'Magic Flute' opens opera season
The Eugene Opera will open its
eighth season Thursday night in
the Hult Center's Soreng Theatre
with Wolfgang Mozart's ''The
Magic Flute."
Underwritten by the Eugene
Opera’s first corporate sponsor,
Merrill Lynch, "The Magic Flute"
is the first of three operas to be
presented during the 1983-84
season, according to the opera's
general manager, James Toland.
"Die Fledermaus" will be staged
in December, and "La Traviata" in
April.
Toland says the opera, which
was written just prior to the
Austrian composer's death in
1791, is "very theatrical and con
tains the simple and comic, along
with the noble and philisophical."
The setting for "The Magic
Flute" is a mysterious temple in an
"unknown and faraway land." It is
a lyric drama that combines love,
comedy, courage and magic
against a backdrop of the struggle
between good and evil.
The opera advocates enlighten
ment as the highest good because
it leads to an exalted life, and
asserts that good will triumph
over evil.
Leading the cast is Robert
Cuarino, a tenor from New York
City, who plays Tamino, a prince.
Tamino falls in love with the
daughter of the evil Queen of the
Night, Pamina, played by Carolyn
Bowen-White from Lubbock,
Texas.
The opera concerns the trials
both must endure to gain a union
between them.
"The Magic Flute is directed by
Gita Hager, a guest director who
was formerly with the Portland
Opera. It will performed in
English.
' Everyone involved with "The
Magic Flute" is seeking to give
this production an "American
feel," says Toland.
The opera will also be presented
on Oct. 2, 4, 6, 7, and 8. Except for
the Oct. 2nd matinee, all shows
begin at 7:30 p.m.
Tamino and Papageno search for their respective loves in "The Magic Flute," the first opera in the
Eugene Opera's new season.
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