012 sees a major development in Garsington Opera’s commitment to young, emerging artists with a weekend residency at West Green House, near Hook, north Hampshire. For the first time, our emerging artists will perform a full-length opera - a new production of
The Magic Flute
.

Karen Gillingham, a young director who has created energetic pieces with our education programme in recent years, will direct the production. James Burton will conduct the Garsington Opera Orchestra, using  Jonathan Dove's imaginitive orchestration for 15 players.

This is a wonderful opportunity for young singers early on in their professional careers, who have worked with us previously either in the Garsington Opera Chorus or as understudies or in smaller roles. Mary Bevan, who will also be singing Zerlina in our production of Don Giovanni this summer, will sing Pamina. Her sister, Sophie, played the role for us last year. Ruth Jenkins, who received the 2011 Leonard Ingrams Award for her role of Papagena in last summer’s production, will sing The Queen of the Night.

We hope this will be the first of a long collaboration and we encourage patrons and Friends of Garsington Opera to visit West Green House to see the emerging artists from our Studio Programme and experience first-hand the value of this development.