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Opera Productions, Old and New

• 3. Playing Toy Theaters

Gluck’s Orpheus

and its interpreters

Alto castrato (1762) Haut-contre (tenor, 1774) Contralto (Berlioz, 1859) Gaetano Guadagni Joseph Legros Pauline Viardot

LOCATIONS OF SCENES:

• 1. Scene of Mourning

— onstage

• 2. Hades

— backstage

• 3. Elysium

— onstage

• 4. The Return

— backstage

• 5. Scene of Rejoicing

— onstage

Bejun Mehta in the credit sequence

Orfeo ed Euridice: opening scene

Orfeo ed Euridice: entrance of Amore (Regula Mühlemann)

Orfeo ed Euridice: Orpheus in Hades

Orfeo ed Euridice: entrance of Euridice (Eva Liebau)

Opera Productions, Old and New

• 3. Playing Toy Theaters

The Magic Flute

1975

Film by Ingmar Bergman

PRINCE TAMINO

is rescued from a dragon by

PAPAGENO

This is observed by the bird- catcher PAPAGENO, who in fact is the one to rescue

THREE LADIES

who show him a portrait of PAMINA, daughter of the

PAMINA

But she decides to tell the truth to SARASTRO, who turns out not to be evil at all.

QUEEN OF NIGHT

who charges him to rescue her from SARASTRO, the evil wizard who abducted her.

SARASTRO

Seeing their love for each

• ther, SARASTRO orders that

TAMINO and PAMINA should undergo the trials as initiates to the Brotherhood of Light.

1. 2.

Irma Urrila as Pamina (seen in the locket)

Ingmar Bergman’s Magic Flute, the Three Boys

Håkan Hagegård as Papageno and Irma Urrila as Pamina

Ulrik Cold as Sarastro

The Magic Flute

Film by Ingmar Bergman, 1975