Sarastro, the high priest in Mozart’s Magic Flute guides the hero of the opera in his journey towards wisdom. As a symbol of the enlightenment, Sarastro combines all knowledge with all power. In the two hundred and fifteen years since … View…
Jonathan Wilson:In your talk at the Guggenheim Museum last year you spoke of a dangerous idea that inheres in The Magic Flute, “the whole opera is full of the metaphor of moving out of darkness into the light” but, … View…
Director’s note for The Magic Flute, first written in 2005 for the première at La Monnaie in Brussels, and updated for a revival of the opera at the New National Theatre in Tokyo in 2018.
The production of The … View…
Much of what I will be discussing here has to do with the nature of shadows, which I see as an important preliminary consideration for Black Box / Chambre Noire. Approximately two years ago a solar eclipse could be … View…