Intro

De Toverfluit

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

From 11/02/2006 in Antwerp - from 15/03/2006 in Ghent

• Musical direction: Koen Kessels
• Director: Waut Koeken
• Papageno: Benoît De Leersnyder / Kobe Baeyens
• Tamino: Jeroen de Vaal / Peter Gijsbertsen
• Pamina: Sabine Conzen / An De Ridder
• Koningin van de nacht: Anja Van Engeland

Waut Koeken has made a children’s version, in Dutch, of Mozart’s fable Die Zauberflöte. The young director deliberately stuck very closely to the composer’s original music dramaturgy, as any drastic changes would only have spoiled the magic and complicated the story, but still managed to give the fable a refreshing new twist. The children follow the characters on their breath-taking journey to adulthood and witnesses how the vulnerable bird-catchers, brave princes, and lonely princesses all grow in love and truth. Waut Koeken’s libretto is written in a plain everyday Dutch that is a match for the 18^th-century vernacular of Schikaneder. This quite delightful Toverfluit never patronises its young audience, but stimulates the children’s intelligence, plays on their emotions, and appeals to their boundless imagination. The new production of this all-time classic is as amusing and refreshing as the original.

Team

• Musical direction
  Koen Kessels
• Director
  Waut Koeken
• Set design
  Waut Koeken
• Costumes
  Waut Koeken
• Ana Spacic
• Misa Petrovic
• Lightning
  Glen D'haenens
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• Papageno
  Benoît De Leersnyder
• Kobe Baeyens
• Tamino
  Jeroen de Vaal
• Peter Gijsbertsen
• Pamina
  Sabine Conzen
• An De Ridder
• Koningin van de nacht
  Anja Van Engeland
• Sarastro
  Kurt Gysen
• Wilfried Van den Brande
• Dame 1 + Knaap 1
  Sabine Conzen
• Milena Gurova
• Dame 2 + Knaap 2
  Magali Mayenne
• Dame 3 + Knaap 3
  Ana Naqe
• Papagena
  Priske De Handschutter
• Monostatos
  Davy Smets