After Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Freely adapted by
Peter Brook, Franck Krawczyk and Marie-Hélène Estienne
"Absolutely bewitching" The Independent
“A strangely beautiful and moving piece of theatre” Telegraph.co.uk
Visionary director Peter Brook reimagines Mozart’s The Magic Flute with his long-term collaborator Marie-Hélène Estienne. The result is A Magic Flute, an opera of clarity, simplicity and purity that seeks out the truth of the original. Nine singers and actors along with a glorious piano accompaniment produce a musical comedy that perfectly realises Brook’s ambition: to create “a light effervescent Flute, where an intimacy with the performers [allows] the tenderness and the depth of the score to appear”.
A Magic Flute won France’s prestigious Molière Award for Best Musical Theatre in 2011, and played to packed houses in Europe as well as North and South America.
Performed in German and French with English and Chinese surtitles
Colm Hogan (Peter Brook)
All other photos © Pascal Victor
The Hong Kong cast may be different from the original cast featured in this publicity.
W A MOZART
Directed by
PETER BROOK
Lighting Design by
PHILIPPE VIALATTE
Piano
FRANCK KRAWCZYK
Colm Hogan (Peter Brook)
All other photos © Pascal Victor
The Hong Kong cast may be different from the original cast featured in this publicity.
Peter Brook
Born in London in 1925, Peter Brook directed his first play at the age of 18 and has since directed over 70 productions in London, Paris and New York. He is recognised as one of the greatest stage directors of the 20th and 21st centuries, most notably for his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Covent Garden and Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. Brook has also won great success in opera and film and has had many books published.
